tht itself is by no means as exciting as you might think," said Mr, Roy Howard, first to arrive in Shanghai of the passengers on the first commercial aeroplane to span the: Pacific Ocean, shortly after he stepped out of the Douglas Dolphin flying boat which brought him to Lunghwa from Hongkong on Oct. 24. Mr, Howard, president and editor-in-chief of the New York "World Telegram," was accompanied from Hongkong by Mr. John R, Morris, Far Bastern manager of the United Press.
Their plane, owned by the China National Aviation Corpora~ tion, landed at Lunghwa at 4 pin., being followed about half an hour later by another Dolphin flying boat, bringing five more passengers who crossed the Pacific in the giant Pan-American flying boat, the Philippine Clipper. These were Mr. Juan T. Trippe president of Pan-American Airways, Mrs, Trippe, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, chairman of the board of directors of Pan-American Airways, and Mrs,
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