I
IT GBORGB BRITT
aericS* argiy. Is losing Ms
yaw l
;«f.........
reaftaatifm *
Ltegtah-
a Macready, òrbo has gon«
towards »be ek y ’w eeUtng
|t h e Mtem la d mast not-
4» to the aanitfi ¡P oa the
ing trom tthe air service'In ap-
poltlag «embers.
, -i ’ , «
Wbb six
heroes o f
the
roiM -tbe-world
flight. , > only
th r W r e ia ln In uniform. With­
in tb« past few months nearly
b d e fe i 'famous flyers have quit.
For the year 1SJ5 the resigna­
tions In the air service amount-
ad to 2.2 per cent, or nearly
doable the rate of 1.3 per cent
In the infantry.
Bach of these flyers who leaves
represents a loss to fthe gov-
erament, at actual replacement
cost, of from fl00,»® 0 to >1,-
«OS.OOO.
In flying they mnet keep tratfc:
of three dimensions at once»:
while most of us have a hard
*' I
time holding our, heads In two.
Y et the present system treats all
officers alike. It Is an Impos­
sible attempt.
Alexander M.'Fisher, chief In­
vestigator for- the Lampeft com­
mittee, which za year ago made
an exhaustive study of the alt
service, says:
“Slow promotion is on e. great
mid dont coûte
back C HA TTER
Aï
P ’
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I UHDS
You Pay N o Mbre
for these Warranted Tires
Id fact, y o u w ill find that USCO Bal-
Sacfametttti
li Havc Wi
y
t y * “* .< * • • • * * w<rt'lme • ° 1-’
• safc«^ bat a poor: one Ip f peaces
tl«ie. T e |-v h a t the army 4u »t
hiive primarily fa soldiers to f
wartime. 1 ;
¡. j.
i “There is, fartjmrmore, a to«V
jng that . th e <fr#uiiaation . Is
against thei. flysrs.
Non-iljjlM
officers control -the policy, of t£er
air servlcp. Legislation Is scad*
Wale, not practioaf. The flyers
cpnslder It hopeless. They bej
l|Bve the aqvipasoat Is npt «4
good as. can be bought or bulltk
and that the possibilities are .n o t ;
I being ha« realised.
They M f ;
they can be nothing but ah gux-
Ultary ijprvice. Therefore thdy
lose interest.’’*
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Resigned
Crack flyers * the arWfl air
service, la addition to Cotonql
William Mitchell, who hay« 4 » .
signed within the past - low
naontj»«, include:
1 . , 1
Lfhntenant 4ohh
Macready,
holder of the American, altitude
record.
'
i . i
L(gutenant H. R. Harris, oae
of the moat expert tegt pilots In
the world, and an authority on
parachutes^ He tried oat the J
giant Barling bomber. Many of
the army’s World records were i
made by him.
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Lieutenant George E. 'Hodge, {
an administrative expert, a not- <
able flyer and former aide at the '
White House.
Lieutenant Parker Van Zandt, i
a pilot, a Ph. D. from the Uni­
versity of California, and an in- .
teruational expert on airplane -
design.
Lieutenant Frank W, Seifert, i
ope of the army's best pilots, who S
took part in the re-fenling ex-* '
periments on the west coast
Lieutenant Charles N. M.on-
teith, a technical expert with the j
engineering division at McCook *
e Field.
”
Lieutenants Jack Harding, Jt.. •
8 Leigh Wade and ,H. H .'O gden. j
flyers who made the world flight. •
0
Going farther back Into army
r records, conspicuous flyers who
lS have been lost to the service In- '
e elude Major R. W. Schroeder: •
former holder of the ^titudb ;
n record; Major William G. Schauf- ;
2 tier and Captain Ray Brooks, ’
aces of waf days, and Captain ‘
JBelyia,jy. hiatynard, the lamps«
d "*'fl/Kig parson,** who resigned
‘d shortly before he was .killed,
c* Lieutenant C. C.‘ Moseley the
>n first winner of the Pulltxer cup.
tS la on a year's leave and expected j
to resign at Its close. Other Il­
lustrious aviators are mentioned
Is In reports of Intended resigns-
p- tlons.
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Morale Shattered
Why are they leaving? The
answer aeems to be that morale
has beet sapped and hope dé-
0ti*y«d w cc<Ct«aBtf «a «he
serffee.
Some are dissatisfied over thè
Mitchell case, but discontent Is
more direct and personal. This
answer comes not only from
avowed critics of the administra­
tion but from the flyers them­
selves.
“If conditions were right, most
Of them 'would stay enthusiastic­
ally, regardless of low army pay
fed
commercial opportunities
eptsi<|e,” says Representative
Frank R. Reid, who was attorney
for Colonel William Mitchell at
tie court martial.
Representative JC H. • |A -
Ouardfa, himself a flying ma­
jor on the Italian front, agrees
with him.
“Aviators are different from
other men,’’ he says, “They are
different In nerves add tamper-
ament. and It Is a mistake to try
to force them Into the same mold.
that m u«h,,tb «tuition ta
and risk, to tMfl « Soother te
hU- place.«. .•-*■ . . . . . .
/» m W »#* Colonel ¡M iz e ll
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PITTSBURGH, Pa., (UP) —
Modern science may disclose the
secrets of ancient science when
Douglas Stewart, director of the
Carpegle Museum here, attempts
to remote the coverings from an
Egyptian mummp by/using X-ray.
A tightly wrapped body of a
baby, found tn a tomb which had
long been burled and on which an­
other tomb had been built, wa3
brought here by Stewart from
Egypt.
The mummy was discovered by
Prof. Edouard Novllle at Abydos
S*d dates back to the early days
of ths Ptolemaic period.
By taking X-ray pictures of
the mummy, Stewart believes the
secret of the ancients’ burial and
preservation of the body will be
disclosed.
, "With the X-ray examination
we hope to ascertain the age of
the child,’’ Stewart told the
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