AIR PROGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 7

AIR PROGRESS.

RADIO BEACONS.

Australia to Install Latest System. EQUAL TO WORLD'S BEST. United Prews Association.— Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. Sir Archdale Parkhill, Minister of Defence, is expected to approve a plan for providing a chain of six radio beacons as soon as lie receives a report on the subject. The Minister states that the cost will be about £40,000. Beacons will be installed at Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Holbrook, Melbourne and Hobart.

The type under consideration is the Lorenz ultra-high frequency short-wave, operating over a radius of 100 miles. Aviation authorities consider the plan will provide a system of air navigation equal to anything in the world.

AIRCRAFT HOLD-UP. Sit-down Strike in Douglas Company's Works. SHIPYARD DISPUTE. KEW YORK, February 24. A sit-down strike at Santa Monica, California, of 500 of the 5000 employees of the Douglas Aircraft Company, has halted the operation of the company's plant. The strikers are demanding increases in pay ranging from 15 cents to 25 cents an hour. The company's unfilled orders include one worth 10,000,000 dollars for Government aeroplanes. A strike has also been called at the shipyards of the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, where six submarines for the United States Navy are being built. The action has been taken in an effort to compel recognition of the Industrial Union of Marine and Ship-building Workers as a collective bargaining agency.

WAGES DEMAND. 810 COMBINED UNION MOVE. CHICAGO, February 24. In the most ambitious movement for higher wages in the history of collective bargaining, 1000 general chairmen of Iβ railwaymen's unions, with a membership of 1,100,000, have agreed to demand an increase of 20 cents an hour for all employees. This, coupled with the recent increase of 20 per cent demanded by several other railwaymen's unions, amounts to 2(K),000,000 dollars a year.

IN 100 HOURS? PARIS-TOKYO FLIGHT. (Received 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, February 24. Two French airmen, MM. George Libert and Gilbert Denis, left Le Bourget aerodrome at 10.5 a.m. yesterday in an attempt to fly to Tokyo in 100 hours. They later arrived at Tatoi aerodrome, Athene.