Anywhere, Everywhere

P: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., announced, last week, plans for the enlargement of its subsidiary, the Curtiss Flying Service, Inc. (with a capitalization of at least $7,500,000). The idea: to take any inhabitant of the U. S. anywhere within reason, by air, on short notice. The first step in establishing this air-taxi service will be to order complete equipment for flying fields in 25 key cities. Primary schools and three universities of the air, to train pilots and to make plane parts as understandable as automobile gimcracks, will also be established. Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, well-seasoned pilot, is to be president of the Curtiss Flying Service, Inc., J. Cheever Cowdin, polo player, Blair & Co. associate, has a hand-in the financing.

P: Clarence Chamberlin, trans-Atlantic hopper, offers through Chamberlin Airways, Inc., a daily passenger service of Amphibian planes between New York and Washington, D.C.

P: Airmail service between the U. S. and Mexico will be established on Oct. 1; the French police equipped two planes for riot duty in and about Paris; Dr. Tien Lai Huang "Chinese Lindbergh" arrived in Detroit to purchase four planes for mail-passenger service in China.

P: Canada planned an airline between Quebec and Halifax; the Irish Free State charted one between Dublin and Paris; Australia contracted for one between Perth and Adelaide; Chicago estimated that 40 planes daily will carry passengers to and from that city, next year.

P: Capt. C. D. Barnard and Flying Officer E. H. Alliott flew from Karachi, India, to London, England (5,000 miles) in four and a half days, in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia.

P: Near Curtiss Field, Long Island, Pilot Charles D. Griffith and Passenger Francis Phillips, son of the late sewer-pipe tycoon of Queens (N. Y.), were forced to land in a bull pen. A bull charged their plane, ripped off one wheel, tore a wing, damaged the propeller. They escaped.

P: At Felixstowe, England, a supermarine plane was tested. It was reported to be capable of hurrying six miles a minute (360 miles per hour).

P: Lieut. Commander George O. Noville, engineer of the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight, was appointed technical director of the Union Air Lines, Inc., a Pacific coast passenger service.

P: Walter Chambers, aviation editor of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, beat his wife in a balloon race, starting at Altoona, Pa. He landed at Laconia, N. H., after 11 hours; she at Southampton, N. H., after 16 hours.