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Show PRESIDENT DIRECTS ARMY AIRPLANES WASHINGTON. Nov. 22. Through a. radio telephone installed on the south r.ortico of the Whit House. President Wilson todav directed the maneuvers of half a dozen army airplanes dying over I lie Potomac river several miles away. Mrs. Wilson and George Creel, chairman of the committee on puhlic information, were the spectators, with a group of armv officers, who conducted the installation instal-lation of the aerial connected with a small field owttchboard at which the president stood. Tho planes, in formation, nose dived several times and swung around a circle l00 to 2iif)0 feet above the ground. They were sea reel v visible. Colonel C.'O. Culver is credited in the department of military aeronautics with having been the active agent in the development de-velopment of the device. |