Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1923, Page 72

ARMY AND As recently announced in these columns, that over 500 Army officers have not been receiving thelr correct rental allowances, a close study of this question by the committee which has been formed wo adjust this dis- crepancy has \ revealed the fact that there are 690 officers adverse- 1y aftected, which will' reach a total of $350,000. The records of these officers show that each of been losing $459 per 22, which to date sum to about 90 officcrs, 464 are are captains, divided ferent arms as follows fleld gnal Copps 38; Coas them has year since July 1, 19, would increase /$500. Of thi najors and 2 among the dil Infantry, 194 avalry, 6 of Engineers, 58; vice, 46; Corps, 150; air department, 31; adjutant department, 6; Quartermaster S; chemical warfare service, 5, a the judge advocate general partment. Before the investigation is completed there doubtless will be other names which will be added o the already large list mpleting its work on the bud- . the legislative council in the r Department will* $hortly devote its attention to new legislation for non-commigsioned officers of _the Army. Theé entire question has been thoroughly studied by a general staff committee. The bill, which was ed last year, demoting a large number of non-commissioned officers, due to the Army being reduced to 125,000, will be the basis for a new bill. One feature which is being talked of being included in the proposed bill is to to raise first sergeants, now rated as second class, to the grade of master sergeant, which Is in the first grade. The advocates of this provision Insist that as the first sergeant is vested with the most authority of all the non-commissioned officers in a company or other unit, he should be glven the hisw:r rating. At the present time he Is in the-second grade and master ser- geants of the first grade are taking orders from him The repeal of the which prohibits the enlistment of men below the age af twenty-one without the written consent of their parents or guardians, it Is belleved, will be asked by the War Depart- ment. This viclous provision has not only interfered with the recruiting of the Regular Army, but is greatly 2dding to the cost of maintaining the regular establishment. Blanton law, Col. George Vidmer, acting chief of eavalm in addition to representing the chief of cavalry at the Rochester horse show at Rochester, N. Y., from tember 3 to 8, inspécted a num- ber of separate cavalry squadrons of the ew York National Guard and their armories Officers from Fort Myer represented the Army at the show, and also a number of mounts preparing for the Olmpic gomes were shown by Maj Barry. The rough riding squad from the 3rd Cavalry was also en hand and gave a number of exhibitions of their skillful riding. The National Guard cavalry units inspected by Col. Vidmer were all in excellent shape and the condition of the armories was good. ‘ According to _the latest advices re- celved from Maj. Yen. George C. Rickards, chief of the military bu- reau, the general will spend Septem- ber 13 14 and probably 15 observing the shooting of the National Guard teams at the national matches, Camp Perry. Ohio, and will arrive in Wash- ington some time on the 16th. Last week it was stated that about thirty-four Nat!onal Guard teams would be represented at this inter- national_shooting classic, but later reports from the militia bureau con- tain the informotion that this num- ber will reach about forty-four. transportation funds will make it impossible for all of the War Dcpartment branches at ‘Washington to send their official ob- servers both the Marine Corps and ist Cavalry Division war maneuvers, which will be held at Newmarket, Va., and in the vicinity of the Big Bend district in Texas, respectively There will be no official represent. tives from the chief of infantry's of- fice, the office of the chief signal of- ficer, office of the chief of chemical warfore service and the Medical Corps at the_1st Cavalry division's war games. Maj. Edmund L. Gruber, F. A, an instructor at the cavairy school, will represent the chief of fleld artillery at Marfa, while Col. W. J. Glasgow Insufficient s | be met by members of -the foot ball |the services. controller does not touch in his de- ¢, the depaftment thi NAVY NEWS McINTYRE and Maj. John B. Coulter, both or in ‘the office of the chief of cav- , Washington, D. C, will be the official_observers’ from the cavalry |arm. From the cavairy school th | following officers have been ordered | to proceed to the maneuver ground | Brig. Gen. E. L. King, commandant of | the school; Col. L. W. Oliver and Maj |J. T. McLane. The maneuvers at Newmarket will | be attended by the following officer: | Majs. Maxwell Murray and J. W. An- derson, F. A.; Majs. E. W Fales and Charles B. Tilliott, infantry: Majs. Robert C. McDonald und John Fletcher, Medical Corps, and Maj. H. Polk and Lieuts. E. L. Hogan and H H. D. Heiborg, calry, the latter three officers heing on duty at the Virginla Military Institute, Lexing- ton, Va. Divergent views have been taken by the academic authorities at the mil | tary and naval academles on the ! question of eligibility requirements to 1t has Henry N | teams tLis year. by Rear Admjral superintendent of the Naval Acad- emy, that first-yedr midshipmen should be excluded from the team, and this has been published in an official announcement. On the other hand, Brig. Gen, Fred W. Sladen, superin- tendent of the Military Academy, de- clares that he will base the eligibility of the cadets composing the Army's team upon their scholarship and rec- ord. The solution of this eligibility war between the two institutions wiil be watched with interest by the-serv- ces. cen dectded B. Wilson, | Lieut. Col. George C. Marshall, jr, alde to Gen. Pershing..in delivering the opening address before this vear's class at the War College, vividiy de- scribed the next step in the develop- ment of the Army of the United States. The colonel gave considerable emphasis to the fact that in next summer's training program more time would be devoted to organization in- stead of individual instruction, as ha been done in the past, and the in- structors from the regular establish- ment will work through the com- manders of the organized reserves TLis will be done by filling a Re lar Army regiment to war strength from the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the Citizens' Military | Training Corps. The regular officers | on duty in the camps will get the ma chine started, and, after a few days of observation by the reserve officers the different units would be turned over to them to command. In comparing tle state of prepared- ess which existed at the beginning of the war and that at the present time, Col. Marshall declared that on 200 second licutenants of the Res Officers’ Training Corps had g ed for the reserve in 1920; in | this number had increased to 1,000; in | 1522 this number reached 2,200, and { his year it is believed that about 3,100 will be graduated and commis- | oned second lieutenants in the re-| serve. In addition to this, the Citi- zens' Military Training Corps will| turn about approxinwmtely 1,500 offi cers of the same grade from the biu course. raising_the great work which is being -performed by the veterans of the great war, Col. Marshall pointed out that although the country will{ have to depend upon these men for some years, the younger men must be trained If an adequate reserve corps is to be developed He expressed the belief that a re- serve -officer preparing himself for promotion should spend more than fifteen days in a training camp. It is! during the second fifteen days that| an officer demonstrates his capabili- | ies for leadership for the higher grade, and it is thought tiat this would be a practical way in which to solve this organized reserve promo- tion problem. -~ H The action of Controller General Mc- | Carl in holding that there i no ‘au-‘ thority to issue or sell coal to officer of the Army and Navy is but another attempt of the controller’s offic deprive those of the regular es lishment of their just allowances and | privileges, according to the service | viewpoint. Members of the National Association of Retail Coal Dealers, according to report, are behind this movement, in an endeavor to force the government to buy coal from them instead of the operators. With respect to whether the War { Department has the authority to sell coal to officers and enlisted men of the service, the Secretary of War quoted the act of June 30,.1922, 42 Stat., 727. The Secretary aiso called attention to A. R. 1037 as amendel by C. A. R. 130, dated September 15, 1922, which authorizes the Quarter- master Corps to issue or sell fuel to Another point which the fon cision {s that he does not possess the authority to pass on nroperty ac- counts, althqugh he has the authority to audit the accounts of the departs ment for the purchase of fuel or other classes of goods. 1t is contended that the issue of fuel is_so closely related with the light arid fuel allowances that. the War and Navy Departments should have abso: lute power In its distribution. Wisely the controller, in rendering his de- ision, withholds its application until June 80, 1924, This will not only give Congress an opportunity to legislate in this matter, but the controller evi- dently does not desire to put himself in_the light of interfering with the distribution of coal this winter. Increasing last years appropriation for instructional. purposes for the National Guard from $250,000 to $325,- 000 for this year will provide sehool training for about 30 or 40 per cent more guard officers At the present time more applications are coming in for this training than the increased appropriations will proyide instruc- tion for. In addition to the schools for officers, there will be schools for a4 personnel of the guard Field ‘artillery horse- rtillery communications rtillery battery mechanics at Fort Sill; cooks and bakers' school at the different stations; artillery radio (CAC), Fort Monroe, Va., and radio operators’ course, Signal Corps, at Camp Vail, N. E Thirty National Guard officers will attend the G-1, G-2 and 4 courses at the War College, which will begin the following respective dates: January 2, 1924, to February 19, 1924 T'))L(—mh;rJlY, 923, to November 10, 1923, and January 30, 192 Marel 123, an y 30, 1924, to March The Engineer School at Camp Hum- phreys, Va, will begin instruction on April 15, 1924, and conclude June 25, 1924; the Medical Field s rvice School Carlisle, Pa, from September 5, 1o October 16, 1528, and the Alr Serv- LC:HFI 'ang S\(‘h(vl‘l at Brooks Field be- can September 1 F v R 1 . and will end The subjoined list contains the list of schools and date: hic ey il e EeTa dates on which they Infantry—February 1924, Ft. Benning, Ga. February mp Meade, Md. -September 15 to Decem+ 1923, Ft, Riley 1 and_field to May 27, 25 to 1d° Ari 5 5 to Ficid Artillery— March 15 to June 15, 1924, Ft, Sill, Okla, C. A (‘l; (hurbor defense artillerv) :ptember 15 to December 15, 1923, Ft. Monroe, Va. 2 C. A. C. (heavy mobile artillery)— September 15 to December 15, 1923, ‘t. Monroe, Va. C. A. C. (A A)—S. December 15, 1923, Ft. Signal- November 11 has been d as the time limit for officers with world war service to join the or- ganized reserves without examina- tion. As these examinations will be difficult’ and will include & number of subjects, it is the de of the War Department that e officers take steps immediately to en- roll themselves. in the reserve. Arrival of the U. S. S. Chaumont at Hampton roads this week will mark the close of the two-month cruise of members of the Housg naval affairs committee on their touk of inspection of the naval shore establishments at Panama and the Pacific coast. From all accoumts, which include letters from various members of Con- gress who made the trip and naval officers who accompanied them, it was a complete succe: Judging from these reports the trip was in no sense a “pleasure party” for the official members, for at the request of the congressmen two Qaily sessions of the committee_were held aboard ship, at which evefy phase of naval activities ire {of the different shore establishments to be visited on the trip we oughly discussed and the Navy cles explained in great detail. 4 portof call a strenuous program inspection was carried out, only suf. ficient time being allowed at each place for this. The triphstarted the latter part of July and took forty days to complete, part of the official party leaving the Chaumont at Port Angelus, Puget sound, gsturning to the east c overland, while the others are ing the return trip aboard the ship. Members of the comnftee took ad- vantage of the opportunity afforded to familiarize themselves thoroushly with the details of the proposed plan for development of the naval shore establishments recently drawn up by the naval board headed by Capt. A. L. Willard and approved by Aeting Sec- retary Roosevelt, with pargiculay ref- erence to the poln tear Admiral of the bureau of who made the trip of inspection the representative with the comm tee of the Navy Department, returned week. Several thor- polt ¢h world war | | of | [ | | Hoar, Engineer Corp; THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 16, 1923 PART | 1 B3 other officers were aboard diring part terday and during the week these|president, spoke of the acarty co-|a few inches to two 1eet, though of all of the trip and took part in officers visited the burcau oa route the dally conferences. Rear Admiral James F. Dayton, who | went to Panama and relleved Rear | Admiral W. C. Cole, who continued’ with the party; Maj. Gen. W. C. Neville, en route to his new post in command of the marines on the west coast; Capt. J. M. Enochs and Com- mander Walter A. Smead. The daily meetings were strictly business. All avgilable data was taken by Admiral Gregory and the discussions were as thorough and complete as the committee meetings | at the Capitol ordinarily are, As thé subsequent visits at the naval stations were such as to illus. trate the matters which had been up { for discussion, the congressmen were | able to vizuallze clearly the difficul- ties of the problems before the Navy. As the result of the trip it is felt ! They were (toFort Humphries. SPANISH WAR VETERANS. Monday night—Department Band, 921 Pennsylvania avenue sbutheast. Monday night—Col, Astor Camp, Stanley Hall, Monday night—Admiral Dewey Na. val Auxiliary, 921 Pennsylvania gve- varfous | nue southeast. ‘Wednesday night—Gen. Urell Camp, Pythtan Temple. Wednesday night—Gen. Urell dies' Auxillary, Pythian Temple. Wednesday night—Col. Astor La- La- in naval circles that much progress | dles’ Auxiliary, 921 Pennsylvania ave- was made in preparation for the sub- mission of the questions of providing nue southeast. Thursday night—Lieut. Richard J. for the shore establishments before Harden Camp, Pythian Templo. Congress by giviug the members of | the naval affairs committee first-hand | Lawton Camp, Pythian Temple, information as to the Navy's need that will enable them to prepars the necessary business basis. Officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps have received through Secretary Denby a card from Mrs. Harding, expressing her deep appre- ciation of their expressions of sym- pathy, as well as their tribute of flowers to their dead Commander-in- Chief. Suggestion has been made to the bureau of aeronautics that the ZR-1, the Navy's first capital ship of the air, be christened the United States, foliowing the precedent established when the American Navy was first created. The first of the half dozen frigates which formed the beginning of our present Navy, origally com- manded by John ‘Barry, bore this name, and the originators of the idea to so christen the new Leviathan of the air believe It appropriate to have as her namesake the first of what may In the future develop into Amer- ican air fleet. Rear Admiral H. H. Roussau, En- gineer Corps, U. S. N, has returned to Washinglon after six weeks' duty as senlor member of the board ap- pointed by the Secretary of the Navy to settle on just compepsation for the Navy's usé and occupancy of the property within East Camp, Hampton roads, Va. The board conducted its hearings and investigations at the uaval operating base, Hampton roads, and has ncarly completed its work. The report s expected at an early ate. 2 Navy people are waiting with much interest detalled reports from naval officers in the far east on theiextent of the Japanese disaster and the part played by American naval forces in the relief work. Fallure or inability on the part of Admiral E. A. Ander- son to wireless to the department any information as to what his force has been doing has left officials here in the dark, though isolated press dis- patches have shown the Navy is play- mg the brilliant peacetime role it always plays in times of great dis- asters when the call is made on It. There is a deep undercurrent of In- terest too in the unconfirngy reports that Japan suffered tré®nenduous losses to her naval strength, though the impression prevalls that these reports have been greatly magnified, especially those referring to the bat- tleships and other warships believed lost. Other press reports indicate that the active fleat was crulsing well away from tHe scene of the disaster and it is believed that if warships were last they were in the main, the older ships laid up, like so many of our decommissioned ships T The most serious military naval authorities believe, will found done to her naval bases, blow that will be sadly felt, o3 to the limited number of yards capable . of constructing the larger hips. Under the terms of the naval treaty of the armamefit conference Japan will be free to replace any warships lost in the disaster that she was permitted to retain by the treaty In the case of battlesifps she would be at liberty to replace them with mpdern fighting craft up to 35000 standard ton displacement and carry- ing sixteen-inch gun either in the mediate future or at any timo dur- ing the ten-year life of the treaty. No attempt, however, jhas been made by the department to ascertain the facts as to Japan's naval losses as the first concern of departmental officials, like that of the rest of the country, has been to help carry on Wthe relief work and sist Stricken nation to begin her work of commercial rehabilitation. . W loss be a ng “Johnson and Allen U. L. D have for assignment Lieuts. been selected course of instruction Engineers’ School, at Fort The course pursue the the Army Humphrie: ' We are now displaying the new V-63-Cadillac which incorporates many new features, including b New Cadillac, V-Type, 90°, Eight-Cylinder Engine Cadillac Four-Wheel Brakes . New Body Styles Cadillac V-63 body designs and construction preclude the necessity of those who formerly felt it necessary to rely upon custom-built bodies to any longer depend upon them, for todayno - custom-built body can equal those built in the plants of the Cadillac Motor Car Company and the Fisher Body Corporation. CA During the display we will remain Open Evenings D\}' i ' i { | | R Thursday night—Gen. Henry W. Department Commander James legislation on a strictly ' Murphy, heading the District of Co- lumbla ' delegation, left night over the Southern, train, for Chattancoga, where the twenty-fifth national encampment will convene, September 16-20 Saturday by special The next regular business of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Home, United States War Veterans' Asso- clation, will be held in_Grand Army Hall, Wednesday night, September 26, Camp commanders will please cali their represeatatives' attention to this special change of date. session Col. James §. Pettit Ladies’ Auxil- fary entertained as their birthday party guest Department Commander James J. Murphy and his stafl. The birthday party was the first anniver- sary ofithe organizing of the auxil- fary. Nelffe Gerken, ~president, re- ports a good year socially and finan- cially. Department Commander Mur- y ‘complimented the ladles. Frances Van Allen, department operation and good work done bv them during the year and hoped that they would double this year's work at their second birthday party next Beptember. A large number of com- rades were present, Following the entertainment, refreshments were served, Commander Clarence P. Brower re- orts that at the meeting of Lieut. tichard J. Harden Camp, held Thurs- day night in the Pythian Temple, a contribution of $10 ‘was made to the Washington Post Japanese relief fund. Tho .Lineal Soclety, at mesting, donated $10 to the roilof fund. Miss Janette McCaffrey, daughter of past department commander, was initiatod, Chlef Ttuler Mrs, H. Weber Is mak- ing preparations to hold a rummage sule wome time in October. Mrw, Johns has been appointed chalrman of a masquerade dance to be held October 31, in Pythian Tem- plo. Prizes will 'be awarded and every one In assured a good time. Pro- coedn 1o be used for relief work. Gen, M. B, Urell United Spanish War_Vete regular meeting In Pythian Temple, on the 6 Inst, made final arrange- ments for its delegation to the na- tional convention at Chattanooga, to be held Heptember 17-20, 1923, Comrade H. P. Cannon, late of lst United States Cavalry, was received Into full membership tn the camp. Comrades King, Teeling, Almy and Prentiss were reported as being i1l and arrangements made to visit these comrades regularly. Comrade Close of Miles Camp and Comrade Coyle of Astor Camp were welcome visitors and addressed the camp In a very interesting manner relative to United Spanish War Vet- eran affairs. the ‘last Japanese How to Recognize Ivy. From the Nature Magazine. Poison ivy usually grows as a low, erect shrub, varying in height from EQUIPMENT A catalogue and a demonstrating car no longer suffice for an individual to engage in the automobile business. Provision must be made to adequately care for the transportation requirements of those who deal with you. 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