Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1932, Page 55

1932—PART FOUR. By James W. Brooks 14, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY SHINGTON'S TRAVELS Historically Correet Sketehes: By CALVIN FADER GEORGE WA AVIATION BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. HAT is characterized as one of the most serious situations in the history of air transport development in this country has been created as a result of the dispute between one of the large Midwestern airlines and the organized airline pilots | of the Nation. . The dispute. involving wages and conditions of employment of . pilots of the line, has developed into what promises to be a fight to determine the relationship between pilots and operators throughout | the country. - i The pilots contend that, since they are solely responsible for the lives of their passengers once they are in the air, they should be | ‘given a voice in determining the conditions under which they are to| Sy. The conditions which %mve led to an open break between the _pilots and Century Air Lines, the largest independent transport air- ines in the country, constitute a menace which no longer can be ignored, it has been stated here by representatives of the pilots. The pilots take the stand that their [to the quick action, consisted of super- ONE OF THE MOST UNFORIUNATE INCIDENTS OF THE. REVOLUTION WA THAT OF PENEDICT ARNOLD, HERD OF SARATOGA AND QUEBEC. AFTER BEING WOUNDED AT SARATOGA, HE WAS GIVEN THE. COMMAND AT DHILADELPHIA, WHERE HE MADE THE ACQUAINTANCE. OF PEOPLE- HOSTILE TO THE AMERICAN CAUSE. WASHINGTON RATER PLACED ARNOLD IN COMMAND AT WEST QOINT ON THE HUDSON , AND THERE. IN AN EVIL HOUR, ARNOLO PLANNED TO TORN THIS \MPORTANT STRONGHOLD OVER TO THE BRITISH. Joun ANDRE HOWEVER JOHN ANDRE WITH WHOM ARNOLD WAS DEALING WAD CAUGHT WITW NOTES BUT ARNOLD ESCAPED TO THE BRITION. ANDRE WAS HUNG AND OIED LINE A SOLDIER . ARNOLDS TORY WIFE NO DOUBT HAD SOME. INFLUENCE ON HIM. HE LIVED A MISERABLE LIFE IN ENOLAND L.0OKED DOWN UPON BYALL . WHEN FOUND DEAD HE WAS WALF CLOTHED IN HIS OLD CONTINENTAL UNIFORM. highly ~ specialized training entitles “them to consideration in the settle- | ment of technical problems to sicht vears of expensive and difficult training are .produce a transport pil passengers in scheduled pointed out. Fitted by training. ex-| perience and judgment to recognize when flving operations are safe. they feel that they should be permitted to 2have the right of refusing to take up & plane load of passengers in the face ;of conditions which they know to be dangerous. Declaring that an average of two members of the Air Line Pilots’ Asso- ciation have been killed each month since the group was orgzanized, Frank E. Ormsbee, revresentative of the as- .sociation in Washington, said: L “Of the various causes Wk resulted in the deaths, the t iation thet competi- is responsible to a large Competitive fiying is the re- of competitive operating. Com- titive operating is due to competitive ~bldding tor air traffic and aivmail con- tracts between airline operating com- panies. “In an effort to underbid each other, -~economy measures that react against safety in flying result. Lowered morale is one of these very dangerous re- actions.” to to fiy | rvice. it was | q! it fit have Air Line Pay Cuts Ordered. The dispute between Century Air Line and its pilots came to a climax when the pilots, already the lowest paid in the country, it is said, were served notices of pay reductions amounting in some cases to 40 per cent. They | previously had protested against their | conditions of employment. | The pilots threatened to walk out, but the strike was postponed for 10 | days from February 1 to permit nego- | tiation uf the dispute. Before the pericd | had elapsed 21 pilots of the line were summarily discharged by order of E. L. Cord, president of the line. All Century lines except one between Chi- caga and St. Louis suspended opera- tions | The discharged pilots met in Chicago with other members of the Air Line | Pilots’ Association, recently affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. and unanimously agreed under no consideration to back down on their stand against the pay cuts and terms of employment which led to the lock- our In a telegram received here follow- ing the meetinz, David L. Behnck veioran pilot and president of the aso- cipticn | said Pilots’ Association not a fight between Cord s. but a fight between Cord : irs with faith kept faith used every to arbitrate and | foreign ficial burns “As a fitting tribute and eve Lis harrowing experiences, ‘mon has had three wound on his new pocket.” Defeating the Tarifi. In these days when the Government should be doing everything in its power to build up heme industri:s and in- crease the Nation's export trade, rews of the decision of American manufac turers to establish manufacturing plants in foreign countries to =scape ruinous tariffs sounds a gloomy note. Two large American aeronautical firms have just announced plans for con- struetion of planes and motors abroad. The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is g ing into the airplane construction busi- in Turkey and also will ervise uction of airports and airwavs in Europe. Construetion of Packard Dis | ion engines is about to be under- Czechoslovakia 1y 11 the Curtiss-Wright m build planes in Turkey, under di- rection of American engineers and and with American production methods it also is under contract with the Turkish government to supervise and direct the building of airports and airways for that government Maj. William B. Robertson, well known in the National Capital. has gone to Turkey to conduct the survey and F. E. Hulse, airport specialist. is on the way to plan airports necessary to establishment of mail, transport and military operations. Select Plant at Kayseri. An airplane factory at Kayseri. Turkey, constructed three years 2go. has been made available for the manu- facture of American type planes. The stripes sewe | plant will be operated under direction | of Capt. 8. C. Coon, of the American concern. The American activity in Turkey is | the result of demonstrations bv the American aviation mission. headed by Maj. James H. Doolittle, which visited European and Baltic states two years ago. The Packard oil-burning engine is to be built at Prague, Czechoslovakia, under authorization of the Ministry of Public Works, which approved the plan after a flying test of 100 hours with the engine Tests of the engine also are being made in a number of other European countries and the possibil- ity of still other ien plants in the near future is foreseen In Roumania test stand runs of the motor have been completed ana it is being installed in a plane for flight tests. Curtiss-Wright dv has large manufacturing planis in South Amer- ica and several Europesn countries, Largze American automobile plants and other industries also are undertaking manufacturing operations, taking from the United States manu- factures which might go a long w | toward relieving the domestic financial ! situation and swelling the Nation's ex- loc t of date set for final arbitra- with the statement to Chicago to fill locked out will be ssociation and situa- ed. If they then re- ed out in attempt to pay and working be listed s unde- ssion and forever hable Company Views Explained. As spokesman for Cord, P. Willis, a | director of the company. explained the stand of the company by saying: “We are only doing what all air companies | will have to come to sooner or later. We are trving to put the romantic term ‘aviation’ on & businesslike basis. asis ‘The American Federation of Labor has promised its ful! backing to the pilots in their struggle for improve- | ment of conditions. The position of the federation was outlined as follows | by William Green, president: “The members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor are of the opinion that the air line pilots employed by the Century Alr Lines were thoroughly justified in refusing to give service when the man- agement of the company demanded a 40 per cent wage reduction. “The support of the American Federation of Labor is unreservedly given to those members of the Air Line Pilots’ Association. They deserve the support of all classes of people in their efforts to maintain decent wages and decent conditions of employment. “Employed as tney are at hazardous ‘work assuming risks involving both life | and property, they deserve to be paid a | decent salary and they deserve to be encouraged through the hope of pro- motion and steady employment. “The imposition of a 40 per cent reduction in wages upon a group of men whose responsibilities are great, who risk their lives in_hazardous enterprise is indefensible. It is clearly evident that such action must result in lowered morale and decreased efficiency. The creation of such a situation is bound to destroy public confidence in air line transportation.” “Hot Spot” Harmon. Harmon, Army pushes obser Lieut Air new nickname is “Hot Spot” and it came about in this fashion: Harmon, with three other Mitchel Field golf luminaries, was, in the language of the Mitchel Field Wind- sock, journal of the field personnel, “beating around the bushes on the Meadowbrook course.” Down the thirteenth fairway, Harmon began beating the bushes with more gusto than his brother officers. Knee- deep in the growth he blasted away at the ball. which only hopped further away into the rough. Thoroughly aroused, “Tiny” jammed his habitual pipe into his hip pocket. h, and settled down to the business of getting the hall out into more appropriate surroundings. His fellow golfers three, witnessing the show with heartless chuckles, were preparing | to shoot their second shots wher sud- | denly a wild shriek came from the tall | ‘weeds as Tiny threw his arms aloft and | came bounding out into the open. “I'm on fire!” howled Tiny. His un- feeling fellows, believing his heated con- dition was mental and due tc mability to get the ball out on the fairway, only laughed the louder until they suddenly | =~vceived with amazement that smoke is belching from the Harmon knick- ers. "Yne smouldering pipe. it appeared. was wreaking havoc in the routhwest sector. “With miraculous Agility.” continues the account of the calamity, “Maj. Bill Jeaped to the rescue, lowered the fiam- ing breeches under gr2at stress. due to the jumping and whooping of the victim, and found the Harmon shorts in the same state of conflagration. After much u-ppingmfind pounding applications of hands of the fire was (x- nnflg;.r‘-ulnm injury, due | Cen port trade. Air Quarantine Asked. New quarantine regulations gove Passenger operations across tional boundaries are req Federal Government by Hedenburg, _Chicago specialist, Present regul sufficient to prevent s < epidemi of malaria and other conmunicable d eases gaining headway in tF Dr. Hedenburg advised Feders ficials. s “Month by month. the number of airplanes flving across our national boundaries is increasing,” Dr. Heden- burg pointed out. “Many of these are making regular trips between this coun- try and our neighbors to the South, where typhus fever, malaria, yellow fever and other tropical diseases rarely encountered in the United States are endemic. e next few years will bring more frequent Mights between this country and the rest of the woild where dengue, plague, rabies, Asiatic cholera and other dangerous diseases are common.” The danger of the airplane as a car- rier of diseases, Dr. Hedenbu'g warned, lies in the fact that it can travel so rapidly a passenger may be exposed to disease in a foreign country and show no symptoms unti; after he has landed in the United States. Travel by ship, on the other hand, is usually so slow that incubation of the disease his set in before the passenger reaches this country. Dr. Hedenburg suggested that every airplane crossing n international boundary should be subjected to in- tense inspection and effective insecti- cides should be sprayed over every part of the plene and iis cargo to desiroy insects and pests which c:rvy discases. Swiss Order American Planes. The roar of American motors in American planes will be heard over ral Europe as the signal of the be- ginning of operation by a Swiss airline of the fastest air transport service in Europe. The Swiss line has purchased two Lockheed Orion all-metal low-wing monoplanes powered with Wright Cy- clone engines of 575 horsepower each. These planes are to be used regularly on the Zurich-Vienna route and to ex- pedite transatlantic mails from Cher- bourg to Basel and other interior s in Europe. he planes will be provided with seats for four passengers, the space for the two normal additicnal seats being Tim for mail ses. The two planes d of 225 miles per hour and normal cruising speed of 185 miles per hour, it has been announced. Out of the Red. In a year of depression, when many industries have come out on the wrong side of the ledger, it is cheering news to the aviation industry that at least one transport line has been able to earn profits for its stockholders. The annual report of R. C. Marshall president of Thompson Aeronautical Corporation, which operates airmail and passenger lines linking 18 Midwestern cities and a chain of 8 aviation bases, shows for the year ending December 31 a net profit of more than $10,000, de- spite the expenditure during the year of more than $197.000 for a fleet of new tri-motored planes. construction of a new air transport base at Chicago and other expenses additional to normal operations. Planes of the line carried a total of 17,015 revenue passengers during the year, 11.195 of this number during the second half. Officials of the company are continu- ing their study of plans for a proposed 4,369-mile air route linking America and Europe by way of Greenland and Iceland, with terminals at Detroit and Copenhagen. During the past year two surveys were made of this route, one of them resulting in the loss at sea only 200 miles short of their goal of Pilot Parker D. Cramer and Oliver L. Paquette, raido operator and co-pilot. ng interna- ucsied of the Dr. O F Unable to find a satisfactory truck for delivery of its wares to its 1.800 retail stores, a shoe manufacturing concern in Czechoslovakia devised a new type of machine, 34 feet long and equipped with Diesel engine, and claims that it has cut transportation costs to one- third of the frefght rates. bers being received into membership by transfer card from other councils in Washington. Meeting of the drill team was held at the home of the councilor, (Continued From Sixth Page) | Councilor Mrs. Belle Gibson. sss}:.'-leri by National Representative Mrs. Pearl| I 1 . Woife, to the State and national officers | E. W. Sutphin, Fegruary 11. % e o gt Dot Tesidence n| _J. Morgan Read Council met with Aurora Hills, Va. The annual Martha |Councilor Oscar F. Lewis presiding. Washington Social and Coloniel Drill cQ’T,‘,’,i‘iii‘x? G‘ll-snfrtng “gé;x‘nrxxlner&o;r\;géh ; emple, PesTuary A 20 esid- will be held at Almas Temple, February | Councior SHent 0. Montgomery, presic- i 1ed the program for the Bicentennial MODE The degrees were conferred on Edward Rollins.~ A dance will be held e Committee of Central| ot the Willard Hotel Apri 15. Mr. Croy Camp. consisting of Walter B B verl, | spoke on “Selling Americans Ameri- is making efforts to organize a m ing club in the camp to participate the Bicentennial celebration at Al andria on Febmiary 22, Capt. W. Roy | Heft, a member of the staff of Maj { Gen. Maurice R. Smith. commandant of the Woodmen Foresters, is n charge of the arrangements. A drive for new members is under the direction of James A. Moody. W N. Locknane and Dr. Thomas Lock- nane to produce candidates for the class adoption which is to be held jointly by the various camps in the District of Co- Jumbia in Talbot Camp Hall. Fourth street and Pennsylvania avente south- east P'Pbru!ll?‘ This meet Washington. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The Grand Lodge will hold it !ml‘Al election of officers February 19. at 8:30 | pm. Supreme Vice Cb Dunn will be present. Elsie Van e Virginia Mary The boar Association N ning in the Grand Lodge room | The closed section of the Grand Lodge will meet in Syracusians lLodge Hall, and will adjourn at 9 pm. to at- | tend the banquet and entertainment in | the auditorium | Syracusians Lodge convened Friday, with Chancellor Commander Murphy the chair. Retiring Chancellor Cc mander Gross was presented with a | signet ring with the insignia of the or- | der on it by Grand Lecturer R. B | Berryman. N WOODMEN OF AMERICA. n- in stia Council was presided over by Councilor G. F. Scott. This council went to Clinton Episcopal Church at Clinton, Md., Saturday evening and presented an American flag. SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM. Capitol Lodge met, with Comdr. Sloat presiding. Deputy Supreme Comdr. Viola Thompson, Deputy Lena | Geary of New Jersey, Deputies Richards and Phythian made addresses. The next meeting will be February 15 at Odd Fellows' Temple, 419 Seventh | street. CATHOLIC DAUG! AMERIC At the meeting Tuesday evening the program will be in charge of the Rainy Day Committes A group is he S g will also honor George HTERS OF making the retreat this week at Washington retreat house. Bishop William J. Hafey is retreat mas- ter The of Junior Catholic Daughters esday eve- | Meetings This Week: CAMPS Col cob Astor, 1ers’ Home. M. Emmet Prthian Temple. Lieut Richard J. Pythian Temple. ILIARIES. Acmiral George Dewey, M mic Temple. ai — Gen. M. Emmet Pythian Temple Miles Bugle & Drum ry, Central High Monday Un B. P. 0. ELKS. The fiftieth anniversary of Wa ton Lodge was celebrated last Thu: and Friday nights with a banquet at | the Mayfiower Hotel. Prior to the ban- | quet 110 candidates became members of | the lodge. They were initiated in honor of Grand Exalted Ruler John R. Corn and cther distinguished Grand Lodge officers from all over the United States. | William Carroll was nominated for | trustee for the three-vear term. The | other nominee for the same office is J n ob- farvey Belt, chairman of the Commu- | Sery S bruary nitv and Welfare Committee of the lodge Thursda c THE MACCABEES. mee Masor received latter t Department of vere, Paul R. Donley and Wilmer member derson, representing Mt. Vernon Tent, and Ladies Eva G. Bruce. Louise Kelly and Anna Kraus. representing Eurcka Hive, reported a Bicentennial celebra-| tion to be held February 22 at North- east Masonic Temple. | Capitol Court. Junior Maccabees, will hold a Biceniennial celebration at Northeast Masonic Temple February at 10 am. The program will embrace Colonial music. essays on the life of Washington by the children. and a drill by 16 girls. Farents of the children are invited to be present. JOB'S DAUGHTERS. Bethel No. 1 celebrated its birthday anniversary February 6 a short business meeting there dancing. The next meeting will be held Fe 2 ruary 20. At which time the ceremony | ‘The Military Order of the Serpent of initiation will be given to the new | wili ho!d a crawl and initiation on candidates. February 20 in the Soldiers and Sailors’ . | Home. at Eleventh and L streets WOMEN'S BENEFIT ASSOCIATION. |\arch 7 a crawl will be held Victory Review will meet in the club | Pyilian Temple, at which time the roon's Monday evening. national head of the organization will Liberty ion will meet in the club be in the city and will have charge rooms Tuesday evening. Ty work, Washington Review will hold a re- at the Mayflower Hotel, ception Priday evening in honor of the Distric chaplain, Mrs. Martha Manther, whose commander in ! marriage to George Moore will take Past Depart- place February 22. 2 Commander Jere A. Costello. ’ ilrman of the Department of Good WOODMEN CIRCLE were inducted by Depa Samuel J. McWilliams, officers: ¥ harles Swanbers, H. Shir-Cliff and Willia Carr; for Urell Camp. Thomas R. Gaines, Andrew J. Donal Benjamin T. White. Adjt S. Kennedy and Irvine of Manhat- . Departient of New partment Comdr A banquet in honor will be held tment and De| ims spok Y Willi: Ke of th Mar FUAr 2 Quartermaster spoke r Gen. in connection with the widow 1 bill now pending in Congress Vice department commander e on the life and activities of Com- rade Samuel H. Ma’ n. ninth After was Mc- | |and Welfare Committee, has charge of Sovereign Naomi Kidwell at the last session of Morris Sheppard Grove as past guardian was awarded a jewel pin. Sovereign Florence Helgesen, guardian, made the presentation address. Sov- ereign Carolyn Gentner made a report on the official visitation to Washington of National President Mary La Rocca of Omaha. City Manager Frances Kolb announced meetings each second and fourth Saturdays at ihe Woodnien's 1 Lodge of the Juvenile Circle. Sovereign Frieda Hofen was abpointed chairman of the committee preparing the card party at Southern Deiries' Audit n | April 8. ‘The members of Mount non, Old Glory. Oak and Elm Groves | will participate in this event. UNITED ORDER OF THE GOLDEN CROSS. At the visitation to St. John's Com- mandery last Saturday evening, Su- eme Herald Walter E. Allen, assisted y E. Lavinia Cator, acting past grand commander, installed the following of- ficers: Frank H. Cole, past noble com- mander; Joseph E. Benjamin, noble commander; Nettie E. Gray, vice noble commander; Gerhart E. Toepper, worthy prelate; William E. Graham, keeper of records and F. K. R.; Jennie H. Cole, treasurer; Arthur G. Cole, worthy herald; Mary I Graham, warder inner gate, and Jennie C. Bean, warder outer gate. oyster supper. { JUNIOR ORDER UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS. State Councilor Thomas F. Jones and the official staff were guests to J. L. Burnette Council at a recent meeting. National Vice Councilor William S. Howe of Baltimore, Md., spoke. The next visitation of the state offi- cers will be to Old Glory Council and Francis Scott Key Councils, which will be held jointly at 808 I street, February 18. They will pay their annual visit to Star Spangle Banner Council in the same hall February 26. Liberty Bell Council met with Coun- cilor E. W. Sutphin presiding. This council will pay a fraternal visit to Golden Rule Council of Baltimore, Md. February 19. Busses wil leave the | Northeast Masonic Temple at 7 o'clock. The twentieth anniversary of the founding of this council will be held February 27. Degrees_were conferred on Charles Trunnell, Ralph E. Lomax and H. Harvey Hild, a5 a3 15 mem- The ceremonies were followed by an | | the_arrangements The annual banquet in honor of National President Florence H. Becker was held February 5 at the Roosevelt Hotel. The invited guests included the national president, former Sena- tor and Mrs. Rice W. Means and De- partment Commander Samuel J. and Mrs. McWilliams and many others. In the absense of Department Presi- dent Janet Sikken, Senior Vice Depart- ment President Catherine Huhn acted as master of ceremonies and on behalf of the auxiliavies of the department presented Mrs. Becker with a gift. Sen ator Means the speiker of the evening. Department Commander Mc- \wl!(mms and President Becker also spoke. Col. James S. Pettit Auxiliary met Monday at Naval Lodge Hall, President Myrtle Moxley presiding. Department President Mary C. Burk, Mrs. Mary Tultavull and Past Comdr, Charles A. Strobel spoke. Plans have been com- pleted for the dance February 22 at Naval Lodge Hall. An appropriation was made to the Roosevelt Memorial to be erected in Buffalo, N. Y. Gen, Henry W. Lawton Auxiliary was convened by President Cordelia Pollard Tuesday. The department president and senior vice department president spoke. Past Comdr. Burdick and Mr. Smith of Lawton Camp reported the death of Arthur G. Webster. | The meeting scheduled for February | 23 will be “Charter Member” night. A ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE | America held an initiation last Satur- day evening. A paper on “What It Means to be a Junior,” was given by Ann Cavanaugh. Miss Mary C. Boland, grand regent of the senior court, wel- comed the new candidates. The coun- cilors are Miss Clare Ondreyco, senior councilor; Miss Gwen Tise, Miss Agnes Bath and Miss Nina Brown, who have a program for junior activities. The skating group met Wednesday evening. March 3 at the Catholic Daughters of America home. The juniors will have a conference | today from 3:15 to 3:45 o'clock with Bishop Hafey. ‘The junior officers are: Mary Kessler, president: Ann Cavanaugh, vice presi- dent; Frances Crory, secretary; Louise Brew, reporter. SONS AND DAUGHTERes OF LIBERTY. Columbia Council was called to order by Councilor Mrs. Marfon Pettit. Miss Catherine Pierce, Miss Dorothy Johns and Mr. Laurence Gray were proposed for membership. Councilor Pettit ap- pointed the following committees: Good of the Order, Mrs, Grace Dietrick; Wi and Means, Mrs. Betty Hodkin- son: pianist. Paul Radmon: press cor- respondent, Mrs. Anna L. Drever. Em- blems were presented to the new mem- bers and Mrs, Betty Hodkinson by the deputy, Mrs. Dowzella Kaufman, A bingo party meeting February 18 at the Phoenix Club, Seventy-fourth street northeast. The third birthday anniversary will be celebrated the last meeting night in April. Hope Council will meet February 23 in Naval Lodge Hall. The feature will be a Colonial party. A card party will be given at the home of Mr. and Mrs Etchinson, 1130 Chicago street south. east, February 20, at 8:30 p.m. | bingo party will be Temple February 19. The Presidents’ Club will meet Feb- ruary 24 at the home of Past Depa | ment President Bertha R. Cook, 2631 | Woodley place. She will be assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Annie Berthiaume and Mrs. Maude Dud held in Pythian Maine memorial exercises will be held tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Riding Hall at Fort Myer, Va. Thirty graduates of the United States Naval Academy will be assigned to th commissioned personnel of the line o corps upon thelr graduation June 30 Licut. Col e First public of Ha siding at the ( the city he is due to appear before 1o corps examining board for the pur- sose of promotion. First Lieut. Willia ras been temporarily 1 ¢ with his parent am N. McKelvy, avenue O. Smith. attached e Marines, Re ampshire \ With the exception of a few minor di- | - | visional and Marine Corps rifie and changes, the rules governing the | pistol competitions for the present year will remain as heretofore. No changes | have been made in the heretofore al- lowed quotas of competitors. as had been feared might have Lo be done. no will there be any reduction in the al lotment of medals. The anrual Marine Corps rifle and pistol competitions will be fired during the week beginning May 31. The San Diego Trophy team match will be fired at San Diego. Caiif., immediately fol- lowing the Western- Division competi- tions and the Elliott Trophy team | match t Quantico, Va.. immediately | following the Marine Corps competi- | tions. John G. Hauze of 809 Twenty-first | street, former Marine of 50 vears ago |and a retired mounted sergeant of the Washington Police Force, is applying for the medal bestowed by the corps to those who participated in the land- ing and fighting ashore at Alexandria, Egypt. on July 14, 1882, Mr. Hauze at that time was a Marine aboard the | United States Flagship Lancaster. r Admiral J. W. A. Nicholson, U N. commanding | _ Col. Constantine Marrast Perkins, U. S. M. C. retired. is also a veteran of the Alexandria affair, having at that |time been also attached to the Lan- | caster—and since retirement Col. Per- kins, who is known as the poet laureate of the corps, corps history in much’of verse. First Lieut. George F. Good, upon arrival here from foreign service, will be temporarily attached to corps head- quarters. Capt. Victor F. Bleasdale, heretofore attached to the West Coast Corps base, has been ordered to duty at Quantico. Claims Idea of War Tanks. Some dispute has arisen in Great Britain as to the origin of the idea that resulted in the invention of the tank ture of modern warfare. Maj. Gen, Sir E. D. Swinton declares that the idea occurred to him less than two months after the opening of the war, or, to be exact, on October 19, 1914, while he was driving down from the front in France to Awutocrat Motor Oil has a high fire test, indicating ability to withstand heat, It will seal the pistons against fuel leakage, and will fane- tion as & good oil is expected. Try Autocrat the mext time you need oil, and judge its advantages for yourself, QUART BAYERSON OIL WORKS COLUMBIA 5228 A card party will be given | will be the feature of the | has depicted | which has become such an essential fea- | Shortage of naval funds available for reconstruction purposes, it was learned last_week, probably will result in delay |in the arrival here of the converted launch, designed for the purpose of tak- ing out small parties of officers and men of the Ist Battalion, United States Naval Reserve of the District of Co- lumbia, on week end training cruises. The vessel is a specially-designed one, to be made by the conversion of a stock launch by the addition of a cabin, con- taining berths for officers and men and a galley, so that they might stay away from their home stations overnight. Information has been recefved here, it is said. that it would require ap- proximately $700 to fit the launch up available for this purpose. In view of these conditions. it was said to be im- probable that the boat would be here for some time. Tentative plans had been made to send out small parties each week end for the purpose. It was to be used for the training of seamen in the handling of small vessels and the engine room force in maintenance and handling of internal combustion engines. It was made of it, for while it has been found difficult in the past to obtain sufficient men on werk ends to make a cruise aboard a des there could usually be found enough to take out a small 1 commanders in the Naval Reserv ection of the act specifies the number | 10 be permitted in each of > gradi in the line and in the staff of the Reserve. These numbers are dependent upon the nymber of enlisted men in the | Fleet Naval illing with of c e Volunte Reserve, ion requirements. are ent upon the number drilling_ with divisions. partment fin men of out. to procure nence for the n because they not satisfied to accept the rank of lieutenant commander, which is the highest that can be offered them. This is said to be ially pronounced in | the case of medical officers. The Navy Department, it was said further. desires | to procure about 18 or 20 of the out- standing surge nd doctors for serv- ice with the Hospital Corps unit in the vent of war. It was added that the rmy 18 able to procure such men. com- o grades of lieu- In order to lonal legis- give to the t Reserve number of commanders, etc.. now | thorized by law, and will permit of 'an_additional and for the mer- au- the ‘The radio unit in charge of Chief Radioman B. E. Stahl and consisting of Radiomen Murphy, Yost. Fleidner, | Laxton and Dunne were in charge of | the operation of NED last week. It was announced that a special | room for the communication reserve is to be set aside in the basement of the Armory, and this will | arranged to serve as a battle station and as a headquarters for the evening drills, where the local activities of the evening will not interfere with the operation of NED in the m: radio | room. In explaining the proposed estab- lishment of a battalion commander’s afl in lieu of the battalion headquar- ters divisions which have been ordered | abolished. the Navy Department says that officers and enlisted men assigned to duty on the staff should be issued orders to perform appropriate duties. The appropriate duties assigned them, it was said, should consist of attend- ‘ D. C. Naval Reserve for use of the citizen sailors, and that | even this amount of money was not now | expected that considerable use would be | A missioned in the Supply Corps. number | soon be | ance at the regular drills duly author- ized for the battalion as & whole or the various divisions thereof, and the performance of such duties as may be assigned them by the battalion com- mander during these drills. A Navy Department circular letter also says that the office of the battalion adjutant or aide is not comparable to the office of executive officer. He cor- responds more nearly to the battalion adjutant in the Army, which office is usuaily held by a first lieutenant. The most_suitable officer may, therefore, be chosen for this office, irrespective of rank. so long as he is junior to the | battalion commander. The letter adds that in order to pro- vide funds for the additional personnel of the Fleet NavalReserve contemplated | herein, it is directed that no drills, pe- riods of equivalent instruction or duty or periods of appropriate duty be au- thorized for members of the battalion staff or of fleet divisions during the following weeks: Christmas week, New Year week, the week immediately fol- lowing the return from the annual cruise. The money saved by dispensing with | the drills for the whole battalion during these periods therefore will be used to carry the extra division, and in that way, it is understood, the additional men will not put any additional burden on the naval finances at a time when all | branches of the Government are being | called upon to practice the utmost economy. | The following were commissioned dur- i the week igns Willlam L. 3701 Massachusetts avenue, and Stahl, Willard Hotel, both com- John 1 David Dunn, water tender, first class. | street southeast, has been ordered placed on the retired list, upon com- | pletion of 30 years of service. 20 of | w were spent in the Regular Service. George C. Windle, radioman, third class, attached to the Second Fleet Division. has been ordered transferred | f the fleet | to the Volunteer Re- | serve at his own request. Lieut., Junior Grade, James H. Nicholson, Communication Reserve. hav- | ing moved to Las Angeles, Calif,, his| records have been transferred to mz‘ headquarters of the 11th Naval Dis- trict. Clinton H. King has enlisted in the Communication Reserve as a seaman, first class, for radioman. Orders were received during the week directing the destroyer Hamilton to re- turn to Washington upon completion of her duty at Alexandria, during the Bicentennial celebration there. The vessel is to come back to this city that the local battalion may conduct drills and exercises aboard her in con- nection with the annual inspection on February 29. The following day. the orders provide. 1 will proceed to the Hampton Roads area in connection with the training of Reserves there. On April 1 it will go to Baltimore for training of the Baltimore Reserve Division, re- turning to the Hampton Roads area | A 1. Following this date. it ted that the vessel will go into N Yard for necessary repairs prepatory to beginning the an- nual training cruises of the Reserve Divisions in the 5th Naval District. | The local divisions will begin their voyages in the middle of June. It was announced that additional men are desired for enlistment in the Communication Reserve as with the establishment of a transmitter oper- ating at the armory there will be an opportunity for young men to learn’ how to operate radio stations. It was, added that men of good character and active minds characterize the Volunteer ‘Commumcauon Reserve and an_in- vitation was extended by Lieut. C. A. | Briggs. commanding the Communica- tion branch, to young men interested in )mammg radio to apply for enlistment Navy Department says that it is un- able to institute and maintain a School of Navigation for those few officers whose lack of experience require in- struction in the primary details which are part of the gencral knowledge of the officers of the Reserve, It was pointed out that the bureau has received from several sources some excellent comments and suggestions on improvement of the navigation course, the general idea in each case being that the course should be expanded. and Include more of an instructional nature than is now furnished. The course as now furnished, it was ex- plained. requires that the stu in- struct himself by study of indicated in the bureau’s st ments that accompany eac It has been the natural result that those officers of special classes who have had no experience afloat, or whose training in matk ics has not ine cluded spherical geometry and trigo- nometry, have been a disadvantage as compared with officers of sea-going experie The course, it was said. cannot be considered a primary course—io serve the greatest number, it must assume & certain amount of knowledge of the subject and proceed from that point. Those officers who are qualified to take course will find no great difficulty in acquiring the ne y information from the study ass: is without specific instruction from the bureau, which instruction would, of ne- cessity, simply parallel the phrasing of the text book However, it was added, make more clear cert have been greatly m: has been prepared a with cert ing the general problem way original nor thing that ¢ book. They pointing o emphasizing the student might 1 the information for I incorrect idea which wo w be dislodged. It was further exp! not the inte reau of Na enced officers 124 The course is intende tional in nature, tre as gat not | officer is welcome to from it whatever it . Marvels of Surgery. By the use of surgical 1 tiny saw, speeding at 5,000 per minute, an operator can cut a vick of bone from the s! hip fracture and graft i ture. Often a pick of the shape of a screw lhlough the fractured l moved. New fingers. be grafted using the other part of the bo | live bone. 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