News digest, Vol. 1, No. 11, February 20, 1945

              News of the Company and aircraft industry compiled for our employees.
Vol* 1, No. 11	San Francisco	February 20, 1945
SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE FAVORS AIR MONOPOLY
Letters to the Senate Commerce Committee from the State, Justice, War, Navy and Commerce Departments and the CAB opposing the adoption of a single chosen instrument for international air commerce in no way change the
'current position of the committee’s aviation subcommittee of nine members.
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Although an accurate poll is virtually unobtainable at the moment because of absence and the reluctance of a few Senators to give a definite uyes” or '’no”, general opinion is that a majority of the subcommittee would definitely favor a chosen instrument if a vote were taken today.
It is possible that the subcommittee would compromise on a regional monopoly plan providing for four chosen instruments in as many sections of the world in places of the single community company.
On the subcommittee are several very active advocates for a single company but not one of the members, so far as can be determined, is equally committed to the plan of regulated competition which the Government agencies have recommended* (American Aviation Daily 1/30/45)
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ARMY REVEALS RADAR ON BLACK WIDOW
The long suspected fact that the P-6.1 Black Widow is loaded with radar for night flying, detection, and identification has just been officially revealed by the War Department. 'Pilots who have flown these pianos in combat report that once they have obtained a fix with radar, no amount of dodging by an enemy plane can bring escape, (American Aviation l/30/45)
PAN AM LISTS NUMEROUS EXCEPTIONS TO NORTH ATLANTIC REPORT
.Pan American Airway« takes exception to the report of CAB Examiners Thomas L. Wrenn and F. D. Moran in the North Atlantic case (Docket 855 et al) asserting that the examiners erred ”in failing -to recommend that the public interest would best be served by the concentration under a single company of Amerioan-flag air transportation across the North Atlantic.11
Pan American also took issue with ■(he examiners for their failure to recommend the carrier’s proposed routes between the U.S., the Scandanavian countries and the Soviet Union (Docket 1505), for an extension from London to Berlin-and Moscow (Docket 1506), and for failing to recommend the inclusion of Montreal as.an intermediate point on routes from Chicago and Detroit to Europe and for failure to recommend that service to Baltimore and Washington be afforded through the new airport under construction by Baltimore*
Pan American declared that the examiners also erred "insofar as they recommend that any part of tho applications of American Export Airlines be granted,” and took issue-with the recommendation that AMEX should be certificated only in the event its acquisition by American Airlines is approved by the
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