AERONAUTICS: The Congress Investigates

Last week a Congressional Committee went to Manhattan, set itself up in the Waldorf Hotel and began to take testimony on the air service needs of the U. S. The inquiry was extended to include civilian connections of the aeronautics industry and it brought on to the stand a widely varied, colorful cast of characters from the industry.

Admiral W. A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, fighting bitterly against a United Air Service, supremely confident of the Navy's ability and superiority to handle air matters on its own; breezy General...

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