Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 36 | Transatlantic Airline Planned

A IlA nt t. t I N NEW W April 27 n CAP CAP- APaul AP Paul Paui W. W Chapman head of or the U. U S. S Li Lines Unes es announced today that the tho company would shortly i Inaugurate 8 a transatlantic airline service in connection tion with its shipping busi- busi ness nes reasonably a short timo time p p to Europe by the United States Lilies Ianes will have hae a choice of going by steamship or airplane Chapman said aid If they are In no sp rush cial rush th they y can oon take tae the Leviathan Le Le- or c a of the slower boats b but t If it theare the are in ina a n hurry hurr well we'll put them across In 24 hours or so in an an airliner Before the transatlantic flying Is started Chapman said fald the com com- company company company pany will establish an ad air service 01 onland nd This This will be done within withIn withIn with- with In In A rear ear ar he said Twenty ger planes planes planes' will be he used CiTES CITES E EXAMPLE AMPLE Suppose a passenger on the LevIa Leviathan Le Le- Leviathan vIa than o or orr the President Roosevelt gets ets a a. a radio that his mother is dangerously ill in Chicago Chapman Chap- Chap 2 man said We shall be ready to take care of or him When the ship docks one ono of ot our big passenger planes lanes of or the U. U S S. S Lines Linos will be waiting to land and him In Chicago in seven lieven or eight ht hours Eventually we shall extend this land Jand plane plane- service to the Pacific coast if ne necessary Chapman said the company had for some time been experimenting with and testing and testing a passenger plane built there for him him- by Vincent Barnelli It has a II 0 90 foot Coot wing wIng- wingspan span carries 1000 gallons of fuel weighs hs pounds and has accommodations for twenty passengers with 15 lS 15 pounds of oC baggage each PLAN NEW NEW- LINERS He lie also announced also l o. o announced that the U. U S. S Lines Unes are going going to to build at least two new ocean liners but said he could I rould not tell y yet t how Jiow fast or large they thy would be Chapman announced on March MarcIl 12 before his company had takes taken over overt t the Leviathan and ten other ves yes eels of the United States and Amer- Amer plane boat I Jean fean an Merchant Lines that a boat boat- l Narie larie service to speed to Inland cities after they had land landed d 5 auld ld be started At that time he hethe said the aerial branch of or the com com- WOUld would be known as Sk Sky Lines