Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1926, Page 61

HORSE SURVIVED CUSTER DISASTER Animal Riddled With Bullets Recovered, But Never Aft- erward Ridden. ated Press. R. June Few military engagements in the history of the United States ever brought forward mants to being the “sole | s the f the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, the semi ventennial of which will be obscrved this month at Custer Battlefleld While the disaste befell companies of the was in no sense a 8 trooper fighting to the last dit was an annihilation from which not one man escaped to tell the s.ory of the battle Yet there was a “sole manche.” the ¢ ing mount of Capt When he was five vears old. vernment purchased Comanche : ssigned him to Company I of the ith Cavalry, then stationed at Lllis, Kans. Capt, Keogh, acting inspector general on Gen. Sully's staff, when n expedition was or southern Indians at F Dodge, in \GS, chose the animal. During one i the engagements with the Co- wanche India the horse was wounded while Keogh was riding him. | Irom that time hence the wnimal was known as Comanche. 1t was Comanche on which Keogh | was mounted that fateful June 2 vhen Cusier made hiw last charge into the sreat Indian village on the Little Big Horn. Two days later. while Gen. Ter men were performing the last rites for their dead comrades, a.fleld quarter master found Comanche, riddled with ts. wandering weakly about the jeld. The humane thing ap-| ved 1o be to put the animal out of | 11s misery, vet the soldiers leaped at chanee to save one life—man or rom among the still forms that dotted the plains. Became Comfort of Post. Comanche’'s wounds were dres h the same care that would ¥ n shown one of the gallant troop- cis. The half-dead animal was con- \eved 1o the steamer Far West, at the inction of the Little and Big Horn Rivers where a comfortable stall was huilt to make his trip as painless a: possible into Bismark. N. Dak. From there he was taken to Fort Lincoln, the post om which Custer | and his command had started on their | st expedition. Here, the ten-| ministrations of su s. Com he recovered and his tment ¢nd comfort thereafter was the solici- Tude of the post While many stories have been told of how the horse was a favorite saddler among the ladies of the post arter his wounds had healed, a gen eral order, issued by Col. Sturgis, | would indicate that Comanche never | was ridden after the Custer battle. | That section said: “The commanding | officer of Company I will see that special and comfor all s itted up for him, and he will not tn be ridden by any person atsoever, under any circum- ance, nor will he ever he put to any kind of work.” When the Tth s ordered to Fort 1 battle ed Comanche was taken alor Until 1 when at the a of vears Comanche died, he was given tender and loving care. EXAMPLES PROVE | Army and Navy News commanding officers in Lurope andi,io precedence with all other lingice, Instéad of age. ineligibility for) School, and who has been ordered 1o b e oss o thiess fou | &ud istaft cMcers. acoonding ito ithie ((promotion in thesselectiany grades of { taintlc station. Jor-| dutes stated In the commissions of | the line of the Navy. elgn stations who desire to submit a |y 0 ST e, Army. Twenty-seven Army, Navy and Ma. rine Corps officers will be given dl- plomas tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in the conference room of the Army Industrial College, Munitions Buflding, which will mark the 1926 commencement exercises of this insti tution. Certificates of graduation will also be awarded to Lieut. Col. George E. Kumpe, Signal Corps, assistant commandant of the Army Industrial College, and to Maj. M. R. Hilgard, Quartermaster Corps, as having suc- cessfully completed the required course and also as having acted as instructors in the college, the char- acter of their work and attainments for such entitling them to be eligible to receive these certificates. Col. Kumpe, who is completing his four years of duty in Washington, has been assigned to Fort Monmouth, N. J., the home of the Signal School, where he will relieve Col. James B. Allison, Signal Corps, as commanding office of the school and commandant of the post. The latter has been assigned to in the War Department General but is not due to report in hington until August. In the in | tervening time Col. Kumpe, when the hool activities of the Army Indus trial College are concluded, will pro- ceed to Fort Monmouth to familiarize himself with his new duties. Col Kumpe's duties as assistant comman- dant of the college will be taken over by Col. 1. J. Carr, Signal Corps, who has been on duty in the college for several weeks. Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider will present the diplomas to the graduates, while the commence- ment address will be delivered by Robert Brookings, honorary ad viser of the Army Industrial College. Following are the Army officers who will be given diplomas: Col. Fred- erick W. Van Duyne, Q. M. C. Cols. John B. Huggins, M. John E man L. McDiarmid, M. Creighton, M. C.: Itobert S| C.; Henry R. Smalley, Q. E Charles T. Harris, jr.; James H Burns, Bethel \W. Simpson, Glenn P Wilhelm and Keith F. Adamson, ordnance officers; Maurlce B. W 5 C. W. S.: Byron Q. Jones, A. S.; Al fred L. Rockwoed, (. W. S.; Herbert J Wild. . E. and_Edmund de T. Ellis, Q. M. Capts._ Oliver P. iward S, Pegram, jr.. mil H. Block, Q. M. C.: John Jerry V. Matejka, ShicE s J. Morelle, Q. M. C. and Lieuts. Leland C. Hurd, A. 8., and Cortlandt §. Johnson, A. S. The Navy and Marine Corps officer members of this class are Comdr. Frederick V. McNair of the Navy and Maj. Jeter R. Horton, U. 8. M Seventeen graduates of the 1926 class at the United States Military Academy have been assigned to the Army Air Service at Brooks Fleld, | Te: They are A. 8. Turner, Willlam . Johnson, Samuel R. Harris, § Toftoy, Edward D. Raney, jr.; Shelton E. Prudhomme, Benjamin P. Helser, Prentice E. Yeo- mans, Charles W. McGeehan, Henry R. Baxter, John P. Wootbridge, Mor ris R. Nelson, James B. Burwell, Mar- vin J. Hawthorne. With the recommendations made st week for the commissioning of 23 Army internes as first lieutenants in the Medical Corps of the regular €stab- lishment, the acute shortage in the commissioned personnel of that corps was agaln prominently brought 1o ihe | attention of the military authoriti The 60-0dd vacancies which exist in this branch will make it necessary to curtail leaves due to the fact that the officers will have to be sent to the approaching Summer training camps. The curtailment of an officer's leave, to which he is entitled, naturally creates a spirit of discontentment, but despite this situation the morale of Remedial measures to stem the high McKinney and Willlam B.I commanders of the supply corps Will | running mate, rei next higher rank. in the ranks to which advanced as officers of the line, was made in the order of precedence |cedence according to dates of com-| of officers commissioned prior to | missions. L THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. precedence, under prior law, with one |and three lieutenant commanders will | special courses of instruction at va- be retained on the active list of the | rious ice, and all staff officers of the same | Navy a3 a result of the law passed | months, as follows: last week, which will give additional | Cheatham, M. A. Roggenkamp, L A. Comdr. Flannery, Quarter- | Lieut. another according to length of serv- rank took precedence with one an- the same rank as their running mates, ‘ portunity. other according to date of commis- |and effectiv slon In rank. Under the new law, all|to certain naval officers who would | master Corps;Subsistence School, Chi- officers of the staff corps, when of | not otherw ‘This law substitutes serv- C. JUNE 27. 1926—PART 3. 1 R e A S — educational opportunity of promotion | Klauer and C have enjoyed this op- | cago The following are Those officers | just completing the two-year course institutions this | The two medical officers of the Navy Newport, R. will this course were Lieut.|Comdr. Edward D. H. Holcomb and |now attached to the U. ff of Adu course for naval constructors began | R. Robison. In all probability, Comdr instruction at the Chemical|Amsden will be assigned to command course at the Philadelphia Textile | Warfare School on June 14 and will [a destroyer. concluded on July 9 Ideuts. G. J.|who Allen. Lieut. 'James Fellis, two-year |actual is under order to report ne to the Nav to duty i A special | as aid on the « Shanklin and Herbert M. Wescoat. | ficer of the naval training station at be relieved by Washburn, Seattl 1 Samuel Comdr. Edward (. Hamner, jr.. a Capt. Frederick J, Horne, who has | fecent artival in % < : 1 been undergoing the observer &« For example, | who will be retained on the active list |at the Harvard School of Business nde buervers' cours ffl‘:‘;‘;“;"“‘,‘;’";’"'t':‘l‘,'c‘?{‘:':;‘['l';,“;‘:fl'f;‘; 4 staff captaln whose commission 18| who otherwise would have been re. | Administration: Lieuts. W. J. Carter, ‘A‘l_’“;f:;“‘,‘oflu“ at the Pensacola Naval BPALEN plies [ 1 o han that of his running mate | tired prior to June 1, 1927, under the [R. . Batchelder and G. A. Shattuck [ &10 5 m. Pearl Harbor, Hawali, Department as @ member | ng Repair. a definite date for the convening of S E = sty % o ” o NOre, E. ) has & still earlier date of commisston. |age-in-grade provision of the act of [and Ensigns M. A. Noreross, J. B.| G o0 S0 i e ovae Comdr. John the boards will not be set. manders and 50 lleutenant com-|{n the lower rank. A staff officer sub- selected for the next higher ranks:|mate will, with respect only to other 33 commanders and 31 be selected for the next higher ranks, | jeld prior to t and 8 commanders of the civil enxl |Ullh- rs promoted in rank under the|S: Houston neer corps will bé selected fur the |terms of the act will be commissioned | ton With the enactment into law last|of the date of commission held by week of the bill to equalize the pro-|their running mates in that rank. motlon of naval gtaff officers with | Eventually, all officers of the line and pletion of 3 radical change |staff of the same rank will take pre- | ice, respectively ation from the Naval Academy. March 4. 1913. All such line and = of the same rank took' [Four captains, three commande: - A staff officers of a higher rank | August 29, 1916, are Upon convening, it has been deter-| thun his line running mate takes!John I. Hines, George E. Gelm, Ed- mined that the following number of | precedence, until promoted to the|ward 8. Kellogg and John T. Tomp- | H. officers will be recommended for pro-| higher rank, according to the date of [kins: Comdrs. Charles S. Joyce, John | year of the latter course at Harvard. | ;v T By “gpiin ™, d motion by those boards: 36 com-lhig running mate's former commission | T. Bowers and James H. e - S Thompson, relieving Lieut. Comdrs Henry manders of the medical corps Will be | saquently assigned a new running [J. Reuse and August Schulze Capts, De Witt Blamer, Edwin 7. lleutenant | staff officers who also have the new |Pollock, Willlam D. Brotherton, John |\wgod Arsenal, Md. n the precedence | K. Roblson and Reginald R. Belknap; new assignment. All | Comdrs. Duncan M. Wood and Victor | Comar. Cortlandt €. Baughman, Lieut. and Lieut. Comdrs. Stan- Hazard, Brown, Willlam L. Culbert son and Frank N. Eklund will be re- tired on June 30, 1926, upon the com- as follows: Capts. | Wymond, J. C. Molder and A. P. Ran- doiph. Lieuts. R. M. Bright and A White are completing thefr first omfort; special course of Instruction at the |y The class con- sisted of Capt. George W. Simpson, Comdr. James M. Doyle, Lieuts. Ralph Jue R. Morrison, |\¢'. Hungerford, Howard R. Shaw, J. T. Talbert, John Connor, Lionel L. Rowe, Howard W. Fitch, Clyde H. 2 McLellon, William N. Thornton, Ed- and 21 yea monston E. Cofl and Hubbard . since date of gradu- | Goodwin; Ensigns Edward P. Cree {han, Nell K. Dietrich, Joseph I1. ins, William W. Weeden, Joseph Fourteen junior officers of the Sup-|M. Wood. Philip M. Boltz, Edward ply Corps of the Navy are completing | Crowe, Howell iledr Elliott W. ! B. Rhodes, on duty at the naval gun- Washington Navy Yard, to command the E——:E o] nery factol will be assigned 1 Certificates were awarded last week | Gomdr. Leslle B . . Fuller, Harry | (o 55 Navy oficers who completed 4 | pe ausigned as ié,n“,,':f:a:‘;";,(“d",‘;t,:g'.f Comdr. Willlam ¥. 5 s L division 42. 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