The Washington times., 1938-04-15

AhS ItSdIullg lHe ueeu IOF du
aviation, Senator Pat McCarral
of the Senate Commerce Con
thinking today.
Testfying before the committee
holding hearings on his bill to di-
Vorce aviation from control of the
Post office, Interstate Commerce
Commission and the Bureau of
Air Commerce, Senator McCarran
warned of financial collapse of air
lines unless protective legislation is
enacted at this session of Con-
greSS.
Cut-throat competition between
foreign airlineS md American
companies, brought about by too
much regulation of our own air
lines in competition with those of
nations which subSidize opera.
tons, will be the outcome unless
this Government aids aviation, he
said.
Senator McCarran declared
American aviation concerns need
immediate aid in safety measures,
rate control, and liberal air mail
contracts. So long as aviation re-
mains the forgotten child of trans
portation, private capital will not
invest and Americas air Supre-
macy will be a thing of the past,
he said.
Pan American Always flew
Easter lilies from Bermuda to
Washington for the wife of the
President, a present from Sir Reg
mald and lady Hildyard.
On his flight eastward from the
Pan Pacific Aircraft show in Los
Angeles, one of the editors at
tending the show carried a crisp
California salad on TWAS "Sky-
liner" and it was still fresh when
he reached Washington.
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In Detroit at noon tomorrow
Henry Ford will join with pioneers
and present leaders in aviation to
dedicate memorial to Wilbur and
Orville Wright by opening the
newly restored Wright home and
workshop in Greenfield Village. 1t
was on December IT, 1908, when
the Wright brothers first flew at
Kitty Hawk. N. C.
Part of the delegation for the
d dicat ion ceremonies flew
through here yesterday aboard a
Pea plane from Norfolk, over the
new route opened last week.
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Defending New York city, Phile.-
delphia and eastern seaboard
cities against a theoretical attack
by a foreign air armada, the
Army's GHQ air force will con-
centrate for annual aerial maneu-
vers in the northeastern United
States next month, the War De
partment has announced.
The maneuvers will be the larg-
est scale air concentration ever
carried out by the nations de.
tense forces.
Nearly 100 fighting and bomb
ing planes will be used in the
aerial war games and 1900 mer
of the Army Air Corps will pc
transported by air to the area
from Army air stations all over
the nation. Temporary ground
bases will be established at 81 air
ports.
Richard V. Rhode, aeronautical
engineer on the staff of the. Ma
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, is this years win
ner of the Wright Brothers medal
for his paper on gust loads on air
planes, a subject he has studied
for some time.
Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray. who
died in the substratosphere in No
vember. 1927, during a regular U.
S. Army altitude balloon flight,
was again in the news by the War
Department announcement that
the air corps field at Fl. Lewis,
Wash. had been named Gray
Field" in his honor.
Captain Gray broke world alti-
tude records by reaching 42,470
feet, but never lived to receive due
honors.
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Bob Currie, chief meteorologist
for American Airlines in Chicago,
is just about perfect. He has ac-
curately forecast weather for thou
sands of miles of fast American
Airline flights with an average of
99.1 per cent perfection. Whew!
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The Bureau of Air Commerce
has set up a new section to en-
courage private flying and will