TRAVEL BY PLANE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1942, Page 4

TRAVEL BY PLANE

CURTAILMENT IN UNITED STATES ALL AVAILABLE AIR TRANSPORT NEEDED BY ARMY, STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) ' (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 15. Discussing, at his Press Conference the taking over by the Army of all commercial air transport, President Roosevelt explained that American forces were getting into actual fighting more and more, and in new places, throughout the world, all the time. Therefore they urgently needed all available transport planes of every kind. The planes being taken over included one and two-man machines. Mr Roosevelt said that almost anything which could be flown would be useful to the Government. The air line order meant that domestic air line travel would be placed on a full wai’ time basis in the near future. The President recalled that a few years ago the American people got along without flying services and without an air mail. He suggested that they could gr.t along with a limited amount of such services now. He believed the people would understand the war’s necessities. A fortnight ago, he remarked, a dozen people came to Washington from New York to see him on business not connected with the war of Government and seven of them used planes. That was all right, because the planes were running, but doubtless they would gladly come by train to help the war effort. Mr Roosevelt said there was now an increasing necessity for curtailing travel by plane. Asked if railway travel were likely to be congested, Mr Roosevelt said more people would be sticking at their jobs this summer and not travelling either by car or train. Otherwise they could stand up in trains.