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preferably to head the group of air-training schools near San Antonio, Texas."

A draft of legislation has been prepared to provide two additional assistants Chief of Air Service as recommended by this President's Aircraft Board. Such legislation, if enacted, would would provide the means of separating operation from procurement, if found to be advisable. This legislation provides for an eventual compliance with the third recommendation of Lampert Committee. It is believed that the adoption of the recommendation of the President's Aircraft Board is advisable. No further legislation is recommended. 

President's Aircraft Board. 
(2) "In order that the Air Corps, (Air Service) should receive constant sympathetic supervision and counsel, we recommend that Congress be asked to create an additional Assistant Secretary of War who shall perform such duties with reference to aviation as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of War."

Lampert Committee. 
(4) "That one single governmental civil agency be given sole charge of procurement of aircraft, engines and equipment, to the end that duplication in expense be avoided, uniformity of equipment be promoted and a continuous and definite policy established looking to the strengthening of the sources of supply, the maintenance of the industry, the promotion of the aircraft production capacity of the nation and the establishment of sound policy of Government procurement."

The President's Aircraft Board touches somewhat on the same idea as the Lampert Committee as the former's recommendation for an additional Assistant Secretary in each of the War and Navy Departments and in the Department of Commerce. 

It is believed that the Assistant Secretaries for Aviation will, in cooperation, one with the other, form the only governmental agency that is advisable in this respect. 
Neither is any single governmental agency of aircraft procurement advisable from the viewpoint of Federal organization and commercial development at present, and so far as can be foreseen for the future. Commercial and civil aviation will develop along the lines of business enterprises.