Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1926, Page 55

- Thirty-seven Navy line officers, headed by the renowned Comdr. John Rodgers of the Hawalian flight, became due for promotion to the next higher grades re- &pectively July 1 as a result of the retirement on June 30 of cer- tain captains after 35 years of commissioned service. A - COMDR, RODGERS. tew ow- art, Cleveland McCauley, 8. 8. Payne and F. P. Conger, Lieut R. 8. Bulger, H. M. Mullinix, D. P. Moon, G. F. Hussey, jr.: O. B. Hardison, C. E. Braine, jr.; E. G. Herzinger, H. Burks, R. E. Davison, R. S. Berke: T. J. Keliher, jr., and Hugo Schmidt, Lieuts. (unior grade) James Kirk: patrick, jr.; K. C. Caldwell, A. J. Gray, ir.; J. A. McGinley, G. B. Parks, 8. H, Ingersoll, G. F. Galpin, Atherton Ma- condray, jr.; Max Welborn, G. H. m, F. McKenna and C. R. Pratt. Special legislation has resulted in the promotion of Comdr. Herbert E. Stevens (S. C.) to that rank to date from January 11, 1918. Comdr. B. M. Dobson (8. C.) has reported for duty in the Bureau of Supplies and Ac- counts, in charge of the purchase division. There was convened at the Navy ent last Wednesday a board of officers for the purpose of recom- mending 3§ medical officers for pro- motion to the rank 'of captain and 49 for commander. The board was com- posed of the following: Rear Admiral D. McCormick and Ca Jes H. T. Lowndes, Ammen Far enholt, Eugene J. Grow, Charles N. Fiske, Norman J. Blackwood, James C. Pryor, Holton C. Curl and George F. Freeman and Lieut. Comdr. Ray- mond B. Storch, recorder. Another board of officers will meet tomorrow in the department to recom- ¥mend officers of the Supply Corps for promotion to the ranks of captain and commander, 33 for captain and 29 for Commander. The bodrd’s recommenda- tions will constitute the adjustments in promotion as prescribed in the equalization of promotion act of June 10, 1926. The following officers will sit on the Supply Corps board: Rear Admiral Thomas H. Hicks and Capts. Joseph J. Cheatham, George Brown, 4§r.; Charles Conard, David Chadwick, Pdmund W. Bonnaffon, David Potter, Trevor W. Leytze and David M. Ad- dison. It is not required of the selection board to recommend for promotion to any rank the full number of of- ficers furnished that board by the Sec- retary of the Navy, and should such an event come to pass the law provides that the difference may be added to the number furnished to the next suc- ceeding board. Due to this, it is im- possible to ascertain just how many officers will be selected for advance- ment in the staff corps. The failure of either board to recommend for promotion to the rank of captain in its corps a number equal to the maximum number furnished by the Secretary, makes it mandatory for that board to recommend for promo- tion to the rank of commander. & correspondingly lesser number. In ‘computing the numbers for promotion to each rank, the law pré- vides that_the number for promotion 1o the rank of captain in each corps shall be that number of officers that, if advanced to the rank of captain, will make‘the total number of officers $n that rank of the corps concerned 91 per cent of the total number of bfficers of that corps of the ranks of captain and commander whose run- ning mates are captains. Application is made of the same percentage fig- ure for promotion to the rank of commander based on the ‘number of staff commanders and lieutenant commanders whosé running Jmates are commanders. There will be convened some time . August, in all probability, & boat to recommend officers of the Dental Corps for promotion to the rank of commander. The' senior 17 officers of that corps became eligible for con- sideration for promotion to that rank upon selection by the recent line se- Jection board of their running mates for promotion to commander. The law prescribes that this board must be composed of line officers above the rank of commander, as there are no officers in the Dental Corps higher in rank than lieutenant commander. Capt. Harry E. Yarnell, who has been in command of the aircraft squadrons of the scouting fleet, will be relieved by Capt. James J. Raby, ‘who has been on duty as comman- dant of the Pensacola naval air sta. tion. The Navy department has se- lected Capt. Frank D. Berrien to be in charge of the naval reserve officers’ training corps unit which will be or- ganized at Yale University with the enroliment of the Fall classes. Capt. Berrien has just completed a course of instruction at the Army War Col- lege. For the present, at least, Capt. John K. Robison, who has been on ‘a as ecaptain of the New York Navy Yard and who. was on June 80, transferred to the wetired list of t avy, will remain on active duty as aid to the commandant of that wyard. Capt. Willilam B. Wells, com- manding -the receiving ship at that place, will in addition to his duties incident to that assignment, take over Capt. Robison’s duties as captain of that navy yard. About July 15 Comdr. Henry. K. Hewitt, on duty in the office of the director of fleet training, will be detached from that duty and flunod gunnery officer of the ff of Rear Admiral Louls R. de Steiguer when the latter officer is transferred, some time during Sep- tember, from command of battleship division 4 to the command of battle- ehip divisions of the battle fleet, with the rank.of vice admiral. Previous ) ‘Don’t Drive a Shabby ~=when it can be made to look a: In a Day—with Crawford Quick Coat We use the best of . as give the desired finish No matter what the conditi orders ~directed Comdr. Hewitt to command the U. 8, 8. Corry, but they were revoked by the Navy De- partment. Lieut. Comdr. Frederick WiL. Riefkohl, who has been on duty at the New York Navy Yard, has been assigned to command the Corry. Comdr, Jonn W. Wilcox, jr., who has been on duty on board the U. 8. 8. Concord as alde on the staff of the commander of the destroyer squad- rons of the scouting fleet, iwill be relicved by Comdr. - Byron McCand- less, who has been on duty at the Naval Academy. The former has been assigned to duty on the staff of the Naval War College. Six appointments have retently been m: as acting pay clerk in the chief -petty officers on examination held ‘March 1. The appointees and the vesssld on which they are serv: ing are: Ernest M, Joyce, Huron: John W. Haines; Henderson: George V. Moores, Bridge: Ernest W. Rogers, Vestal; Clifford B. Plschner and ‘W_ Gardener, both on the Rigel. The 'selection board. headed by Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps, | Construction Corps, . named Capt. | George Henry k, Construction Corps, to be selected to the rank of rear admiral in the Construction Corps to fill the vacancy made by the retirement of Rear Admiral Elliot Snow, who will be retired the latter part of this month, Army, Considerable interest is being evinced in” the chaplain vacancy at ‘West Point, as a result of the appoint- ment this past week of Rev. Clayton E. Wheat, chaplain at the United States Military Academy,.as professor of English at that institution. His fterm as chaplain normally would not expire until this coming November. There are fow in the service Who are cognizant of the fact that. chaplain Wheat Is not a Regular Army chap- lain, but a clergyman appointed by the President, and drawing the pay and allowances of a captain. As pro- fessor of English at the military academy he will be commissioned a lleutenant colonel; which grade he will hold for 10 _years, upon the ex- piration of which he will automatical- 1y be promoted to colonel, which grade lhl; will hold for the remainder of his . It is interesting to note in this nection that for the past 25 y the chaplain encumbent at-the Mil- itary Academy has been of the Prot- estant Episcopal faith, the three chap- lains preceding chaplain Wheat, name- ly, Bishop Shipman of New~ York and Chaplains Travers and Silver, also being members of this denomination. There has been-a feeling for some time among the other depominations that this assignment at the Military Academy should be rotated among the iominations represented at and this vacancy oc- curring at West Point, this question, no doubt, will come up again for dis- cussion. - There has been a feeling in the regular service for a long time that there should be a Regular Army chaplain sent to West Point, the proponents of this contention point- ing out that only regular chaplains of the Navy are sent to the Naval Academy and these being detailed to Annapolis in regular Navy assignment procedure and changed frequently. So much surprise was expressed that the chaplain at West Point has mnot been a member of the regular service, that the law covering this assignment was looked up. It was dated Aoril 3, 1896, from the then headquarters of the' Army, the Adjutant General's Office, and reads as follows: “That so much of section 1329 of the revised statutes of the United States as provides for the appoint- ment at the United !mcz tary Academy at West Ponit of one chap- lain, who shall also be professor of history, geography, and ethics, and one assistant professor of the same, is hereby repealed, provided, that the duties of chaplain at the Military Academy shall hereafter be performed by a clergyman to be appointed by the President for a term of four years, and the said chaplain shall be eligible for reappointment for an additional term or terms and shall, while so serv- ing, receive the same pay and allow- ances as are now allowed to a captain 'mounted:” During the dalberations of the re: rd |cent Pan-Denominational, Conference | held in this city the first part of May, the question of appointing a ‘regular Army chaplain at the Military: Acad- emy was taken up, as a result of which the conference recommnded such 'appointment. There is a pro- nounced feeling in the Regular Army that the above law should be changed, which would authorize none other than a Regular Army chaplain to of- ficlaté at the Military Acadamy, and with the apointment of Chaplain Wheat, as a professor of English at that institution, which creates a vacancy in the office of Chaplain, a | determined effort will be made ¢o have the next chaplain appointee at West Point be a member of the Chaplain Corps of the regular establishment. ‘With the appointment of 25 Army internes as first lieutenants in the medical corps of the Regular Army, the attention of the War Department authorities is' focused upon the extra- ordinary long list of majors in that corps, all of whom received their ap- ',’;’;3“'“"“ to that grade on July 1, sersonnel aftermaths of the war which has disrupted the promotion scheme of regular medical officers, particular- ly those in this group consisting of 122 majors of the medical corps, all of whom were appointed on July 1, 1920. This list begins with Maj. Al- bert H. Eber, who is number 282, and concludes with Maj. Arthur P. Mitch- ens, number 403, on that list. Orders have been issued by the War Department to 52 quartermasters of Navy of successfyl candidates among Maje. ard begin about. ber 1; elght will attend the motor' transport course beginni 36 “undergo. the basic g training course at Philadelphia, which will begin about September 1. v The tollowing have been ordered to pursue the gubsistence school course at Chicago: Capts. Edward Eccles, Paul F. Huber and John N. Gage, and First Lieuts. Frank 8. Frickelton, Gaylord B. Kidwell, El- mer K. Pettibone. Victor L. Robin- son .and Albin N. Caldwell. K ill, Attend the mptor bird DLS, . William B. Johnson, Harry S. Fuller, William H. Schnacks G. Schmidt, Leonar Harold Spigelmyre. The quartermasters who will attend the basic training course at Phila- a lphllcwlll include the following: berg, Rudolph Vezina ' and apts. M. Duffill, George F. Spann, Laws renge Slade, Henry 8. “fi Rob+ ert W. King, Percival 8. Holmes, ‘Samuel I. Zeidner, Willlam R. Buck- ley, Otto Harwood, Clarence J. W. Blake, Hans C. Johansen, Lewis B. Douglas, Neil Simms, John W. Thompson, Leéwis B. Willis, Harold 0. Goodwin, Ear] H. Rosemere, Rich- J. Marshall, OrvMle Jackson, Herbert L. Kidwell, Elmer + ing about September 15, whils | uartermaster | Soq : me Col. *. Clay C; Waltkins, Hunsicker, Carroll ‘R. Hutchins ‘a Elsmere J, Walters. f Lieut. Cols’ Harry N. tes, Cave alry, who has been on duty as mili- tary . af to Austria and Csecho- slovakia, h station ‘in. Vienna, and E. R, Warner McCabe, F\ A,, who been ‘on duty in the same capacity Italy, ' with station. in. Rome, Just returned to this country tes began his tour of duty as mili- tary attache in February of 1923 while Cpl. McCabe entered upon his militaty attache duties in Italy in Beptember, 1924, Upon® the . comple- tion of their temporary duty in the War:Department Col. Cootes will pro- Fort Ogleth h for duty, ‘McCabe to Fort HBam Houston, Tex. S S R O Poultry end Eggs First. A South Dakota statistician’ has figured out that the eggs and poultry produged in' the United States equal in value ail the gold and silyer'mined throughout * the = world. ' Furopean countries and Asia also produce a (Continued from Fifth Page.) | unds, Chester; Camp Lincoln, rd avenue and City line, Phil- phr. Q.m{ Camde; and Kaighn avenue, nue has .v“;“ Camp North Gate, Old York road ad City line, Philadelphia; - Cam den.. Baitimore pike-and Wil- on-Pottstown highway, Brandy- L wine Summit. ‘aytomobile committde has designated certain leading garages as ‘offieial,” and these have been marked by signs’ beuring thé words “Officig) Garage—! licentennial,” the signs being in two colors, with the Liberty. Eflon and two American flags super- s s0 named hayé filed with mittee schedules of their rates and labor, and 1 their 'facilities and services. This will permit prompt investigation of overcharging. .Un- will result, 1t 18 stated, | P fair practices dn a withdrawal of the officlal sign, title to which is retained by the com- mittee. _ Parking Facilities Provided. ° - In order that.metor tourists may inspect_the expesition without having to condern themselves about parking dificulties, a number of parking ipaces in the vicinity of th have been provided. The price i wonerally. 50 cents, according to the Keystone Automobile Club, an.organ. Ization which 1s bending every. effort to aid the thousands of motorists pouring into Philadelphia for ; the “;‘%‘;’WM camps make a charge of $1 per car for 2¢ hours, while a. xl.ght additional charge is made if the ms torist desires to use the camp equip- t, such as tents, fioor, boards or The details containéd herein rela- tive to the service the Washington motor tourist may expect in Philadel- phia and its environs during the pe. rlod of the exposition are the official plans and are the specific things mapped out. It is certain, however, that the motorist will find the com< mittees and agencies prepared to go out of their way to meet different con- ditions in varying cases, to care for individual cases and problems of one sort or another, and {o make the most strenuous efforts in behalf of the traveler who has come long distances for a view of Philadelphia’s great dis- la; 7 As the Summer wears on, traffic from Washington to Philadelphia will grow continually heavier, the lines of cars will hecome closer together, vet the indications are that no matter how many thousands of motorists take the road great congestion will be avoided, tangles largely eliminated, and comfort and ease of movement held paramoun COAL BALL AIDS SCIENCE. Discarded at Mines, They Reveal History to Microscope. 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