Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-19
ARMY TAKES
On AIRMA|L
TASK AGAIN
Administration Leaders Read
justing Bill Which Will Return
Job To Private Firms.
TO COMPLETE HEARINGS
Safety First Rule Paramount
As Service Resumes On Eight
Trunk Routes.
TO COMPLETE HEARINGS
BY RONALD G. VAN TINE
United Press Staff Correspondent

Og hOANEALD u. v nv
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 10.
The army tackled the words safe
ty first" onto the cherished slogan
that the mail must go through and
today resumed the service inter-
rupted when 10 young men had
given their lives in sacrifice to
the original creed.
An eleventh flier was killed late
Saturday near Cheyenne while
seeking to familiarize himself with
a route to which he was assigned.
Administration advisors were
busy redrafting the bill which will
retire the army from it's emer-
gency mail carrying service and
restore the function to private
hands.
Planes were scheduled at inter-
walls during the day over eight
routes designed from the initial
flights with improved facilities and
safety of the pilots a paramount
consideration.
In most parts of the country,
weather was favorable. The ships
have been equipped with additional
flying instructions and two way
radio.
The revision of the new airmail
bill followed Sunday conference
at the White House called by
President Roosevelt. Congressional
leaders met with him and were
believed to have discussed the bill
in the light of testimony at the
airmail hearings.
The revision was expected as it
had been known for several days
/ in that the measure must be re-
written to meet such objections as
those brought out at hearings by
Col Charles A. Lindbergh, Clarence
Chamberlin. and Eddie Ricken-
| backer.
Hearings on the bills are expected
to be completed today. The bill
itself may not be ready for a
week or more. How soon the SER
vice might be returned to private
operation was uncertain.
If the army succeeds in restor-
ing mail service without resump-
ton of casualties, it was believed
| the administration would not hurry
to negotiate new private contracts.
| New fatalities however would be al
| most certain to hasten the return
of the mail to the private hand
| lerS.
Mail routes ordered resumed to-
| day were: Boston-NeW York; New
York Jacksonville; New York-Chi-
cago; Chicago Chicago
San Francisco; Salt Lake-San
Diego; Salt Lake-Seattle and
Cheyenne-Denver.
| WASHINGTON, March 10. U.P)--
Sen. Joseph c. O'Mahoney CDemo, 3,
wyoming, announced today that he
intended to introduce new airmail
bill designed to END payment by the
/ government OF subsidies to CONNER
cial airlines.
| OMahoney said he would place
his measure before the senate post
office committee which is consid-
ering an administration proposal to
leturn contracts to private oper-
ators for three year period.
AS tie committee prepared to
conclude hearings, O'Mahoney an
nounced that i'll his opinion airlines
should be required to transport mail
! when offered by the post office de-
partment Just as the government
requires every railroad to do
TIE government has been pay
ing subsidies to certain aviation
companies he said, lin the guise
of compensation for carrying the
mail. These companies have used
that subsidy as an instrumentality
/ Tor establishing a practical mono
poly of all branches of aviation"