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Died. Brigadier General William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, 56, commander of the U. S. Air forces in France during the World War; of coronary occlusion; in Manhattan. He returned from the War with six medals, an unswerving conviction that the Army and Navy were obsolete war-toys, and a gift for invective second only to that of Generals Smedley Butler and Hugh S. Johnson. As assistant chief of the Army air forces, he nettled his superiors so often that he was not reappointed. Removed to Texas as a colonel, he blew off the lid in 1925 by charging...