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PROSECUTORS IN MITCHELL COURT-MARTIAL
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Philadelphia Record- 11-20-25
Major Francis B. Wilby, assistant to General Hugh Drum, assistant chief of the general staff of the army, and Allen Gullion, of the general staff, have joined the prosecution in the Mitchell court-martial. Major Wilby stands third in the group, and Major Gullion last. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph I. McMullin and Colonel Sherman Moreland, who have been conducting the case, are the first and second in the group.
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THE PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1925
THE ONCE OVER
By H.I. Phillips
JOIN THE NAVY AND SEE THE WHITEWASH

AMERICA, acknowledged leader of the world in many respects, now leads in its funny army and navy courts. Two tribunals named to investigate the Shenandoah disaster and Colonel Mitchell's charges of army mismanagement have been hard at work for some time, and have up to today succeeded in proving only that it is a cinch for five admirals to humiliate one lone widow and that any witnesses looking for abuse may have satisfaction guaranteed by a bevy of generals and majors.

The attitude of the naval court, as so far revealed, is that dirigibles are perfectly safe for anybody below the rank of a rear admiral.
There is no prospect of a rear admiral taking a cross-country flight until swivel chairs sprout wings.
And the army court's viewpoint is that every man is entitled to a fair trial if he can think of a place where he can get it.
  AT THE ARMY COURT
Q.- Are you, as a witness in this case, for or against the court?
A.- Against it.
Judges: This is treason!
Judge Advocate: Leave him to me. I'll get him.
Q.- What experience have you had in army matters?
A.- I flew three years in France, was wounded four times, brought down twelve enemy planes and received the Congressional Medal.
Q.- And you call that experience!
A.-It's the best I could get.
Judges: Preposterous! Preposterous!
Q.- You're one of the low, irresponsible, untrustworthy, worthless, unreliable commanders who claim many of our planes are unfit?
A.- Yes sir.
Q.- What makes you think them unfit?
A.- I've had fourteen of them fall when I was in 'em.
Q.- How far did you fall?
A.- About 3500 feet each time.
Q.- And you think a man who has fallen only that far competent to decide before this court whether a plane is unfit or not?
A.- Yes sir.
Judges: Throw the bum out!
AT THE NAVAL COURT
Q.- As an officer who has made many dirigible flights and made a deep study of dirigibles you have the audacity to come here and tell this court that the Shenandoah was unsafe?
A.- Yes sir.
Q.- How many years of your life have you spent in a swivel chair in a hot room?
A.-None.
Q.- I thought so. Have you a private office in the Navy Department with steam heat and two typewriters?
A.- No.
Q.-Just as I suspected! Have you ever led a parade?
A.- No.
Q.-Are you in demand as an after-dinner speaker at annual banquets of the Society of Colonial Wars?
A.- No.
Chorus of Presiding Rear Admirals: The Nerve of him!
Rear Admiral Towzer: That proves his incompetency to give any testimony. Take him away.
Rear Admiral Befoggen: Arrest him. He oughter be court-martialed.
Read Admiral Twistfacts: Throw him in the brig!
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