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The world is shrinking, according to President W.lA. Patter
son of United Air Lines, -with air transportation already having
reduced the nation to the size of the state of Pennsylvania in
comparison to surface transportation. . j
When Patterson, former San Francisco banker, became asso
ciated with United' s predecessor companies in 1929-the speed of
transport pianes was 80 miles an
hour. Now the average speed is
180 miles an hour or three miles
a minute.
Already designed are transport
planes which will cruise around
300 miles an hour, at the same
time operating so efficiently that
fares will be reduced about 40
per cent, according to aircraft
factory engineers. Present rates
are just half what they were only
a decade ago.
While construction of new
types of planes awaits approval
of priorities officials, Salem
residents .will enjoy the fastest
and most dependable air opera
tion the world has yet known
when United's big 21 -passenger
Mainliners start operation here
today.
Not only will overnight flights
be possible to Chicago, New York,
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Washington, DC, and! other east
ern cities, but also commuter ser
vice to and from scores of closer
cities. I
For example it will be possible
for local passengers to fly to
Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, BC,
Pendleton, Walla Walla, Spokane,
noise and Mediord, transact busi
ness anc return the same day.
Air commuting is becoming
more and more general, a n d
some business men even make
it daily routine. For example
one Los Angeles business man
prefers to live in San Diego; so
he commutes back and forth to
work daily by plane. The dis
tance is 123 miles, but it is only
50 minutes by plane.
In early airline operations majl
was the principal revenue pro
ducer. But air mail has ceased
to be a government 1 subsidy and
at present rates paid to carriers
the government shows a profit on
air mail. Passengers now form the
principal revenue, and some
schedules are flown without mail
pay just to accommodate passen
ger and air express business.
President Patterson predicts
that air express will be one of
the biggest phases of airline op
eration in a few years, and he
blazed the way by starting op
eration of the nation's only all
freight plane about a year ago
between Chicago and New
York. Additional freight' sched
ules will be started when more
equipment becomes available.
Patterson, who was born in
Salem Aviation Day
9:08 a-m. Closing time for Tint Flight" mall at posloffke.
10:00 a.m. Arrival Salem airport of MatnHner for eourtesy
flights. (Conrtety fllghtr taking off and landing all
day.)
12:10 pan. Arrival Malnliner with governor, mayor and vlt-
iting officials from Portland.
12:30 pjnw Chairman Irl MeSherry of Inaugural program will
welcome dignitaries.
12:50 p-BJu Gretinr to Salem by Harvey Hancock, assistant
to president of United Air Lines.
12:55 pjn. Malnliner sleeper plane open for Inspection.
1:00 p.m. Introduction of Station Manager Oliver Jadd.
1:05 p.m. Arrival of Malnliner on first scheduled flight.
Governor Sprague and Mayor Chad wick will greet
passengers and crew.
Cherrians will present gifts to crew and passengers.
Mrs. Charles A. Sprague will re-christen plane "City
of Salem."
Unloading First Flight air express packages.
Loading First Flight air mail and air express.
1:20 p.m. Takeoff of Malnliner on inaugural flight.
Musical salute to First Flight by Salem high band.
1:45 pjn. Informal luncheon for visiting dignitaries.
6:00 pan. Informal reception for visiting dignitaries.
7:00 pjn. Aviation Day banquet for public at Marion hotel.
10:30 pjn. Return flight to Portland of visiting dignitaries.
When Salem's first scheduled air service flight lands at the municipal airport at 1:05 o'clock this after'
noon, the man at the controls is expected to be Capt. Grover Tyler, pilot who flew first Seattle air
mail on September 15, 1926. Picture above hearkens back to that day, showing Tyler handing mail to
C. M. Perkins (left), Seattle postmaster.
Oliver Judd
t-anerson, wno was D o r n in jr fn I
Honolulu, is famous for the pro- LdUie liiiiPlOYe
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For 10 Years
Salem UAL Man Is Versatile
UAL Agent
Among United Air Lines' 3100
employes are many who have
Lines has made in ; air transpor
tation, and equally famous for
his innovations in personnel re
lationship.
Each year he visits all 41 of the
Mayor W. W.Chadwick, who with cities served by United Air Lines joined the company during
Alderman 10m uiuairuus ma cuiu uu&s yemouauy iu mi em-
taken the lead in developing ployes, then gives them a chance lwu or uiree DUl oia
Salem's airport io make it suit-I to "sound off" and ask any ques- tion Manager Oliver Judd is
able for the air service starting j tions or make any ;cticism they among the veterans who have re-
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You Meet the Most
Interesting People
NEW YORK-()rFred Maisch,
sound engineer of a phonograph
record company in I this city, says
that in 31 years of the work he
has noticed that almost every star
when recording, shows some ido-
syncraey or nervousness. Some
examples he gives:! ;
William Primrose, violinist, re-
It was in July, 1931, that air
planes became so fascinating
for him that he joined the Var
ney division of United Air Lines
in Portland as a mechanic. The
next year he went to Spokane
as station attendant and radio
operator, getting training there
in all phases of airline operations.
In 1933 he went to Boise as
station attendant and after six
years of service there was trans-
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1600 Airmail
Letters Here
Daily Likely
With the inauguration of air
mail service here, the number of
airmail letters handled daily In
Salem will reach approximately
1600, just double that of the av
erage for; the past year, estimated
Postmaster H. R. Crawford, who
has been receiving covers since
the middle of October from peo
ple all over the United States who
want to add the local cachet to
their collection.
After sorting has been com
pleted at the postoffice, the let
ters will be taken by messenger to
i the airport in locked pouches. In
case fog banks or other circum
stances keep the plane
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Here is one of United Air Lines' fleet of twin-engined 21-passenger
Mainliners, type of ship which Is to become a familiar sight to Sa
lem residents with the beginning today of regular coast air service
to the capital city.
Doing Big Things Quietly
Is Philip Johnson's Way
(This is the fourth in a levies of stories of the leaders of America's aircraft I
industry being presented in The Statesman.
By WALTER L. HEALY
AP Feature Service Writer
SEATTLE When Philip Gustav Johnson was a small boy
he took a watch apart and couldn't get it together agkin. That
couldn't have meant he was mechanically helpless, for today at
47 he is president of the Boeing Airplane, Co., with more than
17,000 employes producing the
Air
hearses without coat or tie but
insists on being well-groomed d tQ lko Ney Lagt year he Q 0f pW
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In addition to handling traffic auu u,uuu,,"dua WI"
and passenger service
during an actual recording.
John Jacob Niles stands on
head before singing to get a
nasal tone in American folk songs.
Alexander Braflowsky insists
huge Boeing bombers and Douglas
from attack ships for the United States
landing here the mail will be sent and Great Britain
by train to the nearest airport,
Crawford explained.
Through the new service, Sa
lem patrons will save about
12 hours on outgoing mail and
seven hours on the ingoing.
son.
Letters which previously had
duties, be regular balem visitors after to be mailed at 5 p.m. can be
posted anytime during the night
maintain two-way tommunication tvio m.,iti-miii;n.Q;r-oc are and still make the 6:16 a.m.
with Mainliners in flight and also r . . pr Tvlpr pr5nhp1 northbound plane.
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Vigorous leaders of United
Lines' etenslon services is the the studio e entirely dark except " radios wnich' tod
firm's president, W. A. Patter- for a spotlight over his head. 1 T,.wau nmn
Chaliapin once got mad at his
accompanist, seized that individ-
him up and down. Then Just as
suddenly Chaliapin apologized.
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Arrest That Man!
NEW YORK-WP)-A, . container
of acid found in i an NBC studio class and also the rating of air-
corridor set off a sabotage scare, plane engine mechanic.
enne. He holds a license tor ra
dio telephone operator second
Page boys, on the double alert,
captured a villainous character
carrying what appeared to be a
time bomb only to discover that
it was Keenan Wynn on his way
to appear in some photographs
during rehearsal of the Mr. Dis
trict Attorney" program, in which employes. President W. A. Pat-
he was a "gangster." terson is 4 years of age.
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required on the airplanes. The United Air Lines, all of whom
main overhaul shops for the com- nave flown more than two mil-
pany s Mainhners are in Chey- 1;
Capt. Grover Tyler, who
helped pioneer the Pacific coast
airway by flying the first mail
between Oregon and Seattle 15
years ago, is still flying regular- .
ly for United and will be at the
controls of the first scheduled
flight when it arrives here at
1:05 pan. today.
The veteran captain soloed in
1918, but found the war over so
1 1 o o k to barnstorming and m-
the 10:35 p.m. mail. Previously ter-of-fact
tney would nave nad to oe posted
by 5 p.m. to make the same con
nections.
Philip Johnson has traveled
so fast since he left the Uni
versity of Washington in 1917
to take a $25-a-week drafts
man's Job with William E. Boe
ing that most people expect
him to be a dynamic sort of
man. Instead, he is one of the
calmest persons in the world.
His intimates never think of
him as particularly brilliant, per
haps because he is so well
equipped with good sense and bal
ance that he always seems mat-
Taking motion pictures is one
of his hobbies and naturally his
favorite subjects include air
planes and his daughter, Jean,
who is five.
Judd is 31 years old, which is
just the average age for United
A man with a technical engi
neer s mind, jonnson reiuses to
allow technicalities to overs ha-
structing. At times during his ca- dow an objective. He is a hero to
reer with United he has been a his secretaries because he thinks
ground superintendent, but al- directly and dictates unhesitating-
ways goes back to his first love ly, picking up his trend of
flying. He holds a medal from thought no matter how often he is
President Roosevelt, the Air Mail interrupted.
OREGON'S
HOTELS
Fr-Newsnaperman v Harvey Han
s eock, now western assistant to
UAL's president, also combs to
Salem today. ; , . -
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United Air Lines
On the Inauguration -o
Its Salem Service
rCHADWICK HOTELS-
Hotel Senator, Salem
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, - ( ' Hotel Oregon, Eugene
' - - Hotel Jackson,' Medford
Flyer's Medal of Honor.
From a Yamhill farm in 1917
went a youth to learn flying
with the army air corps in Tex
as. It was Herschel V. Laugh-
lin, who learned his flying well
and still flies as a captain with
United on the coast run be
tween Seattle and San Fran
Cisco.
Too young for active duty over
seas, the war being over by the
time he received his pilot's train
ing, he returned to the Laughlin
homestead and settled down ' to
farming. But the whir of far-off
propellors kept droning in his
ears, and soon he was back barn
storming.
In 1928 he began flying trans
port planes on the Pacific coast
route, and has made more flights
between Oregon and California
than any other flier. He has
flown nearly 2,500,000 miles
equivalent to five round trips to
the moon. Yet he denies having
had any unusual experiences!
One of the youngest filers
ever to make the grade with
United as a transport pilot was
Joe Smith, a personable young
ster who learned to fly from
Tex Rankin. New it's Cast
Smith, and he also has flown
past .the 2,000,000-mile mark. .
" ,Among the ' other ' veteran cap
tains who will be flying in and
out of Salem and who have flown
more than a million' miles are
Capts.' Lee Murphy, who flew
United's first trip from New York,
Capt. Al Smith, - Capt - Barton
Stephens, ex-navy " flier, and
Capt. Clayton Joyce. V ; . ,. -
One of the first breaks of Phil
lip Johnson's career occurred af
ter the World War. The airplane
industry virtually had disappear
ed because the market was glut
ted, and Boeing had turned to
making furniture, issuing stock as
part payment for employes sal
aries. In 1930 when the stock was
exchanged for stock in United
Aircraft and Transport Corp
'First Flight' Mail
Takeoff Set for
1:20, Afternoon
Another epoch event in Salem's
transportation history wQI be en
acted today with the coming of
air : transportation service amid
colorful ceremonies.
It was a big day in Salem 71
years ago when railroad service
was Inaugurated and the "Iron
Horse" became the servant of Wil
lamette valley residents.
And it was another day of ex
cited buzzing, if not formal cele
bration, when Otto J. Wilson im
ported the first automobile into
Salem April 4, 1902.
"It was an Oldsmobile which
arrived by train from San
Francisco,' Wilson reminisced
yesterday. "We saw there was
a place for gasoline, so we put
some in and the thing ran. And
it didn't go so slow, either. We
rolled right along at IS or 4t
miles an hour. Later I sold it
to a man who made a wood saw
of if
But today Salem's transporta
tion tempo moves up to three miles
a minute. Captain Grover Tyler,
veteran 2,000,000-mile pilot who
helped pioneer the Pacific coast
airway 15 years ago, will set hi
huge, lfvton United Air "Lines
Mainliner down on the Salem air
port at 1:05 p.m. for the city's
first scheduled air service.
And at 1:21 p m , the 21 -passenger
"Magic Carpet" will roar
away with First Flight malt ex
press and passengers who will
arrive in San Francisco in four
short hours.
News stories and the messages
contained in the First Flight let
ters will tell the world that Salem
has become the 38th state capital
with direct air service and has
Joined the 250 other cities on the
nation's air map.
From a wheezing. struglir.g and
often scoffed at infant just a few
years ago. air transportation has
grown so rapidly that few people
realize there are more than 250
daily arrivals and departures of
airlines in New York city. In
nortland there are 38 daily ar
rivals and departures, in addition
lo extra sections at times.
Not only will Salem be di
rectly connected with the key.
cities which are the nerve cen
ters of the United Stales and
Canada, but also to principal
cities in forelm nations all over,
the world.
Such names as Buenog Aires,
Rio de Janiero, Lsbon, Paris,
Stockholm, Naples. Venice. Vien
na, . Calcutta and Rangoon no
longer will be mere romantic vag
aries or geography books, travel
magazines and screen travelogues:
Mr. and Mrs. "Globe Winger" will
be able to pick a spot anywhere
on the globe and be there in just
a day or two.
The 180-mile an hour planes
winging smoothly through the
skies are in sharp contrast to
Oregon's original public trans
portation facilities, the old stage
coaches. In less tine than It
took your grandfather to travel
by stage from Salem to Port
land, you will be able to fly U
New York and enjoy a night's
sleep in the "huge Malnliner
sleeper planes, with full
course dinner and early morn
ing breakfast served piping hot
while hi night
Thirty miles a day was "really
burning up the roadways" in the
days of the stagecoaches, which
were pulled by spirited mustangs.
This "four horsepower" locomotion
would take early "Globe Trotters"
from Salem to Seattle in nine or
10 days, and probably bring from
Johnson and others who had tak
en the stock profited. Every $16,
000 worth of Boeing stock was
valued at $1,000,000.
The youthful Johnson had ad-
anced rapidly in the meantime,
and in 1926 was made president
and general manager. When Boe
ing in 1927 won an airmail con
tract between Chicago and San
Francisco, he assigned Johnson to
handle the line.
The mail line expanded and
when the National City Bank ' of
New York bought the factory and
airline it took them into United
Aircraft and Transport. Johnson
was made president of United
Air Lines.
In this job he set a number
of precedents, putting pilots tn
uniforms and speeding the de
velopment of radio communica
tion and safe operation. He aid
ed also in development of the
metal - skinned two - motored
transport.
In 1933, when but 39 years old, the passenger an ejaculation:
Johnson was made president of Say, Mister, that was right
United Aircraft and Transport to smart traveling."
handle the corporation's wide- Columbus and his crew which
spread affairs, including Boeing, discovered America sailed nerv
United Air Lines, Pratt-Whitney, ously westward for more than
Chance-Vought Sikorsky, Hamil
ton, Standard, Stearman and Uni
ted Airports of Canada.
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two months haunted all the
while by fear of sea monsters or
reaching the dread "dropping off
place."
And it took Lewis and Clark
more than three years of perilous
travel to blaze the trail to the
Evergreen northwest.
But today, only St years after
the Wright brothers flew the
first heavier than air craft at
Kitty Hawk.'' North Carolina,
Mr. and Mrs. "Globe Winger"
will be able U fly. from Sales
to Spain la just two days.
Compared with the early ex
plorers and pioneers, the modern
travelers have It pretty soft But
it is a sobering and foreboding
thought when these powerful new
wings of peace art turned into
vulture-like wings of war which
rain destruction on humanity. :
Survey
Sitting
NEW YORK VP) To determine
where the public prefers to sit in
la motion picture house, a com
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minee xor va iociev7 oi .u..uh
Picture Engineers will undcridct
a nation-wide survey. A preiirnj-
nary report, revealed that ciks
enevs in a cartally filled thealrt
concentrate in . an area not les ,
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