Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-01
RECOMMENDS PROSECUTION
Three Army Officers Named.
Colonel Deeds Should Be
Courtmartialed.
GREGORY APPROVES FINDING
Attorney General Sends Re-
port to Wilson-Ryan
Is Praised.

WNSlIINGTON. oct 3i.-Thc
long awaited report on the aircraft
Investigation. conducted during the
last five months by Charles f..
Hughes and Attorney General Greg
orr. was placed before President
Wilson today by the attorney gen
eral and Immediately made public.
DELAYS and wastes OF the produC-
ton program, the report declares,
were due chiefly to the defective
orga ganiLation ~ the work Of aircraft
production and the serious lack of
competent direction of that work by
the responsible officers of the signal
corps
SO fault is found with the man
agemcnt Of aircraft affairs since the
REORGANIZATION OF last May which
placed John H. Ryan in charge. The
civilian personnel Of the aircraft
production board is eXOncrated Of
any wrOnEdOinG.
Attorney General Gregory, in a let
ter submitting the report TO Prest-
dent wilson, says he is in "substan-
ual accord" with the findings by Mr..
Hughes.
Prosecution Recommended.
The report finds no graft" in the
accepted sense. but makes recon-
mendations for proceedings against
army aifIcers held guilty of dealing
with corporations in which they
were Interested.
The chIef waste from the original
Appropriation Of S69l.S5 1856. the
report says, was IN the abandonment
OF two types Of airplanes-One Of
them the BrstOw. and Il failure 10
al,
900. The figures show that last May
Of that great appropriation $l34,-
600. 900 actually had been disbursed
and that up to October | the eX-
penditure had reached about $l4O,-
100000 for all aviation purposes.
This did not include expenditures OF
the sales department which buys ma
terial and resells il to manufactur-
ere. and for advances for building
plants. o
Contracts let. however, committed
about i70,000,000 of the fundS z
The figures are given In answer
to the general charge that the sum
had all been expended with praCtic-
ally no results.
The attorney general concludes in
his letter OF transmittal that "no
such profits have been allowed as
10 justify a charge of bad faith"
Colonel Deeds Blamed.
col H. A. Deeds. the storm-center
about whom ragged most of the
charges which brought on the in
reS,iSdtiOn. the report recommends,
should he brought before a court
martial for sending confidential war
department Information on the air
craft situation to former business as
Soc!atcs In Dayton. Ohio, and for be
ing sponsor. last February, for a
grossly misleading statement to
the effect that the first American
bulit battle planes are today en- route
10 the front in France"
Criminal prosecutions OF three
army officers are recommended on
the ground that they transacted bus
mess with corporations in which
they were financially Interested.
These officers are;
Lieut. col j. G.. Vincent former
vice president Of the Packard Motor
Car company. now in charge of the
dlrplane engineering division OF the
aircraft production bureau; Lieut..
Col George W. MiNter, stock
holder in the Curtiss Airplane and
Motor corporation, production man
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