| Show MISSION URGES AIR SECRETARY Baker Says Board Goes Too Far in Urging Single Department Br Dr A b tJ Washington n. n Aug Concentration 1 of f activities s of the United the States c civilian naval al and military within the direction of ot a a. single sing govI governmental gov gov- I I agency with a an official I j holding a place in the Presidents President cabi cab- cab j i met Inet at the head Is recommended b by the theS j I S special pee I al Am American er ican a aviation Ia tb n m ml mission I as lon Ion i headed b by Assistant Secretary of or orar War ar I Crowell which h has been studying aircraft airI air air- I craft developments dc In Europe In making public the report toda today Secretary Baker Daker disapproved the recommendation recommendation rec rec- for tor a n department of ot aviation aviation avia avia- tion holding that tho ho mission has in inlay m lay Jud Judgment ment gone one too far in suggesting suggesting suggest suggest- gUtIn gUt gUt- ing In a L single le centralized air service The proposed department of aviation laUon the mission asserted in its report should be charged charell with full responsibility responsibility for or placing anti and maintaining our country countr In the front rank among amons nations In the development and utilization ion tion of oC aircraft for the national securIty security security ity and md In th the advancement of civil aerial transportation and lion tion arts Comment by bT Baker Daker In disagreeing with this feature oi of If the tho report Mr r. r Baker Daker said aviators specialists special special- are Army Arm and na navy in the tho art both buth the airplanes and the pilots needed are arc of or a different type from those needed In civilian un un- A separation of or the be air service from fromI I the arm army or the tho navy would require ordination co-ordination of or their activities in time of war whereas effectiveness in military mili tary tan rests upon the concentration concentration concen concen- ration and singleness of ot authority command and purpose Turning to commercial aviation a the mission emphasizes the necessity of the United States conserving the aircraft Industry built up by the war a Americas aircraft production In Indu Industry industry In- In du trY the tho report asserts reached reach cd large proportions ons during durin the war ar but since the signing o of the armistice it has shrunken to a vcr very small volume volume- Unless Immediate attention Is given hen to toUs Its Us conservation It will practically disappear and a a. considerable portion of the great reat sums expended in Its development development development devel devel- will have ha been spent fruit fruit- he lessl lessly s s I y No 0 sensible business man the re report report ro- ro port adds Is justified in lit keeping mon money invested In in the aircraft Industry under the conditions which have ha been maintained ml in the United States since November 11 Britain lInns 11 Big Iff Great Britain the mission found has come to consider the dominance of or the air nr a as al nt at least of equal Importance importance importance tance with that of or the thc seas and is frankly frankl and owed u avowedly planning a definite definite deti- deti nite policy of ot aerial development dc to that end An Any n future u war will inevitably open with great aerial activity far in ad advance advance advance ad- ad vance of contact either cither upon land Janel or orsea orsea orsea sea declared the ml mission slon in urging that immediate steps be he taken b by tho the I Il l United States tates to Increase its aircraft facilities In tho the next war ar the tho mission es victory cannot but incline to that hal bel- able first t to achieve and later laCer maintain its supremacy in the air One Ono of the thc greatest military authorities author- author ties flies In Europe stated that In his opinIon opinIon Ion on the first battle battlo o of tho ho next war would be In th the air and would very en nearly decide which side would win the he war The air department proposed In the report was not approved b by the entire membership of or the thc mission Captain Muslin Mustin the navy representative ex- ex prel pressing ln the opinion In an accompanying accompany- accompany ing ng memorandum that the tho question be left eft open pending further t ion I |
