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While last week the Navy Department considered plans for building up the U. S. fleet to the terms of the London Naval Treaty, the Bureau of Navigation pleaded for officers to staff the ships already in existence. There were 718 Congressional appointments to the Naval Academy going begging last week. Moreover, officer resig- nations in 1929 totaled 309, of which 219 were junior officers; 77 have resigned thus far this year...
...Federal funds to build land planes and operate them from land bases. The Navy insisted that, for tactical reasons, it needed a land-based force for sea patrol. The rivalry reached a climax in the Canal Zone and at Hawaii where each service maintains a large air fleet almost identical in character if not in purpose...
...hereafter the Army air service shall control all aerial operations from land bases and Navy aviation shall have control of all aerial operations attached to a fleet, including shore stations whose maintenance is necessary for operations connected with the fleet...
...April 26: Secret advices today are to the effect that the Italian fleet is ordered to Fiume and the army is told to advance toward it. Our navy there is advised to hold all their men aboard ship. . . . The question came up of Herbert Hoover as a Presidential candidate-Democratic. Mr. Baruch seems to think he wants...
Major Reuben Hollis Fleet, president of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. (Buffalo, N. Y.) announced last week that construction would soon be started on a seaplane capable of carrying 100 persons across the Atlantic. Preliminary plans call for 62 staterooms, noiseproof walls, a 200-ft. promenade, a power plant of 16 Curtiss Conqueror 600-h. p. motors. Consolidated at present makes the largest U. S. riving boats, the 22 and 30-passenger Commodores, 10 of which are in regular service on N. Y. R. B. A.'s routes in South America...