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Show ; UU JOHN D. RYAN TO DIRECT AJRPROGRAM WASHINGTON. April 25 Appointment Appoint-ment of John D. Ryan, copper magnate, mag-nate, railroad man and financier, as director of the army's aircraft production pro-duction program and re-organization of the aviation section of the signal eos were announced in a war department depart-ment statement published here today. The announcement says that the aviation section will be separated from the signal corps proper and that Brigadier-General William L. Kenly will be chief of a new division of aeronautics, aer-onautics, to control training of military mili-tary aviators and military use of aircraft. air-craft. Major-General Squier, chief signal officer, will confine his activities activi-ties in the future to the signal branch 00 |