Show i AIRPLANE LA NE COSTI COST CO ST I AGAIN I I i Congress Investigates Difference Differ Differ- I I. ence in Price Paid by Army and Navy t l WASHINGTON March 12 A P A wide difference In prices paid by the theann for lor airplane engines navy and gid ann army y disclosed today Congressional Vas wis as investigators started a a. hunt for lar the theof of the thc gap of both services cost at estimated the thc average a r around gmund bad has ad per mo motor or A stateS stale c t b bY J J. J R. R McCarl McCarI comptroller J Agreed dis greed with that figure McCarl's list of ot contracts granted r showed the war dc dc- Jin e July 1926 t Kent P paid d an average of engines while the navys navy's avert aerl aver aver- for for lor t l lit K cost was I The le investigators in were trying also la to find out why two army engines i FlUSh were bought on competitive j ri i bids Mft cost na era a average e of ot while obtained by the navy also on bids bid cost There mere were some differences In thet the the investigators agreed but nes t wanted d more information A over over rush orders put y through fa iq the last days of the Hoover a tr tion was growing even puzzling to house committee committee- sore Bore z n. n i The Investigators had a new tabu tabu- I lat Ution on from McCarl McCari of ot I tj- tj warth rth of army planes contracted for fori i fA lathe the three months just before belore President T f exit dent Roosevelt velt took office |