Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-08
RESIGNATION
 IS ACCEPTED
 BY bURLES0N
Brands Statement of Pro- posed Change as "Tissue of Misstatements From Beginning to End.

Washington, Dec 7.-Postmast- er-General Burleson, wrote Captain Benjamin Lipsner today in accepting his resignation as superintendent of the aerial mail service, that charges
 made public by him in leaving the office were from beginning to end, 8 tissue of misstatements upon mat ters of which you should havt been fully conversant''
 Captain Lipsner was quoted last night as saying he resigned because he had been informed that novices were to be placed in charge of inde- pendent branches of the service anH that special airplanes are to be built for carrying mail. 'The statement that the postoffice department has considered 0 rauthor- tion. except in your imigination.' MT. airplanes which the war department is turning over to it has no founda- Burleson said in hs letter to Captain! Lipsner. Except for the application of skis to the running gear of planes, to facilitate landing in snow, as rtc- commended by you. and for experimen- tai modification of three Dehaviland planes to decrease landing speed and minor notifications to facilitate load ing of mail, nothing has beth tuthor- ized.'
 So far from ordering new con- struction, the letter adds, Assistant Postmaster General Proger refused to authorize the construction of a fleet of twin motored mail planes recommended by Captain Lipsner. His assertion that notices are to be employed in the service. Mir. Burle- son said, lis on a per with the other statements, since the two new officials appointed are aviators, which you are not" .N
 In connection with Captain Lips ner's retirement, MT. Burleson an- nounced the creation of two depart ments for the air mail service, ose headed by Litut. J. Clark Edgerton. as Chief of Flying operations, and the other by Dr. L.. T. Bussler, as chief of maintenance and equipment. Both have been in the army and pos tai service, and take up the duties heretofore performed by Captain l Lipsner, who was ordered to deliver /, his records to the postmaster at Elizabeth, N. J.
 In rendering his letter of sesigna- tion to Postmaster General Burleson, Captain Lipsner said: That he at | tempted last night to discuss with
 Otto Proger, second assistant post master general, the order relating to i the appointment of inexperienced men to important positions in the
 aerial service, as well as the pro- bosal to have special mail carrying |irplnes, but hd been cut short with the announcement that the conclu- sions had been reached and would be carried out regardless of what he thought or said.
 VI wish to resign" he said, ito keep spotless my record as first sup erintendent of the aerial mail serv- ice."
 In his letter of resignation, Cap tain Lipsner said:
 "In the past three weeks since the ending of the war, there have come to my attention, apparent efforts
 made by representatives of certain
 aircraft manufacturers and the man ufacturers' aircraft ssocition to hve the postoffice department to spend tens !of thousands of dollars unnecessarily in constructing special airplanes made for. mail carrying and having
 extensive alterations made on the