The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-11
Aviation
FAMED CABINET
OF AVIATION TO
Be BROKEN Up
Warner and MacCracken
to Quit Service; Glover
and Dawson Stay.
BY ALFRED p. RECK
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE
air cabinet of the Coolidge admins
tration is disbanding.
Only two members, Assistant Sec
rotary of War Dawson and Assistant
Postmaster General Glover, are to
remain under President Hoover, it
was learned today.
The other two, Assistant Secretary
of Navy Warner and Assistant Sec
rotary of Commerce MacCracken,
are to return to private life.
During the last few years the four
became as well known to aeronautics
as the famous infield combination
of EYers to Tinker to Chance did to
baseball.
Warner, Glover, MacCracken and
DAWSON were names to be consid-
cred whenever aeronautics was dis
cussed. The four are credited with
doing as much if not more fer the
promotion of safe flying than any
other, group.
Boosts Navy Aviation
Under the leadership of Edward
P. Warner, navy aviation progressed
rapidly and gained worldwide rec
ognition. Likewise, F. Trubee Da-
vison pushed army aviation to the
greatest of efficiency it ever has
attained.
Warren Irving Glover, following
the lead of Colonel Paul Henderson,
former assistant postmaster general,
expanded the air mail until now it
crosses and criss-crosses the coun-
try and branches out to many for
eign lands.
Under his direction, air mail
routes were extended to Canada and
southwark into Latin America. Only
recently, Glover witnessed the real
ization of one of his cherished plans,
when air mail contracts were
awarded which will provide service
from New York to the furthermost
tip of South America.
Extends Air Mail
It was Glover who was respon-
sible for the extensions of the air
mail to Nassau, Havana, Mexico,
Central America and Panama.
William P. MacCracken, as di-
rector of commercial aeronautics in
this country, has done as much as
any one person to make the nation
air-minded and promote commercial
flying on a safe basis.
Tt was he who conceived the first
international civil aeronautics con-
ference held here last December,
participated in by virtually every
nation in the world.
MacCracken is known through
out the country as the greatest
booster of commercial aviation. I'm
der his direction air lanes have been
paid out from coast to coast and
from border to border. He directed
and promoted the establishment of
landing fields until today a hier can
find a safe field in nearly every
section of the United States.
Must Make More Money
"I hate to give it up" Mac
Cracker said, but in juStic to my
family I must. I have to make more
money than the job here pays. I
told the new secretary I must go,
but I also told him I would remain
until he can find some one to take
my place"
MacCracken probably will return
to law practice in Chicago, which he
left a few years ago to come to
Washington. He is secretary of the
American Bar Association and a
prominent corporation attorney.
Major Clarence P. Young, World
war flier and director of the COM
merce departments bureau of aero
nautics, is mentioned prominently
for MacCracken's post. Young is in
Europe on an airways survey.
Warner, independently wealthy,
is said to have no definite plans in
mind. He is an engineer Of estab-
lished reputation and may return to
his profession.