Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-02-17 | Page 1 | Attorney Hits Airmail Move

ATTORNEY HITS AIRMAIL MOVE i B. B L. L Rich i Says Says' ays' ays Cancellation M May ay y Prove M Major jot I Mistake Cancellation Cancellation- of of airmail airman co contracts and n assigning army fliers filers I to carry he the mall mail may prove the major mistake mistake mis mis- take of the Roosevelt administration and demoralize commercial aviation Benj Benjamin L. L Rich lawyer la and past state president Sons of the American Revolution declared Saturday in a speech at the third Women's Patriotic Conference on National De Defense ense atthe at atthe atthe the Newhouse hoteL The government has hru the legal right to cancel the contracts but the army is neither trained nor equipped to maintain the mail mall service The three crash deaths in this region Friday Friday Fri Fri- day indicated this he said It appears the president was not proper properly advised on the matter and the situation may result in loss of public confidence in Roosevelt's ad ad- The government would have been w wiser ser it appears appears' to continue the airmail air mail mall service on a plus cost basis after ater the he old contracts had bad been canceled This would have enabled the commercIal commercial com corn mercial lines to use their specialized equipment on a new deal basis basi Rich praised other features of or the Roosevelt program