Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1928, Page 63

Armyand NavyNews the number of colonels shall be in- creased by one-fourth of -1 per cent of the number of promotion list officers on July 1 of each year, and in order to maintain this increase, officers of less than 28 years' service shall be pro- moted to the grade of colonel, but only until the maximum of 6 per cent is attained. No limitation is placed on the number of lieutenant colonels, thus making provision for promotion of all majors to the rank of lieutenant col- onel after 23 years’ service. ‘The Army Medical Department has been authorised to procced with the experimental development of a suit- able mobile laboratory, which, in all probability, will eventuate in a special | type of body adopted for transport as a trailer. The body will be so constructed as to provide spacial compartments for | the protection of the many fragile | articles now constituting the service laboratory equipment. The develop: {ment of a suitable mobile laboratory | will eliminate the necessity for packing and transporting this equipment in special chests, which are costly, of odd |sizes and do not afford the degree of which might occur before June, 1929. | protection and \‘t:\d{ availability need- by reasons other than retirement. This | ed under average field conditions. It is is the smallest number of selections for | proposed to have one mobile medical the rank of rear admiral which has | laboratory, completely equipped, with occurred in many vears and indicates | each medical regiment, and with each that the advancement to higher rank | Army communication zone and g-neral in the Navy has met a setback, at least | laboratory. 9 fiscal If given official approval, M: John 1 P. Fletcher, director of the equipment As a result of the promotion rate in | laboratory at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., the Navy having dropped appreciably |will in all probability be detailed during the last few months in all bw the War Department to represent grades, and in view of the fact that | the Army Medical Corps at the next during that period the attrition rate ' meeting of the committee on stand- has not reached the normal attrition | ardization of medical equipment to be Navy. Instructions will probably be given to the line selection board which will possibly meet in May. to select five “officers for promotion to flag rank. Two of the officers so scletledm w'l‘l:‘l nb\i promots vacancies _created by the retirement of Rear Admiral C. P. Plunkett, who was placed on the retired list Febru- ary 15. and Rear Admiral J. 8. Mec- Kean, who will be retired _May 30. Two officers will also be seclected to fill the vacancies created by the re- tirement of Rear Admiral R. E. Coontz on June 11, Rear Adm. Coonts. and Rear Admiral E. W. Eberle on August 17, while the remaining officer to be selected will be for the purpose of filling any vacancy rete of 4 per cent, there will be no promotion to the rank of licutenant | commander after the distribution date | next June, until eight officers have | been separated from the rank of lieu- | tenant commander. This situation | makes practically no difference to thos? ©officers in the grade of lieutenant, since they are required to serve in the rank of lieutenant commander for four years without any increase in pay or allow- ances. due to the fact that they will not have had the required 14 years' commissioned service requisite for a licutenant commander to receive the | Pay of the fourth pay period. This is due to the fact that officers ap- inted to the Naval Academy after March 4, 1913, were deprived of the | Tight to count their service as midsnip. men in computing service for the pur- | pose of longevity pay as well as ad- Yancement to a higher pay period. The licutenants advanced to the grade of ltr}xwmm commander since June, 1927, | will have to wait four yvears to secure anv increase in compensation, since they are the first class graduated from | the Naval Academy to b denied the | Tight to count their midshipman serv- ice for pay purposes. | | Though no decision has been reached | With respect to the officer who wiefi Telieve Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton &8s superintendent of the Naval cademy, the incications are that Rear Admirai William ‘H. Standley, now on duty as | director of fieet training, will be the | hk!e‘b' Egg;:&ee for that place. n ion to those flag officers men- | tioned in this column last week, the | following will have been at sea or on foreign stations for two years or more this vear, and thus are available for a change in station. most of the actual shifts of which will not be made until | Dext Summer or Autumn. They are: | Rear Admirel Sumner E. 3 I’!,s:l:?ds: Rear Admiral William i elps, commanding fleet base force; | Rear Admiral Jehu V. Chase. command- | ing Battleship Division 4 of the battle | flect, and Rear Admiral Georgs W. | Laws, commanding Battleship Division 2 of the scouting fieet. Capt. Charles W. Early. who has been in command a.) !.l;e P:fll[y ‘;'glw to Washing- | n for du operations office of | the Navy Department. = the Pztoka will be taken over by Capt. | Abram Claude, who has been on duty | 2 the training division of the Bureau of Navigation. The latter officer will be | succeeced in the Bureau of Navigation | by Comdr. Harvey Delanc. Lieut. Comdr. | Charles K. Osborne, who has been on s:liy in éohe Bureau,nwal'lnum will ieve Comdr. Cary W. Magruder of Yarbo iy the latter” offs swng' e rough, t officer assigned 1o the War College, Thz following officers of the Navy have been selected for aviation instruc- tion, beginning on the dates indicated, 8t the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.: i James W. Haviland, March 2; Lieut. R. 8. Parr and Ensigns J. P. de Shazo, John G. Brown, Glenn M. Ccx, John P. Greenslade, H. P.; Rice. M. G. Dunlap and H. F. Fowler, | all on March 9; Lieut. John H. Cassady | and Ensigns P. M. Clyde and T. O. | Overs on April 6. For the course of | instruction, beginning April 13, two, y officers and eight Marine officers | will be detailed. | Army. | Nine boards of Air Corps officers have | N zppointed by the Secretary of War | to ccnguct the examination, beginning tomoriow and extending until March 3, | ©f applicants for appointment as sec- ond licutenants in the Air Corps of the | Reguia: Army. This is a spectal ex- | amination. to be held at the following | held under the auspieces of the Inter- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. GYPSY CITES HER LOVE TO DENY THEFT CHARGE German Judge Frees Woman, Al- though Victim Says He Never Knew Her. Correspondence of the Associated Press. BERLIN.~With the statement that A gypsy woman never robs a person she loves, Marianna Reiter, a full-blooded gYpsy, arraigned in the Second Crim- inal Court for theft, attempted to prove her innocence. ‘When convicted of prowling at night alout the suburban premises of a wealthy bachelor and business man Marianna with flashing eyes and many dramatic gestures proudly confessed that she was in love with the loser of the stolen articles. “Gypsy women,” she exclaimed in her broken German, “never steal where she love, only steal where she no love,” as she appealed to the chieftain of her tribe sitting in the courtroom, who nodded approval. To the judge’s argument that the owner of the stolen articles and the | object of her love claimed he had never set eyes upon her, nor had any knowledge of her affections, Marianna replied in a tone of indulgence at so much simplemindedness: “What that matter? Gypsy woman always keep such things to herself.” As the stolen objects had only & nominal value, the court at the sug- gestion of the forgiving business man | decided to quash the case and Mari- anna left the court to receive the felicitations of her tribe like a rein- stated queen. ot BENS(;N IS PLAYWRIGHT. Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON—E. F. Benson has turned playwright at 60. The celebrated au- His duties on ! pigs. national Red Cross Conference at Geneva, Switzerland, next July. thor of “Dodo,” who is one of the three NEW LAND LAWS HELP LITHUANI Farmers Seem Prosperous as Estates Are Cut Up by Government. Archbishop of Canterbury, has \\'I‘Ilk‘l'l a play called “The Luck of the Vails” which will be producea with Lady Tree and Donald Calthrop in the cast. It is a dramatic version of Benson's novel of the same name. Eden Phillpotts’ great success with “The Farmer's Wife” and “Yellow Sands” is responsible for the itch of many older novelists to write' plays which have the literary character dra- matic critics are clamoring for. Correspondence of the Associated Press. KOVNO, Lithuania. — Former big land owners and the peasant holders of small farms alike seem to be prospering in Lithuania since the vast estates were cut up by the government. No one in Lithuania now is permitted to hold morc than 2,500 acres. The rest was taken over by the state. com- E.'X!‘:uuon being given owners for the d appropriated. Lithuania is a nation of farmers, 80 per cent of its population being “small holders,” most of whom own less than 50 acres of land. With the days of serfdom gone, all are eager to improve their condition. All Want Tractors. Every farmer's ambition is to possess an American tractor, but because of limited resources, several generally have to_combine to buy one machine. ‘They have become regular radio fans. Registered listeners-in number 20,000. The state monopoly charges such listen- ers a nominal fee of 10 cenis a month. Former big land-owning families carry on with notable success on ‘the smaller estates left to them. Baron von Budbergh, whose ancestor was for- eign minister of Catherine the Great, is known as the “butter baron.” Count Zubofl, another ex-Russian nobleman, breeds famous cattle on his estate near Shavli, and the aristocratic Polish fam- ily of Karp are renowned for their prize Portuguese Prosper. A curious appearance amid all these former Russian notables is made by the énclent Portuguese family of Faria e astro, modern dress. The ancient “dower chests,” however, are still in use in various rural parts. Outside of the towns old native cus:. toms sill prevail in courtships and at w 3 I Marine Corps Notes I The U. 8. 8. Lexington, which is scheduled to leave Hampton Roads for the West Coast on or about March 9, will carry small replacement detach- ments of Marines for distribution in the West Indies, Central America and the battle fleet. Capt. Francis C. Cushing, who is under orders to proceed to Guam, may, it is understood, :xon arrival there be temporarily ordered to China Recruiting division commanders have well known literary sons of a former |p. ‘The bill to authorize the granting of leave to veterans of the Spanish- American War to attend the annual convention of the United Spanish War Veterans and Ladies' Auxiliary in Ha- vana, Cuba, next October passed the House of Representatives last Monday. executive departments and independent establishments of the Government and the municipal government of the Dis- trict of Columbia be authorized to grant, in their discretion, extended leave not to exceed 60 days in the calendar year 1928 to veterans of the Spanish-Ameri- can War for the sole purpose of attend- ing the annual convention of the United Spanish War Veterans and auxiliarics in Havana, Cuba. The bill has gone to the Senate. The following recruits were mustered in as active members of the General M. Emmet Urell Camp at its last meeting: arry H. Curtis (retired), Company D, 11th United States Infantry; Willian J. Dennison (retired), Troop C, 3d United States Cavalry: Harry Wilson (retired), Battery L, 3d United States Artillery, and Otto E. Gelbrick, first sergeant, Company M, 2d Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry. Henry Miller was also elected to membership and will be mustered in at a later meet- ng. Edward Lacey, officer of the day, re- ported G. Wilkinson, who has been sick at Walter Reed Hospital, now at work, and the adjutant was discharged from Mount Alto Hospital February 11. Past Camp Comdr. John Murphy, chairman of the entertainment commit- tee, reported arrangements had been made for an entertainment and banquet Tuesda; night at Northeast Masonic Temple. U members of the camp, with their families, are urged to attend. Prominent friends of the veterans will guests. Quartermaster Robert E. Wallace re- ported the reinstatement of Arthur G. Suydam and that the request for transe fer to Ballou Camp, in Illinois, had been made by Ross G. Miller. Past Comdr. Murphy stated the broadcasting of the Maine memorial services February 15 was of much value to the organization and a resolution would be presented at the annual de- partment encampment urging some {method by which the cost of the same ' i il The bill provides that the heads of the | g, C., Spanish War Veterans would be secured thereafter without voluntary camp donations. Edward W. Morgan, deputy commis- sloner of pensions; Department Adjt. Willlam I. Jenkins, Alexander Fraser, adjutant of the Admiral George Dewey Naval Camp, and Frank W. Parrish of the Richard J. Harden Camp made ad- resses. The recruiting committee of the Col. James S. Pettit Camp is conducting & drive for new members and reports 11 recruits since the first of the year. ‘At its last meeting the following were elected to membership: William Klinge, Charles N. Goruto, James McGee and Josiah N. Farr. Messrs. Goruto and Farr were present and were mustered in with ritualistic ceremonies. The sick and relief committee report- ed James B. Whalen, Harry Thomas, Milton L. G. Smith and Wililam Burke under physiclans' care. “Visitors at the meeting included Dr. E. C. Barstow of Gen. Henry W, Lawton Camp. W. G. Copley of Scott Young Camp, Portland, Oreg.; A. P. Galpin of Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, Gasper Orange of Admiral George Dewey Naval Camp and G. W. Rowse of Richard J. Harden Camp. Comdr. Harry J. Sherwood presided at the recent meeting of the Richard J. Harden Camp. The following were mus- tered in as active members: Frank B. Hayes, Company H. 28th United State: 2d West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and Paul H. Judy, Company H, 2 United States Engineers. H. O. Fergu- son was taken in by readmission. William O. Ohm, chairman of the Farland and Willlam A. Young ad- mitted to the Naval Hospital and Del- bert J. Pugh ill at his home. to E. W. Whitehorne on the death of his_mother, Willlam E. Rink urged reconsidera- tive to the appointment of a commit- tec to investigate the question of the {under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' pointing a committee for that purpose was rescinded. Terrence N. Fielder spoke on the question of Saturday half holidays for ] | | il FEBRUARY 26, Infantry; Eil M. Mitchell, Company E, | relief committee, reportcd Willlam Mc- | A letter | of condolence was sent by Adjt. Leslie | tion of the motion of February 2 rela- | desirability of placing soldiers’ homes | Bureau, and the former motion ap-| 1928—PART 4. Government employes the year around, favoring the project. Other speakers were Percy H. Skinner, George F. Cook, William A. O'Brien, George W. Kings- bury, James J. "Murphy, Thomas A. Hudlow, John W. Rutledge and Cleve- land Kennicutt, department patriotic instructor. Department Comdr. Albert Michaud and staff made an official visit to the Col. John Jacob Astor Camp last Mon- day night, when the department com- mander spoke. ‘The following recruits were mus- tered in: Frederich Karch, Company G, 3d United States Artillery; Theo- dore Huseman, Company C, 1t United States Infantry; John Sinkens, Troop K, 7th United States Cavalry; Charles W. Anderson, Company D, 22d United States Infantry;, John W. Jett, Troop | E, 1st United States Cavalry; Willlam | F. Bittman, Company D, 12th United | States Infantry; August Luer, Troop 1, 3d United States Cavalry; Arthur; M. K. Bunde, Troop M, 5th United States Cavalry. Adjt. Jones reported the following mustered in at the previ- ous meeting: Jesse Hinton, General Service Infantry; Charles R. Fanning, Company I, 4th United States In- fantry:; Mathew J. Chambers, Company H, 2nd United States Infantry. The Col. John Jacob Astor Auxiliary celebrated its fifth anniversary Febru- ary 16 at its headquarters, 921 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast, which was attended by Department Comdr. Albert Michaud and staff of the Spanish War Veterans. and . President Margaret F. Burns and staff of the department aux- liari Addresses were made by Comdr. Michaud, Chief of Staff Daniel Foley, President Margaret E. Burns, Senior Vice President Carrie E. Nolan and Past Department Presidents Tillic Mae Roth and Edna R. Summerfield. ‘The meetings of the camps and aus: iliaries for the week are: Col. James S. Pettit Camp, Tuesday night. 921 Penn- sylvania avenue southeast; Richard J. Harden Camp, Thursday night, Pyth- | ijan Temple, and Col. John Jacob Astor | Auxiliary, Thursday night, 921 Pennsyl- | vania avenue southeast. i A meeting of the Councll of Adminis- | tration. Auxiliaries to the United Span- | ish War Veterans, was held Tuesday, | with the department president, Mar- garet. Burns, presiding. | The following have been appointed by | President General Margaret Manion as | national: aides: Irene Orange, Catherine | Huhn, ‘Mamie Galpin, Mary Hohen- | stein, Mary Windsor and Margaret Bin- nix. il il staft wil the Admiral George Dewey Auxillary March 5. | The nerpnrtmem presiderit and het make an officlal visit to A dance will be given by the depart- | ment and auxiliaries jointly on March, 24 at the L'Aiglon from 9 to 1 o'clock. A meeting of the Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxiliary was held Mon- d‘:y, with the president, Elizabeth Nor- ris, initlated and the president, the depart- ment president and Past Department President Lydia McLaughlin made ad- dresses. presiding. Four candidates wese | | The . Military Order of the Serpent, held a business session. Tuesday night. when it elecied the following a3, slick and slimy keepers: Wililam O. Ohm of the Richard J. Harden Camp. R. E. Washburne of Gen. M. Emmet Urell Camp, Willlam O'Donnell. Ad-' miral George Dewey Naval Camp, and! Oscar Feldser, Col. John Jacob Astor Camp. Following th= business session lunch was served by Grand Gu Gu Grandississimo Leo M. Devlin, junjor | vice commander of Richard J. Harden Camp. 13 SEEK WAR GUILT. Correspondence of the Associated Press PARIS.—“Who started the war?” Is going to be scitied, at last. to the sat- isfacilon of France, anyway It was geiting to be as hot a subject of de- bat as “who won the war?" ‘Thres dozen ot Prance’s most emi- nent students, historians and strategists have been appointed by the government to diz up all necessary documents and to give the world the real, inside truth about how it all happened. AUTO WHEELS PEMOUNTABLE KIWs RUNDLETT RIM & WHEEL CO. 1436 11 SE N W Have Your Car Refinished NOW For Spring Bring Your Cer To Us Befcre the Spring Rush Our Work Is Exceptiona! in Every Way QUALITY—TIME—PRICE JOSEPH McREYNOLDS Kansas Ave. & Upshur St. NW. Coluzmbia 3052 places” Mitchel Field, N. Y. 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