Imperial Valley Press

IN PARIS, July 25. (U.P.) That air planes capable of steady flight at 400 kilometers an hour, will link Paris and Berlin in two hours on a daily schedule within the next two years, is the prediction of Pierre Cot, France's air minister. "Nothing now stands in the way of air progress but lack of foresight and enterprise by flyers and those who back them," he said. The problem of safety, M. Cot thinks, is practically solved. The multiple motor power, which allows a ship to proceed when one, and sometimes two, propellers are dead, coupled with the increasing severity in admission tests for pilots, are the principal safeguard of the passenger. As for fog dangers, he declared, they have been almost completely eliminated by the perfection of the radio signal system. The Paris-Berlin line, which is particularly subject to fog, he said, has proved the radio system is 100 per cent effective.