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...President Juan Terry Trippe, California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam, Hawaii's Governor Joseph Boyd Poindexter, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, the Philippine's President Manuel Quezon, China Clipper's Captain Musick, and the personified "Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities chimed in with appropriate sentiments which were broadcast over a nationwide hookup. At Alameda a crowd of 20,000 clustered about a platform on the flat, sandy spit, paid less attention to the speeches than to the Clipper, which floated...
...American's famed Clipper last week set a new record to Hawaii on the first leg of its first trip to Guam...
...overnight ride in a Pullman. With even less ceremony they refueled the Clipper and flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway, first with mail only, eventually with passengers...
...Washington, the Navy Department authorized establishment of operating bases on three tiny mid-Pacific islands- Midway, Wake and Guam...
...included in the portfolio of colonies is the Canal Zone (governed by the Army for military reasons), Guam, American Samoa, Wake and Midway Islands (governed by the Navy for reasons of strategy), nor the Philippines whose freedom is around a ten-year corner...