Show A AIR I R OFFICIALS BLOCK SENATE INVESTIGATION Mail Contract ct Corr Correspondence sp Censored Before Being Given to FILE TAMPERING REVEALED Witness Says Letters Taken Were Purely Personal I By El A Associated Press WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Feb 3 Two 3 Two witness witnesses wit wHo nesS nesses ness S i testified today to to the Ithe senate air mail investigating committee that the 3 aviation laUon companies they represented represented se ted had agreed to permit examina- examina Ion of their records only after atter certain certain tain lain correspondence had been re reo re- re moved The witnesses were L L. L H. H vice president of the Northwest Airways Airways Air Air- fr ways and Gilbert Given secretary to Harris larris M. M Hanshue president of Transcontinental and Western Air They said the records were were taken from rom the office of William P. P MacCracken MacCracken MacCracken Mac- Mac Cracken the assistant secretary of commerce for aviation in the Hoover Boover administration and nd now acting attorney attorney attorney ney for their companies MacCracken 1 Under Bond Bonel MacCracken was arrested last night night light but immediately freed on bond bondo to o appear before Monday to o explain his refusal to to o the records I Brittin took testified half halfa a purely personal and lore tore them u up ip as asI I would any other papers I Pressed by questions BrUtIn said ic destroyed th lh cause h he did not nolo want p ex m 1 l nation atlon made of it The day after Brittin removed his I letters letter Ma MacCracken Cr received a w waiver ier i er from Northwest Airways permitting permit 1 ting ing him to- to togi e give the committee copies of confidential correspondence pei taming to negotiations between that c company and the government for mail subsidies 1 Given said he had been told by Hanshue to get the personal papers from rom Mac MacCracken's files flies He led fled he did so and sent them to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York but that they hey were returned MacCracken 1 Selects Letters I was WS told to go down and look them hem over and see if there was a any y- y thing of a personal nature that the committee wouldn't want GIvens s said The decision really wasn't mine because they were laid out for forme forme forme me by MacCracken when I arrived J 1 I really didn't know exactly what whal was in the letters |