Show Airmail Companies Cleared In U. U S. S Contract Report NEW YORK Feb 29 AP The AP-The The Ne v York Sun in a special dispatch from its Washington bureau said today the department of justice has prepared a report for President Roosevelt officially clearing the airmail companies of all civil and criminal liabilities in n connection with contracts negotiated during the thc Hoover administration adminIstration admin admin- and canceled by 4 ter General Farley In 1934 The Sun said it understood the report report re- re port ort confines itself to legal questions questions ques- ques lons and while it takes note of cerain certain tam ain tain Irregularities in the negotiation negotiation negotiation tion of the air mail contracts it reaches the conclusion that there was vas no transgression of the law by any of tho the parties concerned Whether this would constitute grounds upon which the companies might sue the tho government for dama damages damages dam dam- a ages es resulting from the thc cancellation I of contracts could not be learned the thc paper said The Thc he contracts were canceled by Farley Fancy after a senate committee headed by Senator Black D. D Ala heard charges of fraud and collusion collusion collu collu- sion in the letting of the tho contracts by Walter Brown postmaster general general gen gen- eral in the tho Hoover cabinet r Tho The malls turned over to the theto arm army to fly J hut r resulted la Jn B number of fatalities Within a short time the mail mall earr carrying job was given again to the private companies The Sun said the thc department of ol justice report which is the result t of two years of investigation finds that the seemingly scandalous circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances when examined away from the tho lights and the microphones of ot tho the committee room did not nol I shape up just that way The paper said also a vigorous attempt was made to have the re report report re- re port suppressed but that reports report of ot Its contents have havo filtered out Colonel Carl C. C L. L Ristine who vho was appointed as a special assistant to the attorney general to make malte an impartial investigation of the whole affair has refused to discuss the tho re report report report re- re port the Sun said and declined even to admit th that he be had bad made such Investigation |