Los Angeles Fight for Recognition.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 88, 13 April 1940, Page 7

Los Angeles Fight for Recognition.

The prodigious fight being waged bv | Los Angeles to be included as a base jin the projected air line from California Ito Xew Zealand witnesses no abateJment. for the Chamber of Commerce there, together with other organisations of a kindred character, arc anxious to j secure all the world attention they can : acquire by reason of the great superI Clippers taking off from the Southern | California metropolis. The matter has l>ecii carried to Washington, and the L nited States Civil Aeronautics Authority was told that a Los Angeles jbase for the proposed air line "was virtually mandatory under the Federal Governments policy of public interest." Appearing at an oral argument in oppn-.it ion to an examiner's report denying Los Angeles a Clipper base, •lanies L. ISeebe, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, stressed the need* of Southern California, the W e>tern state- and other parts of the country for an "easy gatewav to the Orient, and urged the Authority to "consider ilie tremendous traffic possibilities contained within the Los Angeles Countv area."