Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1928, Page 67

| Armyand NavyNews ARMY. THE SUNDAY BTAR. W.\SHTNGTOY._ 38 MARCH 18, 1928—PART 4 | the protective méaxures to be employed Maj. Gen. Amos A, Friss, chitt of | AGAINst gases to the extent necessary £ Chemical Warfaré Service, has been | directed to organiee and make avail- Able a provisional platson of ChémicAl Warfare troops that will be At- tached to and op- erate with a me- chanical force at Fort Leonard, Wood. Md. this Summer. It has been found that chemical troops play a most d cisive part in a large scale smoke operation. and the platoon of chemi- cal troops that will be sent ta Fort Leonard Wood this Summer will as- simulate gas con- ditions &0 that the troops at that station. and those un- dergoing Summer training At that place may be trained in proper de- fensive measures. The gréatly in- eréassd mobdbility which mechanization requires a very careful And considerable study as to the necessary changes in chemical warfare tactics from those which existed on the stabilized fronts of the World War. nical platoon that will be sent Leonard Wood will be com- by Capt. E P. K. Gempel now on duty at Edgewood Mai. Gen. Fries be held at Edgewood Ar- ing some time in July. eek course for field officers of the combatant services. This course i primar igned for graduates of the Army War College and other offi- g to or leaving Washington and vicinity. Authority has been given to the chiefs of the non-combatant branches and the chief of the Militia to detail officers to this c to train office; | Wursbach bil) comes of | tof Armiy promotion legislation without or the efMcient performance of their training duties. The following branch quotas hAvé beén authorizsd for tendance at this course: Infantry, Cavalty, 12: Fitld Artilléry, 10; C Artillery. 10: Corps of Engincers, 3: Alr Corps. 3: Signal Corps, 2. Ord nanee Departmant, 1: Quartérmaster Corps, 2 Militia Buréau, 2. The Wurzbach )\mpnsnx. designed to curé sonie of {hs Atmy promotion ills, has been disapproved by the Sceretary of WAr. ‘The appearance of the Wurz- bach proposal brings the number of legislative variations relating to this subject to four, viz. the bill of the gen- eérals. the 14 alternative bills that are substitutes for the bill of the genera's, | the Black-MeSwain proposal and tha From this accumula- tion there is intimation that there will be a compromise project which will be given serious consideration realized that with the crowded pro- gram _of legislation in both the House and Senate and the lessening opportu- nity for discussion of sérvice bills, it | would be dificult to get consideration a special rule in the House. That is most unlikely to Achieve, with the de- mand for the special rule confined mostly to profects of more political ad- vantage than any setvice bill outside of th~ regular annual appropriation bill War Department record: that there are now 1.231 offi of th s from licutsn 1 to captain. inclusive, who “("‘t appointed under the p the first sentence of sect June 3, 1916. as amended by of June 4. 1920. Th-s2 officers are dis- tributed among the three grades as fol- lows: Sixteen Jieutenant colonels. whose | average length of service is approxi- mately 11 years: 263 majors. whose av- crage length of sérvice is approximately 11 years, and 852 captains, whose aver- age length of service is 14 vears. The deoartment récords also show that none Medical Corps, 1, and ths It is also | | grades of major or eaptain under the ||\rn\ isions of section 24 of the national defense act; and that noneé of the ma- \ jors who have complefed 19 years' sery iee was appointed in the grade of cap. tain under the provisions of that see tion. In commenting upon this pro- posal, the Secretary of War snid that y readjusted the | pay and Atlowanc: e commissioned and_enlisted pers of the various t made an eshaustive study of | biect of equitably placing “the various caiegories of commissioned of- s in pay periods and gave due con- ation to age, rank. length of serve fee and sourcs of appointment. Noth- ing bes been brotght to my attention to t the inereases i pay and allows ances proposed in the Wurzbach bill, Unless there are very potent reasons to the contrary, T believe it would be un- wise to favor the increases proposed | and thus canse dissatisfaction amongst the personnel of the vatious pay petiods for whom no ticrense in pay and allow ances is pr 1t is ostimated tha the ann tonal cost of the pro posed legislation would be approxi- mately $1,173.807 Simultancons with tae War Depart- ment authoriration for the organization of two Air Corps bands at Kelly Field. | Tex. and Chanute Field, Il orders | were lssued assigning Warrant Officer | Band ILeader Robort Resta to Kelly | Field and Warrant Officer Band Leader Georee Lindstrom to Chanute Field. This increnses the number of Air Corps bands to three, the first one of which | was organized at France Field, ih the Fanama Canal Department, just re- cently. Army M there also band. which left a total number of 91 Regular Army bands. The authoriza- tion of the two Alr Corps bands at Kellv and Chanute Fields, however, brings the total number of Army musi- | cal organizations to 93, the authori: figure, Schoel on Febru: 25 | Th» Army Music School was discon- | tinued on the ground that it had ful- { filled its primary purpose and that fur- | ther accomplishments of the school | would not justify ils cost. There are at the present time 35 men on the eli- | /ible list for appointmeht as warrant | officer band leaders, and if the average | With the discontinuance of the | i was discontinued the school | setvice, and none was appointed in the | tween three and four per year), the cligible 1ist will serve for 8 or 10 years. Navy. Capt. William R. Furlong. who is now in command of Destroyer Division 36 of | the Battie Fleet, will be Assigned to duty In the Bureau of Naval Opera- tiohs. Capt. Arthur C. Stott, now & | student at the War College, will be As- | signed to duty in the fleet training office, Navy Depariment, as the relief | of Comdr. Vaughn K. Coman, who has | baen ordered to command Destroyer Di- vision 41 of the Scouting Fleet. Upon | being detached from duty as chief of stall to the commander of the fleet base | force, Capt. Merlyn G. Cook will pro- | coed to Washington for assignment to | duty in the operations office. cnptx Ofrin G. Murfin, now on duty as assis ant to the chief of the Bureau of Na gation: Willlam C. Watts, under orders to report for temporary duty at the Navy Department in the Office of Naval ntclligence: John W. Greenslade, on uty on the staff of the War College, and Edward B. Fenner, on duty in the Bureau of Naval Operations, will be | assigned to command battleships yet to | be dotermined. Comdr. Newton H White, r. has been detached as head ot the plans section of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and is assigned to duty as | executive officer of the U. S. S. Lexing- ton, succeeding the late Comdr. Theo- | dore G. Eliyson. Lieut. Comdr. G. T. Howard, on duty as navigator of the [ U. S. 8. Nitro, has been assigned fo duty in the office of the judge advocate general of the Navy. As the result of ‘the transfer of Col. Philip M. Bannon to the retired list of the Marine Corps on March 12 the fol- lowing officers of that corps became due for promotion on that date to the next higher grades, respectively: Licut. | Col. Robert Y. Rhea, Maj. Joseph A. | Rossell, Capt. Alphonse de Carre, First | Lieut. Curtis W. Le Gette and Second Lieut. John G. Walraven. Maj. Julian | C. Smith, U. 8. M. C., now on duty as |8 student at the Command and General Stall School, has been sclected to be | the captain of the team to represent | the Marine Corps in the national and other small arms competitions for 1928 | Chief Marine Gunner Calvin A. Lloyd [ will be coach of the team. The try- | outs for membership on the team squad will be conducted at Quantico after the tactics of the licutenant colontls has com- pleted 1 Ars’ service or 29 " of A thtle rate of band leader appointments for | completion of the Elliott and San Diego he past year or o is continued (be- | Trophy matehes Journey Through a Famous Automoblle Plant Where the laws of quality rule every skilled step in building one of America’s finest motor cars ELL, here we are at the huge $10,000,000 plant where today’s Chandler is buile . .. A guide meets us in the foyer of the main office building, and we follow him outdoors along the wide paved passage- ways between rows of tall factory build- ings that hum like vast beehives . . . We walk to the faraway north side of the plant’s 315 acres—and enter the first building. Big overhead cranes swinging things through the air. A maze of whirring wheels. Huge machines that cut steel as easily as teeth bite through a banana! 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