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Show LEADERS OF Hughes Thinks Court-v Court-v martialing of Colonel Deeds Should Be Considered; Con-sidered; Waste Millions By Aasoclstetr Press. J CHICAGO. Nov. 1. It was said at tha offica of tha Unltad States district attorney hara today that indictments probably would ba returned re-turned tomorrow in tha aircraft acandal. Tha man to ba named all liva In Chicago, it waa aaid. y By Associated Press. WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. Tha raport which tha department of justice had prepared ia under- - ! - t-t -"r At" umi findings thon in Mr. Hugh' raport. Proaccutten will b atartad imndiatly agamat th tbraa army fficars rtcommindad for proaocution. probably in tha fadaral court at Washington. By Unit Praaa. WrASHlNGTON, Novri.-8rc VV retary of War Halter waa fonaidpring today Jhe rfcora-mprulation rfcora-mprulation of Charlca K. Hughes that the war department eonsider tha advisabnity of courtmartialina; Colonrl Ieda, aircraft leader. Tha Hugh report of Investigation In Co tha- aircraft situation placed In Baker's hands .lata yesterday was studied by tha secretary last night and a declnlon as to courtmartial was expected oon. Tha report waa feneralry viewed hero as milder In its conclusion) than tha senate air probe findings. Hughes held Deeds was guilty of j hothlng criminal, but considered ha had dona things unbecoming an officer offi-cer In giving war department data to men with whom he was formerly associated, asso-ciated, and that he had advised tha committee on public Information Incorrectly In-correctly as to tha air program. CRIMES ALLEGED. At tha same time Hughes recom- John D. Ryan has caused marked Improvement. Im-provement. PROFITS ARE HUGE. Vast profits In airplane production were revealed, but none was held to " be Iinad faTtrTThe Dayton-Wright company. It was estimated, should make over 19.000,000 on contracts up to next March: the Kord Motor company, com-pany, over $5,000,000 on contracts to January: tha I'ackard company ovei 16.000.000 on contracts to January. Attorney General Gregory's supplemental supple-mental letter held that mora than half of these profits were taken In taxes by the government. Hughes himself pointed out that manufacturers figured fig-ured on a liberal profit margin and that there whs small Incentive to economixe under tha cost accounting system. BAD ORGANIZATION. Hughes found that there had been soma had organization work and that I n soma cases con tracts were g I ven to poorly equipped plants over well equipped ones. Tha report showed that contracts withdrawn from tha Kngel Aircraft company were re-awarded re-awarded after Secretary of War Baker's brother had resigned from tha concern. Neither political party found much for campaign material In the Hughes' report. One phase eagerly aeixed upon by politician was that Hughes showed Henry Kord persisted In employing men of German origin. Gregory's report re-port added that tha result of Ford's factory had. been fully up to requirements. mended criminal action against Ueu-f Ueu-f tenant Colonel J. O. Vincent, former Packard Motorcar company vice president; presi-dent; Lieutenant W. C. Mixter and Second Lieutenant Samuel B. Vroo-man Vroo-man Jr., for alleged violation of statutes stat-utes providing that government officers offi-cers shall not have interests In concerns con-cerns with which they have official contract. About $24,000,000 was found to have been lost through abandoning two types of airplanes and falling to do salvaging. In answer to claims that the original vast appropriations had been equan- df-rcd. Himhes nninted nut that ths expenditurc-a and commitments up to Oct otter 1 were less than tha original grant. UNITY NECESSARY. . '"She defective organisation of the work of aircraft production and tha Herious lack of competent direction of that work by the responsible officers ; of the signal corps." said the conclusions, conclu-sions, "to which the delays and waste were chiefly due, were matters for administrative ad-ministrative correction through unification unifi-cation of effort under competent control |