NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT, INC., on Aug. ll, completed the first three months opration of its thousand-mile Texas-Chicago line, with an average efficiency of over 97% perfect. Simultaneously with the closing of this first quarter-year of experimental flying, the General Manager, Col. Paul Henderson, former Second Assistant Postmaster General, announced that he had recommended to his board of directors that passenger service be established just as quickly as the necessary equipment can be produced.

Saturday, Aug. 7, the day the Ford Tour was scheduled to arrive, began hazy and with a clouded sky. It was doubtful whether the afternoon would bring rain or shine. The sun won, however, and, by the time Casey Jones appeared in the distance, the sky had assumed its old blue and the sun was again shining with all its brightness.