AERIAL SERVICE
IN GOOD SHAPE
AT WAR’S CLOSE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (by As
sociated Press).—Although its or
igin was an almost insignificant
corps, the United States naval
aviation service was expanded so
rapidly during the war that when
the Germans quit it was the second
largest naval flying force in the world.
Development of the service, hitherto
a carefully guarded secret, was dis
closed by the navy department today
in the first of a series of announce
ments dealing with naval aerial ac
tivity since April, 1917.
When the United States entered the
world conflict it maintained a small
naval aerial establishment, with the
principal station at Pensacola, Fla.
The personnel at that station was
38 aviators and 163 enlisted men, and
the equipment consisted of twenty
two seaplanes, five kite balloons and
two free balloons.
The department of aviation was or
ganized immediately and the various
bureaus tok up the work of providing
men and equipment. The bureau of
steam engineers took charge of the
development and manufacture of mo
tors and radio equipment; the bureau
of construction and repair dealt with
the hulls and wings of planes; the
ordnance department provided ma
chine guns and bomb launching de
vices and thousands of tons of high
explosives, and the bureau of naviga
tion supplied and trained thousands
of officers and enlisted men.
Great Development of Service
The armistice found the navy with
more than 1,500 aviators, 1,300 ground
officers, and 35,000 enlisted men with
4.000 flight officers and 10.000 enlisted
men in training. There were in com
mission 1,400 seaplanes and airplanes
and about 300 lighter-than-air craft of
all types. More than 1,200 officers
and 19,000 enlisted men, together
with 388 seaplanes, 140 airplanes and
42 kite ballons were sent to the war
zone.
Meantime the signal station main
tained in the United States prior to
the war had grown to even training
stations, ten patrol stations, nine rest
and refueling stations, two experi
mental stations and a number of ad
ditional stations for various purposes
were under construction. They formed
a girdle that encircled the entire sea
coast of the country. In Europe
there were established and in opera
tion twenty-eight American naval fly
ing stations, two training stations
and twrelve bombing stations located
in England, Ireland, France and Italy.
There also was a marine aviation sta
ion in the Azores.
Sims Praises Aviators
A capable administrative force,
drawn by the navy from civilians,
administered the affairs of the ser
vice with great success, but regular
navy officers were in direct charge.
Technical and manufacturing experts
of international reputation represent
ed the navy at the bases abroad and
' in this country. Their loyal services,
with those of the fliers, made possi
ble the achievements which brought
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from Admiral William S. Sims the
following praise for the work of the
naval aviation service in the war:
“Please express to the naval avia
tors of America my most sincere ap
preciation of their courageous and
loyal performance of duty at home
and abroad throughout the war. Their
brilliant exploits, their determination
to win, will ever remain one of the
highest tributes to American man
hood. The performance of duty of
these young naval aviators under my
command has not only been in keep
ing with the very best traditions of
our naval service but has in addition;
won for America the enthusiastic
praise of her Allies.”
Co-operated With Allies
The American naval aviators car
ried out joint patrols with the British,
French and Italian naval air forces,
raiding enemy submarine bases and
aircraft bases at Ostend, Zeebrugge,
Bruges, Helgoland. Pola, Trieste and
various other points. Large quanti
ties of planes, submarines, materials,
buildings, hangars, supply stations,
ammunition dumps and other valu
able military projects were destroyed.
Seaplane patrols and aerial con
voys were particularly successful.
After the installation of American
seaplane patrols and during thous
ands of miles of convoy, only one
ship in such convoys protected by
seaplanes was ever successfully at
tacked. In the ten months American
patrols were active only three ships
were lost in the entire area between
Penmarch and Isle d’ Yeu.
British, French and Italian official
records give the American naval avi
ation forces credit for attacking 95
per cent of all submarines sighted
while on patrol, in spite of terrific
weather conditions at times, and of
damaging 45 per cent and sinking 25
per cent of all those attacked. The
exact number of submarines sighted,
attacked and sunk can not be made
public until the compilation of figures
contained in Allied records is com
pleted.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Commissioners Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Cordova Pre
cinct, before R. H. Noaks, United
States Commissioner and Ex-officio
Probate Judge, in the matter of
the estate of of Mathew Pedrodas
kalakis, known in Alaska, and here
inafter referred to as Mike Paros.
No. 130.
The undersigned hereby gi\es no
tice that he has been appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Mike
Paros, deceased, and that all persons
having claims against said estate are
requested to present the same with
the proper vouchers within six
months from the date hereof, to the
undersigned administrator, at his
office in Cordova, Cordova Precinct,
Territory of Alaska.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 20th
day of August, A. D. 1919.
B. O. GRAHAM,
Administrator of the Estate of Mike
Paros, deceased.
Date of first publication, Aug. 20,1919.
Date of last publication, Sept. 17,1919
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, Kayak Precinct. In
Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of James
Warddell, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS .
dersigned was duly and regularly ap
pointed by the probate court of the
Kayak precinct, territory of Alaska,
on the 4th day of August, 1919, ad
ministrator of the estate of James
Warddell, deceased. Notice is hereby
given to the creditors of and all per
sons having claims against the said
deceased to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no
tice, to said administrator at his resi- '
dence or place of business in the town
of Katalla. territory of Alaska, the
same being the place for the transac
tion of business of said estate in the
territory of Alaska.
Dated at Katalla, Alaska, this 4th
day of August, 1919.
W. H. DUGDELL.
Administrator of the Estate of James
Warddell, deceased.
Date of first publication Aug. 6, 1919.
Date of last publication Sept. 4, 1919.
Donohoe & Dimond, attorneys for
the administrator.
NOTICE TO CREED I TORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court in and for Cordova Precinct,
Territory of Alaska.—In Probate.—
In the matter of the Estate of Ver
mund Martin Olson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed, administrator of the estate of
Vermund Martin Olson, deceased, to
the creditors of and all persons hav
ing claims against the said deceased,
to exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within six months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of
Frank H. Foster, attorney at law, Cor
dova, Alaska, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business of
said estate. E. P. ZIEGLER,
Administrator.
Dated July 14, 1919.
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