Evening star., 1939-02-13
Aviation Forum Here
Next Week 10 Draw
500 Delegates
All Phases of Civil
Aeronoutics Problem
Will Be Discussed

With a mandate from President
Roosevelt to consider all phases of
the current civil aeronautics prob
lem with relation to their effects on
national security, more than 500
delegates from all parts of the coun-
try will gather here Monday and
Tuesday of next week for the Ma
tional Aviation Forum at the May
flower Hotel.
The forum was called as a result
OF meeting here last December of
the Joint Aviation Council, composed
of representatives of the major ma
tlonal aviation associations. The
forum will be attended by delegates
OF more than 40 national organiza-
tions outside of aviation, including
civic, patriotic, fraternal, labor and
professional groups.
In a message to the forum, made
public today, President Roosevelt
pointed out that civil aviation "is
clearly recognized as the backlog of
national defense in the Civil Aero
nautics Act which set up the effec-
tive machinery for a comprehensive
national policy with respect to the
air"
Stabilized Production.
Underlying the statute is the
principle that the country's welfare
in time of peace and its safety in
time Of war rests lupon the existence
OF a stabilized aircraft production
an economically and technically
sound air transportation system,
both domestic and overseas-an ade-
quate supply of trained civilian
pilots and ground personnel"
The President called attention to
the fact that hardly another civil
activity of our people bears such a
direct and intimate relation to the
national security as does civil avia-
ton"
1T supplies a reservoir of ines
timable value to our military and
naval forces in the form of men and
machines, while at the same time it
keeps an industry so geared that it
can be instantly diverted to the
production of fighting planes in the
event of national emergency" the
President said.
The forum sessions, in which the
Nations outstanding aviation off,
cials will participate with represent
atives of Congress, business, the
transportation industry and labor
will cover "every phase of aviation
IN its relation to our national Sc
curity and to our national economy, ~
it was announced by Gill Robb Will
son, chairman of the Joint Aviation
Council and director of aeronautics
of New Jersey.
National Airport System.
The national airport system, in
cluding the Washington National
Airport, now under construction
here; the 20,000-pilot training pro-
gram, expansion of the Army and
Navy air forces and establishment
OF new military and naval air bases
will be high lights of the forum dis
csasions.
Among the forum speakers will be
Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of
the Army Air Corps; Rear Admiral
Arthur B. Cook, chief of the Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics; Senators
Truman of Missouri, Mead of New
York and McCarran of Nevada; AS
siStant Secretary of War Louis
johnson, Mayor La Guardia of New
York, Representatives Randolph of
West Virginia, Starnes of Alabama
Mas of Minnesota and Harter of
Ohio; Arthur M. Hill, director of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States; Edward ]. Noble
chairman of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority, and G. Grant Mason of
the authority; Comdr. Francis W.
Reichelderfer, new chief of the
Weather Bureau; Col. Edgar S.
Gorrell, president of the Air Trans
port Association; Thomas H. Beck
president Of the Crowell Publishing
Co.; Col. John H. Jouett, new presi-
dent of the Aeronautical Chamber
Of Commerce Of America; DR.. Fred
D. Fagg, jr., former director OF
air commerce; Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, chairman of the Avia-
ton Committee, American Bar AS
ISOLATION and former Assistant At
torney General, and David S. ingalls,
chairman Of the Aviation Commit
tee, American Legion, and forme,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy TO,
Aerpnautics.