Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-13

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/ The first examination should be held in
February and the second examination
i in April, but no medical examination
will be held until early In June, SO
that no midshipman of that class will
! enter until June.
| 1t is hoped at the Navy Department
that the entire class may he installed
by July /, in order that all may have
the full benefit of three months In
structions Before the beginning of the
academic terms, in October.
Nine bandsmen in the United States
Army have been ordered to proceed
to Fort Jay on Governors Island. n.
Y, not later than September % in Or
der to compete for five scholarships at
the Institute of Musical Art of New
York city for the year 1928. They
are Corp, James G. Prewitt, mand,
18th Infantry, Fort Wayne, Mich;
Sergt. Frank A. Bowen, band, 9Th
| Cavalry, Fort Des Moines, Iowa; Chief
Musician Alfred ]. Thomas. band, 10th
Cavalry, Fort Ethan Allen. VT; Prin-
cipal Musician Augustus c. Pentland
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Logan, Colo; Sergt. Frank Frank,
band, 9Th Field Artillery, Fort Riley,
Kon.; Privates Einar v. Sorensen and
Manuel Comulada, 5th Band, Coast Ar
tiilery Corps, Fort Hamilton, N. ~;
Private Chris c. Hunter, 7th band,
Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Adams. R.
l.; Private William G. Whit, 1Oth
Band, Coast Artillery Corps, Fort
Banks, Mass; Principal Musician Geo.
A. Horton, band, Sd Cavalry, Fort Sam
Houston, Tex
A booklet of ..plain talk to ship
captains, telling how they mag keep
their craft clean Of plague, yellow
fever, smallpox, cholera, typhus and
other scourges, has just been issued
by the United States public health
service. The booklet is termed IAN
open letter to ship captains and was
written by L. e. Cofer, assistant sur
geon general and chief of the bureau
of foreign. and insular quarantine.
Going on the theory that every mas
ter wants to keep his ship out of quar-
cntine, the service has published the
little talk to convince shipmasters
how they may make quarantine un-
necessary. How the immense. cost and
loss which goes with fumigating a
ship after disease may be avoided is
fully explained .E.c.-
In language that layman may un-
derstahd, the booklet explains the
causes and symptoms of the plaques,
how the infections are carried and
how they may be defeated. The book
let says chat captains who follow its
instructions may keep their ships
clean of disease and save much money
for their owners. - z-s5.,, : J
Printed on the cover Of the booklet
are the following words:
Rats carry plague, mosquitoes
carry yellow fever. e.
Plague and yellow fever cause
quarantine. .....
Quarantine means expense.
Ship captains destroy your rats and
mosquitoes, and not only save your
owners money, but save lives"
Secretary Meyer has philosophical
ly accepted the one battleship pro-
gram of Congress, and has already
named the new marine monster the
Pennsylvania The armored cruiser
of that name will be rechristened
probably Harrisburg or given the
name of some other city. The Sec
Rotary points out that notwithstand-
ing all the talk In Congress about a |
terror of the seas" the new vessel |
will be of normal development, and
If she is larger than any battleship
afloat it will be no more than could
be said OF each Of the other big ships |
launched and commissioned in sue
cession since he has been Secretary
of the Navy, in accordance with the |
harmonious system of development
which the naval constructors have
been consistently following for years.
The general features of the Penn.
sylvania were worked out and adopt
ed in the early spring, and formed
the basis for the departments esti-
mate for the construction of two such
ships. She will be $50 feet long, Of
about 1000 tons, with twelve four
teen-inch guns and exceptionally
heavy armor.
Col. Rogers Brine of the ordnance
department, in charge of ordnance
work at the army proving ground at
Sandy Hook, N j., has been selected
to act as chief of the ordnance at the
War Department while Brig. Gen.
William Crozier, chief of ordnance,
serves his detail as president of the
Army War College, at the Washing
ton barracks. The change takes eff
feet September 1 next.
Col. Brine graduated at the head
of his class at the Military Academy
in 1872, and after two years of SER
vice in the infantry arm was trans
ferred to the ordnance department,
and has served therein to date. Dur
ing his early career he commanded
one of the parties of the Wheeler
survey and travelled about 5000 miles
on muleback. He has been promi-
nently identified with the develop
ment of modern ordnance and has