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Show oo OMAHA TO BE BASE FOR 500 MAIL PLANES OMAHA, Neb., May 19. Omaha is to become within two years a base depot for 500 mail planes, according to Col. J. I. Jordon, chief of construction con-struction and extension of the air mail service. Each of the planes to be used in the New York-San Francisco mail service and tho radiating branches is to be so constructed that within a day it could bo transformed into fighting. "In caso of trouble a battle plane converted hero could reach coast or border in from 15 to 20 hours," he added. Col. Jordcn, who is on an inspection tour of landir- fields, predicted that within a year ......11 will be transported from coast to coast in 36 hours. The plana contemplato that, he said. |