Clarence Marshall Young, assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, advanced last week at the Hotel McAlpin, in Manhattan, weighty departmental reasons for airplane accident silence. Said he: ". . . Sole purpose in investigating accidents is to determine causes and promote aviation by what we learn . . . obtaining all our information from voluntary sources. We cannot compel persons to come forward with it." The inference Secretary Young implied was, that official silence is essential for such cooperation; that his department did not choose to fix a cause for the accident only to have legal procedure haled in and departmental...
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