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Admiral Robert E. Coontz comes into the command of the combined United States Fleet. In this post he succeeds Admiral Hilary P. Jones, who was in command during the recent maneuvers. The new commander-in-chief is 58 years old. He was born in Mark Twain's home town of Hannibal, Mo. After his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1885 he rose successively through the various ranks, and he was made Admiral...
Admiral Edward W. Eberle, who was commander-in-chief of the battle fleet which "took" the Panama Canal at the maneuvers, will succeed to the present position of Admiral Coontz, as chief of naval operations...
Rear Admiral S. S. Robison, now on the general board, will become commander-in-chief of the battle fleet with the rank of admiral...
While Russian students kill themselves in despair, the Soviet government designs prodigious schemes for restoring the prosperity and public welfare that its economic hysteria has destroyed. With the utmost enthusiasm, Lenine recently proposed the electrification of the whole gigantic country. The plan is now to build a huge fleet of airships, for a multitude of purposes. In view of the "bad state of the highways and railway lines", the airships could be used advantageously for postal express and passenger service; also "to combat epidemics, to help the weather man, to aid fishing industries, and form closer contact with remote villages...
According to Secretary of War Weeks, the flight had a great military importance. It proved that with two days' warning the Air Service could concentrate in Porto Rico an air fleet which would effectively protect the Panama Canal against attack by any enemy fleet approaching it from the Atlantic...