Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1947 — Page 4
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|like that for even the shortest been at the front. distance. That really was an air-| Nine-tenths of the money I spent plane! If it hadn't been, the record entertaining I spent on guys who wouldn't have stood for eight years, [never had a chance to help me and! more 80 anyway, it stands to reason never will. The $164,000 wasn't di-/ that having built a ship like that | | rected toward guys who could help and having flown around the world (us with contracts, It was spread without a stop, I've had reason to around. Johnny Meyer is still on get into the airplane business. {my payroll. Why should I drop What have Bill Douglas, Glen him? He hasn't done anything {Martin or Boeing done that I/ wrong. I'm not passing the buck haven't done better? | to him. | Thirty Million Dollars | | With all that behind me T cer-| [tainly had a right to get my foot | 4 in the airplane business. What | happened? During the entire war, my air-| | craft company sold directly. to the) | government only $38436902 worth |
Like Using Putty | I lost engineers and workmen all uring the war, They'd tell me, “Howard, you're a good engineer ‘and # good technician, but you just don’t know how. to get the business. We're sorry. You're a nice guy and you've got a lovely little company, 'but you're stagnating. These other!
of equipment. Boeing sold $2,028, | 950.000 worth. Lockheed sold $2,-|companies are passing jou by ‘ 310,564,000, Consolidated—83,828,- 1 ended up with a couple of half-
“| oaxed contracts—one for a ship {that had tq, be bullt of wood. You | might as well have built a ship 1,000. {that big out of putty. * Made a Fortune I hope this plane will fly. Given a job to build a plane which has Sure! 1 got 1 per cent of the '0 be twice as big as anything is business and 100 per cent of the One thing. Being told it's got to investigation. be built out of ‘wood is another, : [1t's like fighting Joe Louis with Changed Three Times one hand tied behind you. I went off by myself, locked the| 1f I hid been a bungler in every i door, and bullt a bigger plane than | her walls of life, you might say the P-38-—a medium bomber. faster |, was my fault I didn't get the than any pursuit ship’in the world. | breaks. That's our competitive sys- | They horsed around for On€ year!ism our American system. Some before they gave me a contracl.|o,ue fall by the wayside. That's Then they changed it three times. ., right.
074,000. Martin Alrcraft—8$1,924,1228,000. Douglas — $3,837,470,000. | United Alreraft $2.91} Wright Aeronautical-—$2, 348 What did I sell? Thirty million | | dollars worth, And I got such lousy priorities, I couldn't deliver it.
Dr. Tuner Takes |. U. History Post
Gives Up Position At Monmouth College.
Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Aug. 13.— Dt. Lynn W. Turner of Monmouth college has accepted positions as director of the Indiana War History commission and assistant professor of history at Indiana university. The comm /ission’s executive committee, headed by Dr.Herman B Wells, Indiana university president, has given instructions that work begin at once on the writing and publication of the state’ war history. This
“ Dr, Turner
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will be executed
as provided by the 1047 general as- |
sembly, - ; The history will consist of several volumes, the first of which is ex-
| At the start of the war I had the) gut that hasn't been the case. | | D- 2 fiying—in the air—and in My pve been successful. I've made { mind it was better than any other | {movies. I've rolled the 300,000 ‘airplane. But they wouldnit buy!pucks I inherited into a Jom
The point I'm making is, they say |ton_an example of what the new |T'm the guy who got favoritism, | world ought to be coming to. We | while I got a bigger kicking around | didn't have one strike in 20 years. than anybody in the business. It! I think T. W. A. has been pretty
prefer a “like-new” spinet at a tremendous . | sian to reason I should bave got| gyccessful. I stretched it across the - reduction or a thrilling new Baldwin-bullt, TERMS | a be break. | ocean. I brought out the ConstellaAcrosonic, Now Is the Time to Buy, = | Violent Hatred Toward Me tion ually liberal allowance for you JC , Unusually liberal allowance for your REDUCED It doesn’t seem logical that a guy| I've been successful at everything
else, and I could have built air-
d, congressional medal, ! With my Secor y planes if I'd had half a chance.
{every kind of trophy in existence, | wasn't entitled to more than I got.| I Might Leave Country
Now I'm going back to the coast) there was a disThe roaton was the S part and go to work. Some time this of Wright field toward me. winter the cargo plane will be] I hired Johnny Meyer to do a Job | ready. 1 dept know whether or If he went overboard, that | PO I'll test-fly it. I want to re-
| tinet, violent hatred on the
for me, was my fault. The senate investi- plerve set decision until the time gation was the most fouled-up, | [trumped-up deal that ever hit It it flops I sald I might leave |
the country. - I made that statement
| Washington. Elliott was the only snd 1 may doit. Ta feel 30 bad,
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| and buy a ranch. Nobody in the world has ever built an airplane this size and no one- knows whether it's going to fly. 1 didn't have to put”$7 million of my own money into it, but I felt it was a real step ahead in aviation.
in the scrap heap. I' negotiated the XP-11 contract in two meetings—one at Washington and one at Dayton—with numerous air forces personnel, - I must say if any influence had been exerted on them, they didn't
I might go down to South America|
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pected to be ready soon for publication, Resigns Position
Dr. Turner was born in Terre
[ it. For one year they stalled around. |y've got a wonderful plant in Hous- Haute, graduated from Indiana Cen-
tral college, received his master’s de from Indiana university and his torate from Harvard. He resigned as head of the history department at Monmouth to come here, He isa ber of the American and M ppl Historical associations and the Illinois Historical society. As commission director, he -suc- | ceeds Dr. John D. Barnhart, who has |be in charge of the collection of | the state's war record materials. Dr. | Barnhart has returned to full-time | duty in the Indiana university history department. Miss Charlottee | Kupferer, South Bend, has been | named secretary and research assist{ant to Dr. Turner.
at Wright field who held deep resentment against me. Now, here is a question: If the army granted the XF-11 contract against its wishes, then who is guilty of fraud? Surely Gen. Arnold would not have approved the purchase of the XF-11 | unless he believed it was for the best interests of the army, I don't think Gen. Arnold played politics, and I don't think he would let anybody pressure him into a deal. Now here Js one more question: If the XP-11 was so undesirable, why wasn't the entire contract cancelled at the end of the war when
show it. They negotiated and squeezed me down to the last dollar. Instead of trying to find out how I managed to get two contracts after the war was half over, and
his
£5 i 49 with such poor support .from the’ § famous. government, why not find out why . a I didn't get some airplane con- : Yabed tracts at the start of the war, and
why 1 was not given decent priorities and support. so I could deliver the planes? Why not find out what pressure and politics was applied by the other aircraft companies so they got the plums at the start of the war, while I was pushed around un-
then given thhe crumbs—two ocontracts which were impossible to fulfill in time to be of use? Two Distinct Groups I learned that presidents of the other aircraft '‘mpanies made frequent trips Wright- fleld. I learned every Jtant alr corps officer, whenevii ne came to the West coast, was given a royal re. ception, While I ignored them. I think a real and honestly’ inspired investigation of the D-2 an dXF-11 will show there were two groups of air corps officers involved: First, the active, tactical division of photo-reconnaissance. That is to say—the men who did the actual fighting. Second, the Wright field group—the men who generally selected and bought the airplanes for the men at the front. Who Is Guilty? The officers who did the actual fOghting were in favor of the D-2 and the XF-11. It was only that. group of Officers
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congressional action In 1948.
A formula being by congressmen calls for a code of practice less than law
court rules of evidence, but it lays down fundamentals which would assure witnesses a fair hearing and keep inquiries from going far afield, When Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) yesterday called off the investigation until Nov. 17 his
over the protests of the committee's staff, The investigation had been sidetracked for days while Johnny Meyer, Mr. Hughes' publicity man, made a coast-to-coast night club tour in his testimony, and while Mr. Hughes and Senator Owen Brewster (R. Me.) fought out an angry, “you're -another” kind of personal feud. It was just getting down to cases with the man who knew most about those Hughes airplane ocontracts— Mr. Hughes.
Hughes Was Disgusted Mr. Ferguson -said the investigation was being delayed because Mr, Meyer wouldn't answer a subpena. : But his critics observed that this was a confession that the senate's subpena power was being flouted,
tracts on why Hughes-built war planes were delayed so long. Mr. Hughes charged that the inquiry was stopped after Mr, Brewster had taken a “run-out” to the Maine woods. He predicted it never would be resumed.
The issue of procedure in special committee investigations was given only casual attention in the study leading to the La Follette-Monroney Lreorganizaton act. The reason was that the act contemplated an end to special committees and assumption of this work by regular legislative committees. The study did raise questions of restraints congressmen should practice in these regular hearings. 4 One point laid down was this: That witnesses should have the privilege of presenting prepared
-g Hughes began feuding. Other conSenate as a se 10 4% : Wy ¥ * {judge may disqualify himself in a RARE law case-this feud should not have been passed to some other comT0 # mittee, or at any rate not aired . this as a subcommittee now: Almost ‘Loses Face’ Hing Protest Tight System | In Hughes Hearing | When conressionst committee (Continued From Page One) cross-question those who have . County times the investigative function made a case against them, as in Elssman sald an/been an important,base of -| the courts. tive reform. Yet a procedural question arose Senator Claude Pepper’ (D. Fia.),| on this point, too, when Mr. Hughes a committee member, and others| insisted that he be. allowed to forecast this as a field for possible question Mr. Brewster. When re-
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Some point out that although abuses occur now, any tight system of rules for committee hearings might make them mere forums. for legalistic argument among attorneys. They say no rules should be so restrictive that full fact-finding is made impossible. And they: believe hearings will always reflect the different approaches of chxirmen, anyway. But they acknowledge that the whole field is one that will stand
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COMMUNISTS DRIVEN BACK munist troops
repulsed with heavy losses, Chinese
some exploration in the next session.
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statements, fled with the com-| mittee in advance if possible. This is a point which has been the sub- | ject of countless wrangles in con- | gressional hearings, just as it was | in the recent war investigating committee hearings. Kaiser Got His Way Mr. Kaiser sought to open his) testimony with such a statement, not filed in advance with the com-| mittee. Senator Ferguson declined to let him read it. There was the usual row, with Mr. Ferguson insisting Mr. Kaiser was there to answer specific ques- | tions. Eventually Mr. Kaifer had his way, though, and read at) length. : Another procedural question arose | when Senator Brewster and Mr.
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