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a9 * THE FOUR POLCEMEN COOLDGE FALNG ADVANCED IN RANK. POLITICAL CRISIS Lamb and Groves Made Lieu- Will Be Put to Supreme Test | of Public Life Upon Re- turn to Capital. tenants—Smith and Har- rington Sergeants. liet of Nice Four promotions and a long ehanzes in assignments in the Aue to the death of one ot mmis Department nne toda autenant and retivement ced by were 2 Board of Commissioner A aner Fenninz a meering Pra ot Lamh he 1 vho died Lamh will nl ' vout 10 davs Lient 1od nlan Inepe Groves Gets Place Huzh H. Groves of the tenth his the vas relieved Al his rerive Ne inspectar Harrinzton, whe he down man ir 1 aind detailed o the \apecio Traf hois president Smith Ass Sneeeeds to Command. \ No. ent. Jeremiah Sullivan wa <uh Lieut pointed tion srowing Tenleytown anded I harge of th £l Police Charies wing Acting snnounced nmen 1] hé A the f Licut. Churles Bremmerman ed f ¥ om service e hth G from i1he Hess Davis. chanzed fron ninth precinet precine W ih Licut ' H Simy the h h Mo 1 Royie tenth (e B SWANSON WILL PUSH FOR “REAL” TAX CUT gays It Is Time the Common Peo- Y ple Get Relief From Exces- sive Levy \ Demacratie tax-reduction hill azreed upon by party leaders and forward a1 the coming session of Fongress. was proposed today hy Sen ator Swanson. Democrat, Virginia He said he would recommend such course 1o his colleagues Republican reduction plan BEIE tdrannsin i declared he wanied It would he to attempt te Mellon. This veduced the by several hillion dol and addit has war hurden of the the ba tha reliet L, Sut al ready My Swanson reduc he is take the Ammended hy mis tire safd | dent Iready has national deh I added 2 heavs Retiremen s. he in n ional deht nkers, any the common from exces the Virginia should be reduced the line. would benefit i way. and i time COOLIDGE TO BACK BROAD BILL TO GET U. S. BUILDING HERE (Centinued from First Page.) Dl £ the atson of In M Iiinois appropriations committee Senate: Sena Pep. Nepresentative chairman of the nd others uhject nderetond of dden of nz the all-impo: dir 1 President founc hill ht h: clustvely the while ve supporied t they buildings bill District o for the Colnm hin: houses af at made it v n opposition vould he eat tn ol W Senator & Pres the th the hont the mo mportant e he hrou that he vas inclined 1o thin it wonld prominen: nlace upon m. He eatized Ge ernment huildings for minimize 1 pa tin ma jority Congress jor Conversations Profitahie. ¢ not Sena Watson's wit any thing favo indicated those feel very President profited these Senate Summer this bill was todzs oral not Court hut whe are position lenow hat the talks with leaders this Regarding and spposition | exclusively for spokesman the that ever one knows in the hear: nearly of ess a long obtain just public nildinzs for-his di possi and because sasible 1o et ildinas for the 2 provision " Congress shington. a Prosident said that there iz member of every a to many of this Any Distriet for other wonld the va sections FIRE IH STORAGE ROOW. Merchants' Transfer Storage Com- pany Suffers Slight Loss. Fire, originating in a #-foot storage raom of the Merchants’ Transfer Stor- age Co. 920 E street, burnt the con- 1ents of the room, but was gotten un der control before the arrival of the Fire Department early today. The fire was confined to the room. The cause of the fire s not heen Adefinjtely established. Damaze was 1id Aot ta have been sstimated thor cuzhly. but ofMeialz of the company Lely he lose will be small, rea I\ | Wes of | be | missi desired | men uniese there | 1agonists RY FR Troubles et fa trial Calvin Washington this nphesval Mitchell's Board sitnation, sioner Bert of the President and the the coal strike tax hation presidential It these lings Mr. Coalid White House has had time 1o them ench of F dehi Wa attention duel financia Coolida M. O in in nd his it ind sk public and politic Budget Cla tur iministr Mr nent tle down \ Tte el p imify n the session o he riefal the his st since own aseei. name o ‘each n hat the political foe smman-sens That de sventual action sured What it dent a Ithese various con I will do so in more -tikely o than wronz ones these full on from coast wades into his fied in three vital Natlon's confidenc fighting rrim hiessed with aven he neans i ead conclusions numerous and Coolldge’s week provoked allezations churned 2 incaleulable dealing Europe diffuse 1 ch fraughi I ' which vnote is decidedy lepartmental opposition 1o his 1emes 2y xtent aroused t of his he 1 right — cne of ems confronting hin conntry free hand the Y physicaliy non-worrs YERIC WILLIAM WILE, and reibulations varied than ans wesidential caf return The aircrafi Col. William the Shipping up by Com def resign possibilities of themselves form » rises suffcient by Huney's request nee o energy the will . + much nd map our vith them, mission The admi ncentrate minds on the the keenest Now, Mr find it ime only found find on the Refore he than the will the connsellors their half ac with fmmense importance ne Attenti hinas 10 his att in n. wh ntion h the will Coolidge program. vexed with h of His desire and N vy appro- approximating anxieties in preparing 1o possible. and their nie Congreas sariy enters upon the Xecutive capaeity became President one tremen stranglehold N lidge will the thorny pro} in the conscious at large truat_him 1o 7d level-headed that his Ziven case is as Ath his not mear n advance of popular approval that the mass of o give the Presi in grappling with | i EVENIN 4 T STAR, WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY, SEP’] EMBER 8. 1925. OFFICERS OF NAVY DIRIGIBLE SHENANDOAH BURIED AT ARLINGTON TODAY ARSON 1S CHARGED 10 EX-WATCHMAN John Woods Is Indicted for Setting Fire to Shiloh Baptist Church. John Woeds man at the Ninth and & indicred hy charge of arson charged. and It colored Shiloh the {10 the church edifice Ju wersial situations. | belief e right Chis writ that he decisions reaches of ummer's sounding of public opin ast Coolidge troubles” forti -he has the e i in excellent and he s temnera apecis Will Need Whale Stranzth Of each and strength Presiden |ample need as the Autumn and the Winter | discontent A new t all of these sources of Coolidge will have wears on of his congressional approaches. | ahead is to be u vear House and The vear partisan poli nators will be elected in 1926 Democrats to control Pl the Seventieth 1t is already resen Bsn of of the campaign spying out their biggest likely tor , the ool now hle from Every misstep the Pr fajiure 10 satisfy outsianding issue craft hulabaloo. f hesitancy such as ence on some kin deal. There are Mings of hefore Calvin dragg eputa tician House. that the hour he must give an pacity for jam Here 1. The ative Oldfield of Demoeratic commitiee id until or mollify the Western some more the Sena Coolldge v of being as shrewd a entered Friend and ensmy alike agree is ahonut leadership abulation issues that will presently | President’s atiention undouhted lan a ndous Con in progress. Rep. Arkansas. chair congressional is now in the he land in the ter trem where the Democrats will make fizht 10 he omitted 1o make tron No opportunity administration November, 1926 advantaze will be taken of any esident commits of anv public _opinion on the Mitchell air example any group demands farmara’ insist of a rariff square underground rum seandala” 1o he & next Win has won the poii White the to strike whan cid 1est of his ca in a political of the major demand the / impetus Col Mitehell has ziven to the popular ex- pectation th affairs will deln be the conntry's in aviation without Shipping Beard Feud. ! Unrest over Shipp Roard {aney- Palmer that h shipping Anthracite sents, with ever conditions m 1 intervention wernmen mating nat he of [ he ch schools ine term France. tion tha inother. a terms SUl another make-ihem 1iatian French ne administratio 5. Western crops and od tection H on and laho ehronic complicated American should One school fave aw were given to Great school )av-io-the-last-cent idea negotiations of ! conjure n farm prices. criculture on proteet y and the ) <hippi forthwith of in- in- the atrike present develop- possibility presidan- form of w some control of coal approxi- wnalization debt nezotiations, by rival thought as 1o he granted 1o = eancella- or hetter zood, represents heels worries on np for anrest, deapite and prospee demana for “pro- MeNary- ths o level with Contested Nominations. President i he cont Wallace MeCa = ppointed he Federal C° Woodlock nominations thai in the Senate of Oregon, ap- 1t bane of New Intersiate to the Commeice Commission Discussion | developmenis 1de and United ns, incident alleged hy missiong inte n the have Congress of re in the Kedera! ates Tariff Com- to-appointment of President's an- turned both com carrying {out Coolidze policies.” | | | | New yups ction. i, Prohibition inauguration of the new forcement rezime legislation n 8 with surtax rival as to v naris, incident to Andrews en- 1995, 1.000 Railroad Shopmen Laid Off. HORNELL Nearly 1,000 car shops of 1 of work ike In the Penneyivania laid off a few da arder calling out issued. the men, here as anthra The ’ Erie Ra the result e region of opmen were \fter the atrike 58,000 miners was rond, are September § (), | employed in the | Strother f United | | son tand in damage estimated a f Rapt ets northwest grand Woods had been dis is allezed he set 1y t watch Chureh today on a mer ' jury fire resulting 000. T police clain Woods admitted his gulit. Murder azainsi Bostwick. hoth colored sald to have =hot also eolored. in front southwest. July 10 resulting in deaih A toral of 49 Clition Others indicted against them are Andrew Mills Fairchild, Louise ouise Draper. and grand larceny Avew Robinson Robert .Jone: Stanton Frazer Watson. Lenora I.. Norton. ¢ ward James housebr Frank Warren. Russeli Alber ter Richev. Dominie S Fraser and F Cecil Charle Cla hn F as Alvin ward Roxwell. a ’ support Monrote, larceny Bauman. Dennis Relhummer &nd sunlt with_intent David Bond Rosenblum nis L. Smith Elmer Neal Terreil slip. George harahas Edward Smith James Smith. James Brown. and (larence son joy-ridin Contee Wesi. assault A. E. Thorpe min Miller after L Rola robbery P nd to commit ames of inflicting 4 housebreaking irehild Peter Carmine Oddone B e ol 1 Pil Edward Price Rurns Roxwell Harris nd 1o rob Thomas George Belhummer, Edwards iward Gilroy A William T, 1 Edward l.aura Love Anna Nan Clarence vith danzerous weapon false pretenses carnal knawledge carnal assault to commit incest in the first degree is charged Sampie and 'he men are Robinson. G street njuries 10: indictments wers re turned today and § cases wei iznored the charges Louise alias on, An Johnson and A. Jenkins nce Fdward cton. Lenora Hoi “armine Oddone and Fa aking Landeck and lar Edwin R Yeager, Fos erre. Samue Edward Alvin & non and Earl Solomon Gaarge Clitton, as Allen. Max Den lee S Carr William Edward Hai ndrew Robin Bett Daniel Wai Long Frederick Benja incest knowledge ‘CHARGE AGAI'NST MOTHER IGNORED BY GRAND JURY Young Woman Believad Baby She Left on Porch Would Be Cared sirife in the | as illuairated by feud <isience of the Ameri Congress Governmeni the i leg- | Aritain. ! the | will place | | torces of the | of a | given hére | for. The zrand jury charge of preferrad against voung white woman a porch awing Effe Dykes Tuly 27 that another cused had been left and had been cared expected the on at Mre street closed also wonld A charge of higamy Vandiver was also nnderstood there was it 1oda Abandonment Florence who laft a child | 3701 The child_of with Mra, for. grand jurors view that the mother did not intend ! piar SI€ N B art B Cron 10 abandon her offspring but expected | griornay. be cared for againet ignored some Evidence Shows. ignored a of an Rov, a the home of Thirty-second evidence dis. the ac Dykes it s the and ook Walter It is question of the legality of the supposed second marriage Other grand Hurd Daniel Connors. assanit veapon. and Rollin zrand larceny. prosec E. Moore. jons dropped by jurors were against assanlt with dangerous weapon: joyriding: with B. the James M. Mary dangerous Ferguson, ARMY OPENS PROBE EXPECTED TO BRING MITCHELL ARREST «ontinned from court-martial will be convened at 8an | where he here i& no doubt hut stom privately walved And newspaper men will be ad. | the testimony Antonio. Tex as fiving officer. that the neual courte-martial mitiad to brosdeast it is presented. MANY ACCLAY Admirers Congratulat First . Page.) ix stationad of holding will an MITCHELL, Colonel o Charges of Incompetency. PORT ARANSAR. Tex 8 (P).—Admirers of Mitchell sought him o this fsland retreat. encouragement and suppe tration of the milita Aransas does office by telephone fr Aransas Pas the mainland. not day at daybreak Col. Mitchell and | his Antonio At 1o tace any civilan alde hopp « it United States. have a the messages were transmittad the telagraph office miles from here od September William esterday on telegraphing him pledging in his attack on -the adminis. their and naval As Port telegraph off for San | Mitchell prononnced himself eventuality He refused io my If he expected to ba placed under arrem on his arrival in San Antonio. Banquet to Honor Dawes. SAN FRANCISCO, P Two September undred representatives of | L] the National and State Governments and of foreign po vited to A bangnet tomorrow President Daweés. tives of foreign powe nl The wvers have been in- which will be ight to Vice epresenta will_include consular afficials here and officars of two British war vessels now ‘harbor. in the / be | Iames Rev, William pard. The single servie and Lient. J. B. Law Nichols of Toms was held fa e NOEL WILL FACE MURDER CHARGE QUICK TRIAL SEEN | Page.) | Wontinned from First former Scoutmaster, Frank F. Gray, whom he called “Uncle.” repeatediy requested money Dr. H. W. Dutch. principal of Mantclair High Nchool. said Noel was exiremely shy. hui well liked He was proficient in English. On the duy of the kidnaping he drew two hooks from the public library. Hale Vale” and “English Ess and Eesayiste’ Tha manne in which negroes have heen made the “innocent victims of mob hvsteria” was condemned hy Walter F. White, assistant secrefary of thegNational ‘Association of Col- ored People. In thix case. and in the Florence Kane murder in Brooklyn several months ago, White said, ne. groes had heen accused without foundation. Refore revelations re- gzrding Noel. it was thought that a | nearo kidnaped the girl SE BLAMED. infant | i CHICAGO (! Kidnaping and Rlaying Laid to Ver. diet in Loeb-Leopold Murder, CHICAGO. September % (#).—The verdict in the case of Nathan Leopold, Jr.. and Richard Loeb, co-kidnapers: murderers of Bohbje Franks, was State's kidnaping and for 1he properiy. | killing of Mary Daly. -vear-old victim | of Harrison Noel, in Montclair, N. J. The statement was the first made by the prosecutor on the decision of Judge John R. Caverly a year ago when he imposed life sentences on |the millionaires” sons after they pleaded guilty - ta the crime. Mr. Crowe sald that he was not [ making an attack on Judge Caverly but he halieved that if the judge had | decrasd death, many other murders wonld not have been committed. Hangings Ao act as a deterrent to murder. 1 wish we could make jurors helieve 1i. The fact that fnrors won't halieve it—not often snough.” MAY PROSECUTE PARENTS. 0el's Mother's Car Used In Kidnap- ing, Official Declares. TRENTON, N. J., September 8 (#) State Motor Dill today ann: to summon ! inced that he intends the parents of Harrison obt the use of his mother's auto- mobile, which is said to have played a part in the killings charged to the youth. Mr. Dill sald he blackHsted Noel as a driver more than a month. 180 because of hix mental condition. and contends that should it de. velop that Neel nsed the car with the knowledge or consent of his parents they are accessories 1o the crime and are liable to prosecution. The State motor vehicle records show that Noel had not applied for a 1925 license. Accordingly, on July 30 Noel's name was placed on the blacklist. ASSIGNED TO DUTY IN . C. Capt. Parsons to Assist Director of Buildings and Park: Detail of Capt. Marvel H. Parsons. Coast Artillery Corps, as an assistant to the diréctor of public bulldings and grounds of the National Capital wa officially partment this morning. Capt. Par- =ons has just completed & tour of duty in the Hawailan Isiands and is under orders 1o return to the United States |at once and report to Col. C. O. Sher- rill in this city. He Is an expert in the manual of arms and in marksman- ship. and his services were asked for by Col. Sherrill for the spécial pur- | pose of having him take command of 'the Federal park police. A In that duty he will relieve ¢apt. Watson L. McMorris, Coast Artillery Corps. who has hesn ordered to the Philippine Islands for duty. Vehicle Commissioner | Noel to explain how he was able to! Announced at the War De- | River, N ol aching the hurial serv pe e of Liew ns of the Shenandoah erash, the hodies of neing placed at left and right of the hod wver the hody of Lieut. K. W. Shep. dr. Lewis Hancock Sheppard The arrvival of Secretar, | Robinson <t Arlingtos Shenandoah officers, SAYS UTMOST CARE WAS GIVEN BODIES OF DISASTER VICTIMS (Continued from First Page.) |bill to the Government. No guard accompanied the hody from Boston to Lowell, the last stage of the journey. Protests to Wilbur. VENICE. T, September Howard 1liam H. Spratley | killed when the | wrecked over Ohio, has telegraphed | Recretary Wilbur protesting against the condition in which the body of his =on was killed and the lack of an |eecort. Spratley said that the body was =ent with express charges collect on delivery, reposed on excelsior in a casket that resembled a wooden box, {and wax only partly clothed and im. | perfectly embaimed. Joffray’s Body Sent Collect. ST. LOUIS, Mo., September 8.—The | body of Ralph T. Joffravs, aviation rigger, who lost his life on the Shen- |andoah, arrived here reposing on ex- i celsior in a casket. The | shipped charges collect. Joffray’s { family_ declined to follow the instrue- {tlons not to open the casket, and embalming was completed here. 8P year-old mechanie Khenandoah was {800 PEASAN VIENNA, September 8§ (#)—The Abend aays it learns that 800 Ressa- rablan peasants now are on trial at Kishinev, Rumania, by a military i tribunal. They Rumanian_ punitive expedition sent against the inhabitants of Tatar Bunar, who were alleged to have plot- |'ted to deliver Bessarabia over o So- { ¥iet Russia at the end of September. The Abend Asserts that the collact- ive indictment . inst the prisoners fills 720 pages a: at 1,500 witnesaes ) Restify, have been called W. Spradey, father of Wil | remains were | TS ON TRIAL.| were arrested by a | bur and Assistant Secretary [AIRMEN BACK MITCHELL, | BUT HEED TRADITION ! CALLING FOR SILENCE (Continned from First Page.) i be solved. They claim. and. to a | great extent. they are right, that to administer aviation a thorough knowl | edg of Aving must be had. Maj. Gen | Mason M. Fatrick, chief of the Army 1 Air Service, 18 a thorough believer in this principle, which is borne out hy | the fact that at the age of 60 he un | dertook fiying training and passed i glorfousiy.” He ia a qualified pilot and, | while not as good as his junior off | cers. he knows what it is ail about. ! Admiral William A. Moffett. chief of inaval aviation. i= a qualified ooserver, having taken the required course ai Pensacola. He is not a pilot, but an airman. and he loves to fiv. Conse- quently, he and Gen. Patrick have the undving respect and admiration from thelr junior officers. e other exeutives of the Alr Services, however, who take their 10 “pay hops” in one type of plane, £0 buck Lo their officés and dish out fiving orders and make big decisions In aeronautics, are the despair of the fiye | before the aircraft investigating com- mittee last winter and shook in their [ boots while doing it. In other words, it's the old story of having a su. perior who is unable to do the type of work he orders to be‘done. That is where Mitchell scores. goes on an inspection trip he flies | everything on the line and is not |content to pass by with & ¢commenda- {tory nod the glistening planes shined up for inspection. He can take up anything from a tiny, high-speed racer and smash speed records-to & lumbering bomber. His men will go |anywhere he sava, for they know he wounld not heaitate 1o do the same thing. Since the war the Army Air Sérviea has done very well. Forcad 16 use up a big war stock of Liberty mo- They stated this fact publicly | When_he | tors planes, and De their ise observations after five or ng reing per can engineert) i He Pole the Zealand it { tonio, 1o present <uch a wants to clase It is known among the airmen of America thai there are | ahout » dozen naval aviators on whom the department forced call for competitive performances and under takings where experience and wide spread asronautical knowledge are b urely These men. with ane or did not grad inte from Academy they ire only aviaters, and not naval off cers. who must bhe qualified fo per form efficiently every naval duty en the baoks, They are noi looked upe with anv teo much love. Recentl reserve the Schiff trophy Aving the greatest number without single accident anking officer of the Navy ingly warked. when thi was brought to him. that wvhy a regular can’t win it These reserves are a hes in bonnet of naval aviation. They ha had more experience than the major ity of the 380 make aviation, and it is to he expected they are hetter flvers. The men in com mand of administering the naval avia tion are airplane pilots. hu sxpérience. The Nav potfex of <hipping to different duties this. is o the Naval A disy I don't see pilots who and f < 1o sea responsible is 5 Moffett Policy Admiral Moffeir jders with faval | his poor advisers. as Admiral |8, Sime testified before ihe iln\-llmullun. Today Admiral Moffett has little or no control over his men {and planes. Evervthing must be placed Ibefore the Recretary's office for iproval. The opéraiions of the i®henandoah and the L |directly undér the B |Operations. s these {gardea as “areadnaughis |'They do not come under fett. who has no more 1o do with Them [than he has to do with battleships After hit réappointmént as chief {the bureau. which the fivers say Sec Iretary Wilbur was forced to do in {apite of pressure against it by “hattleship crowd.” his “voice promptly taken away from him he had taken over the bureau {admiral saw the necessity of “selling i:nlnnnn to the public. Nobody ever heard of naval aviation up {that time. He detached from the fieet a naval officer and former newspaper man. who. although not a fiver igiven a course in observation at sacola and put 10 work. This agent’ worked day and night {ing up stunts for it before the public. | the routine military duty prove of interest. and joh & greal success !this he worked In characters and per xonglities. Whenever Admiral Moffett dld some good Aving it was a story Ihacause of his age (position. There are |helleve a person is & iln an airplan Petty Jealousy Grows. l Petty jealousy grew up in | partment. Evervbody knew who Mof- | fett was, but who ever heard of any | other admiral? The result 1 sorship. The publicity officer was sent |10 sea the latter part of this month. { He hasn't turned his hand in behalf {of naval aviaton for months and Ha has aviation pered. worked won in spite of William aircraft ap late of Naval are re air enn vassels of the Pen think never many who fool ™ National Cemetery io attend the burial servicaof the | months. All publicity ia necessary ele | ment) has been placed in another sec | tion of the bullding. in the hands of | those who are “not geing to sit up nights thinking how naval aviation can be henefited.” Since the human Imerest element of naval aviation was cut out, all the publicity concerning naval aviation has referred to colli- sions and crashes. The fivers. however, are noi proné to blame-evervthing on the Navy De- partment. In naval avintion itself there have heen many mistakes, but it would be extremely difficult fo prove them. | Aviation is young. Not many peo i ple know very much about it. There is no precedent to go by. A fiver can &0 up today, lose a wing, crash and | et killed. but It cannot be written | down indelibly for all time that here. after all pilota who loke a wing will | Ket killed. Tomorrow anorher aviator | may lose both wings and vet escape nnhurt. Crashes have occurred in which only a small part of the plane has heen damaged and the personnel killed. Others have happened in which | the craft was wrecked to splinters And the pilot and passenger walked out unhurt. Rules Are Flexible. The flying game {0 date In largely a matter of personal opinion aud pref- erence. There a set rules which every one obeys, but the air business RO beyond them. Two pilots cannot get along in the air, because the of- ficer who is a passenger has no con- fidence in the officer piloting, as he does things (he former would be atrald to do. Whenever an expedition of officers alone goes out i the end of the trip, and then all is | forgotten, | _Many aviators_are eriticizing the | Navy for jts plane purchases in the last few years. The MO observation i plane had its day before the aircraft committee, and the incident of spend- ing $1,000,000 on ‘‘obaoléte” planes now is closed. Since' then. $1.000,000 has been spent for a type of craft designated SC, a combin&tion scout- ing, bombing 2nd torpedd. Some oM cérs sav they are worthlesss they can- not gain more than 5,000 fest with a ) foad. antirely 100 low. and others claim they mrd splendid, serving their purpose antirsly. If the SC ia the best h‘c‘grer. can bulld, and the the manu! erowning | of hours | high intelligence the with less Department s Angeles are | Admiral Mof. the When the had o was pres« naval aviation to get | He realized that | would he made his! In order to do| his rank and his | still to g0 up the de- was a cen- there are continual fights from the beginning to Havilland ehservation tme and money wax spent on experimentation. and gen erally 4 can he stated there have been no blunders in the purchase of aireralt A f post-war Martin and Curtiss hombers were selected nd they are still giving falthful servie: time has now arrived when pur chases are being made of the Donglas and Cur developed to satisfaction mors of work. The Curtiss snd pursuit planes also are sought hacause they are as neas fect ax neronautical make them. But it ix realized among the ca thinking ngén In the Army that 1o out and buy 10,000 of these little it planes that sell for 325000 would be a waste of money unlexs war was imminent. because, in 1wo vears. some kenfus will come forward with planes of hizher speed. greater cruising dius, more maneuverability and hetier allaround performance. Then the present craft will he obsolete Col. Mitchell. as Gen. Patrick said publicly. knows more about how large air force can be handied and Knows more ahout what it can do than any other man in the world Mitehell A believer solely In air power. wants to Ay acrosx the North Asia fn 60 howurs and ac Antarctie to Africa and New He would o himself Tomorrow allawad. hut the War Deparimant at present can see no reason for this. In that thev are «ustained by many Army Holds Records, Sines the war, the Army has ahout captured all aviation honare in Amer ica—and the world. for that matte First, in 1919 came the transconti nental race show this countrs transcontinental flights were possible And feasible. Then came the round | the-rim flight. a circuit of the borders of the United States. In succession followed the 5.000-mile fAlght from New York to Nome, Alaska. and hack 10 this eity. the fiight from San An Tex Porto Rico and this {city: the transconiinental non-ston { Aight of the T-2: the dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight of Liseui. R. L. Maughan. and finallv. (he hievement fiving around the world Interspersed weare numerons speed. altiinde. endurance, disiance and weight-carpving alrerafi racorde Navy Record Felipsed. The Navy eannot record of “stunte’ if It ify them as such, MURDER CHARGED - INWRECK OF TRAIN :Three Men Held for Crash That Killed One and Injured 31 in Kentucky. By the Associaisd Press STANFORD. Ky Three men will be Connty Judge ' on charges of murder. The trin are accused of wrecking the Loulsville and Nashville fast passenzer train Knoh Lick. four miles from here, late Saturday night. causing the death of the engineer and resulting in injuries 10 31 passengers Last night 1wo of the accused men | Herbert Hale of Stanford and Flvie Dishmon of Shepherdsville. were in the county jail here. while the third Oscar Dishmon. was in fafl at Lonis ville. where he w i3 others are Three w of the held temher £ arralgned hefnre Rell here 1ada held for men. the moiher Dishmon hrot for questionin eased. Auth convineed 1hat participants train and roh W. H. Do the Louisvil and W. F. of the Lo vinced th and wives hz said plot chief inspector Nashville «uperinienden iaville division. were the wreck was not They removed o heen re the he wreck the Sheridan an acciden found ights the that spikes | been swi had broken The he « freight The engine several CHICAGO PLAY-TIME ENDS | 485.000 School Children Go Back H to Their Books. heen 1 and ain put the switch staved hi the the switeh wrned cars derailed hy impac | CHICAGO, September & (). Play- time wax over today for 463,000 public school pupils and 11,000 1eachers whe trooped back bufldings. In schools resimed The short 70.000 o Chicago's 210 &ehoo! addition. the parochis h 123,000 pupils. \ge has total last vear held Navy s in need of this vobody in Ay sponsible. One fAver's word as the ather's when It rome ta fiving =hip. he only cording 1o * ae gnoe i ontstanding mistake what many war made in the selection of the Boeing training plane. A new type was wanted replace the v time N-9 and the manufac their samples 10 Pen: tast hoard was appointed. the chairma the bo i Ave The wa have won easily designed by the the Boeing pursuit best fighting craft was spun here | known | spin | ana <light jots believe w .hny‘- ” 1 was a n eporied It designed Boeing in the rests man who reputed to n the Aa with enger hd developed a not F which it could Bolling trom crashed infury 1o pilot A féw weeks er crached in { fAat #pin on the Pacific Modifi | eations were made and it was tested !here again. It craxhed Hains Point with two officers had iworked on the changes were | confident of correction. More { modifkcations are heing made and it is admitted that when the plane is ready flight it will not be iserve ths purpose originally intenc it One million dollars have hean spen on this crafi. and it nfortunate that the defect was not eaught tesie Admi Moffert owever determined heat” that peculiari and maka it spin normally. deciaring that he cannot dodge the issne in the intere: of aviation develonment At the fime the ship crashed on Haine | Point 2 report from the depa | was broadeast that the shin signed rot to crash f | into a spin it would slowly seit earth. which seems 0 have ! liberate misrepreseniation. The p | was built o spin normally and flights will be made in the type ‘H «an. a [ ' who vas de down no Feared Mol The PPN.% Hawaiian | ganized on the Pacific coast by | aviation there and the dep: | here had little nothing it. Defore the flight the only ‘vh‘ minds of pilots here was that | new motors. just developed and | rid of all the “hugs™ or defecis | not be able te withstand the test, despite the fact that one of two eraft made a 281,-honr endnrance | ran over Philadelphia One of the motors was brought hers in an amphibian of the Arciic type seversl months ago and has not heen able to get into the air vet That due, however. to the fact that it inverted in the airplane and is ht-side up. Aside from the !sible failure 6f an auxiliary. si | happened to Lieut. Allan P plane. thare was no fear planes would not get throuz estimated here that the flight would take 25 hours and it was known the planes could carry at least 20 hours fuel_supply Whether thera was undue hasta fn the plans for preparation in ordar te keep the Army from attempting the filght cannot be established. althangh | the Navy did know that at MeCook | Field. Dayton. Ohio, talk had hesn | given to attempting the trip with the new amphibiana The guard ships, at intervala of every 200 miles, In the opinion of offi | cers here. were sufficient. for even at | that short distance. they claimed. the fiight would be nothing but an “en | &ineering problem.” They believed this because the pilots would only have 10 navigate from one ship to an {other and would not strike ant hiindly {6ver 2,100 milea of ncean And Aepend 1 entirely on in&trumants for a guide. | The arms Afr Service. in this con nection. waR criticized for Aving from Iceland to Greenland with the aid of | Navy ships. This was supposed tn | take alb the glory away from air navi | ration and make it merely a bridga of surface craft to iy over, Deny Mitchell Charge. Tronble. fight ment uelin not pos nody s hat the It was The helieve, her Arctic expedition falled only ronditions. fivers here because of The = planes Col. Mitchell's reference to them as “jitneys,” are suitable for the purpose. ‘They could fly in bad weather, as they fly down here under all sorts of conditions. but when the purpose is exploration. and the oh. servers and pilots cannot see, there {is no need of expending the effort | A dirigible, or anything else. could not make any more headway than the amphibians, no matter who was at the controls. The Army is much better off than the Navy in point of fiving experi ence and nnmber of aviators. It is felt here that if ‘the majority of the 380 naval pilots had seven or eight vears' experlence there would not he mistakes due to lack of thoroush knowledge on the subject. The naval aviators of today will he (h tives of tomorrow, and, fiying ability and experience, felt there will not ha a rectirsenes of the recent troublesoms ‘imaa in \I" fiying branch.