New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1925, Page 1

ews of the World By Associdted Press “uwo) ‘pIOJUCH Bdsa 0V 'ESTABLISHED 1870 ! ALLING AND MAYOR AT ODDS OVER PROPOSED CONTROL OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT BOARD Former Hit He Was FRENH PROMSED TYO inst To Suggest Mecovme | ONS HERE Be Removed Far From Influence of Politics. |one 1s for 100 Million and the Other Is for 35 Million Dollars Paonessa Retorts That He Never Did Want Power of Removal—Hits Repre- sentative on P, U. C, Law RESOLUTION AIMED AT FLOATING LOANS BY FOREIGN POWERS PR Washington, Feb, 19.—A reso- lution designed to prevent flota~ tlon of loans in the United States to France or any other natfon that has. failed to reach an agreement with the Amer- fean government for funding of its war debt, was introduced to- day by Representative Blanton, democrat, Texas. The machin- ery of the federal reserve board would be brought into play in {lenforcing the measure. In his letter to Mayor A. M. Pao- | ncssa regarding charter changes, reference to which was made in the Herald yesterday, Representative B, ‘W. Alling, majority leader in the Jower house, siresses the import- ance of removing from politics the board of adjustment which will function in connection with the es- tabllshment of a zoning system. In previous correspondence it was Intimated that the initiative in pre- venting political influence governing the conduct of the board was taken by Mayor Paonessa. Representa- tive Alling's letter indicates that he, not Mayor Paonessa, was father of 4 this {dea, On this point the letter [Pit0 §F Trench anomd andfan says: “T am particularly pleased to | ' Gaetori fl" the devastat- Aa et vou fave gaceded to juy sugs | i'nl(cd Sm'tcs au)osoono::.&e:lhoig\ld”;i PUon DI A SODREYeAito YOl s dutnitery balRhsall mnd ot an AL presume, through members of the one of the remoal Sl zonlng commission, that the adjust- | o8 & ’”;"‘I" i t?r France's ment board so-called . as provided | FAERY M‘"“"i; bfl"’;,““‘mm‘fl ¢ tics.” 3 t”;,";rrfi(l"r"fn in his letter, Repre- | the ch.amber of deputies today, sentative Alling remarks that he | T Clementel gave no indication of the terms or other detalls and re- heard that if* was Mayor Paonessa who suggested that the mayor have | Tained from saying whether assur- power of removing members of the ance of the loans came through the Rdiustment hoard. contrars to he | MOFEan group which has handled all recommendation of the Technical |the French financing operations in ‘lhe United States, He limited him- Advisory Corporation. Mayor Paonessa today voiced dls- | S€If 10 the simple declaration: . Loucheur (former JFrench pieasure at parts of Representative 5 Alling's letter, declaring that he | Minister of commerce) hus advocat- : od a forelgn loan. We have the| never has expressed himself in hav- ; ing the mayor in control of the ad- | Promise that when our budget is] justment board of the.zoning com- | d¢finitgly and finally voted and bal- mission, adding that “anyone who |anced, one loan of $100,000,000 for quetes my stand as such s very | th¢ I'rench treasury-and another of | much misinformed.” | $85,000,000 for the devastated re- Alling’s Letter in the United Representative Alling's glons will be jssued Mayor Paonessa follows: States.” M. Clementel began his speech on “Hon. Angelo M. Paoncssa, “City Huli, | the financial and economic situation by remarking that the “City, “Dear Sir: made on the subject by | Herrlot=and M, Violette, the budget “I wish to acknowledge reccipt of two_letters fron By The Assoclated Press, Paris, Feb, 19, — Promise of a $100,000,000 loan for the improve- letter to reporter, had made it unnecessary or him to deliver “a real speech” ary 6th and ® 10 nd he would content himself with | tively. With re to the letter | giving the broad outlines of thel of February 10th, T would say that | government’s financial policy. | “You are right not to expect any mirac! —not to look to me as a man with a magic wand,” said the | ter, “In & conversa- commission that I doubt if it would |tien with a articularly competent | function in the interests of the pub- | personality recently I was told 1 lic—or of anybody else. { might consult the spirits of Col- “With reterence to your letter of | hert, Turgot and Rouvier, and they Tebruary 6th, I would say that T am |would all reply that there was no instant panacea. The remedy can perfectly willing to cxpress to you | only be found in the patient, con- any changes which I think should | be made in the charter amendments | tinued arduous effort of the French nation, in its savings, its economy, as they are at present framed, in order that you may know fully my iits labor, its love of the individual property which it has created, its position with reference thereto be- fore the time set for the hearing. unswerving support of egsting in- “I am particularly pleased to s stitutions. that you have acceded to my SUg-| The finance minister® said the in- | ventors pub’ 1 by him last De-| gestion which was conveyed to you, I presume, through members of the | camper was an attempt to give the | world an Thonest statement of | soning commission, that the adjust- ment board so-called as provided for | naoi“grancial and economic sit- uation. | in the zoning system he removed 1 “It grieved me.” he continued, “to | trom politics n readily under- stand how the mayor of any cit¥ | o\ 4pat the American press inter- in the performance of his duties and | P L BE R CEL EORen the | interallied debts mentioned the administration of the affairs of ‘pour memoire” referenct—as | my present fecling in reference Lo | the contents thereof is that T cannot | support this bill. It would of | necessity create such a cumbersome | finance min should have commissions are of an administ character 50 composed that they will be in sympathy with these purposes for (Continued on Page Three) which he is attempting to accom- " e SUBS FOR BROKEN RIBS | P do not believe, however, fhat ES FOR BROKEN RIBS | the adjustment board as provided for in the zoning system is an adminis- trative board solely. My present in- | Mary R. Saundegs, Hurt in Colliston, | inaons thac o Shet | Names Oliver I Davis Defendant | be 80 composed and- 5o appoints that it be absolutely beyond the in Action For $5,000. reach of any mayor, even though he be elected for more than one term. Saunders, through Klett | For that reason I do not at present | & today brought it for believe that the method of appoint- | $5 ainst Oliver I. Davis, claim- [ ment provided for in the present |ing e had several ribs broken proposed amenduent meets this ob- | white riding in an automobile driven Davis when he ran into a by Adelard Roy on h Swamp Road, Berlin, on | A $5,000 suit brought by | ed out of court yeswr- | day. 1t was ready to go to the jury Jective. “It would board in th # composed o by Mr. wagon driven | the Beec Angust 4 Roy was set seem to me t the first instance should be say seven members, one appointed for of ong for two years, one for t ars, ete., and ear MHE IMNPIUUY) 1dresses | check. Premier | | the measure it carried all DEFENSE CLOSES IN ATLANTA CAst Jury Probably Will Retire to Deliberate by Night ACCUSED MAKES DENIALS Former Warden At Federal Prison Brands Stories of Graft and Scan- dal As False—Neither Remus Nor Wife Testified. Atlanta, Ga, I'eb. 19.—The de- fense closed its surrcbuttal testi- mony just before noonsin the trial of A. Sartain, former warden at the Atlanta federal ponitentiary, L. J. Fletcher, former deputy warden and Laurence Riehl of Columbus, Ohfo, charged with conspiracy to accept and recelve bribes, Argu- ments are to start this afternoon. It is thought that the case may be in the hagds of the jury by night. Sartain’s Denial Sartain today denied he had had a conversation with Graham Baughn, former prisoner, in which he told Baughn that a watch had been given him by Sweetwood, Kess- ler and Remus. He also denled such a conversation with Willle Haar. Baughn testified that Sartain showed him a watch and said it was given him b Remus, Sweet- wood and Kessler and that he was “afraid of Sweetwood.” Willle Haar identified a letter he said he had written to his brother, Ernest Haar, a Savannah attorney, asking that $3,500 be brought from Savannah “In large bills.”” Ernest i testified he received the let- ter. A. C. Aderhol?, record clerk at the penitentiary identified records of defense witnesses, On cross-ex- amination he sald Fletcher's reputa- tion In the community was good. Sartain, testifying in sur-rebuttal, denfed that he got a check from Mannie Kessler that he signed a nete or had a conversation with Graham Baughn about a watch. He also denied testiigony of Marshall Jones that the witness was present when Jones drove Kessler away from the prison and was present when they returned. Fletcher, recalled, denied Kesslor's testimony as to the joint note signed by Sartain and Fleteher, saying “it is a deliberate lie.” The witness also denied Baughn's testimony that Baughn got a $5,000 check from the witness and denied that he ever saw Sartain or any one else have such a He deni"d discussing - any prospective loan of $15,000 for an ice business with any one. The wit- ness said that the investigation at the prison tober, 1024, Although George Remus, 50~ called millionaire bootlegge of Cincinnati has been mentioned fre- quently in connection with the in- he was not called as a witness, Mrs, Remus also suggested as a possible witness did not testify. Remus, a federal prisoner has been in the county jall since the investi- gation, “PINTO” BILL WITHDRAWN State the trial, Nebraska Representative Changes Mind on Measure That Wouid Annul Childless Marriages Lincoln, Neb., Feb. “Pinto” bill, introduced in the Ne- braska house by Representative Robert E. Hines and which would provide annulment of all marriages in cases where no children were born within three years after mar- riage, has been withdrawn by fits author. While Dr. A. S§. Pinto, Omaha health commissioner, who favored the plan, did not frame general provisions made by him recently and brought both condemnation and commendation. Mr. Hines, who sald he was spon- soring a bill repealing the provision for 10 days notice for marriage lcenses, asserted that he had intro- duced the annulment bill in an effort to show “what radical changes might be mada in the marriage laws it serfous consideration were fanatical amendments already fore the Nebraska house FOUR MEN MISSING Are Belicved to Have Been Drowned be- When Tughboat is Sunk in Fast that the mayor be authorized to ap- point to fiil vacancy which, un- | ment, would occur in supr-ior court today. It is &aid a | substantial scttlement was made by | ta company with which Mr. Davis| yean £ { was insured Iy information is that the ori oS Davly \bis. colilded | fnal draft furnished to the city by o the opposite with Roy's wag vehicles | advisory corporation | qort g e i R provided that appointments 1o the | oy e wagon was badly smash- | board ehall be made by the mayor| .y gnq Roy claimed he was injured. ubject to confirmation by the ATVAT: BT Yo a Rt et lEAIh fon coungli gad Hold: 4 of the automobile and broke ::::'f""]‘r e veral of Miss Saunder's ribs. thorizing s movals from the board s only after proper impe coedings inaugurated technieca | com- nfter | Clergyvman Asks Divorce: Says Wife Is Too Rough | their River This Morning. New York, Feb. were reported missing boat R. J. Moran, owned “ahill Towing Co., was sunk in the ast river today by the municip ferry boat Rodman Wanamaker, which plies between the Battery and the foot of 39th street, Brooklyn. This missing men are members of the crew of the tug. Three of companions rescued by boats lowered from the ferry boat The Moran was under the mand of Captain George Sjolund of South Norwalk, Conn who was men by were om as started early in Oc-| vestigation of the prison and during | 19.—~The | given | ter the tug- | pointing authority an o ny Trenton, N. J.. Feb. 19.—Divorce | rescued with two members of his due cause shown and upon written | proceedings have been brought in | crew. The four missing men lived charges and a public hearing. fthe court of chancery by the Rev. [in Manhattan and Brookiyn. “This provision 1 am infermed, did 'g rt L. Tyson, Episcopal minister | not meet with your approval, and the | information which T have reccived (Continued on Page Three) OCCUPATION RETURNS Feb. 19.- occupa- Ruhr, acco to th Brussels. tion of the ing parllamentary commissions’ budget report, brought Belgium 1.83 bil- lon francs, of which 409 millions were in kind |outbursts of says that her husband's chasges are | of Princeton, against Anna Gertrud Tyson. Extreme cruelty is ch Theclergyman avows that his w 1 fe has an ungovernable temper and a | Jjealous disposition. Almost from the date of their marriage, March 7. 1917, he has suffered, he said cause of her many and ill-governc temper. Mrs. untrue. o rom physical and mental injury be- Tyson | I_Geddesl\ sks 5 Sheriffs, Democrats, to Resign ‘ Waterbur "eb. 19.—High 8! heriff 1| James A. Geddes today addressed . | sheriffs here, requesting their resig | nations. Thelr piaces will be filled 1| after February 28 with republicans re: James A. Hyne mea O'Leary, Pa Burns. Those removed John Weisma Summa and Michael F. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925, —SlTEEN PAG Mrs. Budlong els r Doctor; - New York’s Society Feud Today Takes On Entirely New Angle stalled in Room Adjacent to That of Voluntary Prisoner — In Street Below Fakirs Are Selling “Budlong Shirts” At 98 Cents Each—Woman May Come Out Toda 5 New York, Feb. 19, — An appeal | that a physician be brought to her at once was shouted by Mrs. Milton | J, Budlong today, from behind a | door of the apartment home of her | usband, oil magnate, where Mrs. Budlong has been a voluntary pris- oner, on hunger strike, sincc last | ¥riday, i The feud between hushband and wife developed another mysterious angle, 'Shortly before noon, furni- ture movers began installing desks, typewriters, tclegraph instruments and operators in the drawing room of the apartment, adjoining the bed- room where Mrs. Budiong has im- prisoned herself, Calls For Doctor Mre. Budlong's plea for a physi- clan was called, in a thin, weak volce, to her husband's secretary, who has acted as generalissimo of servants and private detectives in- stalled in rooms of the apartment surrounding the woman's self-chosen bedroom prison. “Send for a doctor, quick,” was all the secretary heard before he scam- pered off to relay the message to re. porters and to phone for a physician. Papers Disappear Only a few minutes earlier the | secretary had been much exercised | over the disappearance of important | IN HISTORIC THEATER jhe sald was highly prized by the | husband. | Reporters, first, and then Bud- long's private detectives were’ ac- cused of having removed the arti- | pravine it T ay cles from the apartment. But an| @ *3ing Hamlet Tonight in flay- denied knowing anything about| market Where First Lionel cither documents or photograph. | In the meantime, attorneys for | | Budlong were reported closeted in a | Played 50 Years Ago downtown hotel, attempting to ne- |7, The Associated Pre . gotiate @ compromise in behatt o¢| London, Feb. 10.—London crittes Ehofe reapeetlve elibnte. | were today sharpening quills for Shirts, 98 Cents Each | Hawkers mingling with {he Who invades the lome of Shake- |erowds on the streets 11 stories be- | SPeare Hamlet” in the |low the Buglong apartment tod heater — The Haymarket — where | put on sale “Budlong's shirts” at 9 | the first Maurice Barrymore played cents each. They sold rapidly, for there been created a gre demand souvenirs uf the shiris initlaled 4. B.” which Mrs. Budlong has used as Db st for the notes she tossed {to those below. fiity years ago, The coming of John has aroused the greatest has | for 31, | &7d the sialls were sold out early, o while in the morning a 1o spearean enthusis hours of the old Shake- § waited outside line of al hot dog and hot drink |the theater for first chances at the : ers to the exclusive | Pit and galleries—otherwise “Nig- Fifth avenue where | 8er-. Heaven.” {the Budiorigs live, circulatea | The critics have been cautious in | through the throng, doing a thriving | their advance notices, being un- | business, willing to comment prior to the| | May Give Up Today appeaxance of or whose | In two notes pinned to her Lus- | “Hamlet” admitted consider- | |band’s shirts which she dropped to |able departure from t the street last night. announced that | tonal. portrayal of the me |today she would leave her apartment | Dane. Jiut generally |bedroom where she 'has been on a | anxious to compare his performar | hunger strike for six days, with that of the tole as it was play- Mrs. Budlong threw the shirts with | ed by such famou Irving, ;!h:\ duplicate notes attached yester- | Benson {day afternoon from the window of | are hailed he {the bedroom in her husband’s apart- | lots of the age ment in which she had lock lancholy s ov at 1 her- falmost an agdage wi "sr\!f last ¥riday morning. They said | Shakespearean followers that the telephone extension wira | S |had been cut off last Saturday and | Elizabeth, N. J:, Dept. that the water supply had heen cut |oft Monday. In the missive 3 3 5 |oft Monday. In ¢ ssives she de ‘e Sw : Fir |nied any intention of taking her lifo, m“,,b‘%‘mf ; \\‘_ep(_ by I.‘”e |adding, “I¢ anything happens to me | gy 10 con i N : it will be murder.” B the . . oodhull s Representatives of her husband |1ssued a statement denying all of Mrs, | Budlong's assertionsy and declaring that she had been advised by her | mother, her uncle and her daughter | ™ [to leave the apartment. £ht " |@ fire which ene | Mrs. Budiong’s petition for sepa- | [OC¢ Of the city rate maintenances was denled in | MEBE Newport on February 10. She en- tered the New York apartment last Thursday night, and Friday morning |1ocked herselt n a hedroom. Trer | [purpose, according to counsel, was to | street in the h section was ntire stock n estimated CHAMPS TAK Tampa, TFla., [ members of champions, the w Wi | prevent Mr. Budiong locking her out | atars, trotted out on the diamond |and bringing suit on "the grounds of | today to begin preparation for the desertion. The custody of her two | 1925 chan ip drive. The work- mitor sons, John and Milton, was | out was | Nick Al awarded her husband when her peti-'| trock and were among |tion was denfed. those on hand COAST GUARD CREW ACCUSED OF LCOTING RUM SHIP PRIZE Said to Have Held Drunken Carousal—Mate Says Govt. Men Converted His Vessel Into a “Dump” Boston, Feb. 19.—Charges that a |whiskey bottles on prize crew from the ¢ gnard cut- | Much ‘of his clothing ter Tampa looted the Britis con- | perty had been stolen, the witness {er Marjorie Bachman s had ['said, and some was never r | been seized as a rum run Cook James Poehler of 1 Ty out to sea and held d described the state of the vessel a |al on board their prize the alleged orgy as I federal court today upside down in hard c the Bauchman's crew g David R. Keating ( S fore Judge Mort fisherman, testified 11 n ment's petition for forfeiture of the |invited on board t an by schooner and her liquor cargo Ensign Harold rge o M Robert W. Bowers of 1 - |the prize crew we a dr burg. 8, said he was a 1 r|He was told, he hir on the Tampa for 52 hours and when | self to the liquor strewn about was tu d to his schooner it |lat had some “looked like ump.” Broken cases | officer He said T of liquor were everywhere said, {er were finally t o he counted fourteen empty|and made prisoners, Er Connor yesterday a4 |that Keating had in his two_orders from som THE WEATHER liquor. Today the fis nied —— his For New Britain and vicin- “It {he cPww got ¢ ity: Unsettled tonight; Friday the ship 1 uld pay little ] fair and colder. to anything Connor & Judg Morto marked at one stage of | S— ——————# | the proceedings. Typewriters, Telegraph Apparatus and Operators In- | | tary academy a tonight's debut of John Barrymore | conven- | get | furnished from airplan | every navy officer | (i BINGHAM ATTACKS ARMY EXECUTIVES Declares General Stall Is I¢no- rant of Aviation Defails Connecticut Semator Drags Military BY GEORGE H. (Washington Bureau of N, Washington, Feb. a unified air service | distinet from that maintained by the Army and Navy as urged by Gener- al Mitchell, assistant chief of dr sery is attractive but Senator Hiram Bingham of Con- necticut who had wide experience with aviation as a lieutenant colonel |in the American army during the |World War testified today before the house special committee invest gating the aircraft servic He agreed with such eminent thorities as Admiral David Beatty, control the training and the opera tlon of their’own aviators. Calls General Staff Ignorant The greatest drawback to high development of the aircraft service |of the Army today, Senator Bing-| . J, | ’ b0 nexation of a New | |nam declared, is that the army gen- s D oL enigton o/l [oral staft is wlacmingly fgnorant of |the clty of New Britain came to light lall details of aviation, and that be- fore the war, during the war and up to the present time the general staff |is entirely lacking in an atom of "\ym;:ull y for the aviation gervice. | " All officers of the Army and Navy | | should be trained in the use of air- {craft, Senator Bingham declared, land all members of the army gen- staff should be required to have | undergone at least six months train- ing at n aviation training school. All cadets at the West Point mili- naval academy should be thorough- ly trained in the science of handling airplancs, he asserted. Criticizes Policy of West Point “I cannot understand why in this (COLD TOWARD AIR SERVICE Woman, 102, Refuses to Stop Drinking Liquor; ‘ Gets 30 Days in Jail all my life and I don't intend to The judge gave her the alter- native of paying a $100 fine or going to jail for 30 az | | promptly ehose the jail term, | little womar Leaders Over Hot Coals While | [A8vein S hatled into Testifying Before House Commit- | S menontond r]n‘r”;.‘;l iy toe Investigating War Aeronautics. | pefisarinking liqvor 3 stop now,” she told the court. | She ~ GEN. MITCHELL NOT CALLED ONCARPET, BUT ONCE MORE _ GIVES VIEWS ON AVIATION' DISCLOSE REASON FOR ANNEXATION PROJECT | Capitol Hears It Is Scheme lthat an independent air serviee| {0 Benefit Newington would be a grave mistake and that Vet the Army and Navy uld each Children (Speclal to The Herald.) |in the wood pile” relative to the an- today when it was heard in the lobby [that the people residing in the strip of territory between the Cremo srewery and Clayton crossing, which is t. area affected, wanted annexa- |tion to New Britain, | A hearing is scheduled , before the legislative com- on cities and boroughs and the so-called free education for New for Feb- mittee |ington students at the New Britain | | high school, is expected to be nipped | | {in the bud. | The people living in this area are ones affected most, because of fact that their children must go e the |over the dangerous grade crossing to tend school and their lives are in damger. Tt was learned today that | John Bilson, her of several chil- age, West Point cadets should be |y 40" ncidering the circulation ElvonEsos muchetratung Y10t a petition to be presented Tuesday tactles, the diseases o evening at a meeting of the Newing- iz, but given absolutely *~ lton-board of selectmen and to be | tion in the v the most e of the airpl | de Senator T “No offi should be permitted to ommand an arti unit unless he er | forwarded to the mittee, Advocates of the bill say that if | New Britain acquires the territory it | will open up a new district for choice legislative com- has a full knowledge of aviation.” | free tultion clause could mot Aviation should cer Al he satisfactorily explained. 1t is part of the training of every An-|gjoubted, however, that it will find napolis cadct.” |favor among many either in New Need of Training At Annapods Naval offi should be com- lled to know much about the lling of aircraft as marines beea airplanes are 4 when batt with » other, but formation up ahove should possess & > of aviation.” Bingham pla much | stress upon the jealousy of the | army general staff towards the avia- ut el heir range upon ull knowle tor ahout sub- | ton ank T. Condon, a former mem {ber of the common council in New Britain, and chairman ot the board of public works ne v for the nav the sub- | conference wit" the public utilities marines and more 50" Senator | commission for an hour this morn- | Bingham »d, “In this day|ing. He came to argue the case of » on each other {Tremont street residents who are | | nce of the {pr system on the Hartford-New { Britain bus line, The committee on cities and bor- | oughs reported favorably on a bill to require b {town of Berlin and the | cepted its report. king a discontir house ac- irman Randolph Perkins of the ny evidenc ympathy the gen- d he to of to the aviation service by ever seen 1| Agreement Reached Out of Court in Actlons Brought by Zahnleiter eral staff, Senator Bihg had never witnessed a single in-| as Result of Boy's Injuries, stance of such. Sain “The general staff would have ° suits of Willi inleiter more sympathy for the aviation r. Albert Zahnleiter, of service if it knew more a | o4 against Lennie Krikor- he said. ian, for injuries to the boy ave “The general sta vays op- | bec ettled out of co Klett & posed any of the n rec- | A were counsel for the plain- ommended 1o congres: comfort @nd effici eiter boy was riding a aviation service,” h r his ho st summer recalled that ir s staft of the army ke upon cong not ymobile, pay to aviat o s in the the great ris ey took for Favors Aviation Bureau o “The hest way in my opinion for | ¢y o o t . t} house of - e ¥ SPRINGFIELD MURDER e Robert Ascher, Prominent Business Man, Killed—Police Scek Two ial of navigati N car ¥ g avigation. 1t would ess of this bu ) those importa t which are ¥ Men As Possible Suspects Hartford, Feb., 19.—The *“nigger | in that city, was in | lding permits in the |, | war there w 1id air n hlis The he fut ger ¥ HUNT HOLDUP MEN 1 \ Nowions Feb. 19—Search T being thoritics ¥ nding o alr s € 1 e f W Ule o assortod Ser 1 ¢t Arth 1« gher There is x r ha Sandy Ho road fon < night. robbed sh draver of (Ce $25 and disappeared. Average Daily Circulation Week Ending ll 87 Feb, 14th .., PRICE THREE CENTS| !Assist. Chief of Army ! | Air Service Denies 'i‘uj Feb. 19.— || KHOWIedge Of Report _ | That He Was to be 1 Reprimanded by Pres- ident. ,‘ f l euity ;Asfiails Nation’s Aerial | ‘ Weakness, Saying Japan | Could Easily Capture | : Both Philippine and | Hawaiian Islands. [ Washington, Feb, 19.—Instead of going to the White House today fo: | bis much advertised ‘“reprimand’ from President Coolidge, Brigadier General Mitchell appeared ongce. more before the house aircraft come mittee and reaffirmed his opposis L tion to the administration's air- | | craft policies. | Denies Knowledge of Call | 3efore he took the stand the | general disclaimed all connection with the report of a White House' summons which broke up yester= | day’s committee meeting, Commit- {tee members who received that re- port by telephone yesterday refused to say who had been their inform- ant, but indicated that their source of information was some interested - § | person at the exécutive end of Penn- " sylvania avenue, 4 White House Denies Too P Both the White House and the of- {fice of the secretary of war have { denied flatly that they passed any such information along to the com- mittee, . White House officials would | g0 no further today in their discus- |sion of the incident, but said the ] | general's name ,was not on Mr, Cool- § ige's appointment list, v this part, the general insisted today that he not only had not ' spread the report that he was to be 16d on en carpet by the presldent today and informed a re- appointment had been denied him as assistant chief of the air service, but d that he d not received a summ , and had no idea where the story originated. Has His Little Joke When Ye took the stand before & the committee tod Rapresentative Reed, republican, Tllinois; asked: “Is this General Mitchell or ex= genera The tant army air chief smiled but did not reply. Scnator Bingham suggested that if officers of the general staff were | permitted to wear “wings as well as spurs” it might give them a sym- I pathetic attitude toward the ‘alr He sald the air service had ance, and when he had ever heard of general staft had service, not had a fair ¢ was asked if he cd that during = the s much jealousy of. aviators on the part of the general Gives Testimony Mitchell in his testimony od the inadequacy of n's air power, and asserted the Hawaiian Tslands fe as bows and ar pture botl if, he said, Philippines and Haw 1ding that the latter could not hold nst Jay r two weeks. iscussion of the propos Secretary Weeks, Repre= Reid in, Tlinois, ar secretary T doesn't ored by ocrat, entative Jersey, ad pre- said he ntic war report ng exceps v General had for flight said was army timony the o m several resolu- ion of Jent ommit v s posal Ftavored By Gen. Patrick A ¢ e members the when air sers th, Gen- under- the air to Mn, He sald had nded t d ! reccived Mr. y ad- contidens g for facts statements to the = concerned theit € chosen in presenting 1 committee he questioned the from ther (Continued In Pags 13)