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Show Newsmen Set For Initial Pacific Clipper Flight SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 l .i:-A .i:-A group of newspapermen will l:ike off at 3 p. m. today in Pun Amcr-can Amcr-can Airways' China Clipper, bound for Manila in the first off i eta I trans-Pacific passenger flight. The flight will be a "preview" to regular passenger service which will begin Oct. 21. It marks tin-end tin-end of the era of experimentation in trans-Pacific air transport, and heralds the beginning of scheduled sched-uled service over the Alameda-Honolulu Alameda-Honolulu - Midway - Wake -Guam route. Pan American's first passengers will include this correspondent, C. E. Harncr of Associated Press, New York; W. W. Chaplin of Universal Uni-versal Service; C. B. Allen of the New York Herald-Tribune; La u run D. -Lyman of the North American Newspaper Alliance and William Van Dusen of the Pan American Airways public relations staff. All the passengers are aviation experts and are credited with .many hours flying time. |