Operating Base Already Established at Portland and Boston—Plan System of Relay Planes—Tech Professor Sees Big Increase in Commercial Flying During Coming Year

Boston, Jan. 19.—(AP)—Announcement that the leading cities of New England will be linked in a air route next summer was made today at a joint meeting of the Aero Club of New England and the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. Operating centers already have been established in Boston and Portland, Maine, it was said, and negotiations are under way for connections at Hartford, Conn.