Evening star., 1934-02-16

10 have competitive bidding He
thinks the routes we have worked out
with the directors on their certifi-
Gates are fair, etc.
"Mr. Clark said: 7 would prefer
the plan suggested rather than COM
petitive bidding
Mr.. Lou Holland saids Z think
1t should be worked out by agreement,
as am afraid that competitive bid
ding will result in wild promotions
"Mr. Hanshue: We are willing 10
do anything within reason to work
out the plan rather than to 60 into
competitive bidding
"Nr. White: I feel sure that the
entire group would be delighted to
go into such a conference and work
it out along the lines suggested
"Mr. Coburn: I believe there is a
community Of interests among the
operators in the department and they
are ready to cooperate and hnd out
how to do it,
THE P. M. g. asked every one to
speak II there were any objections TO
the plan suggested and said that this
was the appropriate time to express
their opinions or objections thereto.
No one rose in objection to the plan.
Cites MacCracken Plan.
''Mr. MacCracken suggested crolIn-
ing the representatives together ac-
cording to locality In order to work
out the details Of the plan, or anv
other plan that might be gotten up.
suggesting they might even have four
committees, or an Eastern and a
Western committee.
Col. Henderson thinks those who
have airmail contracts should be or
ganized into one committee and
| those who have no airmail contracts
should be organized into another
committee.
"Mr. Cuthel suggested that certain
members of this group present to the
Postmaster General grouping of
companies to deal with Southern and
midcontinent transcontinental. routes
THE P. M. @. decided to permit
the operators to use the room in
which the meeting was held for the
purpose Of organizing themselves
into such groups as may be agreed
upon and to report back to the P. M.
@. when they reached a conclusion
with regard to the suggested plan.
He suggested that they stick to the
routes outlined"
The department on May ls gave
the following statement to the press:
In order to acquaint themselves
with the provisions Of the Watres
bill, recently made law through the
signature Of President Hoover, repre-
sentatives OF every large passenger
and sirmail carrying concern
throughout the country conferred to-
day with Postmaster General Brown.
Assistant Postmaster General Glover
| and other officials of the department
in charge Of the airnail service.
This is the first time that operators
Of the large passenger lines have had
an opportunity to talk with the POST
master General and exchange views
with him since the Watres measure
became a law.
Laws Limits Explained.
"a general discussion of airnail
and passenger carrying business, to-
gether with prospects for their future
development, took place at today's
meeting. The Postmaster General
explained TO those who attended the
conference the limitations placed on
him under the terms OF the WatreS
act, which fixed the maximum that
can be paid for carrying the mails to
$l.25 mile and charge Of 40 cents
a mile for each passenger trans
| ported.
Before the close Of today's session
1t was agreed that the operators pres
ent should prepare g map Of the
United States, which will show In de-
tai plans for q network Of passenger
and airmail routes to cover the coun-
try and which will be determined at
future conferences with the Postmas-
ter General.
The companies represented at to-
days conference were Western Air
Express, Aviation Corporation. Ma.