Show BAKER URGED TO TOG GIVE I V 0 OUT UT AIR PROGRAM or AMERICA Alarmed 1 hy bY Report That Huns Are Alc in Control Above U. U S. S Sector Aero Club I Asks Status of Campaign I SA SAYS YS ANNOUNCEMENT CANT CAN'T BENEFIT ENEMY Army Aimy Officials Surprised b by Y Story of German ll Aerial J 01 A Ascendancy Gen Geu Pershing May i Be Asked to lo Explain the th American Army Im tt t J J. hl The duel 1 France i I J eb artillery ry night nuil nud day The enemy n m I. I IN Is f an nn greater cr c f r- r r number of 1111 but only InI f hits bus b been eu done to the the- un lIu American na shell on tb the hand band appear To tn br he 11 Important enemy post lions lons Clon with filth rl regularity except b n nn n ground haze N No 0 o American n t here rr c-rr reported re- re lort ported ll A large number r of guars Rr are now no the sector Doctor mon them pre nr some Home SS' SS SS's probably from rm the Hu- Hu tuo siao front NT N E V Y YORK Feb Feh eh 21 The l.-The The e executive executive tive tie committee of t the hc Aero Acro I Club lub of America arou aroused c by reports that thai the Germans had secure secured lon eon trul of the lime air ail above the sector held by time the American troops in ill France t tonight nig-lt urt urged h ed Secret Secretary nry of War 31 Maker Baker 11 by telegram to issue a statement state stale- ment mant covering the American aviation program fin and 1 detail what hat steps ha have c cheen been heen taken to secure nil an appropriation from frol l Congress and atHI to place orders for hi the necessary airplanes and motors motoi mo- mo toi tors sIn s. s In view of tho fact that it has been published that the th war wal d department p asks s for tor pay la for 1 aviators and Continued on Page 2 I BAKER AKE ASKED TO I II I TELL AIR p PLANS Continued From e J. J f that there thero Is 18 every e re on tt o t Sn that the Germans will vilI concentrate tl efforts to meet that increate increase la Is it 1 allied fighting forces the j said It can not give 01 ai aid arid co coto cod 1 to the enemy to learn that t l Ute e p fa faIs Is actually being being- put into ctt I It twill will be he a great rca t relief to the theto to bo be assured of oe that fact J U. U US U.S. S. S Army Arnzy Officials Official at al'- al' Tf Washington Are Ret I Washington Feb 21 1 i showed every evidence of or li day a at press dispatches ros Fr irn j telling of German control of or over o tho the sector of or lh the front American forces The They comment for lor publication h I Secretary Baker aker also aleo was wa nr It yond saying aln that his advices kes t fr C eral Per Perching Pershing made no a situation Disclosures of or the scribed b the dispatches heels of Secretary Bakers Baker's 1 I ment yesterday that Ami Ift had be been n five months ahead of or the lb Kf I schedule and soon would be r U quantities This statement t f ba bai i mean that tho the whole J frt C I American air fleets Is so fat farting 1 It Is understood that lint actually I far tal from flom the schedule one cr 1 of t er other The exact status I Is a carefully guarded secret secret- of I Secretary nal Baker er salil jI jIt i t tu th o a oi spouse llon e to questions about i dispatches l that an any publicity f fI J j 1 fm-am fm nature must como conio I who alone Is able to j JU r I O. O military value aluc of or the It It was waR obvious around t tIe tIeI n J J I that there are arc I In tho the airplane supply H j I lit It Is rC regarded as t unwise to tore TC Ral specifically refused refuse d to n n- I cr f cJ a ne to these There Thele ire certain I was pointed out h by some sOm have act of whom claimed to r. r edge of ot the situation at the S1 I front which to their n minds mind II tho more mora surprising that a I lack Jacl of oC adequate air patrol patrols h G 1st there In InthE thE first pl pJ Pla I Perching Pershing WAR as fully tullY nhi e J 3 j I matters re regarding the Am M the degree to service cr and he be dec could rely upon it when hen put t th time e forces In Into to the lint line t a d J. 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