New Laws

Domestic. Hailed as the "salvation" of airmail and passenger operators, the Watres Airmail Bill last week was passed by the House of Representatives. If approved by the Senate, the law will: 1) Change the present unequal compensation to operators from a "per pound" basis, which varies from 78-c- to $3, to a uniform "per mile" scale, the Postmaster General contracting for a fixed space in each plane; 2) provide for mail contracts with passenger lines, now losing heavily; 3) protect the equities of airmail operators who have pioneered their present lines.

Foreign. Last week Senator McNary of Oregon and Representative Parker of New York offered bills assuring bountiful government aid, including mail subsidies, to U. S. transoceanic dirigible services of the future, according such lines a status similar to the merchant marine.

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