Show AIR AIB MAIL molicy vindicated testimony before the senate com ii attee headed by senator hugo I 1 L alack of 0 alabama showed allowed that during the hoover administration te re presenta tives of leading air companies held a conference in the rot office department and made a new nev air map man of the united states they divided the routes between them without competitive bidding and then postmaster general walter P brown ac assigned signed mail con irian on the lines line thus determined pv ant larnt roo ey it cancelled tarpa rein nimitr nii tracts tr arts on the ground of this charce has been furiously challenged by opponents of the ilia administration the proof of the pudding came lat last week when new bids were opened competitive bids this time th badt WP O so cheap in ili com compall parl son with thi ii old ones that the lie officials one tile envelop r ahia I 1 in at the hie figures tho average of the new bids is eriv a litile over halt half of tin the old laments map ma fr which the government in ili 1933 paid cabbe can be carried now for or a bollt perhaps a little less yet tile the same salue companies ald did the idding last week that attended the so railed spoils conference in the lays of postmaster general brom brown rn the rhe saving to the government as all result of 0 blacks investigations ml lid the presidents cancelling the ont contracts on tracts facts is around a ar in the light of these bids it q difficult to see how even senator fess ess of 0 ohio can contend that the id contracts should have been hean per nit led to stand exchange |