Show I CLOSE CLOSE PROBE OF AIRCRAfT Predict Another Will Replace Gen Mitchell WASHINGTON 23 Abrupt 3 Abrupt termination of the house bouse Investigation lion tion of ot aviation possibilities and the contI ou 0 questions raised b Brigadier General Mitchell as assistant assistant I duet chief of o the army air servIce service ice Ioe caused Intel est cat to switch Sun SunI Sunday Sunday I day from the capitol to the wai ual at de department of War Var Weeks must decIde 1 to reapPoint Gen n Genel el etal al Mitchell bv bY March 26 when ft hen his present appointment e Those closest to Mr Weeks pre predict dict the selection o oi of another anether for forthe the post but bui no suggestion as to what he ho will do has hns come from the secretary It has been ben the announced In intention Of ot the y to wait walt un- un until until I unI til the Investigation committee concluded its h bearings before he i determIned upon a selection the sudden ending Of o tho inquIry will emil III lead to 0 a n decision by bv tr on this point March 4 the tho date for final adjourn adjournment adjournment m ment nt of ef o the congress wa Mas a not dIsclosed b by war department of officials i daIs WONT WON'T BE INFLUENCED C It was as pointed out Mr Weeks decision would Mould not be Influenced b and recommendations the corn com members might submit as asa asa asa a result of the Inquiry In this con connection connection It was as said sald the war sar ar sell e- e tary fOI his Ian plan In Ina Ina ina a way say that flint I would lead to s of ef an nn assistant chief to Major Gen General General Genera eral Patrick Patricic In precisely the same manner mauner he would hie hi e chosen hosen had there never been an anu Investigation An interpretation ot oi this statement was Vas that Mr Weeks would BE seek It suggestions lIons from General Patrick i as well lell as the staff chiefs and after stud log Ing the records of the officers mentioned by them tiC hi lu would s select l ct the one be ho regarded as best qualified l 1 hero here is b little possibility of Im Immediate mediate announcement by Secre Secretary tary Weeks tho the Mitchell Case is decided the y will consider the l anS answers ers the tho general has made In writing as to Ih the thc cc- cc accuracy i curacy of ot statements statEment he be made be before beI I tore fore the committee which thich I lia hae e been held to reflect seriously on matters of ot v is war ar adminIstration and policies of natIonal defense MUZZLED CHARGE I Among the statements Weeks asked General Mitchell to explain wel c assertions that junIor arm army and navy officers were muzzled muzzled against telling telline the truth to congressional committees and that the na nay na y was wag prepared fOI toi defeat In the Atlantic and Pacific because ef of he lick of ef air power After the admission by the gen gee general genera eral that he lie had bad received a con communication from the ar secretary asking about these dud and other statements other oiher phases of the committees committee's Investigation Mere ere quickly overshadowed l ed b the that de eloped 0 oser oserthe 01 erthe er the nations nation's air defense Up to the time that General Mitchell l s testimony stirred the TOV ro the aircraft committee had moved quietly for fer nine months with witha a Il survey of all branches of ef the aircraft Indu tr The general s a st e t Umon however was as as follow l ed Id in the committee record with a arelies relies elles ot of o contradictions from rota other army and navy nn officers I |