Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1929, Page 26

Armyand Navy News Navy. The proposal that would place mem- Bers of the Navy Nurse Corps on the retired list with retired pay at the rate ©f 75 per cent of the annual active base pay received at the time of their sepa- ration from the active service has been disapproved by the Secretary of the Navy due to the fact that the expendi- tures contemplated by this project ‘would not be in accord with the finan- ecial program of the President. Pres- ent law provides that members of the Army Nurse Corps or Navy Nurse Corps who have served 30 years, or reached the age of 50 years, having served 20 years, may, in the direction of the Sec- retary of War or the Secretary of the Nady, respectively, be placed on the re- tired list in the grade to which she be- longed at the time of retirement. The annual pay which such a retired nurse would receive would be equal to 3 per cent of the pay received on the active list multiplied by the number of years service, total not to exceed 75 per cent, and in addition, such a retired nurse would receive a supplemental annual retired y for each year of service renderef;rlor to retirement in each of the following grades: Chief nurse, $18; assistant superintendent, $45; director, $45; assistant director, $45; superin- tendent, $75. { Although present law only provides | for retirement of nurses after 30 or 20 | years, they are eligible for pension on the same basis as enlisted men of the naval service in case of accident or dis- ease when incident to service. Pensions range from a minimum of $6 to a maximum of $125 per month, which is | a graduated system of compensation. | 1t is felt in the Navy Department that if the principle of retirement of nurses, rather than the present pensionable status for disabilities, is to be accepted, it should parallel the retirement of of- ficers, and no doubt if any legislation of this kind is taken up during the December session of Congress, it will be along this line. A computation of the cost under the Navy Department based on the discharge from the Navy Nurse Corps by reason of physical disability during the past five years shows that had this proposal been in effect during that time the cost would have been $1.- | 724 for the fiscal year and would have increased at the rate of $3,447 per year, but less any reduction due to deaths. Recommendations have been made by the Navy Department that will equalize the allowances for quarters and sub- sistence between enlisted men of the Regular Army, Navy and Marine Ooll’)s.‘ This will entitle enlisted men of the naval service to receive allowance for quarters and subsistence while their permanent stations remain unchanged and to receive such allowances while absent from their permanent duty sta- tions in a pay status, provided that ul-l Jowances for subsistence shall not ac-| crue to such an enlisted man while he | is in fact being subsisted at Govern-| ment expense. ~The purpose of this| proposal is to place enlisted men of the Navy on a parity with enlisted men of | the Army with respect to allowances for quarters and subsistence while sick in hospitals or absent from their perma- | nent duty stations in a pay status so| long as their permanent stations re-| main unchanged. The increased cost involved, should this proposal be en-| acted into law, is estimated at not t exceed $10,000 per annum for the Navy | and $2,000 per annum for the Marin Corps. Army. | With the selection of Chaplain Thomas L. McKenna as Army Transport chaplain for the San Francisco-Manila | voyage and Chaplain Elmer A. Huset,| who will serve in a similar capacity on | the New York-San Francisco run, the ‘War Department has inaugurated its Army Transport detail policy. These chaplains will be on this duty for a| term of two years. The old system of detailing a chaplain, when there was no chaplain under orders to or from foreign service, from the home port to ‘make the round trip, was not at all sat- isfactory, as it meant that the chaplain so detailed was taken away from his ly assigned duties from two to three months, which greatly interfered with his religious work at his post. Prior to their selection for transport service Chaplain McKenna was on duty at Fort Benning, Ga., and his duties at that post have been taken over by Chaplain Walter H. Paschel. Chaplain Huset, who has been on duty at Van- couver Barracks, Wash., will be relieved at that station by Chaplain John W. ‘Westerman. For the purpose of filling vacancies in the Army Air Corps, authorized by the Alr Corps act of July 2, 1926, final com- petitive examinations of qualified flvers for appointment as second lieutenants in the Air Corps of the Regular Army will be held during the weeks including Oc- tober 7 to 12, 1929, and February 17 to 22, 1930, all dates inclusive, in the United States overseas depart- ments. Particular care will be exercised by the examining rds in granting exemptions in the cases of all candi- dates. An applicant who may have passed certain subjects of the mental test in a previous examination will not be exempted from such subjects merely because of that fact, nor will a candi- date who may have passed a previous examination and have failed of appoint- ment because of lack of vacancies or other causes, be exempted from the en- tire mental examination. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER _6, who has been on duty as commandant of the Chemical Warfare School, Edge- wood Arsenal, Md., and commanding of- ficer of the arsenal, arrived in Wash- ington last week for duty in the office of the chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, where he will be chief of the Procurement and Planning Division. He | will be relieved at Edgewood by Lieut. Col. Claude E. Brigham, C. W. 8., who will return from temporary duty in Germany about October 20. Maj. Paul X. English, C. W. 8., has reported for duty in the Chemical a) fare office as chief of the swaly Di- vision, relieving Capt. Chase W. Hoad- C. W. 8, who will remain as his Capt. William C. Kabrich, who just recently was transferred to the Chemi- cal Warfare Service, is on temporary duty in the Chemical Warfare office prior to reporting to Edgewood Arsenal for duty. D. C. Naval Reserve Plans are being made by members of the 1st Battalion. United States Naval Reserves of the District of Col- umbia, for presenting one of the biggest displays in its history on Navy day, the latter part of this month, according of Lieut. Comdr. Finney Bascom Smith, conmmander of the local organization. Friends and relatives of the citizen sailors, as well as the general public, will be invited to come to the armory of the outfit on the Eleventh street side of the Washington Navy Yard, where they will be shown scme very interesting naval activities and will get a glimpse of the kind of training re- | ceived by these men during the year. Gun crews are being trained for a loading drill, at which will be displayed the teamwork necessary to quickly serve a gun with ammunition To show that the Marines are as much at home on the beach as they are at sea, there will | be a period of snappy infantry drill There also will be displays of signalling, knot splicing and other naval activities. | The athletic training received by the men to keep them fit to fight also will be shown, and a part of this display will be a series of boxting bouts by the best talent in the organization. In connection with the more formal exercises there will be an address by a prominent speaker. whose name the Reservists are not yet ready to an-| nounce. During the day activities in the Washington Navy Yard, the United States Destroyer Abel P. Upshur, train- ing ship of the local battalion, will be dressed in the vari-colored signal flags, and sailors will be aboard to escort visitors over the ship, ‘one of the latest flush-deck type of sea hounds. Lieut. Samuel W. Stinemetz, recently appointed executive officer of the local battalion to succeed Lieut. Comdr. Harry J. Nichols. relieved because of the fact that he left the city, has issued his first drill schedule. It provides a and is destined to bring the local bat- talion to the top of the list among the other organizations in various parts of the country. Special attention will be given in work this year to remedying defects picked in the organization by the regular naval inspection board. Examinations for the promotion of 'nhsted personnel are provided for, and | special attention is to be given to the niforms. The inspection board, it was aid, found fault with the manner in which some of the sailors had the white braid trimming sewed on their uni- forms, and to make certain that there will be no cause for finding fault on this ground next year, Comdr. Smith has made arrangements to have a tailor at the armory to sew the stripes on in | regulation style. Special attention is also being given to personnel turnover. In the opinion of the inspzction board, the local outfit marked the local battalion low. Efforts | now are being made to get into the organization only those men who will remain with the outfit and take an | interest in their work. It was said also that the board marked the local organization low on its mobllization efficiency. This fact the officers are unable to understand, maintaining that they should have re- ceived 100 per cent: for this, as they are organized to leave immediately on their own ship in the case of trouble. They are one of a very few organiza- tions in the country prepared to do this, it was said. The commissioned ranks of the local battalion are expected to have added to it another ensign, Raymond B. Sul- livan. Ensign Sullivan, it was said, is a graduate of the United States Naval Acade in the class of 1927, and had too large a turnover last year and | | served in the Regular establishment, his resignation taking effect on October 3, last. He has announced his intention of becoming active with the local or- ganization as soon as he is commis- sioned in the Reserve. He will be at- tached to the volunteer branch until a vacancy occurs in the Fleet Reserve here, when it is expected that he will be transferred. The appointment of Lieut. Comdr. Joseph L. B. Murray, Dental Corps, and | his assignment to the local Reserves | was announced. | __The commandant of the Washington Navy Yard has received examination papers for Lieut. T. J. Kennedy, medi- cal officer of the local battalion, for promotion to the rank of lieutenant commander. Four ‘other officers of the local bat- talion have been ordered up for exami- nation for promotion on November 4. They are Lieut. E. W. Rounds, aviation division, for advancement to the rank of lieutenant command-=r; Lieut. (junior grade) John F. Moore, commanding the Second Fleet Division, for lieutenant; Lieut. (junior grade) Henry L. Shenier, Second Division, for lieutenant, and ‘I.ieul. (junior grade) John F. Fewell for lieutenant. | The commandant also has received | papers for the examination of Ensign | John D. Cleland, jr., Third Fleet Di- | vision, for promotion to_ lieutenant, | junior grade, and Lieuts. W. Y. Dun- can, jr., and Paul V. Thompson for | lieutenant commanders, engineering | duty, Volunteer Reserve, for general | service. Lieut. Thompson has been au- | thorized to delay the taking of his examination until after January 1 next. | _Lieut. Allen J. Chenery, Medical | Corps, has notified the Navy Depart- | ment that he would like to take the | comprehensive scheme of instruction, | examination for promotion to lieutenant | | commander. He had previously been | notified that he was eligible for pro- | motion. | John E. Stone, seaman, first class, has been relieved as a shipkeeper, | aboard the destroyer Abel P. Upshur, ! at_his own request. Willlam A. Windle, shipkeeper aboard ! the destroyer Abel P. Upshur, has been | promoted from machinist's mate, sec- ond, to first class. Malcolm Wiiloughby, mate, first class, has been transferred | from the Volunteer to the Fleet Reserve |and has been assigned to the Second | Fleet Diviston. |RUSTY METALS MATCH BERMUDA SUN BURNS Air Creates Harmony Bronzes Among Visitors With Buckles. HAMILTON, Bermuda (#)—Every- thing made of metal rusts in Bermuda, | owing to the salt afr. One recent visitor found her silver Ishoe buckles turned to a charming bronze shade, when she took them from her clothes closet. Her buckles, how- ever, matched the sunburn on her arms lind she was pleased with the combina- tion. 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