Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1941 — Page 9

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"Independent Plane Force, but They Recall Gen. Mitchell’s Suspension and Keep Quiet.

This is the second of a series

of articles in which Mr Lusey ex.

" plores the background of the growing agitation for an independent

alr force.

By CHARGER T. LUCEY

Times

Special

Xo ‘WASHINGTON, June 17.—Officers in a position to know have said that a majority of men in the Army Air Corps. today believe in an independent air force, free of

+ Army and Navy control, as. American air power.

the soundest way to develop

*. But there are no Billy Mitchells in the Air Force today.

Brig. Gen. William Mitchell

was the nation’s earliest and

most vociferous advocate of an independet status for mili-

tary aviation. Air Corps officers say time has shown he - ‘Was right in most of his beliefs about air power. +

“They know what happened to Gen. Mitchell because he ignored the Admirals and Generals and talked plainly. And so they say mothing—except privately.

we Boldly Outspoken

‘Probably no oficer in U. 8. military history was as boldly outspoken as Billy Mitchell on that September. day Jn 1925 when he Blasted the old guard of the Army and Navy for neglect of aviation. A year earlier he had been removed #s Assistant Chief of the Air Corps and shipped out to a station in

- “There had been some military jviation accidents, including the ee to the dirigible Shenan-. ah, and he wrote: % “These accidents are the direct Fesult of the incompetency, criminal negligence and almost treasonable administration of the national defense by the Navy and War Deartments. »# “In their attempts to keep down ‘he - development of .aviation into independent department, separate from the Army and Navy and dled by the aeronautical experts, and to maintain the existing ‘gystems, they have gone to the utmost lengths to carry their point.

5 It Was Insubordination = «All aviation policies, schemes and Bystems are dictated by non-flying officers of the Army and Navy, who now practically nothing about it. She lives of the airmen are being a merely as pawns in their

+ In an Army built on unquestionIng discipline, this was shocking inbordination. «Congress, he continued, “is treat#8 by those two departments as if

ir benefit, to which evidence of y kind, whether true or not, can Be given without restraint. “* “Officers ‘and agents sent by the ar ‘and Navy Departments to Con‘ess have almost always given inplete, misleading or false inite, about aeronautics. #**“The airmen themselves are Bluffed and bulldozed so that they Mare not tell the truth in the ma-

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ment unless they subscribe to the dictates ®f their non-flying bureaucratic superiors. These either distort facts or opening tell falsehoods about aviation to the people and W the country.”

And he concluded:

“As far as I am personally concerned, I am looking for no advancement in any service.

“I owe the Government everything —the Government owes me nothing. A3 a patriotic American citizen, I¥ can stand by no longer and see ‘these disgusting performances- by the Navy and War Departments, at. the expense of the lives of our people and the delusion of the American public.” . It was a denunciation : that: stunned the Army, and Gen. Mitchell was charged with violating the 96th Article of War—with conducting himself “to the prejudice of good order and military discipline and in a way to ‘bring discredit upon the military service.” He was said further to have made a statement “insubordinate to the Administration of the War Department” and with intent. to discredit the War and Navy Departments. ~“To all these he pleaded not guilty, but after-a court-martial in a ramshackle brick. warehoygse in Washington that ended Dee. 17, 1925, he was found guilty on all charges and drew the sentence: “To be suspended from rank, ‘command and duty with forfeiture of all pay and allowances for five years.” Few questioned the insubordination charge, but the belief was ‘widespread that he had done the country a service. And Billy Mitchell went on to make the argument that is rising again today: “Eventually all military power of the Government should be.congen-

which would have control of all mational defense no matter whether on land, sea or in the air. . In this way overhead might be cut down, definite and complete missions. assigned to air, land and water forces; ahd a more thorough understanding of the nation’s needs result.”

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Clarence Hole, Muncie, who is a Grand Inner Guard of the Knuights of Pythias, is a member of the committee on arrangements for the ‘73d annual convention of the Indiana Grand Lodge, K. of P. which will be in Indian. apolis tomorrow and Thursday.

8 COUNTY DRAFTEES

Eight Marion County selectees, all from Local Board 10, were to be a part of 200 Indiana men to report to Ft. Harrison today in the ninth Selective Service call. Other counties sending men are: Allen, 118; Howard, 37; Lake, 35, and Lawrence, 2. The Marion County men are James H. Mundy, 1133 Laurel St.; Edgar P. Coop, 1247 Naomi St. Dormand Matthews, 1922 Fletcher Ave.; John Thurman Thomas, 1417 E. New York St.; Sam Maio, 1428 E Southern 'Ave.; Arnold John Piehlman, 921 Hervey St.; Clarence Newman Spencer, 2044 Linden St. land Frank B. Smith, 611 Lincoln St. : .

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No. Peace Durable Without Our Participation, Nason Says at Earlham. :

; Times Special RICHMOND, Ind. June. 11— There can’ be no durable "world peace without an effective interna™ tional organization in which the

College president, told the Earlham

. | College graduates at commencement

exercises yesterday. Dr. Nason; who is only 35 and one of the few. college presidents to register for selective service, said there are those in this country “who continue to think that peace can be obtained merely by. refusing to go to war.” “The events of 25 years.ago and the events of today: have demonstrated the futility. of that position,” he said. “Peace is to be obtained only when we are ready to pay the price which peace demands. This price is to join an international organization which can deal ‘with both the economic and political problems of our times.” Dr. Nason charged the United States with the failure of the League 'of Nations, “It was & noble attempt, and has made a contribution to the cause of peace so significant that we cannot appraise it satisfactorily. today,” he said. “Nevertheless, the League failed. It failed in the first place because the United States, having originated the idea, refused to join with the other nations.” Robert Gingery and H.* Arthur Parker, both of Indianapolis, were among 64 students who received the Bachelor of Arts Degree.

FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL VINCENNES, Ind, June 17 (U. P.) —Officials today investigated a fire which destroyed the high school at Sumner, Ill, Lawrente County, west of here yesterday with an estimated loss of $70,000.

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