Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-06-25 | Page 15 | Japanese Plan Zeppelin Line Across Pacific

JAPANESE PLAII 2EPPELIIILIIIE ACROSSPACiFIC Will Offer 68-Hour Service Ser-vice Between S. Fa and Tokio 8 AN FRANCISCO, Juns SI (AV) Toyoji Kanelto, acting consul gen-sral gen-sral of Japan, today announced a 1 5,000,000 Js panese company, already al-ready financed, probably would be operating a 8-hour Han Kran-clsco-Toklo dirigible serv.es be for the autumn of 1931. Kaneko said ths company already had begun negotiations (or ths pur-chase pur-chase of threa Zeppellna costing ll.600.eoo each. Acquisition of a larffa tract of land near Toklo re-retnly re-retnly was buIImm IimI tm-ieslei1 In ths company, Kaneko said, were Nekt Hoahlnn. Toklo business man: Tatsuo Hakurauehl and Tsuneo Kanemltau, members of ths house of representatives; Chotaro Ya-naae, Ya-naae, president of ths Yanass Automobile Au-tomobile company, se'ond largest automobile firm In Japan, and Kisa-buro Kisa-buro Y a ma nolo, Toklo financier. Purchase of a Pan Francisco terminus, ter-minus, to be within four mllea of tha business district, will hs undertaken under-taken through ths chief of the commercial bureau of ths Japanese foreign office, ho said. Dana rail for carrying mail, forty passengers snd bsgcago and crew by each dirigible. Initial ons-wuy fars would be $900. In summer the course would lis off ths Aleutian islands. In winter It would follow tha thirtieth north parallel of Altitude. Alti-tude. Railings every fivs days are planned. Kaneko aald negotiations for the dirlfflhlee would be completed through the Berlin branch of the Mitsubishi Trading company.