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to use my camera on the way over. Militry rules won't permit cameras to be used over the Azores and Portugal, so they have to be sealed up on board the plane until we get to Marseilles"

Like most of the passengers, Mr. Eck traveled light, taking only a single suit, a dinner jacket and change of linen. is baggage weighed about eighteen pounds, well under the fifty-five-pound limit.

John M Franklin, president of the United States Lines, will go to England to meet his wife and their three children, who sailed at noon yesterday aboard the United States liner Manhattan. Asked whether he thought the ocean air service would become serious competition for steamship lines, Mr. Franklin smiled and answered:
"I'll be able to tell you more about that when I get back."

Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, Wall Street financier, made the flight to begin a business trip in the Scandinavian countries, and planned to return in August or September. Louis Gimbel jr. also departed for a short business trip in Europe while H. L. Stuart, investment banker, and Mark W. Creesap, president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, planned on-day visits to Paris before flying back to New York.

Mrs. Sherman Haight, of 64 East ifty-fourth Street, who made the inaugural passenger flight over the Caribbean to Cristobal in 1931, with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as pilot, had reserved her Atlantic passage for that year.

"Of course I'm thrilled,
 she smiled. "I've been looking forward to this for eight years, and now I can hardly believe the time has come.

Louis Gimbel jr. also departed for a short business trip in Europe while H. L. Stuart, Investment banker, and Mark W. Cresap, president of Hart. Schaffner & Marx, planned on-day visits to Paris before flying back to New York.
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W.J. Eck, said he applied for space on the first transoceanic flight with passengers as far back as 1931, "and I've been calling up every few months since then--just to hurry them up."
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Here are the passengers who will go down in history as the first paid passengers to travel by airliner from the United States to Europe.  They are, left to right (seated): Capt. Torkild Rieber of New York, Mark W. Cresap of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. C. V. Whitney of New York, Mrs Elizabeth S. Trippe of Long Island, Mrs. Graham Grosvenor of New York, Mrs. Sherman Haight of New York, Mrs. Clara Adams of New York and Mrs. E. O. McDonnell of New York. Left to right (standing) are: Julius Rapoport of Allentown, Pa.; C.V. Whitney, noted socialite from New York; W. J. Ect of Washington, D.C.' James McVittie of Chicago, Ill.; Graham Grosvenor of New York, Roger Lapham of San Francisco, Calif.; Louis Gimbel Jr. of New York, Col. William Donovan of Buffalo, J.H. Norwen of New York and E. O. McDonnell of New York. Standing behind the group are H. L. Stuart of Chicago, Ill., and John M. Franklin of New York.
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