Evening star., 1933-10-21
PUBLIC WORKS SUM
ASKED TO BOLSTER
NATIONS A|RWAYS
National Aeronautic Associa-
: tion Would Seek Gov
ernment Aid.
100000, 900 IN PLAN
FOR MILITARY WORK
Development of Washington Air
port Included in Resolution
of Final Session.

The Federal Government was called
upon to undeAake a vast public works
aviation program, including expenditure
of 100000 900 for military aviation, and
large civil aeronautic projects, includ-
ing development of a model municipal
airport for Washington, at the final
session of the annual convention OF
the National Aeronautical Association
at the Mayflower Hotel today.
The public works program urged by
the association includes development of
the Washington Airport site for civil
aeronautics and transfer of military
aviation from Boiling Field to the new
Army site, south of the present field.
The association urged that the Civil
ian Conservation Corps be set to work
on construction of 300 new intermediate
landing fields in the national forest
and mountain areas.
New Dirigibles Urged.
Calling upon the Public Works Admin
istration to provide $60,000,000 for the
Army and Navy air services, the aSso-
citation of airshipS as recommended by
the Senate Committee which investi-
gated the Akron disaster. This pro-
gram would include construction OF a
dirigible to replace the Akron, recon-
misSioning the Los Angeles, and con-
struction of a new training airship.
The Government was called upon to
maintain all existing aids to air navi-
cation and to extend the system of Fed
eral airways through public works
funds.
Former Senator Hiram Bingham of
Connecticut was reelected president OF
the association. He will maintain offices
in Washington in the present N. A. A.
headquarters at Dupont Circle. F. Tru-
bee Dawson. former Assistant Secre-
tary of War for Aeronautics, was elected
national vice president to succeed Ad
miral Richard E Byrd. Other officers
named today are Robert F. Garland,
Tulsa, Okla. secretary; John F. Victory
of Washington, treasurer, and Porter
Adams of Boston and Washington,
chairman of the Executive Committee.
The condition of the two local fly
ing fields was characterized at the
annual banquet last night as dis
graceful by Bingham. who, while in
the Senate, was chairman of joint
SOIl6I ICSSlDlldl W4llSll oIud1C0
the local airport matter and recon-
mended establishment of a model mu-
nicipal airport on the present Wash
ington Airport site.
Boiling Field Disgrace"
"From the point of view of the ma
tional defense" Senator Bingham told
convention delegates and guests, Boil
ing Field is disgrace and ought to
L. g. H. ,fo1,
Congress authorized to be bought for
that purpose some years ago and on
which hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of buildings have already
been constructed. Delaying the COM
pletion of this project is to me incom-
prehensible, unless the appropriation
by Congress of over $4,000, 100000 for
public works was merely gesture and
1t was not intended to use this money
In the public interest"
Thirty-one new buildings on the new
Boiling Field site have been completed,
but cannot be used for lack of roads
and electrical connections Consider
able grading will be required to make
the new field available for flying oper-
ations.
Dealing with the local commercial
airport situation, Bingham said: "Of
equal Importance is the possibility of
developing great commercial airport
for the Capital of the Nation by carry
ing out the recommendations of the
Joint Congressional Commission on Air
ports, combining Washington and Hoo
yer Airports, adding to their area, max
ing the field not only safe and useful,
but credit to the Capital of the Ma
ton"
Favors Creation of Board.
Bingham urged creation OF an airport
section of the Public Works Administra-
tion to deal not only with the local air.
port needs, but those of the country as
whole. Financing of airport projects,
he said, would provide "a permanent
basis not only for expanding CONNER
cial aviation, but for providing useful
fields in case of a great national ener-
gency"
The Looming intercollegiate Flying
Trophy was presented to Louis Garner
of the William and Mary Flying Club,
William and Mary College, Williams
burg. Va, together with a check for $3.50
to aid the club in carrying on its flight
program this year. The Virginia college
is the first in the country to WreSt the
trophy from the Harvard Flying Club
which has held 1t continuously since it
-irSt was awarded. Second place was
awarded the University of Minnesota
and Harvard took third place.
There is no way in which trouble with
foreign nations may be more readily
invited than by neglecting the full de-
velopment of our military and naval air
forces, Bingham told the convention at
an earlier session yesterday.
Addressing delegates from points as
far distant as Paris, Bingham said 'it
is extremely necessary for our Govern
ment to provide for steady displacement
Of obsolete types and constant procure
ment of the latest and most efficient
airplanes for national defense"
Bingham declared the United States
might well follow the French method
OF procurement of military airplanes,
saying that although the United States
is characterized by natural inventive
genius, "the policy followed by the
Government recently has not promoted
the production of original designs and
has not given this inventive genius full
play, so far as military and naval types