HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON SERIAL RECORD MAY 261943 Copy. COVT. SOULAGE INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE. SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 1012 A BILL TO AMEND THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS ACT OF MARCH 11, 12, AND 19, 1943 Supplement to Hearings Held on FEBRUARY 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, AND 11, 1943 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 216A5 CONTENTS Statements of- Regan, Ben, chairman, Illinois Aeronautics Commission__. Wyoming Public Service Commission_ Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.. Letters from- Kenneth H. Ringrose, deputy commissioner, Department of Aero- F. W. Cole, vice president, The Travelers Insurance Co.. David L. Behncke, president, Air Line Pilots Association_ Gorrell, Col. Edgar S., president, Air Transport of America, re: Zoning- Westwood, Howard, C., Esq., attorney, re: Constitutionality of some Gorrell, Col. Edgar S., president, Air Transport of America, submitting excerpts from reports of the committee on aeronautical law of the American Bar Association relating to need for exclusive Federal jurisdiction to regulate aviation_ Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Inc.. Aeronautical Training Society. American Bar Association containing excerpts from reports of the committee on aeronautical law relating to need for exclusive Federal Prepared by S. G. Tipton, assistant general counsel and H. D. Rey- nolds, attorney, Civil Aeronautics Board, on the regulation of contract carriers under the Interstate Commerce Act.. Opinion of Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Rosenhan v. United States (certiorari denied by United States Supreme Court AMEMDMENT TO CIVIL AERONAUTICS ACT OF 1938 THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1943 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in the committee room, New House Office Building, Hon. Alfred L. Bulwinkle presiding. Mr. BULWINKLE. The subcommittee will please be in order. Mr. Howell, will you introduce these gentlemen who wish to appear as witnesses? Mr. HOWELL. Mr. Chairman, I did introduce these gentlemen to some of the members before the session opened, and I think probably the first to testify will be Ben Regan, who is the chairman of the Illinois Aeronautics Commission, and then Mr. Roberts, the secretary, who is with him, and will want to testify also. Mr. BULWINKLE. Mr. Regan, we will be glad to hear you. Mr. HOWELL. And, I might say that I thought it might be helpful if the committee heard some of these men give us the State's views of this problem. Mr. BULWINKLE. We will be glad to hear you, Mr. Regan. Give your full name for the record. STATEMENT OF BEN REGAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE ILLINOIS AERONAUTICS COMMISSION Mr. REGAN. My name is Ben Reagan, chairman of the Illinois Aeronautics Commission. For the past several years, and particularly since the start of the war, the Illinois Aeronautics Commission has attempted to coordinate its services with those of the Federal authorities and to cooperate with the Aeronautic Administrative Authority, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, within our State. We have had a very fortunate relationship with the Civil Aeronautics Administration, because of the very fine spirit of cooperation which the Federal authorities in our State have exhibited in our matters. We also have letters of commendation for our cooperation from the War Department and the Navy Department in matters of public interest in which we have had the necessary authority. In the matters of air-traffic control and administration of airport regulations, the Illinois Aeronautics Commission has always deferred to the Federal authority, believing that uniformity of laws 1 |