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Show HID PULLMANS TO CARRY MAIL i Government Enters Into Big Contract With Lawson Cloud Cruisers WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, Contracts Con-tracts for three nvv aerial mall routes at a total cost of $685,000 a year were awarded today by the postofflce department to the l.iwson Air Lino I company oi Chlcapro The contracts provide for airplane mall Sfrviip between Pittsburg and St. iouis. between New York and Chi igo and between New York n 1 Atlanta, via Washington Raleigh. N. C and Columbia, .-. , at s cost of $300.ooo CARRY PASSENGERS CHICAGO, sept. 14. Passengers as well jus mail will be carried on three air mall routes contracts for which today were n warded to the Lawson Air office department. I The first service will start betv oen I Vlttsburg and Indianapolis i& Columbia Colum-bia and Cincinnati, In November. Palatial air liners wltn wicker chairs j enclosed In glass windowed stream-i stream-i line bodies, are being built for the new 'service, officials of tho company announced. an-nounced. C VRKV MUCH MAIL The government contracts provides 'that each plane must carry' 1 500 I pounds of mail per trip In addition I the company 18 providing accomodations accomoda-tions for 16 passengers, the latter end i of the business being a private venture I 'Three hundred and six round trips yearly on each route will be scheduled. Service on the New Vork-Chlcitgo and New York-tlanta routes probablj r. Ill not he Inaugurated until next spring. A nlKht service on the lines also is planned and berths fashioned after Pullman berths will he the standard equipment on the planes. Flovd K Smith, assistant general manager of the ponipan) --eld Shower baths, lavatories and all modern con' enlecea tv 111 be In the equlpnn nt, he said. |