Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1929, Page 6

6 AIRCRAFT CARRIER PARITY, NAVY HOPE Secretary Adams Asks. Pay| Raises and Increased Acad- emy Personnel. By the Associated Press. Paritv in aircraft carriers, increased enlisted personnel to man new Tevision of pay for all ranks were asked for the Navy by Secretary Adams in | his annual report, made public today No reference was made in_the report to the ,ostponement of work on three cruisers by presidential order nor to the possible reduction of future con- struction under any limitation agree- ment that may be reached at the Lon- don _conference in January. The problem of maintaining the fleet in a good engincering condition was said to be an increasingly difficult cne as the ships grew older. The Sccretary said that grave concern was being felt because of the inability to grant all the repairs asked by the forces afloat, but that an experimental budget plan was being tried out for individual squadrons of the fieet in an effort to secure more | efficient expenditure of the mgmeenngl appropriation Most Urgent Air Need. ships |/ coming into commission, a higher ratio g o a0 bl of officers to enlisted men and upward | 'NAVY HEADS TRAVEL BY PLA SUBS, WARSHIPS AND AUTOS| ! Adams, Jahncke and Ingalls Cover Considerable Terri- tory on Duty Tours. i,Secretary Made Trip in Dirig- i ible, President Is Told § 5 in Report. Charles Francis Adams, the yatchting skipper; Ernest Lee Jahncke, the ship- | §builder, and David S. Ingalls, the avia- | tor, have covered a lot of territory in| | all sorts of conveyances since they took | | over the job of running the Navy De- partment for the Hoover administration | Secretary Adams outlined his own | | activities and those of his two assistants | | at the very beginning of his annual re- port, which was submitted to the Presi- dent and made public today, detailing ! trips by battleship, submarine, dirigible, airplane, automobile and other methods | which had been made in the course of | their duties. | Adams Fiew on Los Angeles. First, the President was advised that | | Mr. Adams took office at 2:35 pm,| March 5; that Mr. Ingalls followed a ms said the “parity of \air- | 9 &.m.. March 16, and that Mr. Jahncke | rrior tonnage provided for in hington limitaticn of arma- under the Washington treaty was set as $42,796,386 in the report. | Some claims are yet to be settled. The increased proportion of small\ vessels in the fleet, the introduction of new auxiliary weapons and the needs | of naval aviation require that the old ratio of line officers to enlisted men, fixed at 4 per cent in 1926, be raised to 6 per cent. the report said. To effect this increase it was rec- | ommended that appointments to the | Naval Academy be increased from four for each State to five. Under the five- appointment plan the Naval Academy could. by 1934. produce 75 to 100 more officers annually than at present. The Secretary also urged enactment of legislation amending the system of promoting officers and furnishing means for retirement of staff officers not selected for promotion Regarding construction of the three cruisers whose keel-laying had been postponed until after the London limi- tation conference, the department es- timated that the first of these should be completed by November, 1932, and the two others by February and June, 1933, respectively. The two ships con- tracted for at the same time with pri- vate firms were to b> completed by Au- gust 15, 1932. It is understood that the dates for completion given in the report did not take into acceunt the | postponement of construction, but were based upon first expectations. Construction of guns, mounts and turrets for all five of these cruisers has been undertaken by the Naval Gun Factory. at Washington: the Army Ar- senal at Watervliet, N. Y., and the Mid- vale Co. of Nicetown, Pa. Twelve 8-inch guns are to be built by the Army, the same number by the Mid- vale Co. and the balance of the 8-inch guns, all secondary battery guns and accessories by the naval factory. Modernization Work. The Secretary reported completion of modernization work on the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada last Summer and the beginning of modernization on the Pennsylvania and Arizona. All cruisers now under construction 2nd the modernized battleships are be- ing provided with the latest type of fire control and battery for defense against airplanes. Similar_installations are being made on all other ships as fast as possible. Discussing the operations of the fleet, the Secretary gave high praise to the performance of the aircraft car- riers Lexington and Saratoga, which, he said, “proved themselves to be ef- | came next at 2:30 p.m., April 10. | | Then the Secretary told of persona! | d | inspections of navy yards and other | shore activities. his observation of bat. * to date of scrapping:| tle Practice in Southern waters, his at- and batile cruisers cace | tendance at the launching of vessels, his study first hand of scouting flect movements, and winding up with this sentence: v “On October 10, 1929, the Secretary visited Lakehurst and made a shorf \flight on the Los Angeles.” Jahncke Made Sub Trip. ), It was shown that Mr. Jahncke had (traveled by airplane, steamship or de- ‘stroyer to almost every spot where the Navy had interests, including Hawaii and Alaska. He made a submerged trip in the V-4 and flew on and off the air- craft carrier Lexington. Mr. Ingalls inspected everything in -the naval establishment which effected | aviation, and watched the progress of | aircraft development in the commercial world. The findings of these three fast traveling naval administrators were summed up: “The morale of the Navy is high: the health of the personnel excellent; the condition of re-enlistments extremely | satisfactory, and the number of de- sertions comparatively small.” MIDDLE WEST SHIVERS UNDER NEW COLD WAVE | Mercury Slides to 12 Below in| North Dakota and Minnesota. Relief Is in Sight. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 7.—A fresh coverlet of snow drifted down over the West today as the latest onslaught of Winter drove temperatures down 12 de- grees below zero in North Dakota and Minnesota. ‘The crest of the new cold wave had reached Winnipeg today and thermom- eters there registered 17 below zero, but down below the border States it seemed to be dissipated and warmer weather was on tHe way to the Northwest States tonight. A drop in temperature was forecast for the Chicago region, Iowa and Mis- souri tonight with a reaction upward tomorrow. Snow fell today in the Northern States and was on the menu for most of the Middle West tonight. A brief flurry occurred at Chicago, Where a freakish cloud swathed the city in darkness for more than an hour during the morning. Downtown Chicago took on the semblance of night and electric power companies reported the city used a peak load of electricity. Thief River THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 8, 1929—PART O N SECRETARY ADAMS. T SECRETARY ASSISTANT RITES FOR MRS. NOWLAN. Burial of Falls Church Woman ‘Will Be in Oakwood Cemetery. Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., December 7.— Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrs. William Fitzhugh Edmonds for Mrs. Isabel B. Nowlan, 78 years old, who died Friday night at the home of her daughter. Interment will follow in Oakwood Cemetery, beside her late hus- band, William Henry Nowlan, a former Confederate veteran, who died 26 years ago. Mrs. Nowlan was born in New York City, but has been a resident of Vir- ginia for 48 years, going first to Clif- ton as a bride. She has resided in Falls Church for the past 40 years. She was 2 member of the Episcopal Church and of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. F. Edmonds, and four grandchil- dren, William Donald, Maud Evelyn, Audrey Fitzhugh and Carter Moss Edmonds. House Makes Place On Commiittee for Daughter of Bryan The House went out of its way yesterday to grant the desires of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of Willlam Jennings Bryan, fora place on the foreign affairs com- mittee. A resolution was passed changing the membership of the committee from 21 to 22 mem- bers. The resolution, introduced by Majority Leader John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, makes the new arrangement effective for the E. 1S, INDIANQOLICY ISHITBY CRAMTON Representative Attacks Plan Attributed to Wilbur in In- terior Bill Debate. By the Associated Press. Debate on the $283,189,973 appropria- tion bill for the Interior Department began yesterday in the House with an attack by Representative Cramton, Re- publican, of Michigan on some of the policies in Indian affairs advocated by Secretary Wilbur. Attacking a statement attributed to the Interior Secretary that the States should become responsible for the health and education of the Indians, Cramton said this plan would mean that “oniy very limited provision for their heall or education can be expected.” Sees System as Menace. “If it means.” he added, “that such a system as was proposed last year by the Bureau of Indian Affairs is to be insisted upon, whereby the Federal Government will furnish ~the money and the States will spend it, we will speedily have a demoralized system, with politics running riot. extravagance encouraged and the interests of the Indians suffering accordingly. Reading & statement by Wilbur that the Indian should no longer be viewed | as a “ward of the Nation. but shall be cons “>red a potential citizen,” Cram- ton ¢ ‘d there was no reason why the Indian should not be considered a ward |and at the same tfine a potential citi- zen. Cramton asserted that if any large number of Indians “are to cease being wards of the Nation, their material in- terests will be serfously affected thereby.” $19,786,129 for Indians. The total appropriation for the In- dians under the bill would be $19,786.- 129, an increase of $3.112,913 in the appropriation for the present fiscal year. In addition, the bill provides an appro- priation of $3.226,630 from tribal funds. An appropriation of $9,491,000 is pro- vided for the education of Indians, which represents an increase of $1,432.- 500 over the current year. An increase from $2,711,600 to $3,155.000 is also provided to' care for the health of In- dians. EX-OFFICIAL INDICTED BY MISSISSIPPI JURORS Charges of Irregularities in Office Made in Grand Jury Report in Hinds County. By the Associated Press. JACKSON, M: December 7.—Three former State officials were indicted by the Hinds County grand jury today for alleged irregularities in office, and two were arraigned immediately in Circuit Court before Judge W. H. Potter. Rush H. Knox, former State attorney general, was indicted on six counts and his bond was set at $6,000. Cecil Inman, former chairman of the State Tax Com- with bond set at $2,000, and Bura Hil- bun, former director of the Mississippi agricultural service department and for- mer supervisor of Negro education, was indicted on 10 counts, with $10,000 bond required. Knox and Inman were arraigned and were expected to make bond. The grand jury continued an investi- gation of the former officials, begun by a special legislative committee last year. ‘The committee alleged that Knox and Inman conspired in the fraudulent col- lection of income and inheritance taxes referred to the State attorney general. Knox resigned after impeachment in the House of Representatives. 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