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Show sitinir BE IK STOP City to Be Principal Station on Postal Service Route. Salt Lake 's importance as an avia- tion center and as a stopping point on ' transcontinental lines, emphasized during dur-ing the present transcontinental army flights, was given an impetus from three different directions yesterday. Two letters received at the Commercial Commer-cial club, one from the director of publicity pub-licity of the Manufacturers' Aircraft association, and another from Ernest S. Hightower, general lecretary of the North American Air Line association, bespoke Salt Lake as a landing field in future air travel. A dispatch from New York to the effect that the postal service intends the establishment of further fur-ther air lines on which Salt Lake will be a principal station, was the third source of good news for the city yesterday. yes-terday. Mr! Hightower will be in Salt Lake Saturday, when it is planned to have him meet residents interested in aeronautics aero-nautics at a Commercial club luncheon. The aviation committee of the club will meet him and discuss plans for the future of the landing field there. The members of this committee are L. W, Sowles, L. B. McCornick and Fred Good-cell. Good-cell. Mr. Bell requests the formation of an aviation committee to cooperate with the national agencies in the matter mat-ter of providing an adequate landing field. The Commercial club wrote yesterday yes-terday that such a committee exists and is actively engaged in preparations prepara-tions for improving the present landing field and making it adequate for any aviation requirements of the present and future. Under plans outlined by Mr. Hightower High-tower 's letter Salt Lake would become the aviation gateway to San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Helena, Mont., and Phoenix, Ariz. He states that his association as-sociation means to air travel what the good roads movement has meant to motorists. He will arrive in Salt Lake on Thursday. XEW YORK, Oct. 20. Plans for the extension by the postoffice department of the aerial, mail service, now in operation opera-tion between New York and Washington, Washing-ton, New York and Cleveland and Chicago, Chi-cago, to include a transcontinental route from New Y'ork to San Francisco by next spring, were announced tonight through the American Flying club by Second Assistant Postmaster General Otto Praeger, as a result of the army's cross-continent air race. Cities where the mail planes will stop after leaving New Y"ork, according to Mr. Praeger, are Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Salt Lake, Carson, Nev., and San Francisco, with emergency stops 'at Bellefonte, Pa.; Bryan, Ohio; Pes Moines, Iowa; Cheyenne, Wyo., and Battle Mountain, Nev. "Passage 'by congress of the bill directing di-recting the establishment of the service serv-ice is now the. only message necessary before the start of the actual work on I the project,'' according to Mr. Praeger, who added: "Cities all along the route of the air derby have appealed to the postoffice department, urging immediate establishment establish-ment of the aerial post, and as satisfactory satis-factory landings have been created and much of the observation work already completed, we shall be able to commence com-mence the service with -small cost.'' |