Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1940, Page 32

C. A. A. Administrafor "Was Dumbfounded’ By Revamping Order Hester Tells Senators He Had No Previous Knowledge of Plan By J. A. O'LEARY. Clinton M. Hester, administrator of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, told the Senate Reorganization Committee today he had no know- ledge of the President’s revamping plan “and was dumbfounded when it came out.” He made the statement whent asked by Senator McNary, Republi- can, of Oregon, if he knew who ad- vised the President in regard to the reorganization of civil aviation con- trol. The administrator confined his answer to the assertion he had not been consulted. Meanwhile the committee pre- pared to end the hearings and vote this afternoon on the controversial reorganization order, which the House already has rejected. Mr. Hester also told the commit- tee today that he would prefer to continue to function independent of an executive department. He predicted at the same time, however, that civil aviation has made such good headway that under the present law future ad- ministration would have to be un- usually bad to slow it down, and he did not believe such adminis- tration is likely to result. Mr. Hester testified fatal acci- dents have been declining for the last three years as follows: 1937, 40 passengers and 10 crew- men; 1938, 25 passengers and 10 crewmen; 1939, 9 passengers and 3 crewmen, and for 12 months ending in March of this year, no fatal acci- dents. He estimated that under the pres- ent law, since July, 1938, only 10 passengers and three crewmen have been involved in fatal accidents. Mr. Hester also testified travel by air has increased from 50,000 pas- sengers in 1928 to more than 2,- 000,000 during the last 12 months, in which no fatalities occurred. Mrs. Winifred B. Cohn Gets limited Divorce District Court records today dis- closed that . Mrs. Winifred Borck Cohn, 2028 Thirty-seventh street N.W., has secured a limited divorce from her husband, Edmund Millard Cohn, 829 Seventh street N.W., on the ground of cruelty. The degree was signed by Justice Oscar R. Luhring, after hearing testimony in the case. The order provides that the hus- band is to pay her $125 monthly as permanent alimony, as well as counsel fees to the wife’s lawyers, Attorneys William Leahy and Lowell H. Ewing. Representing Mr. Cohn were Attorneys Charles E. Ford and Jacob Sandler. ‘The court papers show that the Cohns were married in Fairfax County, Va., June 2, 1926, and have no children. Mrs. Cohn filed her divorce action on October 19, 1938. @njti“M' as Vi As Code, Says Oehmann Club in the Carlton. Hotel that good buildings are as much dependent on proper construction work as on a well-administered bullding code. Col. Oehmann said there only 10 inspectors in the to the $42,000,000 of pri- vate building in 1939. 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