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Show Men Anxious For Polor Flight Washington The navy is still anxious anx-ious to make a polor flight with the airship iShenandoah this summer and in the event permission should finally final-ly be given, it is prepared to rush to completion plans for the journey which were ordered suspended by President Coolidge pending the development de-velopment of the attitude of congress. Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of the navy's bureau of aeronautics, reiterated reiter-ated Sunday that regardless of any plans now being made for the airship so far as the navy is concerned, there has been no abandonment of the project pro-ject and if President Coolidge should give the word the plan again would be put into speedy operation. Some members of congress interested iu the polor voyage, however, have stated stat-ed that it would be Impossible for that body to give assent in time for the flight, which was planned for early in the spring, and no hope is held out by them that the Shenandoah Shenan-doah will go northward this year. |