Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-11
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Approval Of Sentences in Local
courts-Martial.


Gen. Grant. commanding the Department
courts-martial in the cases of four enlisted
men stationed in this vicinity.
Private John F. Fitzgerald Hospital
Corps. at Washington barracks. was con-
| victed of drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct and sentenced to one months confine-
ment at hard labor ard to forfeit $40 of his
pay.
Private Clarence r. Funk. 44th Company,
Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Washing
ton, was found guilty of desertion and sem
fenced to be dishonorabiy discharged. to
forfeit pay and allowances and to imprison-
ment at hard labor for two years.
Private Samuel E. Moorehead Troop h,
18th Cavalry, at Fort Myer. was sentenced
to sixty days confinement at hard labor
and to forfeit $25 of his pay on conviction
of the charge of conduct to the prejudice
of good order and military discipline.
Private William Norton. I'd Battalion OF
Engineers, at Washington barracks, was
convicted of similar charge -four previous
convictions being consdered) and sentenced
to four months Imprisonment at hard labor
and to forfeit $50 of his pay.
Transferred to Engineer Corps.
The dwindling Corps of Civil Engineers in
the navy received recruit this week in the
person of Midshipman Samuel Gordon OF
New York, on duty at the Naval Academy
as an instructor In the department OF
physics and chemistry. He was graduated
last February, but failed to meet the phys
ical requirements of the service. He ap-
piled for transfer to the Corps of Civil En-
gineers, and his application was approved
by Rear Admiral Endlcott, chief of the bu-
reau of yards and docks On his recon-
mendation Midshipman Gordon will take
special course of instruction at one of the
technical schools to fit him for his new
duties
Expert Military Shots.
Gen. Grant commanding the Department
of the East has published the following
list of expert rif1emen who qualified with
organizations now in that department while
on foreign service: First Sergt. Edward A.
Strachan, Troop H, 18th Cavalry: Private
Alex johnson, Company B, 9th Infantry;
Private Anthony Seaman, Company B. 9th
Infantry; Private Benjamin Enleo, Com
pany B, 23d Infantry; Sergt. Fred McDon-
aid. Company A. 23d Infantry; Sergt Fran
els Taylor, Company A, 23d Infantry; =.
M. Sergt. Frank Rich, Company d, 23d In
fantry; Corporal James A. Whittier, Com
pany E, Odd Infantry; Cook Joshua %.
Roney. Company G, 23d Infantry: Private
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Artifcer George Howard. Company K, I'D
Infantry; Sergt. Francois Trouchet Com
pany l., 23d Infantry: Corporal Joseph
Krisc Company L. I'D Infantry.
1t announced also that Second Lieut..
Quinn Gray, 18th Company, Coast Artillery.
and Private Edward Lillick. 5Ith Company.
Coast Artillery, are the best rifle Shots IN
their company.
Uniformity in Army and Navy.
Steps are being taken by the naval Off
Gals to establish uniformity in the small
arms and machine guns used by the army
and the navy so that the same ammunition
used by one branch may be used by the
other. Estimates amounting to more than
81, 600 600 have been prepared by the navy
ordnance officers to carry out that IDEA
The change in caIibres of naval guns nth
erto has been without regard TO what the
army was doing, and 1t was only after a
joint board was convened that 1t was real
lied that it was poor policy to nave dl1-
ferent calibres of small arms in the two
services. The navy has been using rife
of about a quarter of an inch In diameter,
while the army rife was three-tenths of an
inch. 1t is the plan to have the Navy De-
partment buy all the rifles for the use OF
the navy from the army and to obtain ma
chine guns using the same cartridge from
private firms. The sum of $1,10OOO0 will
equip all the vessels now completed with
the new arms with necessary equipment
and about years supply of ammunition.
Naval Search Problem.
The many vessels of the Atlantic fleet
which recently finished series of maneuv-
ers near Culebra are now scattered among
the ports of the lower West Indies for the
purpose Of giving the crews short season
of liberty preparatory to engaging in the
naval search problem. This will involve in
teresting experiments in wireless telegraphy
by a system of relaying messages from ship
to ship That method of marine comnuni-
cation is expected to have important results
as tending to interfere with IL not to en-
tireIy destroy, the secrecy which has NTH
erto been leading feature of naval STRAIT
egy Following the search problem the YES
sells will rendezvous at Guantanamo and en-
gage in target practice. The ranges there
afford facilities for small arms practice by
1900 men q day. Later the vessels will
proceed to Pensacola for further target
practice.
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