Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1927, Page 21

The correspondence tary of the Navy Admiral Ms 2 Secre-| Wilbur and Rear | ruder. following pub- lished charges by the admiral that the Navy gant, was overofficered and extrava.| as rovealed yesterday by the | Navy Department, follows: ing over v Ly " F 3 October, 1927, “in of the Nav The Navy aturday Evening Post. mber, 1927, ment feels that the e above title, appear-| | gop trative. ur name in the issue of ng Post of Sep part. in error nd that the suh- Secretary Wilbur Explains Order Relieving Rear Admiral Magruder tary of th making public e Navy W Vesterds ondence hetween the Navy d ving the d of the Ph The order to not_ punitiv intimate know! to below may v with the offi It is not cus Rear Admiral ut the following < the ovder admiral from com- iladelphia Navy Admiral Magru- e; it is adminis- omary or ass as it does an of and or pe rs are expected to ments of duty complain Ied to be protected fron ddise n\\mn of the The snment of t. and are a pub- asons for iy more or less a cts of hn fleet, was e FaLL, EXHIBITION f \KA\mnDlE\l FURNITURE This is an Autumn Style Show, featuring what the well It neverthe serious con nt consy Tess amalte nsideration ations. 1t : but no punitive scor ¢ ean and naval economy. vour opinion, rengt the two ed te cost—taxpavers’ i for u < very m forces mention lone numbers nor will am now taining whether benefit by = knowledge or d to naval or- the re h of the eapi “Differences Very Marked.” dollars pkeep—the dif- arked. In "“'S appropriatic nds for new s es You state are trect amount of s for the entire naval hen th wh quoted in ich you ma e two e that there the ion between these nted, and the dey d like to have your detailed ma the tter i but | | from the department’s record | | ! “I will say, however, that T do not feel that the Secretary of the Navy should be compelled or ex- information from the N nization by obtain- ing newspapers or magazines in which i is pub- lishe, re paid by the rnment to_render this sorvice to the people, and such information should be presented to regularly constituted by the files of foreign naval a l1(‘|ln< and foreign governments, and ought not to reach them hefore leing presented to or considered by our own Government and by those paid to consider such mat- ters, e Secretary of the Navy Is a civil officer of the Government, only temporarily a part of the naval o nization. I am frank 1o say that afic years of effort to effect voin the Navy, 1 to hel that the and those under them made an honest and consci effort to heed the # mand of the t done so, it. 1 want to “I have not vet determined what orders will be given Admiral Magruder and am awaiting my conference with him. crease in the number of officers on duty at the Navy Departm Washington—over three times as many as in 1916, 8. An examination of the records of the department for the fiscal years | 1408, 1916 and 192 lowing: 6 discloses the fol- 1008 1918 Qffcers . 511 | Dffrers i W 144 403 Note —Officers nader instruction excluded. | 9. The difference between the f urcs You quote and those obtained which upon request by ses <o material anation by you while vour r is not stated. of the wording might i number was the sime h is not the e¢aze, though that impression is to bLe from the ¢ xt of the the |article, thus carfying to the reader an erronecus impression. Officers on Duty Here. In connection with the subject | nnel. attention is drawn to t rd con October 15 to 31 Inclusive dressed living room will wear this Fall. The new- o~ w B \ae o aanmansad e se s 00 Orher Karpen Suites From $150 Seventh Street o $1,20 est trends in Karpen Upholstered Furniture are shown at lowered prices, Surely you'll not miss this Exhibit! erstuflped Suite Iluetrated 16 8 Karpen suite in . + tasietul $168 $189 s, armehalr wing ehalr in Velour MAYER & CO. vou, | in bYoth| | follow September, 1921, of which you were jor member, for the purpose of re- porting upon the officer personnel re- quired to administer effectively naval ities on shore, mention of which in your article of September 1t does not appear from the records of the department that vou personally dissented in any particular from the hoard's report as submitted by vou, but, on the contrary, that the allowances of officer personnel there proposed were recommended by you. 11. 1t is pertinent to insert here the actual number of officers at present on duty in those activities in Washing- ton’for which the board recommended a complement, together with the num- ber &0 recommended. The officer per- sonnel now emploved in activities in Washington. additional te those con- sidered hy the board, are separately shown: ttached Att; Magruder Roard. 28 T " verlanping reliefa. includes 34 under instruetion, with the request for nt on the difference in nted out, on the rt of any recorded rsonnel’s ‘Board re- |.-n{ at the time it was submitted by [ you. and on the v of the con- | clusions 3 c w o in the larticla of . in_the {light of the matter just mentioned SARATOGA'S TYPEWRITE! “Ilere iz one example: The air- evaft carvier Saratoga s nearing completion. In the allowance list 3 P oceurs the fitems 2) typewriters.’ It may ¥ he presumed that these machines will need yeomen to man them, and that these men will be kept reasonably busy. Also that this battery of typewriters and tvpists is needed to meet the re- quirements of red tape. Think of the output and the overhead!” 13. Referenca to the Class 54 of the | Sarato, Navy Yard, Philadelphia), under which typewriters are listed, will show that the total number of typewriterd is 44 and not Held Error of Figures. 14. Not only was an error of fig- ures on this subject introduced in !print, but an erroneous impression given the public that “these machines { will need yeomen to man them,” disiegard of a fact within your kn {edge that a number of the machines are_in the hands of radio personnel. 13. An explanation is desired from You in the light of the foregoing. NAVAL MEDICAL SCHOOL. no need for further yet one other may | On April 1 last lcers attached to e Naval Medical School as facul- ty and for ministration, yet there were only 16 officers under | instruction.” | Foregoing, vour comm numbers there were. 2 sumed that the ficure h(’ ed from the Naval Direc- | v of April 1, 1 The te are | is made up as | On regular duty at twith additional or laborat For aviation medicine Medical chool 3 m:lnrmnt of a nav; allowance list (copy at the ! " D. €, THURSDAY, ( sttached to the achool heeanims of lec. turen delivered periodically during the achool wessi On temporary Overlapving re rma 5 ramount duty of the former is operators in the dental clinic. Of the pharmacists only are concerned with administration of the two schools dical and dental). 17. The foregoing shows that the regular staff of the Naval Medical is nine, that nine officers have 1 duties at the school, lental officers, with in the dental clinic, have some affiliation with the Medical School. -pression is given of the fa were fully available to you had cared to inform vourself properly Your comment on this is desired. OF PRODUCTIVE WORK. “From the foregoing it may be for every dollar expended £4 be expended to maint yard to make the repair 1. The department should not have to invite the ‘attention to vessels, are changes and ad'lnlnnd to vessels, new construction of vessels, work for other departments of the Government, improvements to vards, iments, repairs to equipage store, aperation and repairs to ai t, and manufacture of materk ! the inclusion of these items may a_just comparison he drawn be. tween the cost of ‘operation and main- tenance of vards with the value of | productive work sider the: If so. 20, Did rtment’ the detailed | «ubmit to the dep figures by which you arrived at your 2onclusions as given to the public. RICHMOND REPATRS. “A concrete example may clarify the foregoing statement., In 1924 a light cruiser was convoying the Army world fiyers from Scotland 1o Boston. T'e day before reach- OCTOBER ing Boston a copper injection pi was found to be badly corroded. If this pipe carried aw it would mean flooding an engine room. 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