The Washington herald., 1916-08-22
The Heralds Army and Navy Department
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Examinations for admission to the
Army Medical school WILL be held next
month. A large increase in attendance
is expected by the officers in charge.
Conservative estimates fix the probable
number OF student officers at seventy.
Seven candidates for appintment for
the medical corps Qlalified at the exam
nations held in January and thirty-four
qualified in the examinations just COM
pleted.
Although there is lack OF medical
officers for duty at the school, necessi-
tating some chances in the assignment OF
work, it is not anticipated that there
will be any difficulty in the conduct OF
the course. The only change in faculty
contemplated is the detailing to the In
stitution OF Capt P. W. Huntington,
who now is at the Pittsburg camp and
who has been the attending physician in
New York City He will have special
charge OF the X-ray work.
Important work recently has been ac
complished at the school in the prepara-
ton of typhoid vaccine In the course of
a single month there was made and
sealed in ampules and shipped what
would be equivalent TO two-thirds OF a
years supply, aggregatIng more than
5000 liters OF this vaccine, an amount
SullClenl 10 meet the demand from lne
regular army and from the modified
National Guard.
The names Of twenty-five Iieutenants
of the army have been sent by the chief
OF ordnance TO the adjutant general of
the army on recommendation OF a board
Of officers convened to consider Qualifca-
tions of officers for detail students in
the ordnance establishments of the
army. with the suggestion that fifteen be
selected for the desired duty.
The students will be given two years
course of instruction similar to and along
with the course given officers newly de-
tailed TO fill vacancies in the Ordnance
Department. The first year will be taken
up at the Sandy Hook proving grounds in
theoretical instruction in the design, con-
struction. and operation OF ordnance ma
terial. and the second year the officers
will be given practical shop work at one
of the arsenals as maChinists, molders.
and smiths.
A number Of the officers that now are
on the Mexican border will be given sew
eral weeks instruction in that locality
In the methods OF transportation, sup
ply and distribution of ordnance material
before taking up the work at Sandy
Hook
competitive tests OF Benel- -MeTCler,
Colt and Lewis machine rifles at the
Springfield Armory which were to have
commenced on August 10. have been call
ed of. These tests were to have been
Iun before a board OF officers consisting
OF Maj. William r. Smedberg, of the cav
airy; Maj. Gilbert II. Stewart of the
Ordnance Department. and First Lieut..
Thomas w. Brown. of the Seventeenth
Infantry.
The Savage Arms Company. the manu-
facturer of the Lewis piece in this coun-
try, had been invited to send a repre-
sentative to attend the tests. The COM
pany declined this invitation, on the
ground that Lewis guns out OF stock
manufa ctured for the British govern
ment and chambered for British ammuni-
ton were to be used in comparison with
the other pieces Chambered for American
ammunition.
The Savage Company in its letter
stated that It would be glad to submit
Lewis machine rifles chambered for
United States ammunition for such tests
as might be designed in the future.
The office of the adjutant general OF
the army received large numbers of ap-
plications for examination for appoint
ment as second lieutenant Those appli-
cations received after August 15 however,