Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 7 | Atlantic Air Mail Waits on Congress

ATLANTIC AIR MAIL WAITS ONCONGRESS WASHINGTON, Aug. If W Inauguration In-auguration of transatlantic airmail and passenger service between ths United States and Great Britain will be delayed at least a year, congressional sponsors ssld today, unlesa special legislation Is enacted. en-acted. Chairman Mead (D N. Y.) of the houss postoffics committee said Pan-American Airways snd ths British Imperial Airways had arranged ar-ranged to start auch service as soon as Americsn mall became available. However, legislation authorising ths postoffics department to work Jointly with foreign countries and foreign lines is tied up in the house rules committee.