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Show INQUIRY BOARD IS"" STILLJNSESSIDN REPRIMAND OR DISMISSAL FROM COURT MARTIAL EXPECTED FOR COL. MITCHELL Navy Is Under Serious Fire As Result Re-sult of Recent Close Catastrophe; Session Is to Be a Lengthy Confab Washington This week adds one more to the investigations growing out of the Shenandoah disaster. The aviation inquiry board, which was in session last week and will con-j con-j tinue indefinitely, is the twenty-sec- ; oriel official investigation into avia- j tion during the comparatively few years it has been a part of the national na-tional defense, the twenty-third, i which starts this week, is not really ! an investigation. It consists merely of a brief question and answer con ference between General Mitchell and I the ins-pector general of the army. The latter asks the former if he I iharged the war and navy depart- ments with "criminal negligence." I General Mitchell answers he did. I Thereupon the inspector general can ! or can not order a court martial. Presumably he will. That, so far as it goes into aviation, will constitute the twenty-fourth investigation, or the final installment of the twenty-third. twenty-third. Then when congress gets back to town there will be at least a twenty -fourth and possibly a twenty-fifth. i To be clear in this maze, it is well s to start with General Mitchell's per sonality. It is an out-of-the-ordi-nary personality and the out-of-the-ordinariness of it is essentially part of the whole situation. The reports coming to Washington say the "man in the street," and especially the man in the moving pictures theater, likes Mitchell's personality and is on his side. That is a clear fact and to be expected. Mitchell is an engaging t personality, well adapted to win popu lar approval under any circumstances i and in many respects to deserve it. To Mitchell's personality add the ob vious fact that nearly everybody likes a man daring enough to "sass the boss." i Apart from the public, Washington, I high and low, rather likes Mitchell's personality, but the better informed i part of it does not approve his judg- j ment. "Dashing" is a word fre- j quently applied to Mitchell, not only I as an aviator, but as a man. At the age of 45, he is one of the most dar-! dar-! ing aviators in the world. They say of him, he doesn't ask any aviator I to do what he doesn't first do him- : self. The higher he goes, the better he likes it, |