Show TRANSOCEANIC AIR LINES LOOM LOOMAS LOOMAS AS CITY BUILDERS OF FUTURE r hD as Oj o 7 I J P I Irl rl rw 4 o ap p pI I r r rg g r Justas Just as many cities today owe their stature to th the e airplane new cities of 1950 may be in in debt to the airplane St St. Johns John's N. N F. F Valencia Ireland and M H Horta orta erta in the tho Azores are among budding terminals anc and junction points of transoceanic air air lines At the tho mid middle die dlo right is is the tho bay at St. St Johns John's halfway point on air air routes to Europe and below it is Harbor Grace N. N F. F another off jumping place for fliers The South American American American Amer Amer- ican youngsters at the left loft are viewing a plane which is is making Girardot Colombia a thriving inland town by giving se seaplane plane service up the tho Magdalena river W WASHINGTON AP The AP-The The airplane air air- airplane air I plane hay has made heroes and d hero hero- i Ine Inca ines Well Veil it ma makes es cities cutes ir It headlines hint or of tho the future the faith or ot St. St Johns John's and Harbor Grace Newfoundland Horta in the Azores Valencia Ireland Dakar Africa l Pernambuco Brazil Karachi Kara Kara- chi India Port Dans Darwin Dan In Australia and man many similar seacoast towns may well pin their faith on the air air- plane The railway Junction of ot yesterday esterday is 18 the tho metropolis of today Perhaps the tho airports of or today will bo be the great cities lUes of ot 1950 if It the tho business or of aerial travel 1 an l transportation continues in Its forward orar 1 strides Surest of ot blessings from aviation the tho National Geographic society I believes llev is Ii St St. Johns John's N Newfound Newfound- land from which and over over which I ao so many famous flights have been made It was from bay I Inear near St. St Johns John's that the NC 4 departed de dc departed i parted on its successful flight to i tho the Azores and Lisbon and it was as I to St. St Johns John's that Alcock and Brown I flew In the same year from flom Clifden Ireland Although Lindbergh Chamberlin and Byrd did not stop at St. St Johns John's Johnsto to buy bu g gasoline It It Is deemed likely that commercial transatlantic aircraft aircraft air air- craft cratt will uso use the port as the halfway halfway half haU- way yay place pIneo on the great circle route between the United States and Europe Eu- Eu rope ropo and acid even on the tho Azores route Columbus pioneered the the- best Eu- Eu rope to rope to route for tor aircraft Ho lie sailed be re th the tho t to i the Azores and commercial alt air airplanes planes lanes will undoubtedly take Columbus Columbus' Columbus Columbus' Co Co- lumbus' lumbus southern route to avoid the vicious farther tarther north that beat eat down two planes tom from Europe Europen In n 1927 1921 and forced a German flier back Favorable winds will vill be the making of ot Horta on the Island of ot Fayal Tayal as as an airport on the he Atlantic The south Atlantic extends slightly warmer hospitality to the airplane than does the north Atlantic Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic although the tho water gap between the ho continents measures nearly the same 1900 same 1900 miles from St St. Johns John's Johnsto to Valencia island Ireland and 1980 1950 miles from Pernambuco to Dakar But Africa pushes the Cape Verde miles mlle off ot coast to help the ho airmen and South America reaches out with F Fernando Noronha miles mUes north northeast st of Pernambuco Then there Is St. St Paul island adot adot a adot dot of ot land midway between the continents and a possible future emergency station So Dakar and Pernambuco are likely to be airports airports airports air air- ports f or f 1950 The airplane as ft t Is functioning already in some places Girardot Colombia is a thriving town own today because seaplane service up the tho Magdalena river abbreviating ing the long ong racking trip from Barranquilla Barranquilla Bar Dar on the coast const to Bogota the capital ends at the Girardot hangars langara In Boma near the Congo mouth Africa has an airplane future by service virtue of ot a Belgian Beglan colonial which shortens the tropical Journey to Elizabethville a whole month Yesterday was a British outpost on Lake Victoria in mid mid- Africa Today it itIs is the terminus o ot of tomor Khartum-tomor- Khartum tomor air service ser from row perhaps the tho air m mt metropolis s o oA of A Africa Gaza In the tho Palestine and n Bagdad Bagdad Bag Bag- dad in seo see the glory glor of at caravan days returning as the drops down from the skies express and railhead railhead railhead rail rail- Karachi already a port head is tho the natural of ot In India In- In the In- In In dIa dla for planes which go up dus river to Delhi down the Ganges to Lo Calcutta Ct and on to Singapore and ind Australia Australla Four Tour flights in recent years have blazed air trails and cities of ot the world round future Tho The army fliers on their Jump from Seattle to Tokio by b way waJo of or the Aleutian the flight of six atz Russian Rulan Wands islands planes from Moscow to Peking Colonel de Pinedo's daring adventure adventure adventure the tho middle of South AmerIca America Amer- Amer ture UP id and the tho Hawaiian flights Ica The Tho first flut marked Dutch Barber Harbor Harbo future air fame tho the second fixed for and Urge as ns stations sta sta- on a n. better air route between Europe and the Far East The third short cut from BuenosAires Buenos Duenos a made to the United States through Aires valley nUey and tho last las the tho the first Up tl of ot a n. route rout up opened en ol Australia and New Zealand with to stop off ort privileges on th the tho beach bench or ot Waikiki |