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Show lAIRCRAFT MAY BOMB 0BS0LE1IWARSH1PS Resolutions Provide for Experiment Ex-periment Tests WASH! NO TON, Feb. 12 f United Preas.) Resolutions directing the secretary sec-retary of the navy to turn over to the army air service obsolete warships and ordering the army air chief to drop bombs on them to test the efficiency of aircraft against naval vessels, were introduced in-troduced today in the senate by Senator New and in the house by Representative Representa-tive Anthony. The resolutions net forth that no conclusive con-clusive tests of the sort have as yet been made and that such experiments) might radically change the future policy pol-icy of aircraft development and warship building. The need for economy, which demands that "the allocation in the expenditure be made to produce the most effectual provision for the national na-tional defense," is cited as a further reason. One obsolete battleship, two obsolete m destroyers and two obsolete supply ships are to be turned over to the airmen air-men as targets under the resolution. Secretary Daniels already has arranged ar-ranged for a former Herman battleship to be bombed from the air. |