HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 1012 1938, AS AMENDED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES FEBRUARY 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, AND 12, 1943 lis. Congress. Howe. . Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE ! CLARENCE F. LEA, California, Chairman ROBERT CROSSER, Ohio CHARLES A. HALLECK, Indiana ALFRED L. BULWINKLE, North Carolina PEHR G. HOLMES, Massachusetts VIRGIL CHAPMAN, Kentucky B. CARROLL REECE, Tennessee LYLE H. BOREN, Oklahoma CHARLES A. HALLECK, Indiana MARTIN J. KENNEDY, New York | CARL HINSHAW, California LINDLEY BECKWORTH, Texas CLARENCE J. BROWN, Ohio THOMAS D'ALESANDRO, JR., Maryland EVAN HOWELL, Illinois FRANCIS J. MYERS, Pennsylvania HARVE TIBBOTT, Pennsylvania J. PERCY PRIEST, Tennessee LEONARD W. HALL, New York OREN HARRIS, Arkansas THOMAS D. WINTER, Kansas JOSEPH P. O'HARA, Minnesota ELTON J. LAYTON, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ALFRED L. BULWINKLE, Chairman CLARENCE F. LEA, California CHARLES A. WOLVERTON, New Jersey LYLE H. BOREN, Oklahoma PEHR G. HOLMES, Massachusetts LINDLEY BECKWORTH, Texas CARL HINSHAW, California FRANCIS J. MYERS, Pennsylvania EVAN HOWELL, Illinois RICHARD F. HARLESS, Arizona. JOSEPH P. O'HARA, Minnesota CONTENTS Page amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, and TPOSes------------------ ----------------------------- Welch, Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board-------------- 24, 85 Col. Edgar S., president, Air Transport Association of rfer, Dr. Francis W., Chief, United States Weather Bureau-- 413 , New York City-------------------------------------- 415 Hon. Edward, Vice Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board---- 417 William C., United States Post Office Department--------- 422 'ol. Roscoe, Indianapolis, Ind--------------------------- 430 Harry R., vice president, All-American Aviation---------- 433 Hon. Jack, Member of Congress from Oklahoma---------- 439 revenue-miles flown per fatal accident and passenger fatali- 100,000,000 passenger miles------------------.- - - - - - - - - - 50 five air carrier safety statistics in domestic, international, rritorial operations for the fiscal year 1936 through 1942- - - - 51 »nal air carriers, operating revenues, and expenses, mileage, ffic statistics for the fiscal years 1938 through 1942-------- 53 y 1, 1943--------------------------------------------- 56 »r article—MacArthur Sees Airpower as Key to Victory---- 120 dum, exclusive regulation of air transport with respect to ic and safety matters as proposed in H. R. 1012- - - - - - - - - - 156 use of motor fuel-------------------------------------- 178 o. 766, Seventy-seventh Congress (meteorological students) - 216 port Association of America (objects and purposes)-------- 86 ; of the Arctic area------------------------------------ 93 ; before Pearl Harbor---------------------------------- 93 'ol. Roscoe-career in aviation-------------------------- 431 AMENDMENTS TO CIVIL AERONAUTICS ACT OF 1938 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1943 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.C. hairman, presiding in mitte mill come tocan w ho this morning for a hearing on H. R. 1012, a bill to amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes. (H. R. 1012 above referred to is as follows:) [H. R. 1012, 78th Cong., 1st sess.) A BILL To amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1943”. REPORTS TO CONGRESS TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL SEC. --. (a) The Civil Aeronautics Board and the Postmaster General, respectively, are empowered and directed to investigate and report to the Congress within one year from the effective date of this Act concerning the feasibility and advantages of transporting by air all classes of mail wherever delivery thereof would be speeded by the use of air transportation, and there shall be included in such reports a plan for accomplishing such transportation and the recommendations concerning the time when such plan should be put into effect. POST-WAR PLANNING (b) The Civil Aeronautics Board is empowered and directed to investigate and report to the Congress within one year from the effective date of this Act, or as soon thereafter as may be feasible, concerning the probable technological and commercial developments in air commerce which may be anticipated during the immediate post-war period, and shall include in such report a plan or plans for the sound and swift development of the air commerce of the United States in a manner which will assure preeminence of the United States in the field of aeronautics, and which will assure the most effective accomplishment of the declarations of policy set forth in the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended. The Civil Aeronautics Board shall include within the scope of its investigation and report, among other things, a thorough study of the feasibility of transporting property by air, the probable costs of such transportation, and the most desirable means for the development of such transportation. SEC. 2. Section 1 (2) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “arrangement" the words "and whether as a forwarder or otherwise” and by striking the proviso and inserting in lieu thereof a new proviso as follows: “Provided, That the Authority may by order make the provisions of this Act inapplicable to air carriers who are |