Ban on Winter Flying

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 11

Ban on Winter Flying

WHILE Hollywood studios have done more than their share to encourage trans-Continental flying in the United States, especially by making many pictures, ipeluding coast-to-coast flights, the recent succession of acci-

<lonts on tho airlines between California ami New York lias caused the producers to forbid their stars and players flying in the winter. Stuclio executives and stars will be permitted to make the 3000-milo flights in the. summer-time, when accidents are unheard of, but during the months when iceyan,form on a plane’s wings as it. climbs to fly over the western mountains, all travellers under contract to picture companies—in accordance with new contract; clauses—must | confined their travels to trains or motor cars.