Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
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Machinist T. D. Healy, to Virginia.
w. J. Clarity has been appointed a pay
masters clerk in the navy, duty settle
accounts of Milwaukee.
To Attend Local Tournaments.
The War Department Is arranging to
have the regular army represented at five
military tournaments to occur at as many
places during the present year. AS Is
usual under such circumstances, the
troops in the neighborhood of those
events will be DESIGNATED for participation.
The tournaments include those at Nash
vile In June, at Chicago July to ID, at
Des Moines and at Tacoma, Wash, in
the last week in July, and at Omaha i'm
mediately following the Des Moines
tournament.
Officers for Ordnance Corps.
board of ordnance officers has been
ordered to meet at the proving grounds,
Sandy Hook. N. j., for the purpose of
making recommendation for details OF
officers Of the army at large in the ord
nance department to the grades of major,
captain and first lieutenant Those eligible
for detail will be the officers found ouali-
fed from the army at large. exclusive OF
the ordnance department., and those now
serving in that department. II as many
as fourteen officers be found qualified
that number will be recomi.! ended for
detail in addition to those now serving.
The board consist of Col. Stanhcpe e.
Blunt, Lieut.. Col. Charles B. Wheeler,
and Majs. Tracy c. Dickson, Clarence
&c. Williams and Edward p. OHern.
Commencement of Army Medical
School.
There are now twenty-five Professionally
qualified candidates who will be appointed
first heutenants in the Army Medical Re-
serve Corps and enter the next class at
the Army Medical School in October. BY
that time 1t is expected there will be at
least thirty more candidates The pres
ent class at the school completes its
course the first of May, when the exam
nations commence for the purpose of de-
termining the relative standing of the
graduates on the list of the officers of
the regular Medical Corps. The gradual
ing exercises will take place May 81, on
which occasion Prof. Victor c. Vaughan
of Ann Arbor will deliver the principal
address.
Troops Coming to Washington.
In compliance with instructions from
the War Department the artillery troops
at Fort Washington, Md. and Fort Hunt,
Va, will come to Washington May IL in
time to participate in the ceremonies in
connection with the unveiling of the
statues of Pulaski and Kosciuszko of the
revolutionary army.
Changes at Navy Department.
Commander Henry B. Wilson has been
selected by Rear Admiral R. F. Nickol-
son, chief of navigation. Navy Depart
ment, to be his chief assistant, and Lieut.
Commander William K. Harrison to be
detail officer. Commander Wilson, now
detail officer, will relieve Capt. r. T. Null
IpaD the present assistant when he
leaves in May to take command of the
new battleship North Dakota. Lieut.
Commander Harrison Of the battleship
Minnesota will relieve Commander Will
son.
OMcers to Study Chinese.
Capt Thomas Holcomb. jr., and First
are to be ordered to duty at the United
States embassy at Picking. China, for
the study Of the Chinese language.
Recognition Of Heroism.
A certificate of merit has been issued
to Corp. John Malone, 47th Company.
Coast Artillery Corps. for saving the life
of a comrade from. drowning at Fort
washington. Nd. February 6. 1910.
Retirement of Lieut.. Wallen.
First Lieut.. seeley A. wallen. 18th
Infantry. has been placed on the re-
dent to the service. Lieut.. Wallen Is
from New Jersey. and served In the
ranks for two years prior to his appoint
ment as second lieutenant in the 25th In
NOTED first lieutenant in April. 1908. and
has been recently under treatment at the
Army General Hospital at Fort Bayard,
N. NJ