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Show s 4 Vho's Got the Plane? A sks Washington Scribe BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. T U.fi I nave lost interest in Howard Hughes' dancing girls. I just want my west coast operative to drop by Senor Hughes' dry-dock and see if the biggest airplane in tne world actually exists. I want him to touch it -and make sure it's not a mere legal mistake, maybe, boy! - Gather 'round, taxpayers, for what looks like the nearest thing to a ride we may set in our ' eight-motored, 700-passenger ply 'wood behemoth of the air. Ke- 'member? We paid Hughes $18,- 000.000 to build three of these over-sized flying machines. Then we decided (through our spokes men in the government) to slip him the $18,000,000 for Just one, 'Popcorn' Spread 51 97 i i We skipped the other two. We actually paid $21,119,970 for our airplane. We own it. We have accepted delivery, but we cant use it. The civil aeronautics administration says it won't allow it to fly for civilian operation until it has been tested. Really tested. Busted to smithereens on purpose to test it part by part. -And then there will be no plane." telfled CAA Depuy Administrator C. I. Stanton. So nobody can fly It, except Hushes, on test authorisation. And that Isn't alL Incredulous was the expression on the faces in the senate caucus room when Sen. Homer Ferguson of Mich., the chief Investigator, read the terms of the newest contract con-tract between Hughes and us, the taxpayers, by way of the Defense Plant corporation. So long as our airplane doesnt fly, and if there actually is an airplane and not some smashed lumber, it is ours to admire. The moment that Hughes de- Loyalty Test Not Working Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R Chairman Edward H. Rees of the house civil service committee, said today that President Truman's Tru-man's program to check the loyalty loyal-ty of federal employes "isn't working out and won't work out." "The only reason we have had any results at all is because of the prodding of Jaembers of congress," con-gress," the Kansas Republican said in an interview. "There has been too much laxity all along the line." ! Reese said he was going to ask the civil service commission and the FBI for reports on the program pro-gram at periodic intervals during the congressional summer recess. "Somebody must watch these things to keep the agencies in line," he said. cides to test it (listen closely, taxpayers), then he has the rignt to lease it for $37,900 a month. Plus $6.50 for every hour that each of the mighty motors roar. "Of course." said H, R. Ed wards, the elderly government engineer en-gineer who spent, four, years watching our" plan being built, "he doesnt actually par tiny money under this lease." "No?" asked Sen. Ferguson: "Oh no Sir," replied Edwards. "The contract calls for him. to rent the plan at this price' until he has used up the $2,000,000 ol his own money he has spent on it." . "And that'll take about four years?" .the senator .enquired. "Four years after he takes it up for its first test," Edwards said. It turned out further that Hughes can sublease our airplane to anybody he pleases providing somebody wants to rent the big gest airship in the- world which the CAA .won't permit" to be used for i commercial purposes. If it doesn't get busted in the meantime mean-time w can have our airplane back for our own us sometime in 1951. If we- still want it, for busting-up purposes, that is. Hughes Is expected to testify shortly, himself. So is his man Johnny Meyer, who hired the Hollywood beauties to entertain assorted federal biswigs. Nobody entertained Engineer Edwards. He never met Meyer. Only one dur ing the four years he spent in the plant did he see Hughes, who was busy part of the time directing direct-ing his wild west movie, "The Outlaw." It's our airplane, anyhow, un til Hughes proves that it will fly Then it's his, if he wants it, until the bookkeepers calculate he's had $2,000,000 worth of use from it, Only how can he use it, or us either, if he s got to smash it to prove that he built it right? That's the $21,000,000 question. Teeter-Dunker Is a Heat-Beater Treat rrrf l",r.r'w'f. f'"f 7Ary::"f"'M'.'?-'' '' ' S.J.lJfcftll'jWfiS."iii BY MRS. ANNE CABOT Easy picK-up work for vacation crocheting are the 6Y squares which comprise a "popcorn" bedspread. bed-spread. Each block has 49 fat little lit-tle "popcorn" clusters worked in the center and surrounded by an openwork border. Make a block now and then and by autumn you'll have enough to set together to form a very handsome bed spread. 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