HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 1012 A BILL TO AMEND THE CIVIL AERONAUTICS ACT OF 1938, AS AMENDED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES FEBRUARY 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, AND 12, 1943 5. Congress. Home. Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 11695 1943b 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 Pogue, L. Welch, Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board- Gorrell, Col. Edgar S., president, Air Transport Association of Page Stanton, Charles I., Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, Department 368 Tipton, S. G., assistant general counsel, Civil Aeronautics Board 399 Reichelderfer, Dr. Francis W., Chief, United States Weather Bureau__ 413 415 Warner, Hon. Edward, Vice Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board.. 417 422 430 Stringer, Harry R., vice president, All-American Aviation- 433 439 Graph of revenue-miles flown per fatal accident and passenger fatali- ties per 100,000,000 passenger miles... Comparative air carrier safety statistics in domestic, international, and Territorial operations for the fiscal year 1936 through 1942__ International air carriers, operating revenues, and expenses, mileage, and traffic statistics for the fiscal years 1938 through 1942. Personnel, authorized positions, Civil Aeronautics Board, December 31, 1942, and employees of Civil Aeronautics Administration, Newspaper article-MacArthur Sees Airpower as Key to Victory. Memorandum, exclusive regulation of air transport with respect to economic and safety matters as proposed in H. R. 1012_ Public, No. 766, Seventy-seventh Congress (meteorological students) _ Air Transport Association of America (objects and purposes) Air routes before Pearl Harbor. AMENDMENTS TO CIVIL AERONAUTICS ACT OF 1938 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1943 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., Hon. Clarence F. Lea (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. We have met 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 1 |