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Congressman complied): "This is a critical situation on which all must take a broad-gage common-sense view and realize that if a wrong trend is pursued it will lead to chaos. Persons who stop to think, not only of the detrimental effect but also the scope of such effect to our Nation's aviation both nationally and internationally resulting from 48 separate state statutory and regulatory set-ups, all in conflict, should say with one voice, unmistakably clear, 'Let's not let it happen here'."
Behncke's office (synonymous with ALPA headquarters) which is over stores on Sixty-third Street, a short distance from the Chicago Airport, is filled with typewriters and mimeograph machines-all kept busy by women aides whom he has apparently organized to have something to do each working hour. Until the ATA moved to Washington after Pearl Harbor, ALPA had more floor space and employees than Colonel Gorrell's organization.

PART II

Dave Behncke, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, started his commercial flying career advertising Society Brand clothes.
His occasional flashes of style today may date from that time when, just out of the Army after the last war, he showed up in Chicago, broke and without prospects, and talked