Show NAVY OFFICERS CALLEO AllO TO TB MAT PRESIDENT Brings Down Pig ig Stick and Orders Inquiry In- In guiry Concerning f is isn of Gun Fire Range 1 1 By WILLIAM J. J LOSH tw ASHINGTON Dec 18 is By ByU 0 U It r. r President r.-President President Coolidge has brought rought tha the bIg biff stick down on the I of 01 naval officers who have i embarrassed him in n the conduct of his bis naval policy by ordering a aboard aboard board of ot inquiry to Investigate ald aled al- al ed d revelation of or naVy nivy n VY secrets 1 them In the heat of ot controversy aU At the direction of ot Secretary of or orth th Navy Wilbur Wllbur the board will willet et in New w York probably today file specific matter to lo be looked into nto r a a. letter said to have been by Captain Hugo Hugro W W. OsMus Os- Os Mus Tr Jr of or the th naval war col- col at it Newport R. R I. I to Captain Berry of ot f e New York navy Sard- Sard which subsequently subsequently- found 11 way Into print I HELD ELD CONFIDENTIAL rhe he letter is said to have dis- dis sed frankly the relative disadvantage isad- isad I vantage e of 01 the American fleet in I gun fire tire range and was construed the president and nd secretary as s I confidential Information of ot to foreign powers t tit It is not tho the purpose of or the ad- ad 1 to o gag officers Orr or r sent free discussIon of ot the navy trl criticism The object is is officers that there is a affife f which must not be passed In 1 particularly arly when it is 2 avowed intention or of tle the president dent kut to avoid such subjects as gun range ge pending an Investigation to made for him of the thee relative 11 rits of battleships and aircraft BEARING c investigation ma may have ha a bearing on future American Amerian nal policy and the president himi him him- i u. u has has ordered a temporary sus- sus 1 of the gun range discus- discus ion on until it Is completed The present step is a direct se- se q eC to the presidents president's anger at certain naval officers at the time the na naval al budget estimates were under discussion a few months back bad To 10 check their attacks on the budget bureau at that time was one of the reasons why Secretary Wilbur was called back bacle from the 1 Pacific coast |