Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1930, Page 39

Armyand Navy News Army. Hardly had the announcement of Col. John L. De Witt, Infantry, as the next quariermaster general of the Army been made than service speculation W & s revolving around the forth- vacancy on ruary 15, 1930, Maj. Gen. Pred T. Austin, chief of Field Ar- tillery, will be re- placed on the re- tired list of the Regular Army on account of physi- cal disability. And with ‘the ordering of Brig. Gen. Wil- liam M. Cruikshank to Washington for duty as president Cers o™ Getarmmine 0 del ine the location of ihe Mal Gen. Austin. Field Artillery School, it was intimated in certain quarters that he might be ated as the successor of Gen. Austin, This is scouted in well informed circles, as Gen. Cruikshank has heen assigned .as commandant of the Field Artillery School, succeeding the late Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman. It is interesting to note in this connection that in recent years there has only been one brigadier general of the line branches who has been appointed the chief of this arm, this'case being that of Brig. Gen. Malin Craig, now a major general, who was appointed chief of Cavalry rior to the present chief of that arm, aj. Gen. Herbert C. Crosby. The successor of Gen. Austin will be selected from a list of 30 Field Artillery colonels. Of this number two have' been prominently mentioned in this con- nection. The first is Col. Charles D. Herron, who is No. 16 _on the rela- tive list of colonels of Field Artillery. Col. Herron is & graduate of the Mili- tary Academy and is 53 years of age. He is also a holder of the Distinguished Service Medal. The other colonel men- toned in this connection is Henry W. Butner, No. 7 on the relative list, who is now on duty as president of the Pield Artillery Board. He will be 56 years of age next September. is a Academy graduate and has ‘been awarded the Distinguished Serv- ice Medal. Tt was definitely learned last week, in connection with a persistent rumor, that there was in contemplation and under serious discussion the project of reduction of the commissioned person- nel of the Regular Army. Most of sthe conjectures have not gone beyond a sacrifice of 2,000 officers, but for the | first time it has been brought out that the officers of the Army should be re- duced to at least 4,000. “There has been considerable speculation concerning what would be done to achieve the re- sults desired by the President in his ject announced last July for apply- effective economies to military- naval expenditures. * The provision of retired pay to which every officer is entitled at the rate of three-fourths of his active pay, it is declared, would be denied to him under the above proposal. This reduction by + 4,000 officers, it has been suggested in some quarters, could be utilized to_em- ploy the saving in furnishing the means for the increase of service pay and to increase the personnel of the Army Med- ical ited the mflmmt. con! ‘Wain ht proposal, to understood the President has given his approval on the condition that it will increase the Army missioned strength above 12,000. Secre- of War Patrick A. Hurley, it is ed, will not support any such com- missioned personnel reduction program. Navy. Instructions were issued last week by Bureau of Nl:-lntkm gover) all officers, for purposes of rotation of duty, service on shore on the Asiatic sta- tion (except attache and languag: stu- + dent duty in Peiping and Tokio) in Guam and in Samoa. is considered a cruisc. 1 suit against Partages. dent to that ment is credited to his total sea service. Owing to the relative shortage of sea billets for officers of the staff corps, a | regular alternaticn between sea and shore cannot be effected. For Medical Corp officers of the Navy the normal tour of duty in any one locality within the United States in three years: at sea or on shore beyond the contincntal lim- its of the United States (less Samoa), it is two years. Officers of the rank of captain and above may serve at a sta- tion on shore within the United States not exceeding four years. . As a neces- sity caused by an excess of shore over sea billets, duty on shore outside the United States will generally be substi- tuted for medical officers in place of every alternate tour of sea duty. In no case of an officer below the rank. of captain will duty on foreign shore be repeated without the intervention of a tour of sea duty. It has been the custom for officers of the Navy Dental Corps to serve two years at sea and three years ashore, but, due to the shortage of dental officers, the normal tour of duty at sea for dental officers of the rank of lieutenant and below will be three years. Three years of sea duty will, under the new instructions, be required of officers of the Supply Corps of the rank of lieu- tenant and below. The normal tour of duty at-sea for officers of the Chaplain Corps with the rank of commander and above is two years: for officers of the rank of licv- tenant commander and below, three years. For all officers on shore duty outside the continental limits of the United States (less Samoa) the normal tour of duty is two years. For officers-of the, Construction Corps, the normal tour of duty in any one lo- cality within the United States will be four years, and at any station beyond the continental limits of the United States (less Samoa) two years, except that the tour of duty with the Depart- ment of Public Works in Haiti will be three years. The tour of duty of such naval constructors as shall be ordered to sea will be two years. The tours of duty, both afloat and ashore, for officers of the Civil Engineer Corps will be the same as for the Construction Corps, described above. EUNICE PRINGLE'S SUIT TO BE PROBED Dancer to Be Quizzed on Fraud Charges After Asking Million Damages From Pantages. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 25.—The suit for $1,000,000 damages filed yester- day against Alexander Pantages, multi- millionaire vaudeville magnate, by Eunice Pringle, the 17-year-old dancer he recently was convicted of attacking, today became the object of an investi- sluon by Superior Judge Edward Hen- erson. Judge Henderson directed Miss Prin- gle, her mother, Nicholas Duneav, au- thor of the skit the girl was attempting to book on Pantages’ circuit at the time of the alleged attack, August 9, 1929, and the girl's attorneys, Theodore Gottsdanker and Hugh Dickson, to ap- oning concerning c! g: fraud made by a defense attorney in the perjury trial of Garland Biffie terday. ‘William T. Kendricks, jr., Biffle's at- torney, interrupted his closing argument when he heard the damage suit had been filed and asked that his client's defense be reopened on the ground that Miss Pringle, in tes inst Bif- fle, said she had not to file & e gl Motor Boat Show Extended. 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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Seconds of A Regular $1.95 Grade no holes. 63x99 72x99 U, Special Purchase ~ Sheets in Large Sizes—90x99 and 90x108 Inches $1.39 - —Soft, smooth sheets of goad, heavy, bleached sheeting—free from fillin, wide hems. Some few subj®t to slight imper- fections, such as a heavy thread or oil spot, but Finished with Sheets in 4 Popular Sizes—Special at $1.00 ea. Reg. 35¢ Pillowcases, 45x36 in. 25¢ each Bedspreads—Special —$2.95 Candlewick Spreads ... $2.69 —$3.00 Colored Rayon Spreads $2.69 —$9.95 to $12.95 Brocaded Spreat Kann's—Street Floor. 81x90 81x99 $7.95/ Simmons Metal Bed Outfits—Special $33.98 —$19.95 Simmons’ Metal Bed (choice of five styles) —$16.95 layer felt mat- tress and $11.95 guaran- lt:ed “-231 ulpr..l n.—t—A ar . value for B Two Other Metal Bed Outfits—Low Priced —A wood - finished, square bing metal bed, layer felt - $24.98 link full a sizes . —A brown finished two-inch continuous-post metal bed, cot- sp) n Kann's—Third Floor, Just 35 of These Fine Cabinet Eleectric Radios - Without Tubes $58.50 Formerly $150 —These radios are fully licensed by R. C. A. and Hazleton patents. They are genuine neutrodyne, . all-electric A. C. 8-tube sets, in handsome walnut veneered highboy cabi- nets. Equl?ped with superpower full dynamic speaker—noted, for se- lectivity and clear tone. —Full, uar- nnteedy bg' the maker and by nn's. —May be pur- chased on the De- ferred Payment Plan. Attractive Lamp Shades—At Only $1.00 ea. $1.49 to $2.49 Values —Antique crackled parchment ¥ paper shades, with clever printed panels and leather lacings. In sizes for bridge, table and floor lamps, at this attractive low price. ¢ Kann'’s—Third Floor, . Sale! Imported Willow Luncheon Sets at— —Choice of blue, pink or green sets in this beautiful old- fashioned Willow pattern. 32 pieces, a service for six. A very special value, Kann’s—Third Floor. Reg. $1.59 Hemstitched Damask Lunch Cloths $1.25 —Good looking, splen- did wearing cloths, of nice quality silver bleached linen damask— the 54-inch size, fin- ished with hemstitched hems. S;Pc. Luncheon Sets Special, $1.29 —Linen sets with 50x50- . inch cloth and four napkins, all finished with fancy eol- ored stripe borders. 50-in. Luncheon Cloths, Special, 89¢ —Fine quality linen crash cloths, with striped borders in blue, rose, gold or green. Bath Towels Special, 3%c —Extra heavy Turkish towels, with colored stripe borders. The double-thread, absorbent quality, in 25x46-in. size. —22x44 in. Turkish Towels . .25¢ ea. —22x44 in. Turkish Towels 3 for $1.00 600 Radia- tor Shields Specially Priced 79¢ ea. —Economo gilt-finished shields, in two adjust- o 55 to 27. Protect your walls and hangings. Self-Wringing Mops, 59¢ —Nothing to get out of order. Wring thc'nuku dry. Metal Waste Paper Baskets, 29¢ baskets, ishes. Sanitary. and fire- proof. Garbage Cans 29¢, 59¢, 79¢ —Corrugated cans of o vanized iron—in nn?:- ly Aluminum Specials ‘Mirro,’ ‘Pure’ and ‘Wearever’ Brands —32 quart Seamless Percolators of heavy Aluminum. 790 Special . . —$2.35 Wearever 2-qt. JANUARY 26, 1930—PART TWO. 8.3x10.6 Sizes Regularly Priced $70 Wilton —Now is the time to buy a really fine Rug at an unusually low price. A Royal Wool Wilton, noted for beauty and du- rability. Offered in this sale way below regular. Size 6x9 Ft.—$32.95 $100.00 Seamless Worsted Wiltens...... $75 —8x12 and 81x10% ft.; heavy rugs, in pretty patterns and colors. $125.00 Imperial $ Karnak Wiltens. . 79050 —x12 and 8,x10% ft. rugs. Some subject to slight imperfections. Axminster Rugs—Also at Special Prices $45 and $55 Seamless Axminsters—9x12 and 8%x10%5 ft.. $37.50 Seamless Axminster Rugs—9x12 and 8%x10%4 ft.. Door Mats, 49¢ —14x20-in. door mats, with a ood heavy brush. w priced in this Rag Rugs, 98¢ —36x63-in. rugs, in hit and miss pat- terns, with fringed ends. All washable. sale. cocoa ..§39.95 $23.50 Bath Mats, 95¢ —24x36-in. bath mats, in bright, pretty ' colors. All washable and speci- ally priced. Kann's—Third Floor. Sale! 1,700 Panel, Ruffled and Criss-Cross Curtains $1.98 to $2.69 Values —Over 1,700 pairs of curtains in the : three most popular styles are offered in this unusual sale collection at a [ price every one can afford. Criss- cross styles of rayon marquisette and color: bottoms, and 5-piece —$149 to $1.89 Criss-Cross and o reaeciaras 3115 Pr. tains, special at auze, dotted figured grenadine; panels with fringed ed styles of scrim and marquisette. —$1.00 and $125 Criss-Cross Curtains of mar- quisette. At Kann's—Third Floor. —Triplicate Sauce Pan —4 and § qt. }undu th covers— of heavy set with eold —8235 ot P comtors.., $1.69 Kann's—Third Foer. quart Kettles. Detroit Jewel Gas Ranges Voo $31.95 lendid ranges equij with WITW f:’turn VE: the other models now at special Free Connections—Convenient Terms “Universal” Electric Iron $2.95 ey stand _and leng cord. Special value.