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 '31: 'Reserve My Ticket '   
 '39: Your Passage Sir!'

[[image: photo of a sitting man pointing to a place on a map]] [[photo caption: W.J. ECK]]

 Mr. W.J. Eck today makes us all dissatisfied or Glen Echo. evitable vacation tours of the World's Fair or Glen Echo. Mr Eck Assistant t the vice President, Southern Railway was selecte to be sold the first ticket  for the first passenger flight of a Pan-American Yankee Clipper by the southern route to Europe. 
He'll take off June 28 either from Baltimore or New York land at Marsellies, fly passenger trip and be back at work a week later.

 APPLIED 8 YEARS AGO 
He made application for the  ticket eighryears ag, when transatlantic passenger flying was still in the conversational stage.
"I'd just made a flight by Pan-American to Santiago, Chile," says Mr. Eck "Officials were talking about transatlantic commercial flying in the future. I thought it would come, and I wanted to be on the first flight."

LEAVING WIFE BEHIND
Except for lack of time to make preparations, he'd travel east from Marseilles and around the world home.
He will leave a wife of two months at home, who, he says, isn't at all envious because she isn't going along.
"The trip was planned long before we were married. She says she would not think of asking me not to go without her." says Mrs. Eck's husband.
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PRIMER PASAJE POR AVION A EUROPA
^[["La Prensa" N.Y. June 17, 1939]]
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[[photo caption: W.E. Eck (Izquierda), ejecutivo ferroviario, recibe el boleto No. 1 para el primero vuelo commercial de pasajeros por avion entre los Estados Unidos y Europa de manos Lowell Lee, gerente de trafico de la Pan American Airlines en Washington. Mr. Eck contrato el pasaje a base de "if and when" en 1931.
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Gets First Passenger Ticket for Inauguraal Transatlantic Flight
NEW YORK, June 13 - (INS) - W.J. Eck of Washington D.C., today was issued the first ticket for Pan American Airways' inaugural flight on June 28.
Eck, vice president of the Southern Railroad, filed his application for the ticket in 1931, being the second to place his order. The first was filed by the late Will Rogers, who died with Pilot Wiley Post in an air crash in Alaska in 1935.
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The Fremont Gazette
Eck Will Be No. 1 Passenger on Clipper
W.J. Eck, brother of Mrs. E.E. Edwards of Cedar, whose recent travels have been printed in the Gazette, will depart on another adventure on June 28. He holds ticket No. 1 for the first scheduled trans-atlantic passenger flight of the Pan-American Clipper which is set for that date.
News of Eck's intended trip came as a surprise to his relatives through the columns of the Des Moines Tribune yesterday as he had not informed any of them of his intentions.
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