Transpacific (Cont'd)

With the conclusion of this last flight on the West Coast I hereby resign from the Bureau of Air Commerce effective on the receipt of this wire. In order to expedite the report it is written in flight to be sent upon landing.

On this sour note was concluded last week the experiments by the Department of Commerce with the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass for transpacific flying (TIME, March 25). The resignation was that of Major Chester Snow (Reserve), Department of Commerce aeronautical expert in command of the test flights. It was written some 300 mi. out over the Pacific in the Douglas transport which the Department had chartered from TWA for the tests. The wealthy son of a Washington real estate owner, Major Snow had wanted to fly all the way to Honolulu but Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce did not think it necessary, ordered him not to. Result: Snow's resignation.

The Douglas, on its last flight, successfully made contact with the Matson liner Mariposa 400 mi. at sea, flew back to Oakland. Promptly Major Snow telegraphed his resignation to Washington. Director Vidal accepted it without comment.

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