Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-04
Fort S,aferNotes
Especial star.BuTstin correspOndenesl :

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Especial Star BuIlstin Correspondenesl
FORT SKATER, Sept. Another
examination will be held, beginning
October 16 next, Of candidates OF all
classes for appointment as second
/ heutenants. Those legally qualified
on date specified will be reported to
this office to be authorized to take
the final examination as prescribed
in general orders %, 1916 without
passing preliminary examinations re-
quired by War Department orders
All Officers concerned will be notified
that care must be exercised in re-
porting upon qualifications of enlist
ed men who make application to enter
this examination. So ~.
The organizations of the command
Will be instructed in swimming in the
swimming talk at Fort Shafter. On
Monday the Third Battalion, End In
fantry, and D Company, Bird Engineers,
from 1880 to 11:30 a. m. On Tues
day Third Battalinon, End Infantry,
and c Company, Bird Regiment En-
gineers from 1880 to 1880 a. m. and
on Wednesday Second Battalion, End
Infantry, and the Machine Gun Com
pany, End Infantry, from 1880 to IL 80
a. m. The commanding officers Of
Companies c and d, Bird Regiment of
Engineers, and Of Machine Gun, End
Infantry, will confer with the battalion
commanders of the battalion to which
they are attached as to the hours for
swimming of their respective COM
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BY a War Department order, Au-
gust 16, 1916, Pvt. Benjamin J.
Powers, Permanent School Detach-
ment, School for. Bakers and Cooks,
at this post, having transferred to the
Quartermaster Corps will proceed to
Fort Schofield and report for duty.
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Alterations, both in plumbing ar
rangements and in the interior of the
post exchange restaurant, are being
made, in order to make the place not
only more attractive but also more
convenient for the patrons of the can
Torment. zig
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The exact status of retired army
officers was stated by the president
in his recent veto of the army ap-
preparation bill, and Is of interest to
the officers of Fort Shafter as well
as elsewhere. II is stated in the lucid
English of the president as follows:
Regular retired officers are members
of the army, are allowed to wear the
uniform, are carried on the register,
have the good name of the service in
their keeping andeshould be subject
to court-martial zfcr breach Of dis
cipline under the articles of war.
This clear statement absolutely OBJ
literates any further reflections on the
retired army officer as an object of
government charity, he remains the
same active guardian of the army's
good name and honor that he was al
ways, and therefore ought to and does
wear the nations uniform. ....
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Cpl. Curtis t. Kelly Of D Company
has been promoted to the grade of
sergeant. upon the recommendation
of his company commander, LIST Lieut..
Frederick A. Barker.
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The following important decision
will be of interest to the officers and
organization of Fort Shafter. .
The announcement has been sent
from the war department and ap-
proved by the secretary of war.
The commanding officer of the 3rd
Field Artillery had requested Informal |
tion as to whether the warrants of |
promotion in accordance with Bulletin |
No. is of the war department might |
be dated back to July /, 1916, and CIV
ing his reason, that the order making |
the appointments was not issued until |
July 20, although certain vacancies in |
the grades of non-commissioned Off |
GERS existed since July 1, 1916, by the |
National Defense Bill of June 8, 1916. |
The reply was made as follows: at |
has been held by the comptroller of
the treasury that -t.Acts of Congress, |
changing the organization of the army |
and which of necessity takes time to
carry into effect, do not change the
status or rights of individuals until |
the act is carried into eject. The
better view Is that the old status OF
individuals remains until the act is
carried into effect in the organizations
to which they belong" And the deci-
sion further adds in order to make |
clear the Judgment that appointments |
and promotions cannot be antedated,
but carry pay from the date when &C
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