Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1926, Page 72

Army and Navy News Irelieve Liewt. Col. W. H. Clopton, Jr., nance Department, as finance officer 1t Boston, who comes to Washington |for duty as executive officer in place lof Col. P. L. Smith. The latter goes to Governors Island as corps area Y04 by om finance officer. Lieut. ] belonging to these |Oliver, on temporary duty §hin eervichs.s A rty auditor of the Dit copy of the newly will be relleved to revised regula auditor of the 6th o e most | 0. gl R and Navy officers who T Nclich selates been pursuing a post-graduate T examination to|course of one year in communications fiold grades, ha Wt Yale University unde: Deen forwarded b the Army Signal M Gen, e ated on June 14 s ol d They are X N i ,;‘}(..\l' jand Capts. Albert C. of the vederick W. Hoorn the War D Miller, ment for appro’ Lieuts and it is expected 1d and Frederick will be pub. Service, and Lieuts. ins, Allen P. Mullin- ham and Alva J. Army. erest is being taken in the | the Army regulations gov- profe jonal examination n the 3 . Dent Veterin: n v revision ¢ erning the or promotion Ke become Corps n_ Army master Paul W Stanford and and Second Li Donald D, D. Lynch, | William « | nix, Roy | Sprigg: Considerable interest is being evinced by retired officers of the Reg- lular Army in the prposal to promote to brigadier generals six colonels now on the retired list who have to their credit more than 40 years’ active com- : missioned service and who have par- ribed by | ticipated in the Indian wars, the Span- Army and | isi-American War ‘and the World i serviee [ War and who have been awarded ed to take @ |cither the congressional medal of they will| honor or the distinguished servi edal. War Department records dis- ose the fact that less than 60 of the more than coinels now on the re. tred list astively served 40 Figures compiled by the War partment show that only about 5 per cent of the Army officers are in tive service that length of time. he six retired colonels who would be ed by this proposal are Lloy 31. Brett, W. C. Brown, W. D. Beach, from J. Nicholsen. W. E. Wilder and since Dugan, ith the exception of S Br all of these officers served on | quring the World War. itis| " Up to the first of this year, it w 5 » War Department, esioned officers out of than 14,000 officers, both {active and retired, have been deco- rated twice. Four of officers on this list of slx have been so honored They are Col. Drett, holder of the | medal of honor snd the distinguished .| service medal; C8l. Brown, who has |been breveted ard has received the stinzuished service medal and also silver citation #ar; Col. Nicholson, ho Las been awarded the distin guished service cross and the distin- guished service me holder of the medal of honor and vho also has Leen breveted v | n and rvices. accord cers ing made on_ of the > desire sviate hand exam stu N s exam jons red > otfi- more 1y will be at an early corporated in s govern s pre- | or who has ears and has placed on he Secretary gnated as As there now tions Navy Speculation is rife fn naval circles as to where Rear Admiral Richard H. Leigh, now chief of Gtaff to Admiral Charles 1°. Hughes, commander-in- chief of the battle fleet, will be as- signed when the latter officer assumes mand of the United States fleet eptember 4 next. In certain quar- is believed Admiral Leigh will b Admiral Hughes and act in at present. The n howeve; 1 be appoints the Bureau of Navi- , succeeding Rear Admiral t. Shoemaker, the present incumbent, when the retires from active service on Capt. Adolphus Staton, who just re- cently returned from duty on the Asiatic, has reported for duty at the | Navy Department, whers he has besn placed in charge of the discipline di- vision of the Bureau of Navigation. | He succeeds the late Capt. William mn., jr pt. Robert Henderson Army War College, will [to command the U { lieving Capt. Donald ¢ will be at colle is, Depart on this sub establishing | nt upon tertain tk rement \)nnhl | those physi for duty in any The implication he so physical t Al i i of might he capable sfessionally now at the | 7 be igned | | | i . Dobbin, re. Bin m, who ed to duty on the staff Comdr. Claudius R. now on duty at the Bureau of wce, has been assigned to com- | submarine division 19 in the| | " 1 Zone. He will relieve Comdr. John . who will g0 to the Bureau_of i Departme AS the result of the transferral on June 3 of Lieut. Col. William L. | Redles to the retired list of the Marine | Corps, on account of physical dis { abilit the following became due for | promotion to the next higher grades, respectively: Maj. Russell B. Putnam, ssistant paymaster; Capt. Willlam H. { Rupertus, First Lieut. Herman R. An- 3 and Second Lfeut. Delbert D. be user ere creates a is a ion exi the conferees on the flv Bty aviation program agree | e ion for an additional Sec- he of | retary of the Navy, who, among ather hich the | dv vould have charge of naval] e o stam | aviation of the naval establishment, | | it is understood that the appointee to | the new office will be Representative James M. Magee, Republican, of Pittsburgh. Mr. Magee, now a mem- ber of the House naval committee, has not been nominated for re-election to the Seventieth Congress. 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Mr. Magee has been a close student of aeronautical affairs for nearly 20 years. lleutenant in the Army Afr Serv- fce in 1907: later he received his pro- motion to captain and he served until January of 1919. e holds a commis- sion as lieutenant colonel (specialist) in the Officers’ Reserve Corps. Now that the equalization for pro- motion between line and staff officers of the Navy has become & law, the Bureau of Navigation is engaged in the preliminary detail of carrying out the provisions of the law. There is being compiled in the bureau the run- ning mate list, which will show the officers who will be eligible for con- sideration by the first boards and also the number of officers who will be recommended for promotion by the board in_each corps. There will be three staff boards on selection—one to recommend_officers for promotion to the rank of captain and commander of the Medical Corps, another to rec- ommend officers f promotion to the same ranks In the Supply Corps, and a third to recommend officers for pro- motion to the rank of captain in the Corps of Civil Engineers. Subsequent boards will be convened after ap- proval of the selections made by the present line selection board. Departure was made last week from a policy of several years' standing with respect to the restoration of for- mer officers of the Navy who are now in civil life as a result of resignation. Ever since the administration of Sec- retary Danlels the rule has been in- variably observed not to act favorably on such proposals. The reason for the assumption of this position, it is pointed out, Is that the reinstatement of such officers would seriously inter- fere with thelr former associates on the personnel register, unless the ben- eficiary, of course, was carried as an extra number. Considerable opposi- 's been in evidence to t feature. An officers who re- nd who knows when tendering his resignation that it is an utter im- possibility to be reappointed, it is is not entitled to special favor in his behalf. derable fmportance was at- ached last week, however, to the pro- posal to appoint Cecll Clarence Adell, formerly an ensign in the Navy, to his former rank, with provision for subsequent promotion in the usual w and that he be carried as an extra number. N Department He was appointed a first | an enlisted man who was appointed to the Naval Academy, and that he resigned from the naval service be- cause the naval auth.rities refused to grant him sick leave and his assign- ment to duty within 30 days after an operation for appendlcitis. The record shows that the leave ' was favored by the surgeon in the case, only to be disappreved by the senior surgeon, an act wholly unwarrantable and not justified. The Navy Department is expected to maintain its same attitude toward such proposals, but in other quarters there is conslderable sentiment in favor of the reinstatement of this for- mer officer. It is insisted that for mer officers similarly situated and who desire to be restored to the naval serv- ice will regard this case as a pr dent upon which they may seek to attain restoration. The fact that Mr. Adell possesses an admirable record and that he is strongly indorsed for restoratlon and retention in the naval service does not enter into the question. In the face of the adverse stand taken by the department in this case, though it has done so In other_ restoration cases, it is 1 ed that Mr. Adell is entitled to favorable consideration. Much interest is being taken in the final outcome of this case, as it is ap- preciated that other equally meritori- ous cases have been rejected and the indlviduals concerned may now, it is said, easily assert their rights. The proposal has been made that four retired officers of the Coast Guard be made commodores on the retired list without any increase of pay. They are iiel P. Foley, Fran- cis M. Dunwoody, Howard M. Broad- bent and Horace B. West. ach offi- cer on this list had served, when re- tired, over 40 years, and each was retired with the rank of commander, that being the highest rank in the Coast Guard except that of mandant at the time. Comdr. was retired February 2, 1921; Dunwoody, July 1, 1920; Comdr. Broadbent, October 10, 0, Comdr. West, Junu'\l) When the governors of the several American States meet at Cheyenne, Wyo., the latten part of July, Mr: Nellle T. Ross, Wyoming's governo: will act 3 D. C, JUNE 20, 1926—PART 3. Than in Auditorium, Tests Reveal Special Dispatch to Tho Star. LOS AN Calif., June 19 A speaker may be heard more clearly and accurately in the open air than in any auditorium. This conclusion, following elaborate _experimentation by Dr. Vern O. Knudsen, physicist in the University of California, southern branch, is a contradiction of the wide- spread idea that a properly construct- ed auditorium reinforces and im- proves audibility. The walls of such a room may in- crease the general loudness of speech sounds, but the interference of rever- beration more than counteracts the presumed advantage. In one test of an auditor's accuracy in understand back of a rostrum are considered by Knudsen of appreciable acoustic value, but are generally architectural misfits. Auditorium walls in any com- mon position are simply a necessary Music halls, where clear- 53 of speech articulation is of minor concern, are not directly considered in the work described, nor is count taken of peculiar halls where a rearseat auditor can hear a pin drop on the stage. Such a stunt may have no relation to the value of the auditorfum for continuous speech. The moral of all this to the archi- tect seems to be—break the rules of selentific acoustics if you have to in order to avold spoiling an artistic de ing speech it was found that a listen- cn, then spend some money on er 100 feet from a speaker in the | padding. In view of the expense and open-alr Hollywood Bowl made a bet- | other disadvantages of hair felt, the ter record than he could even in the | field is now open for a porous, spongy best Los Angeles auditorium available, [ Wallplaster which may absorb more More precise tests were carried on | 0f the stray sound than common hard with the ald of an oscillating umpli ind thus prevent reverbera fler—the equivalent of ja “howling” radio set. This device ylelded a sound electrically controlled and maintained at a set value just 1,000 times the amplitude of a barely audible sound. The “howl,” suddenly interrupted, reverberated for five seconds in a test room with a cement floor and no fur- niture. When « set of meaningless speech sounds was spoken in this room the auditor got only 60 per cent of them correctly. The room was now gradually padded more and more completely, as time went on, with a oneinch layer of hair felt. Reverberation was steadily shortened. Finally, with maximum padding, 92 per cent accuracy in speech understanding was attained, while the reverberation time 1|g shrunk to six-tenths of a second. This is considered the limit in acoustic clearness indoors, but when the e perimenters moved outdoors the ac- curacy rose to 95.7 per cent, exceed- ing the best record of a padded room and much ahead of any regular aud torium. Higher accuracy than is improbable, as the auditors make a few mistakes in any case. These oc- ur with end consonants, especially th” and “ng,” and not with vowel sounds. ncave sounding SR g Clam Is Diver's Foe. Writers who give us storfes of pearl fishing usually describe sharks and devilfish as the diver’'s worst enemlies. Actually, the s is a cowardly brute, and the release of a few bub. bles from the valve of a diving dress is usually enough to scare him a ys the Cleveland Leader. he great rock cod is a far more formidable fish. in'the Red S and Persian Gulf, a British naval officer told the writer of the capture of one welghing over 400 pewnds, In which were found a woman's mecklet and ankle rings. The most awful man trap is the | nt clam, the s world. h alve of the shell is hig enough for a bath, and the two to. gether weigh nearly half a ton. Speci- mens have been found 8 feet long. These st unseen on the sea floor with If_open, and if touched close at once. Since no power short of a steam engine could force open the slu‘l diver so trapped is doom. ve made a noise in not used their mouths The men who ha the world have lone. boards located | Sweeping Price Reductions It is falrly common | and | rgest shellfish in the | IN STUDY OF DISEASE Rabbits Used in Experiments by Dr. J. V. Klauder—Suppiements Blood Tests. Special Dispatch to The Star | PHILADELPHIA, June 19.—While blood tests have played for some time a prominent part in diagnostic methods in the current medical mode, chemical analysis of the skin of ani- | mals as a means of studying the underlying causes of skin diseases | like eczema has been comparutively | neglected. In a serles of experiments with rab- | bits it has been shown by Dr. J. V Klauder an1 Herman Brown of the Research Institute of Cutaneous Medi cine that the quantity of the element | lefum contained in the skin bears ! an important relation to its irritabil- | ity. The greater the amount of cal clum present, apparently, the lesser | is the degree if irritability possessed | by our epidermal covering. | While this was not the case with | all rabbits, it was true of a sufficient | majority to establish an fmportant | lon. It was lkewise (uumi\ ust the inverse relation existed | with respect to the element potas- | sium. The more potassium there was | present the greater was the cutaneous | irritability registered by the animals. Since potassium stimulates cell a tivity and calcflum has just the op- posite effect, the investigators sug- gest that eczema may be due to & | condition in which the biochemical | mechanism of the nerves and cells of | skin are out of equilibrium. , in collaboration with . Righter and M. J. Harkins, | have also conducted an important in | vestigation of a skin infection gen | erally prevalent among fishermen and | fish ‘handlers. This infection, medi cally termed a gevere form of erysipe loid, usually arises from a bite from | 4 fish on the hands or a wound from | | the spines or fins. Since it frequently | | puts a fisherman out of commission | from two to six weeks, its bearing on | the fish industry is of considerable | significance. It is said to be fa |1333-37 14th St. throughout the world. 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