Show SAYS MILLIONS WERE TOE WT Plane Maker Raps Futile Policy of U S Army In War NEW YORK Jan The 16 16 The The de de e pollee of or military me n nat at McCook field Do Dayton lon pasted waste millions of o dollus dollare appropriated for de de of ot a aviation and an made It necessary for American America soldiers to tight fight under protection prot of o French and British aircraft C CM CM M Ko Keyes es pre president of ot the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor company compan to- to today today day told the congressional sub sub- subcommittee subcommittee committee which is ln e e the United States air sen service Ice This d destructive polio aced throughout the war oar ar and con con- continued until recently 1 Mr r Keyes Keye said consisted In the refusal of o army engineers to the as- as assistance offered by skilled com com- commercial mercial designers although planes plane s built under arm army had ha proved futile Impossible and wasteful Despite the fact that Lila his de- de designers designers signers had built ten planes to one on designed by the army Mr Keyes Ke e s added the Curtiss s offer otter of or coop coop- I oration was nas peremptorily refused and tho the company was nag ordered to build a 11 plane called the tho 1 fighter which army engineers had adapted from tho Iho ho British Brills an and the Italian bomber the 1 he first Bristol plane crashed and killed the test teat pilot Mr Keyes Kees Ke 3 recalled adding that when hn the company had reported unfavorably on the design production was as orde ed topped stopped by the army The The factory wo ne e built at a cos cost colof it ot of 1000 to construct those thee planes Inne has since been a total loss lose Mr Keyes said Specific figures of the amount of money lost loot by bythe bythe the go go e el in Its KB abortive er- er effort erfort el fort to design planes would be fur fur- furnished fur liter later he asserted The Curtiss compan company which alone remains r of ot the concel concerns n which attempted war oar time n lation a manufacture would be bo forced to t liquidate It the system of ot aid tor fOl i private concerns recently inaugurated Inaugurated b Major General Mason Iason MasoM M Patrick of the army irmy air service were ere abandoned the witness said I Thereas There was nas no assurance that It would be bo continued he declared |