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GERMAN ATTACK
FORCES BRITISH
TO YIELD GROUND
Section Lost Has Been Scene
of Most Terrific Fighting
of Last Drive T a
RUSSIANS BEGIN NEW v
OFFENSIVE NEAR LUn
Berlin Tells nf Partial WirlS
drawal of British From
Solonika Front
London, Juno 18. A tremendous
Gorman attack on newly won British
positions east of Mom-hy 1 Proux,
forced the British to full buck from
certain advanced positions, Field Mar
shal Maig reported today.
"Early this morning the enemy
strongly attacked our new positions
oast of Monchy Le Proux," he stated.
"After severe fighting we were
compelled to fall back from certain ad
vanced posts in front of our main new
position. We still hold Infantry Hill."
Monchy Le I'roux, live miles south
west of Arras, is one of the turning
points on the General Hindenburg
front, being on the so-called Drocourt
(Jueant "switch line." it has been the
.scene of tremendous fighting ever since
the British struck out from Vimy ridge
in J drove toward Douai.
The British field marshal 's report al
biv mentioned considerable mutual ar
tiilerying north of the Scarpe and
heavy hostile bombardment of British
positions near Ypres.
Russians Renew War
London, June 18. Berlin official re
ports today hinted at readjustment of
fighting activities on two widely sepa
rated fronts.
Firs-was the; resumption of offensive
by the Russians in the Lutsk sector,
which, combined with Petrograd dis
patches detailing the vote of a secret
session of the duma, urging an imme
diate offensive, gave great hopo here
that Russia was making ready to "do
her bit."
Second was the Berlin statement in
dicating, a withdrawal by the British
Salonika expeditionary force from cer
tain positions, in the Struma lowlands.
Combined with news of the work of
the American mission now in Petro
grad, the duma resolution for an im
mediate offensive, was taken as a fav
orable sign of crystallization of Rus
sian sentiment against Germany and
complete failuro of the German peace
pints. -
There have been numerous attempts
in the house of commons to obtain from
the ministry an explanation of the full
reasons for Brilish participation in the
-Macedonian offensive.
Certain members have insisted that
the British forces now there under
General Serrail could be utilized to a
vastly better effect on the western
front backing up Fie-hl Marshal Haig 's
offensive.
Demand Air Reprisals
London, June 18. Public demand for
reprisals against Germany for her aer
ial murder raids today reached such a
point that it was believed the govern
ment would be forced to take cognizance
1 riemendous popular sentiment for a
Franco-British raid on some such Ger
man city as Berlin or Frankfort to
avenge the murders of British women
and children by German aeroplane and
Zeppelin piracy of the past week has
developed.
A mass meeting Sunday in the Lon-
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! ABE MARTIN
When you begin ' t ' age you kin dye
your hair an' rick up, tut ther'a no
known way t stave tt'f fallin' int' th'
habit o' tellin' th' tame story t' th'
same people four or five times. A good
1 ersonality is almost as essential as
havin' th' goods.
. V iCJk ill
HOT WAVE HURTS CROPS
Los Angeles, Cal., June 19.
Crop damage that is assuming
serious proportions appears to-
day to be the greatest damage
of a heat wave in southern Caii-
fornia unparalleled in weather
bureau annals and which reach-
ed its climax here yesterday by
setting a recordof 105 degrees.
In the "hack country" it was
hotter. Sail Bernardino reported
118 1-2, the highest point in
southern California. Bean, sugar
beet, berry and walnut erops are
damaged.
TEMPEST IN JAPAN'S
OFFICIAL TEAPOT
Jie Sent by United States
Was Ambiguous Some
Amateur Diplomat
Washington, June 18. The tempest
created in Japan's official teapot by
Secretary Lansing's recent note to
China had subsided today.
Efforts to get from the state depart
ment an ex pla nut ion as to who had ad
justed the matter were as unsuccessful
as earlier efforts to aseertnin who has
bungled in the first instance.
Great Britain's answer to the Amer
ican request that the British join the
United States in sending a note to
China arrived today. As predicted, it
was a refusal.
Secretary Lansing said the British
themsetlves could give out its text he
would not. lie added that cable sum
maries from abroad were correct.
There seems to be little doubt but
that Japan had gone off half cocked and
become angered through a misunder
standing of the real course of action
contemplated by this country. It seems
equally certain from the diligent efforts
of the state department to cover up,
that some one's efforts were decidedly
amateurish in that a note was permitted
to go to Japan in which there was any
possibility of misunderstanding. All ef
forts todav to obtain a frank, straight
forward explanation of the incident by
tlit state department were lutile. - ine
intimation was given that the depart
ment does not consider the details of
the incident, bungled or otherwise, any
of the public's business. '
SALEM ALL READY
Teams hi Harness Ready For
Work Flag Ready to
Receive Its Stripes
"All ready to fire" is the report
from Red Cross campaign headquarters
this evening. Confidence that Salem
will do more than her allotted and sug
gested bit is the prime feature of the
initial day.
Salem goes to bat tonight when team
captains and their teams gather at
headquarters for dinner, for final in
structions and the last infusion of gin
ger tea. Judge Lawrence T. Harris will
be the other speaker of the evening, his
understudy for the occasion being Kob
ert S. Giil. Into the hands of these
speakers is given the job of making the
first gas attack. But the gas will be
not deadly but enlivening.
F.ach team captain is expected to add
to the enthusiasm of the occasion, by
shooting his and the other fellow's team
full of resolution. O. B. Gingjjch, ex
pert campaign tactician will be on the
first line with final instructions.
Miss Margaret Hodge- will also be
present, with her rich contralto voice to
sing "Keep the Home Fires Burning."
Many Free Will Offerings.
Free will offerings of various sorts
continue to make glad the hearts at
headquarters. $L'5 and $5 were the
amouuts of two different voluntary con
tributions early' this morning, Gilbert 's
Frame Shop, which puts on a special
sale of small picture frames next week,
makes an offer of 10 cents to the cam
paign fund for each frame sold. The
Frame Shop will dedicate a window to
this purpose. As the frames designed
for this purpose sell for 25 and 35 cents,
it will mean a considerable percenetage
of total sales for the big fund. The
Boy Scouts are busy today distributing
campaign literature. i
The big flag which will tell the day
ta dav fitnrv nf tli nrnoTesfl of the fund
went into hIuca todav. Fach red stritie !
of the flag represents 5,OO0. On the
upper shorter stripes, the red paint is
worth $00 an inch or about $700 a foot.
On the lower and longer stripes the,
market value of red paint slumps to $351
an inch or about $400 a foot. Those:
who get in early will be able to buy,
tie preferred Mock, as the upper stripes ',
will be painted in first- j
What hero buys a whole stripe? Or'
who wants a foot or twof Buy an inch ;
anyhow. j
In the ease of Russia it is no so
much the speed at which she moves !
thouph that is an important matter :
as the direction in which she is mov- j
Tig. .lust now that direction looks like j
a picture of Happy Hooligan mixed up j
wun ouiinog. I
LEVER BILL FOR
FOOD CONTROL
TAKEN IIP AGAIN
Lever Brings It Up In
House Senate Will Give
It First Place
PRESIDENT'S DEMAND
FOR MORE SPEED HEARD
Hoover Wants July 1 Made
rood Conservation Day
Up To the Women
By Robert J. Bender
(Tinted Press staff correspondent)
Washington, June 18. Legislative
and executivo branches of the govern
ment turned all attention today to en
acting the Lever food control bill into
law.
Speed was (ho. cry from the white
house. Speed was the objective of Pres
ident Wilson's leaders in congress.
Speed was the call from Herbert Hoov
er,, who has practically completed his
food control -organization, and who
awaits only necessary congressional .au
thority to put into operalin his plans
for instantly checking present upward
price trends of life's necessities.
representative Lever opened the con
gressional battle in the house. President
Wilson save out a letter to Eenreseuta-
tive Borland explained the Lever bill,
which, while givine Herbert Hoover
control of the. food situation, is not to
control lood but to release release it
from tho gup of speculators and other
persins who seek to make inordinate
profits.
Congress must choose, Lever declar
ed in opening the momentous debate.
'between President Wilson -and the
Gorman kaiser as to which shall con
trol tho food situation."
Senate Will Speed It
At the same time Senator Simmons
journeyed to the while house personal
ly to assure mo president that tho sen
ate would sidetrack the war revenue
measure to give tho food bill the riiht
of wi-y. Speed is .the thing, Simmons
agreed.
Coincidenlallv- with these stens. Hoov
er today named Sunday July 1, as food
conservation uay, wnen lie urged news
papers, magazines, ministers, fraternal
organizations, motion picture theatres,
billboard owners, etc., to join in a na
tion wide campaign "to awaken the
American housewife to her opportunity
and duty."
In this campaign, by which Hoover
hopes to save $2,000,000,000 annually
through elimination of wasto in the
kitchen alone, all summer schools will
be utilized. Through summer schoors
alone. Hoover expects to educate 250,
000 housewives in the art of saving.
aii, to worn ror it
Specially directed campaigns are to
be made in hotels, railroad dining cars,
cafes and all manner of public eating
places.
Hoover pointed out today that "if
only two cents is saved, ou every meal,
an annual saving of another $2,000,
000,000 equal to the liberty loan will
have been saved to this nation and her
allies."
As much as. possible of this work will
be turned over to state defense coun
cils, cooperating with the National
Council of L'tteuse. Cooperating in this
work, the women's committee of the
National Defense Council today tele
graphed each of its forty eight state
divisions "Get behind Hoover."
The agriculture department also "got
behind" Hoover today when Carl Vroo
man arranged an itinerary to visit the
great farming spates of the middle and
rar west next month to launch a mar
keting campaign for the crops that will
then be "in harvest." Better prices to
the farmer and fairer prices to the
housewite will bo roonian s slogan.
Middlemen who do not show the
"proper spirit" will be relentlessly
crushed. V roonian declared.
Scores Speculators
Lever, pleading for the measure, de
nounced vigorously "the heartless, un
patriotic intermediaries who rob and
gouge the farmers."
"A loose jointed, unorganized de
mocracy hasn 't a ghost of a chance in
a contest with such an autocracy as
Germany's organization.
"Organization is the only weapon
with which organization can be over
come. An organization, as the tetm is
used here, means not only whipping in
to shape the man and money power of
the nation, but every resource of the
nation which may bo used in the con
test. "The people are not going to be sat
isfied with silly excuses about delega
tion of autocratic powers. To pay huge
prices for enougn meat to feed a cat
may make dangerous men and women
out of ordinary peaceful and good citi
zens "That some kind of food and fuel
control is necessary to their most ef
ficient mobilization is imperative.
"We intend to drive from establish
ed agencies of distribution the market
manipulator and gambler, the man who
buys as eneaply as be can, am sells as
dearly as be may the Shylock of commerce."
Wheat Market Dull
Prices Down Six Cents
Chicago, Juno 18. The wheat mark
ct was weak today. Rains over the
spring wheat country and continued dry
weatner over tne winter wheat belt
forced prices down six and a half cents
under Saturday's close. July at $2.19,
2Vi from Saturday's close and later
lost four. There was no trading in Sep
tember for some time after the open
ing, then it sold at $1.95, down Vi. Lat
(or it went to 1.8S.
j Excellent growing weather caused a
rush of selling when corn opened but
the dip commission houses began to
take the offerings and the market re
acted. July opened ! 1 Vj lower nt $1.55,
later going to $1.503-8- September open
ed at $1.47, down 11 1-8, subsequently
gaining 1 1-8. December opened 1 7-8
off at $1.08, later going to $l.09.j.
The oats market was erratic. July
opened down at C4Va and continued
at that figure. September was down 3-8
at 53V later gaining 14- December
opened 5-8 off at 54 3-4, later losing
.18.
Provisions were steady on a lower
hog market..
YOUNG AMERICANS
iHAKE BEST AVIATORS
This Because of Being True
Sportsmen Air Fighting
Demands This Trail
By J. W. Pegler
(United Press staff correspondent)
London, June 18. American school
boys the high school fellows and
young college men aro needed by hun
dreds to play the most thrilling and
fascinating game in the world the ail
game.
There is work and room and need
aplenty tor them on the we i rn front. '
And just as the Britis'i havo found
most of their best airmen in the prep
schools and colleges,, they believe vne
best American flyers will come straight
from the campus and class rooms.
A British officer, high in war office
councils, thus summed it up today:
'Suppose the United States within
six months is nbki to 'fly five hundred
machinefr on the -wctern, front, man
ned by the nort-of fellows who 'make'
the football, basketball and baseball
teams. They would give the Germans
five hundred more machines- to com
bat. The boche cannot increase his out
put of machines very much more, while
America can send machines and pilots
almost without number. Together we
could swamp the Germans. We could
make daily raids far into the hinterland
the land that is thick with ammunition
dumps, stores and headquarters. j
"Now we cannot spare machines or,
pilots from the fighting front to make
such raids on the biggest scale. But we
are strong enough in the air to keep
the boches on the defensive. Imagine
tne difference to the German command
if five hundred or a thousand or fif-
tnnn hundred aeroplanes and pilots
that the last named isn't too big a fig
ure were to arrive fresh and eager
for the new game. We'd fly all around
him.
"American school boys are very
much like the L'nalish and French boys.
They are 'sports.' They play football
and delight in taking chances. That
kind of a fellow manes tne real air
man. "The German air forces have had a
few stars, but generally we have 'top
ped their morale ' They can t stand the
paee because they haven't the sport
ing instinct.
"Send on your school boys. They'll
find the air' name a great one the
greatest game of all. "
PLANS COMPLETED
FOR SELECTIVE DRAFT
Presidents Proclamation Pre
paredBoards In 20
States Selected
Washington, June 18. The American
war machine, which is to grind out 625,
000 soldiers for service in France, is
geared up and ready to start work to
day. President Wilson's proclamation of
regulations, which will start the ma
chine by putting into operation the act
ual draft of men, is completed and ready
to be issued.
This proclamation tells in detail the
fate of every roan eligible for army
.service will l e decided. It directly af
fects every American on the registra
tion lists.
.Since Saturday the president and Sec
retary Baker have been going over the
final draft of the regulations, prepared
by a special advisory board.
Within 24 hours the rnles will prob
ably be promulgated and the most vital
phase of the selective conscription will
begin. The regulation create two
classes of Exemption boards, outline
their duties and enunciate general rules
for exemption or draft-
The personnel of local exemption
boards in 20 stares was decided upon
tfttlai- Thov w-iil be knnrinncpd within
48 hours. j
l'resident Wilson's proclamation does
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MINISTER OF WAR
KERENS Y
RULES
WITIIAIWIHAND
Drops Oratory and Persuasion
and Begins Enforcing
Discipline
CONGRESS OF WORKMEN
AND SOLDIERS FOR WAR
Universal Sentiment Was
Russia Should Fight to
Crush Germany
By William G. Shepherd.
(United Press etaff correspondent.)
Petrograd, June IS.- Minister of War
Kcrcnsky discarded tho pleasant
phrases of oratorical persuasion today
for iron hand disciplinary measures to
force Russia 's troops to 'fight.
He issued orders depriving all de
serters from the army from tho right to
vote and from participation in the dis
tribution of Russian land.
He overruled a subsidiary branch of
the workmen V and soldiers' committee
in granting permission to nine compan
ies of soldiers to leave the front.
He refused leave to a whole division
of Ukranian troops who wanted to jour
ney back homo and attend a conference
urging autonomy for Ukrania.
He sponsored a government order
making all anti-war agitators in the
army liable to 10 years' imprisonment.
is uoiiung eirengin.
"I hope I never hear of such an in
cident again," was Kcrensky's short
dismissal of a request from a committee
of soldiers, approved by the workmen's
and soldiers' committee of the county
of Buigulma for leave for nine compan
ies of soldiers. Moreover, he ordered im
mediate arrest of the soldiers' commit'
tee. ' " '. ' '
That Kcrentky is gaining strength )n
his efforts to make .Russia light is evi
denced by several incidents of the past
few days.
Tho private soldier, Steppano, made
famous throughout Russia because Kcr
ensky called him a "coward" and dis
missed him from the army because of
his pacifist views, today requested per-
m'.ssion from tno minister to re-ennst,
to go to tho front and die for Russia.
He explained Mb former views were
'because he didn't understand Hussia'n
duty."
Women of Moscow and Odessa nave
formed a "legion of death" and ap
plied formally for permission to go to
the front and die tor Kussia u neea
be.
Evidencing an increasing antagonism
toward Germany, one Russian newspa
per today "played up" the recent Lon
don air raid as "Proof of German In
humanity." Must Crush Germany.
Petrograd, June 18. The congress of
workmen and soldiers with delegates
from all ovor Russia, appeared certain
today to sweep away the national power
heretofore assumed by the purely local
council of workmen's and soldiers' dele
gates in Petrograd. Mcwt important in
this connection is the fact that at least
two of the leading parties composing
this all Russian congress are violently
opposed to discontinuance of the war
and want Russia to fight at once.
The social democrat delegates to the
uew organization balloted secretly Sun
day night 75 to 55 for an offensive by
Russia at once.
At the same time tho socialist revolu
tionaries voted 325 to 25 for war. The
remaining delegates to tho congress are
practically without any particular party
affiliations, but are the so-called
"wilds." Thev are a unit for war.
All Russia Represented.
In an official debate of members to
day, at which more than 500 were pres
ent, the Universal sentiment in several
speeches was that Russia should crush
Germany and 'fight to a finish. One
speaker was cheered when he declared
that Germany should be forced to sub
scribe to the "no annexation" aim of
Russia.
A separate peace with Germany was
not even mentioned. In private conver
sation with the delegates, I was nnable
to find a single one who would even
speak the words "separate peace."
The new congress is representative of
the whole of Russia. The Petrograd
council has only eight votes out of the
19.000 represented at the meeting.
For this resson it seems almost cer
tain, in the view of observers here, that
the Petrograd council whieh arranged
to itself almost national authority, will
lose its influence.
The congress, it was stated today,
will represent 25,000 Russian citizens.
It may appoint a special board to assist
the provisional government.
The Lebanon mohair pool of 5.200
fleeces or about 20,000 pounds was sold
at private sale this week to A. M.
Reeves, of this city. The price paid
for the pool wa 61 1-2 cents a pound,
a half cent ebove the bid offered at
the auction some weeks ago. The pool
is to be delivered next Tuesday, June
12.
BUNKER HILL DAY .
-j
Boston, Mass.', June 18.
Greater Eoston is today cele-
brating the 142d anniversary of
the battle of Bunker Hill. In
the elaborate military parade at
Chjrlestown will appear the Bri-
tish Union Jack, its first ap-
pearanee on Bunker Hill day
since that memorable dav itself.
OLDEST MASON DEAD
Walla Walla, Wash., June 18.
James L. Singer, age 93, for
77 years a Mason, is dead here
today. He was the oldest Mason
in Washington both in years and.
in Masonry.
GIRL GETS VERDICT
DAI1AGJS $225,000
Jury Decides She Was Dam
aged in That Amount by
Old Millionaire
Now York, June 18. Mr. Honora
May O'Brien was today .granted $225,
000 damages in her breach of promise
suit, brought against aged John R. Man
ning.
Tho decision of tho nun-, which heard
the evidence1 in the Btrange case of the
18 year old Irish rose" against the
85 .year old millionaire, was announced
when the sealed verdict was opened be
fore Judge Cropaey.
Two hundred thousand dollars of the
award was for the "suffering of the
Irish rose" because her courtship with
the old gentleman was dragged through
the public prints and the marriage
balked; and the other $25,000 represent
ed the price the jury figured the old
man ought to pay because he was so
"smart" in his answers on the witness
stand. The $280,000 award was termed
"damages" and the $25,000 "punitive
damages." The jury estimated that
Manning's" smart' answers damaged
Miss O'Brien. $25,000 worth.
The protty complainant was not in
court. She went to work as usual today
as secretary to a New York newspaper
man. Manning, the 84 year old wooer, who
feigned palsy and decrepitude to win
the sympathy of the jury against Miss
Honorah May, led all his relatives in a
spry sprint for a taxicab to get away
from the court mom as soon as he heard i
the verdict. His face twitched when
the verdict was read, but his Irish smile
didn't appear.
Argument on a motion 'for appeal of
the ease will be heard Wednesday.
Miss Mary ' Manning and Dr. John
Manning, daughter and sou of the oc
togenarian hope-wrecker, . accompanied
him to eourt. None of them would com
ment on the verdict. Jame-s O'Brien,
brother of Miss Honora May, was in
court. He said that every cent of the
award would go to his sister.
An Appeal To the
Men and Women
of Marion County
Let every man and woman,
boy and girl not called into ac-
tive service hold the following
self-communion, the truth of
which impress itself, the moro
earnestly it is contemplated:
"Perhaps my dollars and my cf-
forts may be the agency in sav-
ing the life of an American sol-
dier-patriot, of bringing back
to some loving, uching heart a
son, a brother, a sweetheart, a
husband, who without the aid of
my contribution provided could
have perished through neglect,
exposure or lack of proper surgi-
cal appliance." Weight that
thought against anything ordm
or selfish that may come into
your mind and it will make a
powerful lever in opening the
clasps of your purse this week.
Provost Guard Called
to Stop Seattle Riots
Seattle. Wah June IS. An armed
provost guard from the Puget -Hound
ravy yard is patrolling the southern end
of the eity today to prevent a 'recurr
ence of the Saturday night riot in which
300 soldiers and sailors attempted to
storm the J. W. W. headquarters.
Thirty-seven of the 51 L- W. W. ar
rested following the shooting of Private
W. E. Miller, Third company, O. A- C,
from an upstairs window of the hall,
wern released Bundav because of a lack
of evidence. Fourteen are being held
in jail as slackers and will be turned
over to the federal authorities. .
The ever resourceful Starbeams man
of the Kansas City Ktar has discovered
at last a use for sister's high school
lioloma: that is. to take it out of its
frame and replace it with a liberty
bond.
30,009 AMIES
Pi
OR VAR SERVICE
PART OFPROGRAM
Furniture and Typewriter
Factories Fill Construct
Wings and Some Parts
AUTOMOBILE PLANTS TO
BE UTILIZED IN WORK
Military Men Believe These
Can Do More to Win War
Than Any Other Unit
Washington. June 18. An American
air navy of 30,000 machines 'a the gov
ernment 's aeroplane program for the
first year of the war, it was officially
learned today.
How to produce this number of air
craft when the eight small American
aeroplane factories were unable to fill
half the government's orders last year,
has been worked out by the aircraft
production board of the Council of Na
tional Defense and is now told by the
United Press for the first time.
The United States will make three
main classes of war aeroplanes:
Training planes, bombing machines
and observation aircraft.
The speedier allied battle planes wilt
continue to be made almost entirely by
France and Great Britain, where this
type of machine has already been per
fected. " '
Plants to Make Wings.
American automobile plants, in part
will be utilized to make the standard
ized engines for the 30,000 aeroplanes
the first year.
Furniture factories, tvnswritcr nlants
"and other mills equipped for the work.
will manufacture the wings and other
v These arranements, already perfected
by Chairman Howard Coffin of the
board, only await the passes by con
gress o'f the $000,000,000 aviation appro
priation to be asked.
Three training schools for avintora
for the new air navy are already nnder
construction at Dayton, Ohio: Cham
paign, III., and Detroit, Mich. Six oth
ers and more, if necessary, will be es
tablished.
Each aeroplane will cost about 1V
000.' They will be of the slower type,
with a stieed of from 70 to 100 miles an
hour. The battle planes being made in
France and Great Britain are capnhle
of a speed of uo to 150 miles.
, May Cut Auto Output.
The use of portions of American auto
mobile plants in the manufacture of
aeroplanes may cut dawn on the produc
tion of pleasure ears, it is regarded as
likely by officials.
In the belief that American air units
can do more to turn the scale in Europe,
Secretary of War Baker has pot all his
influence behind the greatest air fleet
building program in history.
It was in tho evening of October li,
1II0S, that the German emperor ftood
the Bornstedter field and watched the
soaring biplane of Orville Wright, Am
erican inventor, conquer the air. It was
the kaiser's first sight cf such a craft.
The prediction is made today by gov
ernment officials that "before the year
is out, the kaiser may once again see the
American aeroplane, bristling its defi
ance, soaring over tho fatherland, the
signal of defeat for Germany."
Peary Makes Plea.
Hearings continued before the sen--ate
subcommittee on military affairs
today on a bill to establish a depart--ment
of aeronautics in the cabinet.
French officials advocating immediate
construction of a great aero fleet were
heard in executive session and Hear Ad
miral Peary continued his plea for
aero post in the cabinet.
The fact that it is intended to appro
priate $(i00,000,000 for constructing air
craft, he Baid, made a separate depart
ment, necessary. " .,.,.
"In God's name," he said, '.'why not
take the initiative and lead instead of
being pushed into every move of nation
al preparedness, as has been the case
with u8 for the paBt two years!
"Why not make it the fixed national
aim of the United States to be the first
air power of the worldt".
Peary said wo need aeroplanes for
coast patrol end protection of convoy
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