Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-23
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

Leave of absence for one month is
granted Capt. Jay r. Shook, Medical
Corps.
Second Lieut.. Frederick c. Rogers, re-
Gently appointed from civil life. is as
signed to the 18th Infantry.
Leave of absence for two months on
surgeons certificate of disa bility is grant
ed First Lieut. Brice F. Disque, Sd Cav
airy.
Naval Orders.
Capt J. c. Gilmore has been commits
stoned
Lieut.. Commander F. H. Brumby. from
navy yard, Norfolk, Va, and granted sick
leave three months.
Lieut.. a. " Mitchell, to navy yard,
Norfolk, Va
Lieut.. c. c. Moses and Ensign NJ. a.
Libbey have been commissioned.
Midshipman c. l.. Wright. from the
Hopkins to the Paul Jones.
First Lieuts. II. CT. Bartlett and II. III
Utley have been commissioned first lieu
tenants in the United States Marine Corps
from July 10, 1905.
Warrant Machinist NJ. J. Clancy. from
the Prairie to home and wait orders.
Warrant Machinist O. Bodt, To the
Prairie.
Naval Movements
a Villefranche and the battleships OHIO
and Missouri and the gunboat Scorpion at
Smyrna.
The battleship Maine has sailed from
Guantanamo for Key West, the cruiser
Des Moines from Curacao for La Guaira
the cruiser Montana from Hampton roads
for Charleston, the torpedo boat PreDle
from San Francisco for San Diego and
the cruisers Tennessee. California, South
Dakota and Washington from Coquimbo
for Callao
Col. Black Coming Here.
Col. William NJ. Black. oCrps of Engl-
noers. now on duty with the provisional
government of Cuba, has been ordered to
this city and TO report 10 the chief of en-
gineers al the War Department for tenn
porary duty in his Office. Col. Black was
Engineer Commissioner of the District at
the outbreak of the Spanish war. and
since then has sered in Cuba, Panama
and New England.
Target Practice for Present Year.
Adjt Gen. .Alvord has notified the COM
handing generals of all the military de-
partmentS that the Secretary of War has
decided that the target practice for the
season of 1863 shall be held under the
present small-arms firing regulations and
that the revision of those resula tions now
in progrt SIS shall not take effect until
January |, 1910.
Carbon Copies Prohibited.
The use of carbon copies of muster rolls
and pay rolls is prohibited in the army. on
the ground that such copies are deficient
in respect to permanency of record. A
decision to that effect has been made by
the Secretary OF War on the recommended
ton of Paymaster General Whipple. That
officer reported that typewriter pay rolls
where black ribbon of standard quality
is used. fulfilled all the requirements of a
permanent record, but not SO, he said
with carbon copies, which may properly
be classified periShable records.
Punishment of Soldiers.
Private William II. Coftey. Battery F.
9th Field Artillery, was convicted by
court marital convened at Fort Myer of
absence without leave and drunkenness
and sentenced to be dishonorably dis
charged and to confinement at hard labor
for six months. Evidence of five previous
convictions was considered by the court.
Private Willie y. Green, 1l4th Company.
Coast Artillery. was convicted by court
marital convened at Fort Washington
Md, of larceny and sentenced to- be d s.
honorably discharged and TO six months
confinement at hard labor. In this case
Gen Wood, commanding tile Department
of the East, mitisated the sentence to
six months confinement and the forfeit
ure OF $40 per month during that period.