Lighter-Than-Air

Lighter-than-air news of the week included the following:

In London. Dr. Hugo Eckener. director, and Col. Edward Andrews Deeds of National City Co., board chairman, of International Zeppelin Corp., asked the Air Minister, the Marquess of Londonderry, for permission to use the air stations at Howden and Cardington (homes of the wrecked R-101 and dismantled R-101) as bases for Zeppelin Corp.'s projected transatlantic airship service.

In Los Angeles. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. revealed that the U. S. S. Akron, scheduled to visit Los Angeles in February, will soon thereafter fly to Honolulu, possibly to the Orient.

In St. Petersburg Fla. Complaints were made that pilots of the Goodyear blimp Reliance made a practice of flying passengers low and slowly over the town's rootless solarium where sunbathers lounge unclad.

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