Naval Experts Plan
Vast Improvements
In New Battleships
(Py Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D C, Jnn. H) — (Tty
mail).—Naval engineers would hesi
(ate today to predict what the mili
tary characteristics will be of the
first American battleships (o be built,
in replacement under (he Washington
limitation treaty. Aside from the
fact that they will be 2 per cent big
ger than the present naval leviathans,
West Virginia, Colorado and Mary
land, and carry not larger than 16
inch guns, they are unknown quan
tities.
The first (wo replacement ships may
be laid down in 1931, to be completed
in 1934, when the 12-inch gunners
Florida and Utah will go to the scrap
heap. They will be 35,000 tons, trea
ty measurement, which means al
most 40,000 tons pre-treaty rating.
The West Virginia class of battle
ships, now the biggest and hardest
hitting vessels afloat, are 32,000 tons,
old rating.
Since the first post-treaty battle
ships will be the British Rodney and
Nelson, to be completed in 1926 when
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lour ships of the present British fleet
of the King George V class will go to
the junk man, wide interest prevails
in naval circles everywhere as to
what their armament, speed, cruis
ing radius, protection, method of pro
pulsion or other characteristics will
prove to be. Little is known general
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since the Washington conference.
But no naval officer is likely to for
get that the dreadnaught, first all
big-gun ship to be built, virtually ren
dered obsolete every existing pre
dreadnaught battleship of any navy.
Nothing then afloat could compete
with her or anything approaching
equal terms, and the feverish build
ing of dreadnaughts on both sides
of the Atlantic began.
American naval designers are stor
ing away information on which plans
for their own new ships will be bas
ed. Experiments incidental to the
sinking of the hull of what was to
have been the battleship Washington
were conducted for this purpose, to
a large extent, and much valuable da
ta resulted.
For one thing, navy experts wanted
to know just how wisely they had
planned the increased deck protection
! of the Washington class of ships. It
has not been revealed definitely
; whether the Washington deck armor
withstood high angle fire, but Secre
tary Wilbur announced at the time
that results of the experiments had
justified expectations.
That the new British ships will
have ample deck protection as well
as a new type of 16-inch guns more
j powerful than any yet afloat in any
navy, is taken as a forgone conclu
sion. They will be the product of
the post-war years of study by Brit
ish experts of bitter war experience
with fighting ships. It is to be ex
pected, therefore, in the judgment of
naval experts, that they will outclass
even the Wost Virginia class in the
American navy by a margin beyond
that of their 25 per cent larger size.
Size alone would permit their car- j
rying heavier armament, probably ol
: lowing them to carry twelve 16-inch
: guns each as against the eight gun
batteries of the American first line
1 trio, and the British guns, gun for
gun, will be better because of newer
design. That would mean at the
i very least, if the guns were of equal
; power, a 33 per cent superiority in
I broadside weight for the new Brit
ishers.
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Germans Plan Uniform
Traffic Rules for Reich
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 19.—With the re
establishment of normal conditions
in Germany, the problem of traffic and
transportation is becoming an increas
ingly live one. The muddle which has
resulted in Berlin from the attempt
of the police to introduce American
ideas of traffic regulation has led
private citizens to band themselves
together in an organization known
as the Verkehrswacht, the Traffic
J Watch.
Eighteen organizations, comprising
1 a total membership of 750,000 Ger
man citizens, were represented at the
first meeting. They included automo
bile clubs, motor cycle clubs, taxi
cab owners’ association, touring
clubs, federations of bicycle clubs,
etc.
The Verkehrswacht will seek to
bring about uniformity of traffic reg
ulations throughout Germany, and
will work for the building of more
auto roads, better understanding be
tween the various component organi
zations, and the enlightenment of the
public on traffic matters.
Our New Year’s resolution is not
to try to make a joke of New Year’s
resolutions.
Nearly 5,000 turkeys were sold
from one farm near Hatfield, Pa., in
one day shortly before Christmas.
He sent his boy to Yale with a pat
upon the back, he spent four thou
sand dollars and got a quarter back.
Americanism: “Ten dollars left!
Now what shall I spend it for?”
As a rule the place from which
business heads actually retire is the
shelf.
The easiest way to abolish static
is to let your guests get disgusted
and leave.
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G. O. P. LEADER IN THE
SENATE.
Charles Curtis, of Kansas, Repub
lican leader at Washington.
Committee Will Aid
Congress To Decide
National Air Policy
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 19.—(By
Mail)—Inspection of aviation centers
throughout the United States will
be carried out shortly by a congres
sionally committee which hopes to
formulate, before March 4, a report
that will materially assist the Wash
ington administration in evolving and
putting into effect a permanent na
tional air policy.
The inspection is planned as a part
of efforts by Congress to determine
the needs of the country for an air
craft establishment. Representative
Florian Lambert, Wisconsin, chair
man of the select committee, says ev
ery member desires “a constructive
and not a destructive investigation”
in *tlie hope that an outline of the
country’s aviation needs will be avail
able before the adjournment of the
Sixty-eighth Congress.
Three phases of the aircraft problem
will be presented in the final report:
the present condition of the air serv
ices, the future air establishment and
a study of patent and legal ques
tions. The latter phase of the inves
tigation was concluded before Christ
mas.
The Lambert committee has gone
into the problem of wartime produc
tion, and is the authority for the
statement that deliveries of aircraft
and engines by the Amercan aircraft
industry during the IS months the
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deliveries made by any of our associ
ates during any 18-month period of
the entire war.
Commenting upon the testimony
given thus far before the committee,
Representative Lambert said recent
ly he was convinced that Congress
and the entire country needed a new
perspective on aviation.
“Looking back over the record since
1917, it seems to me that all Con
gress ever has done has been to ap
propriate money,” the chairman de
clared. “What we need to do for
aviaton now is not necessarily to give
it money in more liberal sums, but
to more intelligently advise it and di
rect as to how the money shall be
spent.”
Representative Lambert is con
vinced that aviation is first of all a
commercal utility and not a military
accessory, but the “alarming weak
ness of our army and navy air ser
vices” convinces him that “it is only
the part of wisdom to recognize that
the exigencies of the latter are un
questionably paramount today, and
thus demand immediate decisive and
favorable action.”
“I beleve all the members of my
committee recognize the fact that avi
aton must be developed along com
mercial lnes, just as the Amercan
railway system was developed along
commercial lines, rather than mili
tary,” said Mr. Lambert, “but there is
also sympathetic appreciation of the
immediate national need that we
dare not longer wait before providing
some stimulant to the aerial arm.
It will be costly and may be danger
ous ’to delay.”
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TROTZKY NOT READY TO
LEAVE SOVIET CAPITAL
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LONDON, Jan, 19.—Leon Trotzky,
the Russian soviet war minister, is
still in Moscow, according to-newspa
per dispatches received by way of
Helsingfors and Copenhagen.
Trotzky is said to have declared
himself willing to have the soviet
capital if his dismissed adherents
are reinstated in their old positions
and not exposed to reprisals, also
if his opponents in the supreme rev
olutionary war council, especially
General Frunze, are removed from
the council.
It is believed an agreement will
be reached, the dispatches add, but
Trotzky’s friends are of the opinion
that the reconciliation will not en
dure.
If a man acts that way, it is called
dignity; but when a boy does it, it
is pouting.
The objection to “personality” is
the way it overworks the first per
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