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Show V V V V V V V V a COAST AIR MAIL CHIEF UNDER EIRE I PALMER ASKED TO OUST COE. ; JHO. A. JORDAN I 'Air Mail Ch;of Declared to. Disregard Dangers to Aviators FATHER OF ACCIDENT VICTIM COMPLAINANT Accused Official Declares He. is Ready to Stand Uppn His Hecord J SAN 1 KAN - IS.MM, Cal.. Jan. S. j Keonf.ns ..f Sun I'ranciseo citizens 'and other that t'olor.el John A. Jor- dan. head of the air moil' sevvi.-. on the Pacific coast, be removed because I lleged "dictatorial and Inefficient"! conduct, were telegraphed to' Attor- j ney-Gcnera I Palmer by Frank M. Silva, , I United .States aitorney, today. Silva asked Palmer to "take any ac-l tion you see fit." ' Sinmlt r: ,". Kdird ?.l -lather "V Stanley Lioggs. kn al.- mnil pilot who wa:- pir-.ced on proba ion by Colonel Jordan followtttg the fnMing of his nlrjdane lno the Srcots of Sacra -im-nty. w:ied iVttmatr-Gvn-.: oi K'ar-kMi K'ar-kMi ;U-.iiK tim: COlonc Jordan '."! .,.'.. eij I,; ... illTje.' . i.ni invcHllgation .nmifd Soi ' Moftg's rji.e-,'t srtJT T-as-nadnv m--rhc1 complaints nlegraphed to ii,- attor-lu-v -Konoral by Silva. llls nil ' RILIiED. VII 1KG1 Hoggs Charged Colonel Jordan With .Incompetence and "culpable mLsinan-Rgomentr" mLsinan-Rgomentr" by providing his pilots with unsuitable and defective eiuipment o.nd requiring them to fly in ex i e serve - 1 ly dangerouK weather against their better Judgment. "He has continually Imperilled their lives and the lives of the adjacent population pop-ulation In nn untie, i ...irv and unjiull-flnble unjiull-flnble degree- In trying tp maintain r.n uninterrupted schedule of air mull ! Servlbe over tlie Sierra Nevadas. one of the very worst routes now bein;,' flown anywhere in the world throughout an unusually story winter, he Is attempt- t .... l'n,,ananil.llil,. r.f kKIaIi fm t l, was advised In August. 1 920 ' WON T HEAR M l l The principal complaint ngnlnst Colorie Jordan is that "he will not listen lis-ten to advice." Silva said. "Those who have come lo me. Including the father of Aviator Boggs, told me that he Is extremely and unnecessarily short with his men, and does not u linear li-near to be fiuallfied In any way for ouch a responsible post." Pilot Boggs crashed to errth hero Tuesday, aftr attempting to start a regularly scheduled mall flight to lleno In ikthlck fog He -p I that t lie fog gripped into tils cngln in stopped it. He was uninjured but the airplane was destroyed. A board of Inquiry placed him r,n probation f-ir i two weeks, holding that a high wind was blowing at the time of the accident acci-dent and Boggs should not have tried to fly against "When pilots engage In thl. service they understand exactly what they arc, to do, and I am here to see that they do It," said Colonel Jordan. "The mall will be flown whenever It possibly can bo done, and the fact that we have had no serious uccldents in this field and that proper care Is taken of both hlps and pilots, although they have flown In what might lie considered bad ! weather, Justlflea my stand. "As long ns wo have Internal combustion com-bustion engines there will be motor trouble, which automobiles still have, but there never have been any failures of the airships themselves. I "I am going lo hold these men to i their work or else close the Job. The air mall is going to fly as long ;ls we are able to do II. I am engaged in this venture becauae 1 believed in Jtj and my record since the beginning has stood for itself everywhere. "I would be vei glad lo know who these complaining citizens are. None of them exc-ept Hogg-;' lather seem t., have hud courage to lather the complaint" com-plaint" ' |