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Show FUND TO TRAIN PILOTUSKED $7,300,000 Requested for Civil Air Program WASHINGTON, March 30 (At Tha civil aeronautics authority, reporting re-porting that aggressor nations had "starlied us into action." asked congress today for a f7.300.000 appropriation ap-propriation to train civilian air pilots. Robert Hinckley, a member of the authority, told the house interstate inter-state commerce committee that the agency's program to train 30,000 pilote for us in a possible emergency emer-gency would be a "formidable and salutary deterrent" to an aerial attack at-tack against the western hemisphere. hemi-sphere. It wss In keeping with the American Amer-ican spirit of preparedness. Hinckley Hinck-ley said, "to build up a greet pool of men and machines dedicated to and engeged in the pursuits of peace, but yielding first pises to no other nstion in flying skill or technical development." Hinckley said private flying, important im-portant aa a backlog of aerial men-power men-power in ths event of a nstiond emergency, bed been neglected. He added the supply of pilots In privsts aviation woudl be "totally inadequate to meet any national emergency." |