Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-18
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Action Taken in Recent Court
Martial Cases.

Gen. Grant. commanding the Department
of the East, has passed on several local
court-martial cases.
Private Pearl Harbor. Troop c, 9th Cav
airy. at Fort Myer. Va. found guilty of de-
sertion Zone previous conviction having been
considered). sentenced to be dishonor-
ably discharged the service, FORGETTING all
pay and allowances and to be confined at
hard labor for eighteen months.
Private John Dubois, Company A. Hos
pital Corps, at Washington barracks. found
guilty of fraudulent enlistment. wds SEN
fenced to be -dishonorably discharged for
feiting all pay and allowances and TO be
confined at hard labor for one year.
Private Albert Brodeur, Company M. 9TH
Infantry. at Washington barracks found
guilty of absence without leave -four pre-
vious convictions having been considered).
was sentenced to forfeit $50 of his pay and
to one months confinement at hard labor.
The sentence in each Of these cases was ap-
proved.
Private Seymour F. Purdy Troop G, 18th
Cavalry, at Fort Myer, convicted of absence
without leave and conduct to the prejudice
OF good order and military discipline, was
sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, to
forfeit pay and allowances and to nine
months confinement at hard labor. In the
opinion of Gen. Grant the ends of justice
will be met in this case by the retention of
this soldier with disciplinary punishment.
The sentence was therefore mitigated to
confinement at hard labor for four months
and the forfeiture of $40 of his pay.
Organizing for the Philippines.
Orders have been issued from headquar-
tiers of the Marine Corps for the -organiza
ton of a battalion of Asa marines for serv-
ice in the Philippines. to relieve number
Of long-term men from duty in those is
lands. The battalion will be composed of
29T men from the east coast and 1S7 men
from the west coast and IL Will sail on the
army transport scheduled to leave San
Francisco April 16 field officer yet to be
selected Will command the battalion, and
the following named officers have been or
dered to duty with 1t: Capts ]. NJ. SaIla-
day and J. N. Wright, First Lieuts E. T.
Fryer and r. 3. Sullivan. Second Lieuts. r.
@. Bartlett. w. Ellis, E. w. Sturteyant, jr
V. ]. Morrison. J. r. Henley and T. NJ
Potts, jr. After arrival of this battalion in
the Philippines S75 long-term marines and
the following officers will be relieved from
duty there and ordered home. Lieut. Col.
Z. A. Doyen, Capts. f. l. Bradman, ]. w.
Broatch X. NJ. Cults and II. G. Snyder;
First lieuts f. r Beadle J. j. Meade ].
X. Tracy and c. J. E. Guggenheim. The
officers and enlisted men to return home will
leave the islands some time in June.
Change in Army Register.
The official Army Register for 1906. just
issued, differs in an essential particular in
the arrangement OF its contents from the
Register of 1909 The change lies I'm the
transfer of the list of officers attached to
the general staff OF the army and TO the
Army War College from a position in front
OF the book to page 30. Immediately follow
Ing the list of Chapla:nS and preceding the
pages devoted 10 the Military Academy.
The change was made by order Of Score
tary Taft who thought that undue promi-
nence given the general staff in the
Register Of 1905, and directed that here
after the list be placed in its proper place,
tn 1ge 4, l,A-
ton as Is the case with all the other mill
tary organizations.
Speculation Regarding Chief of Staff.
Secretary Taft's probable transfer to the
United States Supreme Court causes specu-
lation as to its effect on the plan 10 detail
Brig. Gen J. Franklin Bell chief of
staff on the retirement of Lieut. Gen. Bates,
April Il. Gen. Bell was selected as chief
of stafr by Secretary Tat and it was recog-
nized as personal selection, justified by
The close official relations that obtain be-
tween the two offices. BY the same reason
ing 1t is accepted that a new Secretary or
War should naturally have the same priv
ilege of detailing chief of staff officer
OF the army personally congeniaI to him.
1t therefore may happen that Gen. Bells
tenure chief of staff may be brief as
Secretary Taft's successor may prefer TO
have another officer his chief military
adviser.
Appointments in Army Medical Corps.
Preliminary examinations of candidates
for appointments as assistant surgeons in
the army with the rank OF first lieutenant
will be held in the principal cities Of the
country Nav ! and July 81. There are at
present twenty-sX vacancies in the corps
and there are likely TO be twenty-nne or
thirty places 10 be filled by the time the
preliminary examinations are held Upon
the completion OF the examination those
who pass Will be ordered to the Army Medi-
cal College IN Washington for instructions
previous TO a final examination to deter
mine their relative positions.
Where Local Troops Will Concentrate
Gen. Bates. chief Of staff has prepared a
tentative plan for the distribution of troops
intended FOR mobilization at the seven
camps selected as points of concentration
during the coming summer According 10
this plan part of the I'd Battalion of Engi-
neers at Washington Barracks Will go to
Chickamauga Park, Ga and the rest TO
Plattsburg Barracks, n. Y and troops +
+, and IL. 18th Cavalry. and the 3d and
18th Batteries. Field Artillery. at Fort Myer,
Va. will 20 to Chlckamauga Park
Instruction to Pay Officers
The eleven young naval pay officers now
under instruction al the Washington navy
yard Will complete their course by a visit to
New York The object OF their trip to the
metropolis is TO gee the workings OF the
once OF the general storekeeper at the
New York navy yard, which is the largest
ana most lmDortant of its kind. Then The
young pay officers Will serve a period Of
observation at the naval clothing factory in
brooklyn. That will round out their COURSE
o; instruction and they will be ready for
assignment; to actual duty aboard ebins g.
commission. P@ al
immediate Issue of Magazine Rife.
BY direction OF Gen Bates. chIeg n, s,or,
Col, Mccain. military serreta~,. L... -,
fled Gen. Crozler. chief OF ordnance tha,
the Secretary OF War has authorized the
Immediate issue Of the United States maya
zine rifle. model 1893 with rod bavo-
net and 1903 sight. TO the cavalry. infantry
ana engineers In the United States II
IS explained that this action was taken In
order not 10 interfere with target practice
ms season and with view TO replacing
those arms with the latest model at a later