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Show hbV ' I Only One Pilot for the National Aircraft WASHINGTON. President Hard-m Hard-m Iiik favors the proposal to place BJ nil I lip aircraft services of tho govern !9J liiciii, military and civil, under one M ftiilral authority. Thcro hna boon nn BJ j impression thnt the President was op- iHwcd to this plan and that Iropres-BH Iropres-BH slon was cmplinslted when Major HH Hi-nernl Menoher, chief of the air serv-HJ serv-HJ It-o of the army, nuked the secretary HJ j t wnr to remove the nsslMnnt chief, ; 1irlf. ('n. WIIIIhiii Mitchell, who was HJ ' ft nTftntent ndvoentc of amalgamation HJ of i lie urni) ntnl navy nlr servlci'. Hf li l luiriieil, ., .mover, tlmt the il'iiVilnu In heartily In favor of tint ihiiim'iI uiiiiilKiiinutioii and that tho HB Joint ;reorgalilHtloii commission, which Hk '" nguged In prepurlng plans for n S-H reorgnnlxntlon of administration of the executive branch of tho government, In Inclined to recommend tho unlllcti-. unlllcti-. Hon of nil the government's aircraft HH activities. The position of President Harding In the matter Is that amalgamation will work to clllclency and economy. One great difficulty pertaining to the present separate aircraft services that Una Impressed him Is that there Is no systematic method of awarding contract con-tract for tho construction of aircraft. Ono brunch award contracts without regnrd to any other government aircraft air-craft organization, and tho President believes that this In detrimental to the upbuilding of private aircraft manufacture manu-facture In tho United States. Tho aircraft manufacturers are dependent de-pendent almost entirety on government govern-ment patronage, as commercial demands de-mands are small, and It Is claimed that unless the government so arranges ar-ranges Its contracts as to distribute contracts among all thoso concerns which produce aircraft meeting government gov-ernment standards, somo of thorn may be obliged to go out of business. In these circumstances President Harding Is understood to feet that a central government aircraft organization organiza-tion wilt be better able to determine how contracts should be awarded for the entire government. Inference Is drnwn from what Is learned of the President's position that ho Is In fnvor of the amalgamation amalgama-tion of tlm Wnr and the Nnvy departments depart-ments Into a department of national defense. |