Navy Aviators Fight Unifying of Air Service NAVY aviators are against the proposal to concentrate the air service of the army, navy, postoflice and coast and forest fire patrols under a single executive nvolxihlv a new cabinet member. Differing kinds of service, with special qualifications for each, make it necessary to keep the branches separate, sepa-rate, they believe. Capt. G. W. Steele, Jr., of the U. S. S. Shawmut shows the attitude of the n iv? flyers in the form of some manuscript manu-script prepared by him as commander of the work of the air fleet of the Atlantic At-lantic squadron, department of navy aeronautics. Captain Steele and the Shawmut are now at Newport, R. I. Previous to its assignment there the boat was a mine sweeper on the Irish sea, but returned to American waters in time to handle the testing of the navy airships prior to their transatlantic flights, and later in Lisbon, where they landed. "There are reports," says Captain Steele, "that the proposed congressional legislation to consolidate the air services will provide for a separate cabinet officer as head of the department of aviation, and others that say the head of the aviation department will merely be a, chief, such as the various bureaus of the army and navy have. "Either of these plans, or any other plans which take aviation for the navy out of complete control of the navy department will mean the service will suffer, and such legislation should lie opposed. "A navy flyer has to know how to navigate, either from the flimsy cockpit of an airship or from the bridge of a vessel. He has to know how to do navy scouting, bombing and torpedoing, coast patrol work, and finally the spotting of shots and regulation of navy fire." Captain Steel's conclusion is that the army aviator cannot know the difficulties of the navy flying game and it takes him years to learn his own.