PAA
BULLETIN
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April 29, 1942
No. 118 - 9:30 A. M., E. W. T.
IN WASHINGTON
President Roosevelt has asked the Senate for an added Department of Commerce appropriation of $203,451,385 for 1943, almost all of which will be spent by the CAA to improve airports in the U. S. and in Alaska. A total of 164 new airports are to be developed and 266 existing airports to be improved and enlarged for the use of the Array Ferrying Command. The President also asked for $317,285 to expand weather bureau activities in Alaska.
Panagra has filed applications with the CAB to establish service between Antofagasta, Chile and Salta, Argentina and also between Quito, Ecuador and Ipiales, Colombia, the latter to be the first international service operated by Aerovias del Ecuador-Panagra.
Panagra has also filed its application with the CAB for the seventh weekly schedule out of Balboa, thus placing its line on a daily basis as far south as Lima. The first flight on this schedule will be run on May 8.
The CAB has postponed the date by which airline planes must be equipped with altitude recording devices. Deadline is now set for July 1, 1943
ON THE PACIFIC
The information in yesterday's Bulletin regarding the sending of letters to civilian internees in Japan through the International Red Cross has been forwarded to the families of the eleven Guam personnel whose internee status was officially announced on March 15.
