Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 October 1925 — Page 2

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Pilgrim Pear Tree Still standing and bearing fruit every year is a tree brought from England in 1630 by Gov. John Endicott and planted on his clearing in Massachusetts. In six years the tree will have its third centennial, and is thought to be the oldest fruit-bearing tree in the United States.

1—Rescue of crew of Hudson bay steamer Bayeskimo from ice floe in Ungava bay after their ship sank. 2 —Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt, twenty-year-old widow of Reginald Vanderbilt, who inherits the bulk of his fortune of $7,000,000. 3—Wreckage of the Dixie Flier after two sections of the train crashed near Whorley, Tenn., one person being killed and fifty injured.

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Aircraft Board Hears Col. Mitchell on Weakness of America’s Air Defense. By EDWARD W. PICKARD t t rTTH 800 pounds of “ammunition” VV in the shape of documents and undaunted by his approaching courtmartial for insubordinate utterances, Col. William Mitchell appeared before the aircraft board last week and repeated and elaborated on his charges that obstinacy and inefficiency of high army and navy officials have rendered the United States utterly deficient in air defense. He read a prepared statement in nine sections, the main points of which are thus summarized: Development of air power has made it the chief weapon of national defense, navies and armies becoming subordinate and auxiliary to it. As airships can destroy any surface ships, the submarine becomes the backbone of the navy. The army, unchanged in constituent elements, will function as the last line of defense when the air and sea forced have f':iiled to stop the enemy, or offensively only when control of the air permits transport of troops at sea. Anti-aircraft guns are ineffective and always will be, crippling only a very small percentage of planes. The United States has no air forces worth mentioning and if involved in war today would need from three to five years to develop an adequate air force properly equipped. Great Britain could invade America with a thousand planes in eight or ten days and a few days later would reach the heart of the country; and Japan could invade America by way of Alaska. In future wars the nation losing control of the air will capitulate to desolation by unrestricted air attack. An adequate air and submarine force would make this country invulnerable to attack, and the cost would be but a fraction of that of the army and navy at present. Finally, the United States should have a department of national ' defense, comprising the navy, army, and air force, and a department of aeronautics, comprising military and civil aviation and aircraft manufac-

ture.

The mission of the land, sea and air forces, said Mitchell, should be definitely stated by law. That is: “The army to be charged with the defense of all land areas; “The navy to be charged with the defense of all sea areas; on or under the water beyond the control of missile throwing weapons from the shore or effective aircraft operations from shore bases; “The air force to be charged with the complete defense of operations and the aerial attack of all enemy targets on sea and land.” To the self-asked question why the air service is in such sad plight, Colonel Mitchell replied: “Because air matters are entrusted to the army and the nqvy which are handled and governed and dominated by non-flying officers. They not only know next to nothing about aviation, but regard it merely as an auxiliary of their present activities and not as a main force in the nation’s military equipment. Their testimony regarding air matters is almost worthless, sometimes more serious than this.” Next day Colonel Mitchell continued his attack and criticized the navy for the Shenandoah disaster and the failure of the Hawaii flight. Then he was questioned at length by various members of the board and finally Chairman Morrow asked Admiral Fletcher of the navy and General Harbord of the army if they desired to put any questions to the witness. To the surprise of everyone, both declined to do any cross examining. Mitchell himself 1 was evidently disappointed. rN THE naval court of inquiry at I Lakehurst, Capt. Anton Heinen, former German Zeppelin pilot who instructed the crew of the Shenandoah, expressed the opinion that the wrecking of that airship was primarily caused by the failure of the officers in charge to heed danger signals that

were “shrieking out loud.” Specifically he blamed Commander Lansdowne, saying: “In my opinion the ship ran deliberately into the center of the storm for at least half an hour after danger signals had been shrieking out loud. AVith the ship having sufficient power for steerage way, she easily could have got out of danger. I stand ready to prove tills from the evidence presented to this court.” Captain Heinen criticized certain structural changes in the Shenandoah, and said he had heard from many members of the crew that they mistrusted the airship because of her con-

dition.

Lieut. .1. B. Anderson, aerologist on the Shenandoah, testified that Commander Lansdowne disregarded his advice to change the course. A NOTHER misfortune befell the navy in the ramming and sinking of the submarine S-51 about twenty miles from Block island. Struck by the steamship City of Rome, she sank immediately and of her crew of 36 men only three were saved. Every effort to save the men imprisoned in the vessel’s hull was made, but in vain, largely because of stormy weather and swift tides. After several days divers brought up the bodies of two of the victims, and operations to recover the others and to raise the submarine were continued. Blame for the distressing accident, has not yet' been fixed. ERMANY accepted the invitation VX of the allies to a conference on a security pact, and this week the foreign ministers are assembled in Locarno, Switzerland, discussing the terms of the proposed treaty designed to give lasting peace at least to western Europe. The Germans sought to stipulate that their country should he purged of guilt for the war, but this was firmly refused by England and France. Probably the request and its rejection were designed to satisfy the nationilists in both Germany and France. T'\ ISTINGUISHED statesmen from ■L' thirty-six countries are in Washington attending the sessions of the Interparliamentary union. The conference was opened Thursday with addresses by Secretary of State Kellogg and Senator McKinley of Illinois and a response by Baron Adelswaerd of Sweden, president of the council of the union. Silly friends of various factions in foreign lands took advantage of the arrival of certain of the delegates to exhibit their silliness. For instance, Gen. Richard Mulcahy of the Irish Free State was mobbed, both at his landing in New York and on ins visit to Philadelphia, by Irish re* public sympathizers; and the Italian delegates who are Fascists were attacked by anti-Fascist Italians in New

York.

XJO SETTLEMENT of the French debt was reached because M. Caillaux was unable to offer terms that the American commission would accept, and the negotiations have been suspended indefinitely, the French mission returning to Paris. However, a temporary arrangement was proposed by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and this was carried back by M. Caillaux for submission to the French parliament, which probably will agree to it gladly. This plan is .that France shall pay the United States $40,000,000 a year for five years and that at the expiration of that period the discussion of the definite funding of the debt shall be resumed. The sum suggested amounts to 1 per cent interest on the total French debt with accrued interest. In reality the payments by France would be increased only $20,000,000, as she has been paying a like sum annually as interest on the A. E. F. war stocks she purchased in 1919. M. Caillaux could not commit himself on the American offer, because, as he explained, he was vested with full powers to reach a conclusive settlement but held no mandate to sign a temporary makeshift agreement. But he assured Mr. Mellon he would support the plan before parliament. Caillaux’s final offer, which was found unacceptable, was that France should pay $40,000,000 annually for the nrst five years, $60,000,000 annually for the following seven years, and $100,000,000 annually for the next 56 years, thus spreading payments over

68 years. To this was attached a “security clause” providing that France might at any time reopen the question and attempt to show that the terms should be revised owing to her incapacity to carry them out. This was objectionable to the Americans, especially to Senator Smoot, and rejection of the offer followed. Senator Borah took a hand in the affair by going to the White House and warning the President not to permit the American commission to grant to France easier terms than were granted to Great Britain. Both he and Senator Smoot told Mr. Coolidge there would be violent opposition in the senate to any such settlement as Caillaux proposed. Mr. Borah was highly displeased, also, by the makeshift plan of Mr. Mellon. a /r TCHITCHER1N, soviet foreign 1V1« minister, balked in his attempt to persuade Germany to stand with Russia against western Europe, is now said by Baltic diplomats to be trying to unite Russia, Poland and Turkey in an anti-English bloc. He was in Warsaw recently and induced the Poles to instruct their delegation in Moscow to begin negotiations for a political agreement. This is worrying the Baltic states con^e.rably. Tchitcherin then w r ent to Berlin to discuss a Russo-German trade treaty. O EGRET ARY OF AGRICULTURE ^ JAUDI'SK is iired of waiting for the Chicago board of trade to take steps to prevent manipulation that causes wild price fluctuations. Last w r eek he issued another warning, saying : “A failure on the part of the board to take these steps immediately will leave me no alternative hut to inaugurate action looking to suspension or revocation of the designation of the Chicago board of trade as a contract market.” /COMMUNISTS of Great Britain fared badly in the national congress of the Labor party in Liverpool, and the more conservative elements carried out their expressed determination to rid the party of the Reds entirely. Chairman Cramp in his opening speech declared the Communists were a hindrance to the labor movement and traitors to its tradition. The Reds met their first defeat when the congress by a tremendous majority refused to reverse a vote of last year by which members of the Communist party were excluded from membership in the constituent Labor party. Former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, J. H. Thomas, leader of the railway men, and the chiefs of the miners all took severe whacks at the Reds, and the latter brought on their final and conclusive defeat when they demanded that MacDonald apologize to Russia for the action of his foreign office in making public the notorious Zinovieff letter just before the last election. NT’OCNG Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., I had a walkover in the Wisconsin election to fill the vacancy in the United States senate caused by the death of his father. His majority over the field was about 2 to 1. E. F. Dithmar of Milwaukee, who was the only “regular” Republican candidate after Roy P. Wilcox had been forced out by the national organization, ran second but never threatened the winner. The votes for the others were negligible. /^OV. AL SMITH’S campaign for VJ the Democratic presidential nomination in 1928 was actually launched at a big. picnic of the Cook county, Illinois, Democracy in Chicago. The popular New Yorker in his speech especially attacked the economy record of the Coolidge administration and promised to do much better in that line if he were sent to the White House. He made a great hit wfith the 100,000 persons who heard him. /'"'V VER the protest of Chairman O’Connor, the federal shipping board rescinded nie resolutions designed to divorce the Fleet corporation from the board and readopted a resolution of 1921 under which the board keeps full control over the actions of the corporation. President Palmer of the corporation is likely to resign, for it is understood he accepted the office on condition that he have certain authority. Chicago business men are asking that the shipping board be abolished.

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(Copyright.) npvyo soldiers stood looking at ruin -I in an Italian city which had been repeatedly bombed by the enemy during their greater advance into that country. “Well, Tony,” said Bob Strong. “I thought you were goimr to give me a good time! It doesn’t look like a good time here.” Tony’s eyes snapped. “Didn’ we giva de enemy gooda time for dis?” And he made a sweeping gesture. Strong and Tony, on leave, were of the American contingent sent to Italy. There had been little to do since the debacle, and they were awaiting a possible order for home-going. “Where shall we spend our time and some of our money?” Strong had hsked, and Tony suggested a visit to his native town not far away. A shop with curios in a window’ attracted Strong. Here was a collection of things, some unmistakably antique, others cheaply modern. There was much jewelry, no doubt of little value. In a tray with brooches, earrings, etc., of the sort worn by poorer Italian w T omen, Strong saw’ a necklace of imitation black pearls tjiat took his fancy. With Tony’s assistance he found it was priced at one lire, approximately twenty cents in American money. He took it and handed the shopman an American quarter. “W’at you do wida dat?” Tony asked. “Send it to my girl in New York.” Strong replied. “She not know it’s cheap,” Tony laughed. “But it looks good,” replied Strong. Miss Julia Beebe, to whom the necklace came, was a stenographer in the broker’s office in New York from which Strong had graduated to Uncle Sam’s service. She had promised Strong to marry him on ids return. Although she had been inclined to miscellaneous philandering before this promise, Strong’s absence had sobered her, and she was a model of fidelity. The necklace took Miss Beebe’s breath, it was so handsome. “I picked it up in an Italian junk shop,” Strong wrote. “It didn’t cost much, but it was the prettiest thing in the place.” Miss Beebe didn’t care how little it cost. She loved it. When her girl friends expressed doubt as to the genuineness of the pearls she laughed. “Don’t women of Fifth avenue wear phoney stones?” she asked, adding, “this suits me!” Miss Beebe didn’t envy one of her girl friends, Miss Brent, also a stenographer, when she breathed a secret one day during luncheon. Miss Brent was engaged to a cotton broker, and slyly disclosed in its rich case a solitaire diamond ring. But her fiance—a cotton broker knows little outside of cotton—had bought the ring at a guess as to the size of her finger. It was a bit too large. “Will you go with me tomorrow?” she asked Miss Beebe. “I must have it made smaller, you know.” “Of course,” was the answer. That night Miss Beebe received word that Strong had been wounded—and that he might lose an arm. He had been among those selected for police service in new Italian territory. She cried herself to sleep. And she cried over her hurried breakfast. But she braced up. “I shall marry Bob when lie comes back, even if lie loses both arms and both legs!” she declared to Miss Brent as they were on their way up Fifth avenue. “G’wan ! Really?” “Really 1” They entered the great repository of precious things from which the ring came, and found a man who listened for a moment with interest about Miss Brent’s errand. Then his eyes caught Miss Beebe’s necklace and remained fixed upon it. “Pardon me.” he said, “but would you mind letting me see your necklace?” “Not at all,” Miss Beebe replied as she unclasped it and handed it to him. “But my ring!” interposed Miss Brent. “Yes, in a moment,” said the man to Miss Brent, still looking curiously at the necklace. “Quite extraordinary !” Then to Miss Beebe: “Do you mind if I take it back for a moment?” His gesture indicated “back” as somewhere eastward in the glittering distance. Miss Beebe didn't mind. “Gee! of all things!” said Miss Brent. “He’ll forget what I came here for!” They waited a few minutes. The man came back with the necklace, and in a gracious manner asked Miss Beebe where she got it. She giggled as she told him. “Do you care to sell it?” he asked. “Wliy—no-o-o.” she hesitated. “But would you let us keep it for a day or two—and accept a check for $1,000 for its safety? I will take your’ address.” A thousand dollars! If Bob should come back maimed that would mean so much! “Of course!” she said. A few moments and she had the check. A few moments again and Miss Brent’s errand was attended to. And they went back to their typewriters, marveling. Two days later Miss Beebe received from the jewelers this brief note: “Dear madam—If you care to sell the black pearl necklace, we shall be pleased to give you $40,000 for it.”

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