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810.79611 Pan American Airways, Inc./540: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Vice Consul at Port-of-Spam, Trinidad (Demorest)22

Washington, July 16, 1929—7 p.m.

The Department is informed that a Sikorsky amphibian of Pan American Airways, Inc., left Miami July 15 to survey a route between San Juan, Porto Rico and Trinidad for a United States Air Mail contract which that company holds. The party consists of Robert G. Thatch, R. I. Dunton, and pilots B. G. Rowe and Roy Booth.

Please render all proper assistance if conditions make it necessary to enter a port in your district within the next few days.

Stimson
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date to the Consul at Guadeloupe and the Consular Agent at Roseau.↩