Holds first transatlantic flight reservation. Washington, D.C., June 14. W.J. Eck, assistant to the Vice President of the Southern Railway, holds here the receipt for his ticket of the first regularly scheduled flight of west-east passenger plans across the Atlantic. He will take off June 28 at New
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