The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-27
OFFICIAL PARTY
At PARK FIELD
FOR INSPECTION
Members Of House Military
Affairs Committee and High
Army Officers Will Report
as to Purchase Or Not.

Official Inspection of Park field was
made Saturday BY members Of the COM
mittee on military affairs of, the lower
house OF the congress and a party OF
nine army officers of high rank. Tine
military affairs committee has been
maklng an inspection Of every. army
camp, cantonment and flying field in
the country, for the purpose of recon
nlending which OF them shall be re-
fained as regular army posts and which
are TO be abandoned.
The war department last lear an
nounced that Park field would be re-
tanned as a permanent flying school
and aviation field and its purchase was
formally approved, but the failure OF
the congress to pass the appropriation
bills prevented the purchase. II a fa-
Vorable report Is made after the pres
ent inspection, as now seems probab
the sale to the government will be COM
pleted, as all titles have been passed
upon and the deeds are in escrow. The
purchase price will be slightly less than
$4,000 for the 900 acres included in
the aviation grounds.
The members OF congress in the party
are Representatives d. r. Anthony
chairman; 7, S. Crago, H. Il, Hull W
J, Fields, G. p Caldwell, r. H. Harri-
son and Hubert f. Fisher. Other civil
tans in the party are G. r. Woods, chief
of the real estate section, and u. NJ.
Scruggs, OF the railroad administration.
The army officers are Lieut.. Gen.
iR, l.. Bullard, Maj. Gen. G. r. Menoher,
Brig. Gen. II. G. Marshall Jr., Col G,
p. Palmer, Col r. w. Hammond, Col
G. F. p. Trask. Col. j. d. Fulmer, Mai.
X. 2, Oppenheimer, c. B. Winstead
army field clerk, is the only enlisted
man with the officers,
inspection Is Thorough.
The party arrived on a belated train,
and after, being greeted by the Cham
Der Of Commerce committee on avia
ton, headed by W. c. Johnson, left
Immediately for Park field, There they
Inspected every detail of the field. the
location Of the grounds, the condition
of the buildings and similar matters
upon which will depend their report
The members of the party and the To-
cal committeeman were guests of the
field connmandant, Mai G. Il. Lowell
who, with Lieuts. C. p, McDarment,r r.
l.. McCarran and l.. P. Arnold, met the
visitors at the train
After having gone over only a por-
10 his associates.
This field is in the best condition
OF any that we have seen" Ssa
Gen. Bullard noted that the buildings
nent.
They returned to the city in the late
afternoon and were taken to the Ti-
State fair, after a short ride over the
parkways. Accompanying Mr., johnson
as members Of the Chamber of Com
merce committee were w. P. Arm
strong, Herbert Gannaway, w w. Sim
mons, z. o. Bailey, Marion 9, Evans
James II. Malone, j. L. McRee ano
I, d1 ~
Members of the party are 10 be en-
tertained Saturday evening as guests
at an informal dinner at the Hotel
Chisca, to which so well.known men,
bers OF the chamber have been invited
Cen Bullard Is one OF the most dis
tingulshed officers of the army, He
commanded the Second corps In France
and made distinguished record. He Is
a native of Alabama, and has been in
the army all his life. He passed through
Memphis soon after his return from
France after the close OF the war, wher
he was stationed at Camp Pike for a
few months. He has since been sta
toned in Washington.
Gen, Bullard said that he had fire
quently heard of Memphis in his boy.
hood. for his father. ID. w. BuIIard, was
one of the first travelling statesmen ir
this section, selling cotton gins through
out the cotton beltSin the early sos.
Gen. Menoher is chief Of the air SER
vice of the army, and has been in Mem.
phis on several previous occasions dur
ing his inspection of the Southern flying
fields. All Of the other officers saw
service in France during the war.
The congressional representatives are
among the leading members of congress
David Read Anthony. Jr., chairman Of
the military affairs committee, Is from
Leavenworth, Kas.. and has been IL
congress only a few years. He Is a
lawyer and newspaper editor. and a
Republican.
Mr.. Crago from the First Pennsyl-
vania district, is also a Republican, and
lives at Waynesburg.
G. P. Caldwell is Democrat ant
represents the Second New York dis
trict, which Is the county of Queens
He has been in congress for six terms
and served as q major during the war
Mr. Harrison is from the Seventh
Virginia district, which he has repre-
sented for three years, He Is a lawyer
and lives at Leesburg,
Representative Fields comes from
Kentucky and represents the Ninth dis
trict, and is naturally Democrat. His
district Is big one, including 10 coun-
ties.
Mr.. Hull Is from the Second Iowa dis
trict and Is a Republican.
Everybody here knows Mr., Fisher.
Members of the party have been or
tour of the army camps In the North
East and Southeast for nearly three
weeks. They will go from Memphis
| Saturday night to Camp Pike. Ark.
and then will inspect the flying fields
in Texas before returning to Washing
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