OCEAN AIRWAYS OF U.S

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22271, 9 December 1937, Page 11

OCEAN AIRWAYS OF U.S

A BATTLE AGAINST MONOPOLY PAN AMERICAN COMPANY ATTACKED SUBSIDIES FOR COMPETING LINES URGED (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COrTSICI*?.* (Received December 8, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 8. A baltle which will determine whether Pan American Airways shall continue to exert monopolistic control of the trans-oceanic aviation of the United States is being fought behind the scenes, says the Washington correspondent of the New York “Daily News.” The United States Maritime Commission, which has already formulated extensive proposals for subsidies to air navigation, will ask Congress for power to subsidise the development of competing air-lines, breaking up the Pan American monopoly. It is understood that Colonel C. A. Lindbergh, technical adviser to the Pan American Company, will throw his weight and great influence in the scales on behalf of the company. The Army and Navy Departments are said to be behind the movement which opposes the Pan American monopoly. The military experts believe that competition and rivalry among many American lines concerned in ocean flying will bring about a great advance in American aviation. The military, furthermore, object to granting American port rights to foreign lines under negotiations which are carried out, not by the United States Government, but by the Pan American Company’s private agents, in order to secure reciprocal rights for the company in foreign ports. Pan American Airways has already received 60,000,000 dollars in subsidies in the last nine years.