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Show NAVAL AVIATION CALLEDJAILUI Britten of Illinois Assails U. S. Progress Chairman Padgett Pad-gett Defends. WASHINGTON, April 19. Naval aviation was characterized as a "dismal "dis-mal failure" by Representative Britten of Illinois in the house today. Naval aviation must be co-ordinated before it can be a success, he said. The house, he declared, would be "astounded" "astound-ed" to know how few accredited pilots the navy department had on January 1 of this year. Defending the progress of the aviation. avia-tion. Chairman Padgett, of the house naval affairs committee, said he had been informed that there is not now an aviator abroad who has not a machine with which to fly. A member of tbe aircraft board recently stated that the navy department was about 60 days behind in naval fighting machines, but that it expected to overcome the delay in a short time, Representatlye Farr of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, a Republican member of the committee on naval affairs, told the committee that 750 Liberty motors would be sent to England by July for use In army planes. |