Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-29 | Page 14 | Probe Asked in Air Mail

PR E A S KEU K ED I II I IN AIR MAlL MAil Wisconsin Solon Charges Wartime Tactics I IW W WASHINGTON tan 29 An An investigation In Investigation in- in In-I In of ot the air sta service vice was demanded in the house today by Representative Nelson Rep of Wisconsin who declared he was informed that conditions which exIst ex- ex let 1st aro a continuation of ot the same practises by the saine same parties that wrote the blackest page in AmerIcas AmerIca's Amer Amer- leas lea's war history In the aircraft failure Mr Nelson said he had more I than documents which ho added I am told will show the same conditions which existed during dur dur- ing t the e darkest days das of the black I dur-I scandal in the air all services now exists exists ex ex- ex in those services and that the I same firms who participated In the loot of ot more than of ot the peoples people's money are still gettIng getting getting get get- ting the contracts under the same conditions and provisions they got those previous contracts He lie declared the the- theair air service Is ia conducting a propaganda over mountains and sea desert and valley valley val val- ley in order to try to force congress congress congress con con- gress through an aroused public sentiment to appropriate more money mO than the officials of ot the air all service seem to feel congress would would- bo be willing to appropriate upon a proper presentation to It of the needs of ot the service and he asked Is this tho the purpose of ot the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed flight of the dirigible to the north pole Mr Nelson said that in his opinIon opinion opinion ion the Manufacturers' Manufacturers Aircraft as association association as- as Inc and its method of ot operation were in absolute vIolatIon violation violation viola vIola- tion of ot the Sherman antitrust law and that he ho was convinced that an investigation would show this not only as being a fact ct then but its it's being a fact today I I