Show SCAifE DEMANDS i i THAT COFfiN QUIT M MEMBER OF PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S AIR I V CRAFT BOARD HOARD SCORED BY WASHINGTON LAWYER Ii 4 If Apologist Is Permitted To To Preside E Statistics And Facts May Well Go In Waste Basket Says Attorney if l 4 Washington Washington Declaring Declaring that Howard Howard Howard How- How ard E. E Coffin and his personal associate associates asso asso- dates are largely responsible for the unsatisfactory state of the nations nation's air nir defense Captain H. H L. L Scaife former former for for- mer government investigator and now nowa a lawyer in Washington addressed a aletter aletter letter to Mr Coffin demanding his immediate resignation from President I Coolidge's aircraft board If apologists apologists apologists apolo apolo- for existing conditions are permitted permitted per per- to sit on the board which will begin its investigation into into into in in- to the aircraft situation Captain Scaife charges the cold facts andr and r burning statistics might as well be thrown into a waste basket Captain Scaife declares in his letter letter letter let let- ter that since the war the United States has expended for aviation with nothing to show for it except America trailing the aviation procession of other nations which t C spend less and get more r The American aviation bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy racy according to Captain Scaife is responsible for this condition and and wages relentless war upon its Colonel William Villiam Williamf Mitchell he hei i asserts asserts- is not the only martyr among f r those who would bare the truth rf I am prepared to furnish to any r committee which sits with none of the members under a cloud the names and witnesses to prove the following t t cases among many as illustrative of the methods employed to silence and discredit those who have voiced complains com corn r plains plain wrote Captain Scaife I 1 Major General William L. L Kenly Ken- Ken Kenly Kenly ly head bead of the bureau of aeronautics demoted to a colonelcy after testifying testifying testify testify- or ing before a senate committee as to conditions in the army air service 2 A colonel who was as penalized for testifying that there were no made American fighting planes in France by being deprived by the war department 01 of receiving decora decorations r which a foreign government Fought sought to bestow upon him for overseas over over- seas s-ens service s 3 A major in the air service who was confined to an insane ward after making complaints and afterwards restored to duty when the case was 07 brought to the attention of G General I Kenly f 4 A member of the Lafayette f- f 4 escadrille who was declared inI insane insane in in- I sane after warning the men he was training of defects in aeroplanes made by the Curtiss CurtiS'S company and after he was informed that this would happen happen hap- hap Th pen to him if his activities did not 1 cease 5 6 A pioneer aviator who since the war was ordered to perform a duty which carried with it imminent risk of death Coming Corning through this he was lat later latr r framed frame up and thrown out of government employ 6 Th The chief legal adviser of the army air service who was di charged discharged for appearing before a senate com com- where he testified that carloads of materials and planes belonging belonging belonging be- be longing to the United States government government govern- govern ment ment and valued at had mysteriously disappeared from the Elizabeth N. N J. J plant of an aircraft c company controlled by J Japanese bankers Captain Scaife's letter is replete with specific sp instances which he cites to demonstrate Mr Coffins Coffin's unfitness unfitness unfitness un- un fitness to serve on the presidents president's bO boards board ld |