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e direct- Six hundred planes are in service Academy on air lines in the United States or of art in operating under the American flag to other countries-one air liner for \ every nine Pullman cars-acýcordinýg to information compiled recentiy by the, Acronautical Chamber of Com- An average of .1,550 men, women and chiidren," three-fourfths -of a. mil- lion letters and 4,700 pounds of ex- press were flown oVer, air unes in this country every,,24, hours during the first ten mo nths of 1933. More ýthan forty percent of the flying was done at, night~. ,fBreakfast. at home and dinner in any large City haîf way ac ross the country - that is -now customary among air Iine pas sengers, who find Chicago less than five hours from New York, St. Louis iess than fine hours- from New York, Washington six hours from Chicago, Atlanta six hours from Washington, Cleveland eleven hours from Fort Worth, Buf- falo iess than two hours from New York, Los Angeles Iess than six hours: from Sait Lake City, Seattle lesa than seven hours from Salt Lake City, and San Francisco nineteen andý a haîf hours from New York. Take of News Reel Pictures Experimental Plane entatives of several news Vices and of. Chicago dailv Pal-Waukee airport, which has been ciosed during the wintér nmonths, will ireopen on, April 1, it. was an- nounced this week. The airport, which at one, time was 'the oniy: one on the north shide of Chicago,* is iocated on Milwaukee avenue,' at Palatine road, two mil.es. south of Wheeling. In making the announcenmentý of the reopening Pai-Wauke ofias aiso stated that the airport has re- new4ed its contract. with A Century of Progress exposition and again iviil carry passengers at.the Worl1d's.fair. The Pal-Waukee Sikorskys will operate from the airport's lake front ampjus south ýof the Generai ,1fmtors uiýlding on the fair, grounds, Last year more than 18,000 .visitors. to the fair took rides ini the Pal- Wau.kee ship.s, and, many more per,- sons who visited the airport itself enjoyed rides there. The two Goodyear b)Iliiips, whicli. were docked at Pal-Waukee last summer and which.are at Mianli, Fia., .for the winter, %viil ret-urn -to0 the north shore for the period of the. 1934 fair.' They are expec.ted back early in MVay. A dock large enough to ai- commodate oule of the bliiips %v1as built at Pai-Waukee two years. ago. Last yèar this dock was enlarged to make room for a second. ship. The hacorporated ini 1928 Pal-Waukee Airport, Inc., was purchased and organized in Novemn-« ber, 1928, with Owen BarInJoe of 'Lake Forest as, president, J. L.. Moss, Jr., of Lake Forest a*s vice- President, Clay Judson of. Lake For- est as secretary and Duncan Hodges of Lake Forest as treasur er and geu- erai. manager. The field had been in. existence for several years prior to 1928 but was under another manage.. muent and not incorporated. A vreaf ýuit Sh*Wean aÏd Charc-BEVANSTON metlrounci-wing airplane designe d and buit by Steven P. Nemeth. The single round wing acts as a parachute when the. ship has iost its flying speed and aliows it to descend aimost ver- tically. A- new I25-horsepower Wornrer motor récently*was instalied in the plane, wvhich is. said. to have a maximum speed o f 130 miles with two passengers. The piane's peculiar Wing 4is att-ached to a conventional fusilage by a number of braves in the rnanner of the usuai high wing mono- HOSTESS TO GUILD Mrs. Valentine A. Smith, 13Q9 ChestnUt avenue, entertained -sixteen members of the McLaren guiid of the Churcc of the Holy Comforter Monday at a buffet lunnheon, which was followd, by sewing for 'charity. SPLASH PARTY Walter Boyle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Boyle, 620 Exmnoor road, Keniiworth, will entertain a group of boys at a splash party and lunchéon. fôiiowed by mhovies this Saturday, the occasion being his tenth birthda'Y. Gre. 0234 Winnî. çc, 1 2