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Herald Tribune, Paris, Saturday. July 1, 1939

More Frequent Clipper Service Planned by Pan American Head

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Planes Will Be Speeded Up With Overnight Stop at Lisbon Eliminated, Says Trippe on Paris Arrival
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When normal operating conditions prevail, eight giant flying boats will be crossing the Atlantic in both directions each week, predicted Juan Terry Trippe,president of the Pan American Airways, who arrived in Paris yesterday after landing at Southampton on the Yankee Clipper on Wednesday.

Mr. Trippe played host to a number of prominent government officials who made the trip. He was joined by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Trippe, who landed at Marseilles on the Dixie Clipper yesterday after crossing on the southern aerial route.

Whitney Came on Dixie

She was accompanied by C. V. Whitney, chairman of the board of Pan American, and Mrs. Whitney, who were the host and hostess on the first commercial passenger flight across the North Atlantic.

Asked whether the Pan American Airways contemplated a round-the-world air service in the future, Mr. Trippe replied with a significant hint:-

"I can't discuss anything along that line at the present for we are concentrating on the Atlantic service right now.

"When the service shakes down, we expect to speed up the schedule by decreasing the flight time and eliminating the overnight stop at Lisbon for the southern route," he explained. "In this way, we should get our passengers to France in a day and a half after taking off from Port Washington, Long Island. With larger boats, we shall also increase our passenger total." He added that Biscarosse, on the Atlantic coast, will probably be added to the French bases used by Pan American boats.

Marked Birthday on Hop
However, just what the yearly passenger count will be for North Atlantic service, Mr. Trippe declined to hazard.

The tall, quiet-speaking president of Pan American celebrated his fortieth birthday in the air, en route to England on Tuesday. Thirteen years ago he started his first commercial air line, operating from New York to Boston. And in 1931, the first overseas flight of the now giant Pan American Airways, was made from Florida to Kingston, Jamaica and thence to the Panama Canal.

In the intervening years, Pan American has spread a 60,000-mile network of air lines across both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and up and down both coasts of South America.
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Mr. Trippe, who was staying at the Hotel Plaza-Athénée, leaves today with a group of French air officials for an inspection of Biscarosse and Marseilles air bases. Tomorrow he hops the Dixie Clipper for the return flight to New York.
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Dixie Clipper at Marignane Carrying 22 Passengers
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One on Board Filed Application For Trip in 1931
By Havas Agency

MARSEILLES, June 30. – Following in the wake of its trail-blazing sister ships, the Yankee Clipper and the Atlantic Clipper, Pan American Airways' Dixie Clipper swooped down at Marignane airport here at 2:20 p.m., today with twenty-two passengers and crew of eleven.

Among the passengers were: –
[[underline]]W. J. Eck,[[/underline]] assistant to the vice president of the Southern Railway, of Washington, D. C., who filed his passenger application back in 1931, received confirmation of his reservation on the first passenger flight across the Atlantic;

Captain Torkild Rieber, chairman of
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the board Of the Texas Corporation, New York City, who has long been interested in air travel for business reasons;

Colonel William J. Donovan, Buffalo, who has been soldier, lawyer and Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1922;

Roger Lapham, of San Francisco, president of the American Hawaiian Steamship Company and the Oceanic and Oriental Steamship Company;

Seeks Globe-Circling Record
Mrs. Clara Adams, of Maspeth, L. I., a veteran first flighter who was among the first passengers aboard the Graf Zeppelin and the Pacific inaugural flight, and who boarded a plane for Leipzig today in an effort to become the first person to circle the globe by commercial air lines;

Mrs. Sherman Haight, of New York City, and Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, who both were passengers on the first flight of the American Clipper piloted by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh over the Caribbean to Cristobal, in 1931;

J. H. Norweb, New York City, of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, an aviation enthusiast off for an English vacation;

Julius Rapaport, of Allentown, Pa., who will race Mrs. Adams for the honor of first circling the earth by commercial air lines;

Louis Gimbel jr., of New York City, a merchandiser interested in speeding style introductions from the Continent to the United States;

H. L. Stuart and president of Halsey, Stuart and Company, of Chicago;

Mrs. Juan Trippe, wife of Pan American Airways' president, of East Hampton, L. I.;

C. B. Whitney, of New York City, chairman of the board of Pan American Airways, who crossed with Mrs. Whitney;

Mark W. Cresap, chairman of the board and president of Hart, Schaffner and Marx, of Chicago;

James McVittie, of the Union League Club of Chicago;

Ben Smith, financier, who crossed the Pacific to Hongkong and return;

Russell Sabor, of the Midland Laboratories Affiliated, who lives in Minneapolis;

Graham Grosvenor, of New York City;

E. O. McDonald and Mrs. McDonald, also of New York City, and

John M. Franklin, president of the United States Lines, of New York City.
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