The Washington herald., 1916-08-29
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
Best Service Column in City.

On the recommendation of Adtt. Gen.
Mccain. Secretary of War Baker has d.
rected that the next examination OF ap-
piicants for appointment as provisional
second lieutenants shall be held on jan
uary %, 1917. All applications for that
examination must reach the adtutant
general on or before December 81.
The date is set so far ahead in order
to facilitate the work Of designating the
candidates and TO give ample time for the
consideration of applications Even II
all the candidates now being examined
are successful. it is stated, there will be
al least 800 appointments to be provided
Tor In the coming January examination.
OF the twenty-one enlisted men on
Oahu, Hawaiian Territory. who took the
preliminary examinations for appoint
ment as second lieutenants seven passed
successfully and qualified for the exam
nations which were held on August p.
Those who qualified were: Quartermas-
ter Corps. Schoheld Barra cks, sergeant,
tirst-class, George Pollin and Sergt. Win
chell l. Rasor. Company Z, Signal Corps,
formerly stationed at Fort Shafter but
now at FL Paso, Tex; Corporal Herman
A. Fordi. Battery C. First Field Artil-
lery, Schofeld Barracks; Musician Whit
field Cutchin, Company II, Second Infan-
try, and Eugene NJ. Landrum, Company
G, Second Infantry.
Besides cavalry and field artillery Of
icers, infantry officers are TO be admit
ted to the Mounted Service School at
Fort Riley this fall. This is said to be
only the second time in the history of
the school that infantry officers have
been included in the list Of students.
Plans of the War Department TO delay
the opening of the school one month
have been changed and the institution
will open October l. the regular date.
Orders have been issued for about one
half the officers who are to attend to
report at Fort Riley on September %
Maj. Charles D. Rhodes. cavalry. Is com
mandant Of the school.
The officers scheduled 10 attend the
class are Second Lieuts Thomas J. J.
Christian and Robert F. Hyatt. First
Cavalry; First Lieut.. Frank NJ. Andrews
and Second Lieut.. Desmore o. Nelson
Second Cavalry; Capt Philip Mowry.
Third Cavalry; Second Lieuts. Will
NJ. Hardy. Eighth Cavalry; Roger S.
b. Hartz. Eighth Cavalry; John A.
Robenson and John 2. Lucas. Thir-
teenth Cavalry; Robert S. Donaldson,
seventeenth Cavalry; First Lieut.
Roger S. Parrott. Third Field Ar
tillery; First LIouts Albert T Bis
hop and Lucicm H. Taliaferro. Sixth
Field Artillery, First Lieut.. George
H HuddlesOn. Twenty-siXth Infantry;
Second LieLts Samuel II. Houston,
Twenty eighth Infantry, and Frank L.
Van Horn, Third Cavalry
The War Department has detailed
Maj. Frank Tompkins, cavalry, as
professor OF military science and tao
tics at Norwich University, North
field. VT. From the fall Of 1910 to
the summer of 1913 Mai Tompkins,
then captain, was a member of the
university faculty. He is now with
the First Vermont Cavalry at Fort
Ethan Allen. and, it is understood.
were the regiment organized. he would
have been its colonel After leaving
Northheld in 1918 he performed duty
on the Mexican border. and at the
Columbus raid last March was the
leader Of the party which pursued
Villa across the line. He was with
Gen. Pershing's forces when they en-
tered Mexico, and figured in several
engagements. At Parral he was lead
er of the forces which the Mexicans
attempted to ambush Wounds re-
"eived in Mexico caused his with
drawal from that country to a hos
pital and later to Fort Ethan Allen.