Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-13 | Page 11 | Route of Air Line Approved by President

ROUTE OF AIR AIRLINE LINE APPROVED BY Hoover Predicts Passenger Passenger f ger and aud Express E Service Service ice In Months 6 I I PAUL S SMITHS SMITH'S N y T Aug Au Aurl By IL-By By The Tho Associated PreS Press Press- PressA Pr ss- ss A transcontinental and southwest southwest southwest-ern ern airway were ere approved today by President Coolidge as the first two tWe commercial routes route rout laid down by the department of commerce In Its development of civilian avi- avi aviation aviation avi aviation The rout routes will represent ex extensions ex- ex extensions extensions tensions of consolidations of pres pres- present present ent ant lines Jines line and will mark the th ac- ac actual ac actual beginnIng of a 1 wide nation Ide system which In the opinion of 01 Mr Ir Hoover will develop Into a privately operated air service on onIt ona ona It a large lario scale It appears probable probable Mr Hoover Hoover Hoover er added that within six months there will be bo a lull full passenger pass neer er ox ex express press and mall service on the tho routes approved today BUILDS AIR RESERVE The Th general service to be b de eloped de eloped under William P Mc- Mc McCracken McCracken Mc-Cracken Mc Cracken Jr the new assistant secretary of commerce In charge chargo of civil navigation atlon he emphasized sized will be b of first Importance In build building In I up an etc air reserve for forthe forthe the national defense defens A t number of ot other commercIal air routes are ar under considers consideration tion but before they can b 1 be 0 deft determined further study will be b required BRANCH CU mon UTAH Another route rout would take tak In inthe the Pacific coat coast running from southern California to northern Washington state A branch of the th transcontinental route rout Is I also under con consideration from from- Salt Lake City to Portland Seattle and Tacoma The Th transcontinental route as 83 approved In conference cont rno with Sec Sec- Sec Secretary rotary Hoover of the th department ot of commerce will run trout front Now New NewYork NewYork York to Cleveland Chicago Iowa City Des Moines Omaha North Platte Cheyenne Salt Lake city from where there ther wilt will be b one on leg to San Francisco an and ana 1 another to Los Angeles