Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-09-09

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and know his ability and efficiency"
Mr.. Daugherty believes a plan for
co-ordinating all the investigating
agencies of the government under the
department of justice can be worked
out, but said the appointment of Mr..
Burns did not necessarily mean this
would be DONE
Complete Reorganization Forecast.
Mr.. Burns will receive $500 a year.
According to the attorney general he
| is expected to make complete re0rgan-
ization of the bureau, reduce the force
and bring it to high point of eff
cheney.
Mr.. Burns served with the secret
service from 1889 until 1907, and was
considered during great part of that
time the star man of the force. His
first big job, and perhaps the biggest
| that he has to his credit, came in 1898,
when he solved the mystery of the
Monroe-head 500 silver certificates.
These bills were so expertly counter
feited that government officials at first
declared them genuine Burns discov-
cred that they were made by. splitting
ST notes, washing them and photo-en-
craving them into certificates of 500
denominations.
He sent four men to prison for coun-
terfeiting these notes and fifth for
attempting to bride him.
Mr.. Burns work in connection with
the dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times in October 1910, when twenty
one persons were killed, is considered
his second greatest feat. He was re-
tanned on this job by the mayor of Los
| Angeles. After seven months of work
he caught and convicted the two Nc
Namara brothers and two other men
implicated in the dynamiting.
1t was at the request of Secretary
of the Interior Hitchcock in 1903 that
President Roosevelt assigned Burns to
the land fraud investigation. AS re-
suit of his discoveries many sensation
al convictions were made and the land
fraud game was put out Of commission.
BattIeships Win the Verdict.
According to the joint army and
navy board that observed and has re-
ported on the aerial bombing tests by
the army and navy off the Virginia
capes, the battleship is not obsolete,
but must still be considered the back
bone of the navy
The report. approved by Secretary
of War Weeks and Secretary of the
Navy DENLY, says the bombing tests
demonstrated the Importance of avia-
! ton, but the battleship still is the ma
TONS chief reliance at sea, despite the
development of airplanes as weapons
of offense and defense.
Analysis of Bombing Tests
The board, as to the effect of air.
craft on future naval construction,
finds as follows:
(A) The mission of the navy is to
control vital lines of transportation
upon the sea. If no opposition is met
from enemy naval vessels, this mission
can be accomplished without entering
an enemy's coast zone. within which
aircraft based on shore or in sheltered
harbors are effective.
(B) Without an effective navy in
time of war, nation must submit to
an economic blockade fatal to its trade
and the Importation of necessary mate
rails for the production of war sup
plies.
(C) If heavier than air craft are to
be effective in naval warfare, they
must have greater mobility and since
their radius Of action is not great, adj
ditional mobility must be obtained by
providing mobile bases--i. e., aircraft
carriers.
CD So far as known, no planes
large enough to carry bomb effective
against a major ship have been flown
from or landed on an airplane carrier
at sea. It is probable, however that
future development will make such OPP
erations practicable.
(E) Even in the present state of de-
velopment the aircraft carrier, as ex-
emplified by the Argus of the British
navy, is a type essential to the highest
efficiency of the fleet.
(F) Aircraft carriers are subject TO
attack by vessels carrying guns, tor
pedoes or bombs and will require, as
other types of vessels require, the
eventual support of the battleship.
Battleship Rules Sea.
(G) The battleship still is the back
bone of the fleet and the bulwark Of
the nations sea defense, and will so
remain so long as the safe navigation
of the sea for purposes of trade or
transportation is vital to success in
war;
(H) The airplane, like the subma-
rine, destroyer and mine has added to
the dangers to which battleships are
exposed, but has not made the battle
ship obsolete. The battleship still re-
mains the greatest factor of naval
strength.
% The development of aircraft, in
stead Of furnishing an economical in
strument of war leading to the aboli-
ton of the battleship, has only added
to the complexity of naval warfare.
Cd The aviation and ordnance ex-
periments conducted with the ex-Ger-
man vessels as targets have proved
that it has become imperative as
matter of national defense to provide
for the maximum possible develop
ment of aviation in both the army and
navy.
They have also proved, the report
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