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believe" he added. would only mi

| believe" he added would only mi
pede the department, Of Justice"
Senator knox Of Pennsylvania, Repub-
lican. suggested that civil as we'll rs
criminal responsibility IN expenditure Of
the aircraft appropriations also should
be fixed
There are charges Of onspiracy.- he
said, that Indicate misuse OF OF obtain
ing of hundreds OF millions Of dollars
Of the peoples money"
Senator Hitchcock said the recent
aviation report OF Il majority Of the mil
itary committee had given the country
tic facts after the committee and the
country had FOR weeks been miSin-
formed and mislcd by members OF r."
aircraft production board and tho signal
corps"
A minority Of the ccmmIttcN. Senator
Hitchcock said refused 10 sign the IT,
port because they felt IT should be sub
mittcd first 20 III" president.
Senator Kirby ri Arkansas. or the
Committee minority. s;Lid he did not JOIN
The minority because its report VAS not
complete and did not give i lair view
ton work.
when the bills providing appropria-
lions for aircraft construction were
pending before congress" said Senator
owen q Oklahoma y propaganda w;Gl
conducted through tn" press. apparently
;ur the purpose OF preparing the cuun-
try to pay high prices for aIrrlrncs.
Tho aircraft board was charged By
Senator Hitchcock not only with mis-
leading the committee for weeks. bu.
with playing gigantic confluence
game" on tho whole country by giving
the impression that thc Liberty motor
resulted from Il conference OF engineer
in a Washington hotel. AS 4 matter II
fact the Liberty motor. the Nebraska!
senator declared is Tie Packard motor.
which has Lutrn the Packard company
three years to develop. but now We are
going 10 pay that company between
500. 900 and $l.000.n0O for three years
experimentation and that matter IS now
being adjusted.
Replying 10 Senator PoIncrrnc'S oucS-
ton it the board had purposcly received
The committee and The public or if the
board itself had been deceived Scn-
;tur Hitchcock replied he was not dis
paraginG tn" Liberty motor. but r"itcr-
uteu that the board had praCtir"u Il
gigantic confidence scheme on the pub
lie" adding tina, only shows the char
actcr Of the men who ar" on the air
craft board"
In refusing To sign either the ma
iIrity or minority report Senator Ecck'
ham Of kentucky. q member Of the lnli-
itnry committees. said he did this H.
cause he did not believe tho cui:lnitt""
was ready to make report adding IL
believed the committee should 30 FUR
thor in it's Investigations.
AS on" who signed III" majority re-
mort. I want to say It's not my UNI
C,erst auding that the report marked tn"
close Of the work Of the CuIniuiltcc.
said Senator New at only brought til"
rrocccdiuSS down 10 date. l h"ii"v" 1t
is the duty If III. committees T." proceed
With this investigation. | thlnH II the
committee fails IL 80 ahead with ii AMI
rlaccs responsibility for further InvcS-
';c,a,iun on thu department Of justice,
II tils IN its duty.
Senator Kirby said h" believed the
country had been miSl"I regarding lvia-
lion progress. largely hy r"Srltr u"Nv%-
TAPER reports rather than h:' what WAS
given out by the br:Irl ur other uiiI-
Ci;Lls"
He said the board showed Il Lark If
business; ability in delay over r"y;Lli!
distribution {" aviation companies.
rcpur, on Ia" aircraft situation.
complied Ivy thu iu""St,-;;tIi" ion committee
If the A"rnnautic;h :s,'"!'iy "f America
WIS filed in IL" S'nnt" by Senator
WadSwrrth Of New i"rk. l. reviews
At length optimistic si%'"ur.uts on tn"
progress al tho building program nj
irihIItrd L. S,."rrlrry I:akrr nnd brands
thefn rs false and misleading.