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Mitchell and Kin Still Smile Huald-10/31/25 [[image]] INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL.PHOTO MRS. "BILLY" MITCHELL, Sidney Miller, who is Mrs. Mitchell's father; Mrs. Arthur Young, the colonel's sister, and Colonel "Billy" Mitchell himself, all obviously happy as they left yesterday afternoon's session. Miller, an attorney, came from Detroit to lend his assistance and observe the trial. Mrs. Young, who is from Milwaukee, is likewise an observer and quite willing to stick with the accused. Colonel Mitchell Has Made His Case Huald-10/30/25 BEFORE "the great jury of the people" Colonel William Mitchell, United States Army, has made his case against the maladministration which is to blame for the condition of aviation under the Stars and Stripes. Already public sentiment, North, East, South and West, has handed down a verdict in his favor. Now, Colonel Mitchell is being tried by court-martial because he dared appeal to the American people to rescue aviation from ignorant bureaucratic control and emancipate our fliers from the control of non-flying officers who insist upon regarding aviation as the step-child of the Army and Navy, instead of welcoming it into the household of National Defense as the youngest member of the family. Colonel Mitchell's main charges regarding the abuse of aviation have been substantiated before President Coolidge's Air Board by nearly all of the flying officers permitted to testify, from Major-General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, down to the youngest naval aviator, with a few exceptions. Colonel Mitchell's major recommendations for the reorganization of our National Defense system have not only been endorsed in principle by Major-General Patrick and a majority of the flying officers of the Army who have been called as witnesses by the Air Board, but also commended to the attention of the President by the American Legion, in national convention assembled at Omaha. Nevertheless, Colonel Mitchell is on trial this week because he dared to tell his fellow citizens of the United States the truth about aviation as he sees it. This is why our fliers' fight for freedom involves more than the military career of the brave truth-teller, who took his case directly to the people. This is why our fliers' fight for freedom involves more than the future of aviation. This is why our fliers' fight for the freedom involves the right of the American people to know the truth about aviation from the only officers in the Army and Navy competent to tell the truth, namely, the flying comrades, with the colors, of Colonel Mitchell. This is why the trial of Colonel Mitchell directly concerns every American citizen who takes his sovereignty seriously.