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Show AIRPLANE INDUSTRY IF AMERICA IS THREATENED Contracts Amounting to ;j $100,000,000 Would ;-4 Aiaure Safety. By Frederick rM. Kerby , r t Newspaper Enterprise Staff Corre- , spondent. j To keep the airplane Industry of th j country mobilised for pea-e production, j the United States fnvfrnmfnt muat pl -e ! ."5 contracts totaling ttoo.ooa.eot for li. j - Otherwise factories now on government ' contracts will go bark t autonvmlle tun Mine; and other staple Industries. y Kq'jipment aeeeinbled at- great coat will C be scrapped, A mer1 a will again be at I he til of the proueaaloa In development of i aJr t raffle. Theee in tha aaeertloria of a score of aUr plane manufacturers. They were made at a conference called by Major l.eneral Kan ley, chief of the aeronautic division f th war department. And. before air navigation becomes VeneraJ (popular enough to warrant such firod action of plane aa la already assured n foreim countries), con arena muat act. 1 AIR LEGISLATION NEEDED. Air lines must be defined, landing placea reserved, signal aystema endjraf-lic endjraf-lic rulea dveloper au.fe.ly ineiiaures auu pilot retiulrements framed. ' The United Htatea haa epent a billion dollajs In developing the airplane for war The manufacturers assert the hundred millions more will keep the Industry In-ta't In-ta't for transition from war to peace. Or eat Britain la putting Into operation a aeven-year building program fnr avis- , tion whlrh contemplates expenditure of sJM.OAO.ooO a year. In general, the United States manufacturers manufac-turers are asking that about aa much buHlneaa be aneure dthem for the year 1911 as they are doing now In a alngle month. The Wright-Martin corporation la doing a government buafneag now - of approximately twelve to fifteen million dollars a month. That means that they would have to have onirsta for something some-thing like fifteen million dollars for the next year. They could keep one of their fiu-toriea busy with that amount. The same le true of the Curtlaa. of the fHanrf-ard, fHanrf-ard, the Tayton-WHaht and other plants and. In leaaer decree, of the manufacturers manufactur-ers of engines and parts. DISTRIBUTION OF SQUADRONS. - Te spend lioe.ooo.nos in the neit year would mean that about two hundred air SMiuadroni would need to be maintained bv the army In thia country. The department depart-ment ig tentatively planning for a flying field In each Mate lit the union, which waul duee forty-eight aquadrona; the others oth-ers to be diatrivuted en coast patrol and other duties. The development of air mail and other commercial uaea will gradually displace military aeronautics and provide the planes and personnel whioh would form a rvjiMenrHMHta COLORADO GOVERNOR MUST MAKE HASTE I a By Associated Press, . rKN VKK. Colo.. Iter. JO pratlon ' of a constitutional amendment, adopted at the recent general elect dm. and the rict that New Teara of fnlia on Wednesday will combine to j give overnor-ele-t Oliver H. Hhoup j hut one day during the seaalon of the i j twenty-second general assembly on ! which he can officially seek the Introduction Intro-duction of any bills, the passage of which may.be desired by him. The state constitution provides that the leglalature shall assemble on the flrat Wednesday of every other year, while the governor tHkea office on the second Tuesday of the year. The new amendment limits the period for the Introduction of bills In the assembly fifteen daa. Consequently Mr Shotip faces a calendar which calls for the opening of the asemuly on Wednesday, Wednes-day, J a nuary I , the ear llest poaa 1 hi e l date; hta Inauguration on Tuead iy. I January 14, the latest possible iate 1 and the expiration of the time limit ' for the Introduction of bills the day I following, Wednesday, January la. |