Evening star., 1935-01-31
PRESIDENT URGES
FULL j. S: CONTROL
OF AIR TRANSPORT.
Sweeping Changes En-
visioned in Government
Supervision of Service.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
SUGGESTS NEW POLICY
Proposed Program Would Give
Country World Leadership,
Roosevelt Says.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERToN.

Pointing to progress in aviation and
emphasizing the need for more ef-
fectivc control of this and other forms
of transportation, President Roosevelt
today submitted to Congress a report
OF the Federal Aviation Commission
which carries 102 recommendations
for permanent Federal aviation poll
cieS
The commissions recommendations,
if enacted, would result in reorganiza-
ton from the foundations of every
form of civil and military air control.
The President agreed with all of the
commissions recommendations except
one calling for creation of temporary
Air Commerce Commission. He OBJ
jected on the ground that aviation
and all other transportation should be
regulated by a consolidated agency
ana that the Government should avoid
the multiplication of separate regu-
latory agencies in the field of trans
portation."
Suggests I. c. c. Division.
Mr.. Roosevelt suggested that until
a permanent consolidated agency is
created a division of the Interstate
Commerce Commission can well
serve the needs of air tranSporta-
ton
The recommendations CT the COM
mission are designed to maintain for
the United States "a po5itlch of world
leadership in aeroncutics. They are
intended to strengthen air transporta-
ton in the United States and under
the United States flag over the seas
and in foreign countries. They call
for built airships to en-
gage in rans-oceanic service. Merg-
ing of the Army and Navy air forces
is opposed. but reco,nn. .endations are
made that both arms be strengthened
and made more effective.
Reorganization of the airmail sys-
TEN in virtually every detail. with abo-
lition of the contract principle of
award and the granting of outright
subsidies where needed; establishment
of ocean airmail and transport Serv-
ice by airplane and airship: thorough
reorganization of Federal aeronautical
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new Air Commerce Commission. and
STRENGTHENING of the Nations air de-
fense organization are covered.
Establishment of the relationship
between the Federal Government and
the aviation industry upon a perma-
nent basis intended TO maintain a
position of world leadership in air
transport" is proposed.
Although details of the report have
Just become public, it is understood
that definite steps already are being
taken to embody the new state
ments of policy in legislation, and it
is expected many of the important
features of the report will find their
way into national law during the
present session of Congress. One sec
ton of the report suggests consti-
tutjonal amendment giving the Fed
eral Government authority to regulate
aviation within States which do not
enact uniform laws governing aero
nauticS.
Fundamental Policy.
The report is regarded as the most
important statement of a funda-
mental national air policy ever drawn.
It's results are expected to be more
far-reaching than even those of the
famous Morrow commission, which
established the aviation policies under
which the Federal Government has
operated for more than eight years
The commissions policy recon-
mendations call for scrapping of vir-
tually the entire airmail law enacted
last year, following the cancellation
of all airmail contracts. 1t would
vest the supervision not only OF air
mail, but of all transport development
in a new bipartisan air commerce
commission with broad supervisory
and regulatory power over civil aero
nautics. and particularly over domes-
tic and foreign air transport"
Finding that the security OF do
mestic air transportation is jeopardized
by terms of the existing airmail con-
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