Pan American air ways, Vol. 1, No. 12, November 15, 1930

              Pan American Air Ways
Vol. 1, No. 12
122 East 42nd Street, New York City
November 15, 1930
OPEN ROUTE TO
JAMAICA AND
CANAL ZONE
Big Boats To Fly Twice Weekly Between Miami, Cienfugos, Kingston, And Panama Dec. 2
As announced by the U. S. Post Office Department the projected Pan American Airways service from Miami to the Canal Zone via Jamaica will open December 2nd. The route will be to Cienfugos, Cuba, to Kingston, to Panama. Commodores will be used. Southbound service will be from Miami at 3.00 P. M. Tuesdays and Fridays arriving Cienfugos at 5.15 P. M. and leaving the next morning at 6.00 o’clock for Kingston where a stop is made from 10.00 to 10.30 after which the big boats cross the Caribbean to Panama arriving there at 5.30 P. M.
Northbound planes depart from the Canal Zone at 6.00 A. M. Wednesdays and Sundays arriving at Kingston at 1.15 P. M. and Cienfugos at 5.15 P. M. and making Miami the next day at 10.45 A. M. having departed Cienfugos at 8.15.
Serum By Plane Saves
Life At Tela Hospital
Unable to obtain serum needed at the Tela Hospital anywhere in Honduras, the Tela Railroad Company telegraphed its agent in Guatemala City Sunday, October 12th. He forwarded the serum by Pan American Airways planes and it was delivered at the hospital the next morning at 7:40.
“Had we been obliged to wait another day it would have been too late to be of service,” said Rufus K. Thomas, manager of the Tela Railroad Company. “Serum was immediately administered and the patient is recovering rapidly.”
Leadership Of System
In November “Aviation”
The leadership of the Pan American Airways System throughout Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America is shown in a five-page illustrated article written by H. Case Willcox and published in the November “Aviation” magazine. Mileages of all operating companies are shown and brief histories of the development of the many companies make the article the most adequate treatment of the general subject of American air transport South of the United States thus far published.
MEXICAN DIVISION PILOTS Special Supplement ^ With This Issue ° Similar rosters for other divisions will appear in succeeding issues
MacCracken Is Counsel
For P.A.A. At Washington
William P. MacCracken, Jr., formerly chairman of the board of the Nyrba Lines, has been appointed Special Counsel of the Pan American Airways and its affiliated operating companies with headquarters at Washington, D. C., effective as of September 15th.
Wronsky, Luft Hansa
Freight Expert To P.A.A.
Heinz Wronsky, freight expert from the Luft Hansa of Germany is at New York general headquarters working with the Traffic Department on its developing plans for inter-American merchandise carrying. He has been loaned to the Pan American Airways for the winter months. His affiliation is one more indication of the cordial relations being promoted by Pan American Airways System with other air transport groups.
Pan-Grace Planes Save
Four Lives By Serum
For the third time within the past five months, Pan American-Grace planes rushed medical supplies south from Cristobal, when on October 11th, seven bottles of whooping cough serum were taken to Tumaco. Four children who were so violently ill that they were not expected to live, were relieved by the serum and are recovering.
Managua Water Boy
PLAN ATLANTIC AIR MAIL SERVICE VIA
BERMUDA-AZORES
President Trippe Announces Conferences With Officials Of Imperial Airways And Aeropostale
New York, Nov. 14, 1930.
When reached at his office this afternoon, Mr. J. T. Trippe, President of Pan American Airways, confirmed the fact that Major G. E. Woods Humphrey, Managing Director of Imperial Airways, Ltd., was arriving next week. He also confirmed the fact that Mr. Andre Bouilloux LaFont, Managing Director of the French Aeropostale, was now in New York, and that for the past few weeks officials of these companies have been developing plans for closer co-operation of their lines.
Mr. Trippe pointed out in this connection, that it was Pan American’s policy to fully co-operate with European lines, where lines operated by these companies or their subsidiaries now parallel those of the Pan American System in South America.
When asked to confirm reports that Pan American Airways, Inc., was interested in a trans-Atlantic service, Mr. Trippe stated that negotiations carried on for nearly a year were now practi-(Continued on page seventy-two)
Mexican Colonel Rescued
By Pan American Airmen
Colonel Gustavo de Leon of the Mexican Army was found by flyers of the Cia Mexicana de Aviacion after being lost for fourteen hours between Tampico and Brownsville. He left Tampico at 2 P. M. October 24th and when he had not reached Brownsville by 5 P. M. orders were issued to all Pan American planes flying the route to keep a look-out for him.
Early the next day a special searching plane was sent out by Pan American Airways of Mexico (Cia Mexicana de Aviacion) with Pilots C. M. Drayton and D. V. Beer, both senior pilots on the Mexican Division and thoroughly familiar with the region in which Colonel de Leon was believed missing. They discovered the colonel and his plane, which had nosed over, near the Laguna Madre in the state of Tamauli-pas about eighty-five miles from Brownsville. After dropping a note to him they returned and notified Mexican Army authorities who completed the rescue in smaller planes which could land safely where he was.