Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1924, Page 30

ArmyandNavyNews BY W. M. McINTYRE. NAVY. Tt is now regarded in well informed circles as settlod that ths mnomi- nations of I Gen. Eli Cole to be major general and Col. Dion Williams to be brigadier general of the Marine Corps will be made upon the retirs ment of Maj. Gen Joseph H. Pendle- ton, U. S. M. C, in June. Both the Secre of the Navy and Maj Gen. John A. Le jeune, comman- lant of the Marin Corps going records Gen. Cole and Cal, Williams, and it is understood that the Secretary of the Navy has de cided that two officers of BRIG. GEN. COLE. hould be promoted. On the completion of the work now being done by the hureau of cngi- neering_on the radio teleph at the Brooklyn navy vard the ¢ manders of naval craft will be abis k 1o the vard. Installation of i similar set of radio telephones will shortly b made at Guantanamo and Newport. reports from the tests of ter-recovery apparatus at the factory, Philadelphia, n the airship Shenan- indicate that this apparatus is ¥ cessful. At three different speeds, with the engine upo tests w made operating rsepoy ater was about 10 per cent g wn the weight of f burned ater-recovery apparatus will be alled on the engines of the Shenan- «pah to condense the water vapor om the exhau t Installatic control sys- 1 on_the w York shaking preparatory extensive . §. The which is « the lat- ht cruiser con tion visited Anna dur- where the hipmen classes inspected the » an aleigh t worl 1d equi tg the the - ip. insidered Orde ast w ausuall d com . 7¢ due for sk Aptairns On the retirement o iral S. Carpenter. Supply 2 ay 18, his ssioned exceed that of served in the v, but on this he ranking officer of { The total | with been most important ni Admiral Carpef z uring hich mnec unting hment of th board cruising ves- of standard establis the cost accounting system iprovement of di m d the d opme ethod of making shipments by id by water. the Wy specification rail erection of a ah at en granted t Wy, The mooring m: of the portal ecretary of the . which will ther the Shenandoah or the in course of construction y the United States. 11t ansmission cables, sfactorily, and it iis work wiil be con an June 15, Stand 1d calibration will 1ip will then proc + join the battle fleet. Due to the e: 1e work on the U 5 inia, now at the New York yard un- >rgoing installation of extensive fire- antrol equipment, it is believed that ails_vessel will sail from Hampton ‘oads, Va., about June 15, aval representatives to the Olympic ames in France. 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Saler Reat, sisctrio lights, o 1 oo bmk‘lut o s ordher: Franch doors: Attio entiraly over house. PRICED RIGHT DOWN TO THE LOW DOLLAE. PHONE US NOW. WALTER A. BROWN 1400 H Street N.W. Main 1653 THE Davis, cavalry, president; Lieut. Col. Walt C. Johnson, general staff (infan- try); Maj. Karl Truesdell, Signal Corps: Maj. Burton K. Yount, air service; Maj. Harvey D. Higley, Maj. Edward A. Stockton, jr., Coast Artil- lery Corps: Capt. John W. Leonard, infantry; Capt. Daniel Noce, C. E.i First Lieut. Harrison W. Johnson, Signal Corps, and Dr. A. J. Klein. which will be followed by the usual acceptance trials. She is scheduled to Join the battle flect in the early all, A complete change of officer per- sonnel will shortly take place in the water transportation division, office of ‘he quartermaster general. Lieut. Col. Richard H. Jordan, Quartermaster Corps, chief of this division, will leave Washington next week for duty in China, while Capt. Harley A. Dres- back, Quartermaster Corps, his assist- ant, will proceed to Louisville, Ky., in June, as National Guard instructor. Their successors have not yet been announced sut. Col. John R. Wagner, Quar- termaster Corps, now en route from service in the Philippines, 2as been ordered to Washington, wh @ on ar- rival he will report to the ci.ef, mi tia bureau, for duty. Capt. Jam, Longino, Quartermaster Corps, whe has been on duty at Camp Holabird, Md., will proceed to Columbia, S, C. for ion as instrucfor of the 30tH Division, Among the new Quartermaster Corps officers coming to Washington are Capt, Turner R. Sharp, who has been on duty at Fort Bliss, Te: and First Lieut. Leslie §. William; has been stationed at Miller Field, Staten Island, _Commander Ralph Whitman, C. E. C., v senior member, and Lieut. Commanders George H. Emmerson and Murphy J. Foster, U. S. N., have been appointed on the board which will meet at the Navy Department at an early date to consider the appli- cation of candidates for post-graduate training in civil engineering. Three line officers will be selected, who will report to the Naval Academy in June for a one-year. course at the post- graduate school, which will be fol- lowed by a two-yvear course at the l?u-n wer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy Y., where the degree of mas- r civil engineer will be conferred. Candidates have until April 30, 1924, to submit their applications, Orders have been issued by ‘avy Department deta ing B. Combs, . E. C., N., from duty as treaiy engineer in Haiti, and a gning him to the third naval di trict. Lieut. C. H. Cotter, C. E. ¢ 1 N y_in 'Haiti, ha been ordered to the "receiving bar- racks, Hampton Roads, Va, from Wwhere he will proceed to Bremerton, Wash, for duty at the navy yard, Puget' Sound, and thirteenth naval district Licut, nder H. F. Bruns, C. the Lieut. also on du TUnless the troop duty law s changed, all five of the Quartermaster Corps officers who compose _ the American Graves Registration Serv- ice in France will be compelled to - s ref . return to the United States within (e Buneay orby graturned to duty 10} fhe next few weeks. The officers af- lowing the piration Cof - three | fected are Lieut. Col. Robert Sterrett, months' sick leave chief; Maj. Henry L. Green, construct- Orders were issued th ing_quartermaster; Capt. Stuart B. the Navy Department detach: Campbell, assistant in the Paris office; D. H. Nicholson, C. E. C, U. S Capt. Edward P. Doyle and First from duty in the office of the military | Lieut. Charles A. Morrow. —Orders governor of Santo Domingo and or. | have already been issued authorizing dering him to the Marine barracks, | S3Pt Doyle to proceed to the United Parris Island, . C. as public works | States ~ disciplinary barracks, For officer. ®|Jay, N. Y., for duty, and Lieut. Mor- Com Tow to Fort Humphreys, Va. as as- U. 8. N, sistant to the quarterma ter. ly?ll‘. it the Pershing, when in France recently. cable he quartermaster general expressing a desire that Maj. Green be retained in France until his work of laying out and beautifying the ight overseas cemeteries was com- [ & 3. pleted 0 ver, Congress for Commandor Guy- -‘haxu:( i \}Iln:“:l\l.r)l.d. een will be returned to the Unit States for troop duty. In the event that Maj. Giroen returns to this country, Lieut. Col. William O. Smith, now on duty with the surplus property division, office of the quartermaster general, vill in all probability ceed Maj. reen. Col. Smith has ently been 1elieved from duty at Fort Benning, G on; week by ing Lieu S, ander R. been detac! yard, mit Col to report to the Newport, R. 1., upon a course tion on or about for ¢ rat P the get Sound will be ordered in near future. (fonferences are now being held be- tween coast guard authorities and he bureau chiefs of the Navy De- partment, in order to ascertain what mprovements and repairs must be made on the twenty destroyers which wiil shortly be turned over to the st rd by the Navy. It is be- ved that new radio sets will be in- alled on all of the old destroye medical, dental, veterinary | and medical administrative corps off cers will compose the central medical examining board, which will be con- vened in Washington in the late fall for the purpose of reviewing the ex amination papers for the medical ad g ive corps examination, which OneL, b 0 t I be held at the various stations rom October 6 to 10. There is only | ne vacancy in this corps at the pres- ent time, but it is expected that this augmented by one or two | onary force. . time the October exam- none of | s 1. The corps has an au- in the fth of seventy-two offi- | ordered to rd will be composed of ollowing officers: Col. Weston, amberlain, Medical Corps, pres- Col. Robert T. Oliver, Dental hief of the dental service; Col. Raymond E. Ingalls, De: al Corps; Lieut. Col. John A. Kinnon, chief of the veterinary serv- ice; Maj. Henry C. Pillshury, Medical Corps; Maj. Daniel W. Harmon, Med- Nine Between July 1 and November 1, the two regiments of United States arines now on duty in the Domini- can Republic will be withdrawn cord tentative plans, th i will be sent fo to present j now serv will be ARMY. Working under the general di tion of the assistant chief of staff for operatio: nd training, a board »f officers us been convened for th purpose of preparing programs of in- ical Corps; Maj. George F. Lull, Medical Corps: Capt. Raymond A.| Kelser, Veterinary Corps and Capt. Robert A. Dickson, Medical Adminis- | trative Corps. With the exception of structions for all branch correspond- ence courses and for a command and general staff correspondence cours Several tings have already bee held. 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The Franz Duda photographic chro- nograph, purchased in Austria, has been shipped to Aberdeen proving ground for test. This is a portable photographic _chronograph, which ~an be used for measuring muzzle velocities at any angle of elevation of the gun without the use of towers or screens. The large panoramic sight for the l4-inch gun railway mount, graduated in degrees and hun- dredths, has just been completed at Fraokford arsenal. Of the list of 127 master sergeants, air service, prepared in the War De- partment as of April 21, three of them will become eligible for retirement during the next three months due to their completing thirty years of serv- lce. They are’ Master Sergts. Bir- Sauers and Patrick Gauson, tationed at Kelly Field and v re.due to retire during May. Master Sergt. Fred Parkins, on duty in Hawaii, is due to retire in July. “There is only one vacancy in the' list of master fergeants, the air service Leing authorized for this srade. In keeping with the policy of the War Department in effecting a turn- over in general staff assignments orders were issued this weck an nouncing the names of thirty-seven new oflicers who have b for War Department branch assignments will take place during summer months. They arc as follows: Col. Otho B. Rosenbaum, infantry; Lieut Cols. Robert s infantry: H. Burt, F. A.; Frank t A G Francis H. 1 ; Douglas Pot Caples, ¢, 1 Francis A. Ruggle: Overton, caval F. A Ed H. "B, Mye Hartshorn, infantry; John C. A, C: William McK F. D.; Majs. Laurence V. ier, € George R. Allin, A Francis Bl Wilby, € s L. Hall, C. E.; Harold K. A Cortland Parker, antr Fra ardson fantr. Johnson, . 4 Kenneth § king, F. A.; Stephen Reynolds, Q. M. (" | ff and anges son E. R. Ston M Lambdin, E.; Dunn, On the compietion the course of instruction the War College "t following officers have been assigned to the chief of branch indicated after his name for duty in his office | Licut. Col. Edward H. De Armond, office chief of field artillery: M Roy C. Heflehower and Paul W. Gib- son, office of the surgeon general: Irving J. Phillipson, djutant en- eral's oftic Henry C. Pratt, offi of chief of air service; Charles T. Har- ris, jr.. and Dwight K. Shurtleff, office £ the chief of ordnanc Upon the completion of his present course of instruction &t (entre | rs de Combat, Ver- | apt. Allen King sent Army | policy and is interdenominaf | +upported by volun There was Department techn 1 sergeants, air service. list con s 107 names, which is two | less than the authorized strength of | this grad: Six of these men become eligible for early retirement | due to their plet { their thirty years' ve service, They are: David Rec Philippine Islands; prepared in th April 21 9x12 Crass Rugs Cool and Attractive 6x9 All-Fiber Rugs, Very Attractive Paul L. Coble, Langley Field: Floyd B. Haney, Panama; John K. Brow Langley Field; Nick Roeser, Panam: George Commins, Bolling Field, Ana- costia, D. C. Mrs. Maurine Cardwell, who' has been director of the Quartermaster Corps welfare service since Maj, Gen. W. H. Hart became quartermaster general, has resigned her office, to be- come effective April 30, 1924. Mrs. Anna Farrar, welfare worker at Washington barracks, will take charge May 1. During the week the remount serv- ice, Quartermaster Corps, announced that beginning this year a miniature gilver cup will be presented by the American Remount Association to that student officer at the Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans., who shows the best trained remount each year. A silver cup was given to the school by the association in 1920 to remain in perpetuity there as an annual tro- phy, which has been competed for four times. A small replica is now added which will become the prop- erty of the winner. Winners in pre- vious vears have been: 1920, Capt Kenna G. Eastham, on Rebecca; 192 Capt Willoughby, on Warren- ton: 1823, First Lieut. Irby R. 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