Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 68

ARMY AND NAVY NEWS - BY M. H. McINTYRE ARMY, Beginning March 15, a special com- mand and staff school course for Na- tlonal Guard officers above the rank ©f captain will be glven at Fort Leavenworth and will conclude June 15. It is expected that about twenty efficers will attend this course. Officers who will be selected to take this course will be limited to those whose previous service and military experience is such as to insure that they will be able to complete suc- cesstully the course In question. They should be general officers, colonels and lieutenant colonels of the line or other fleld officers, who are or may be potential tactical staff officers of érganizations not lower than the brigade. An exhibition was given in the of- fice of the chief signal officer Monday showing the progregs which the Sig- nal Corps of the Army Is making in telephone conversation to and from an airplane while in flight. Taking off at Bolling Field, the plane was piloted to Quantico, twenty miles down the Potomac, and return, during which time a constant tele- phone conversation was . aintained between the operator i tie airplane and the office of the chief signal offi- Messages from the nlane were hrough a loua speaker so present could hear, and com- munication to the plane was through sho ordinary desk telephone con- nected with the Arlington Radio Sta- tion. The rapid advances which have been made in this radio telephone tommunication indicate that this method of communication to and from #irplanes while in flight over long distances will, in all probabllity, be eveloped to a high state of efficiency. A winter instruction program_for thie officers and men stationed at Fort Thomas_has been prepared by Capt. 4. T. McKenzle, operations officer, Which has been approved by Col. Jo- ®eph F. Gohn, commanding officer of the 10th Infantry. Among. the sub- dects which are included in the course are military sketching and map read- ing; rules of land warfare; hippology; fle engineering; military hygiene and first aid; training methods and Principles and the use of federal roops in civil distarbances; military law, administration and mess man- agement; drill regulations; manual of the saber; nomenclature and use of stol'and interlor guard duty. Meeting at Aberdeen Proving rounds, Md., October 26, the Army Ordnance Association in their annual convention, besides staging an all-day ordnance, ‘aircraft and_material dem- onstration, elected officers for the coming vear. Benedict Crowell, for- mer assistant secretary of war, was re-elected president of the associa- tion, as was also the vice president, William W. Coleman. Those who were elected to the board of directors were: Gen. Guy E. Ccipt, chairman of the board of directors of the West- inghouse Electric Co.; Gen. Samuel McRoberts, president of the Metro- politan Trust Company of New York, and Waldo C. Bryant, The American Society of Military Engineers, October 30, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, staged a successful demonstration of ordnance and air- craft to which were invited the Amer- fean Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Approximately 500 engi- neers gathered to witness the various exhibitions. Plans have been prepared for the erection of a monument over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Ar- lington national cemetery. Two de- sighs have been submitted, one being arawn by Carrere and Hastings, New York architects, who drew the plans for the amphitheater, and calling for a 3b-foot shaft costing approximate- 1y $35,000, while the other design was prepared in the office of the quarter- master and is a low, massive struc- ture. Plans and specifications will in all probability be submitted to Congress at the approaching session and it is hoped that an appropriation will be authorized for the erection of a sult- able monument. Contemplated plans for the/ im- provement of Arlington national cem- etery call for an expenditure of $1,400,000, which wlill provide for much needed additional roads throughout the temetery, the planting of trees and shrubbery and the con- struction of a new bridge, which will span_the Potomac river in the rear of the Lincoln Memorial on the District of Columbia side and will approach the Virginia side in front of the Lee mansion. This amount will also pro- vide for beautifying the drive to Arlington by way of the Highway bridge, and it is planned to remove the unsightly shacks which line the Vir- ginia side of the river in this vicinity. The plans are in tentative form only, but it is hoped that Congress will see the urgent need of these im- pfo;’emenu and appropriate ,accord- ingly. Meeting at Denver, Col, the Na- tlonal Guard Assoclation ' convened October 24 in its annual sessions. Gen. John J. Pershing, not being able to attend the meeting. expressed his regrets in_a letter which was read by Gen. Logan to the delegates. Among those who addressed the meet- ing were Maj. Gen. George C. Rick- ards, chief of the militia bureau; Maj. Gen.' Hanson E. Ely of the War Col- lege and Maj. Gen. Clarence E. Ed- wards of Massachusetts. The newly elected officers of the association are: Brig. Gen. Milton A. Reckord of Baltimore, Md., president; Maj Gen. Franklin W. Ward of Al bany, N. Y., first vice president; Lieut. Col. Le Roy Pearson of Lansing, Mich., secretary (re-elected), and Brig. Gen. Edward A. Martin of Washington, Pa, treasurer (re-elected). The corps area vice presidents who were elected are: 1st, Col. Cyril L. D. Wells of New York; 2d, Col. Charles E. Walsh of Rhode Island; 3d, Gen. W. G. Price, jr, of Pennsylvania; 4th, Brig. Gen. Robert J. Travis of Geor- gla; 5th, Gen. R. H. Typdall of In- diane; 6th, Col. Heinrich A. Pickert of Michigan; 7th, Brig. Gen. M. A. Tinley of lowa; 8th, Col. P. A. Weath- etred of Texas, and 9th, Brig. Gen. J.J. Borree of California. Meeting jointly with the National Guard Association, the Adjutants Gen- eral elected Brig. Gen. B, Smith of Indiana, president; while both Gen. F. D, Beary of Pennsylvania, vice presi- dent, and Gen. Carlos E. Black of Tllinofs, treasurer, were re-elected to their respective offices. Maj. Follett Bradley and Capts. O. 18k Vand "Charizs B R air service officers, recently flew to David, Republic if Panama, which is near the border of Panama and Costa Rico, where they concluded arrange. ments for clearing and preparing the surface of a new landing fiel The new field belongs to the Pamana gov- ernment. The old field belonged to private parties and free use in the future has been denied. Two types of machine gun quad- rants have been tested by the de- partment of experiment and are un- der consideration by the infantry board. They are designed primarily to replace the machine gun clinome- ter now- used for placing .the proper elevation on the machine gun when de- livering indirect fire. NAVY. d consolidation of the hy- hic office and the coast and Be c survey, as included In the Brown plan for reorganization of government branches, aroused. a Bt of protest from rvice and civilian sailors. Not only are the functions dissimilar, it is asserted, but_the T ic ice is &0 es- sential to naval operations that elimi- nation of the present bureau would necessitate ' the immediate erection within the department of some sort of substitute to conduct the same activities. The geodetic survey confines its work to the coastal waters of the Unif States. hydrographic Tast former was ‘around. $3.000. , ihe naval agency_gperated 000.. It was declared furthe mariners generally when seeking data vital to their safe movement come to the hydrographic office in | preference to the civilian bureau. This is explained, it is belleved, by the more comprehensive charts turned out by the hydrographer, The hun- dreds of so-called “bottle letters” and reports on marine phenomena of vari- ous kinds which come every week to the hydrographic office are cited as evidence of its wide popularity, ‘These contributions are entirely vol- untary and are furnished gratis by skippers of every country toward the general good. Recently an announce- ment was made of a formal contract entered into by the government for the gathering of reports on weather at sea. ' When the weather bureau was under the Navy these reports were received in multitudinous de- tall without cost. A story vividly illustrating one of the objections of saflors to the al pilot chart has been current in snug harbors for years. The navigator of a ship entering San Francisco bay set about charting his berth in’the manner routine throughout the seven seas, namely, taking “sights” upon the most prominent objects on shore at various points. As every visitor to the Golden Gate recalls, these include the ferry house and Oakland city hall. checked his bearings on these, navigator turned to plot them on his harbor chart, but found them non- existent, so as that document in- dicated.” Instead, obsciire lights, in- visible in the slightest weather, wers given as focli. Rear Admiral L. E. Gregory, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, will leave Washington this week for a tour of inspection of public works and public utilities of the North Atlantic coast sta- tions. On November 9 he will deliver an address before the Naval War Col- lege and will return to the department on November 18. h Opening of the Naval Academy on October 1 found the greatest number of midshipmen ever at the academy at: one time, a total of 2,498 by classes, as follows: First class, 531; second clas 501; third class, 581; fourth class, 8$85. As a result of a preliminary examina- tion of candidates for midshipmen from enlisted personuel, the following is the number that will begin. instruction on November 1 at the special preparatory schools at the naval training stations at Hampton Roads and San Diego: At the former, 128 enlisted men of the Navy and 14 ; at the latt naval enlisted men and 2 total of 213. The course of instruction will con- tinue until April 16, when the com- petitive examination ';lll be held. The one hundred passing the highest in the examination will receive appointments as midshipmen should that number qualify, Lieut. Gail Morgan, operations officer of the flight division of the bureau of aeronautics since the creation of the bureau over two years ago, has been detached to the " alrcraft 'squadrons, battle fleet, based at San Diego. Lieut. Commander L. C. Sheible, who has been in command of a destroyer in the Asiatic fleet, has been detalled to the bureau of ordnance in charge of the aviation ordnance section and will take up his new duties this week. The cruiser Concord went into com- mission yesterday at Philadelphia and is slated for a shake-down cruise that will take her to South African waters, starting the latter part of this month. Reports to the Navy Department indicate that Naval Reseives are making satisfactory headway in aviation. Green men are being train-\ ed with excellent results. For in. stance, eighteen are being trained at New York and at Spuntum they are flying about fifty hours a week, with but two planes in service. ‘Washingtonlans this week had an excellent opportunity to see one of the powerful new cruisers, the ex- cellent performance of which is a matter of pride to the service. The cruiser Richmond, fresh from a long shake-down cruise, has been at Alex- andria and at the navy yard here for several days. She brought the bodies of the sailors who died during the 1918 influenza epidemic in Brazilian waters home, and stayed take part in the ceremonies attend- ant on the laying of the corner stone, Friday, of the George Washington memorial. Departure of Capt. Luke McNamee, for two years director of naval in- telligence, for the west coast yester- day to assume command of the bat- tleship Tennessee, is generally viewed with regret throughout the depart- ment. His constructive work here, particularly along the line of indoc- trination of the service with the necessity and wisdom of _keeping the public informed of the .activi- ties of the Navy, is looked upon by flex]:lflmfl\!fll heads as of value. He is to be succeeded b: Capt. H. H. Hough, nowsin the vu-.-& Islands, who, however, will not be able to “take over” for some time until relieved by Capt. Philip Wil- liams. In the meantime, Commander ‘W. W. Galbraith, who succeegs Capt. C. R. Miller, now on leave d who retires December 31, will be acting director. Extracting water from the exhaust gases of airship engines to compen- sate for the weight of the fuel that is burned when the ship is crulnlng is one of the developments whicl have been perfected by the Navy De- partment in connection with building the U. 8. S. Shenandoal The invention will resuit in.a great 8aving of the hellum gas with which the airship is inflated and the elimi- nataion of the expense involved- in || the "necessity for valving. helium. to keep the ship in equilibrium: The principle on which experts of the || Navy Department have been working y, is the condensation of the moisture in the engine exhaust by a relatively [} simple nnrarlt\lm On long flights the consumptiton of fuel lightens the ship in the samé manner and with the same effect as would be had from dis- charging ballast. This results in a tendency to rise to higher altitudes and can only overcome by releas- ing some of the inflation gas through the valves which are Proyided and thereby decreasing the lifting power of the ship. In tests which have been made the apparatus has proved to be about 100 per cent)efficient—that is, an excess of water Is recoversd Xn the weight of fuel consumed . in a given time, assuring the success of the .device. To Cut Glass Tul i I'l' is sald that the following is.a simple and, effective. way - to. cut glass tubes. First, with a sharp tri- angular file draw a fine’ line, acro: tube. Then, holding the two ends of ‘the tube firmly in’ the hands, bend it, pulling the two ends or halves apart at the same time. It will u: ually crack at the scratch: with a smooth edge. If the tubing is thick, it may be necessary aftef making the scratch to start the crack by megns of ‘a red-hot-bit of glass—ror instance, the end of a: stirring rod that has been heated over'the’flame of a lamp. 2 —_——— Flapper. Corn, From the Kansas City Star. A gentleman farmer had s friend out. to look the place over. After inspecting the blodded tractors and one thing and another they came to a small inclosed cornfield. “What Is ‘this varlety you have sown?” asked the.visltor. - - “Flapper corn,” was the reply. “Flapper corn? I never heard of that. 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