The Washington herald., 1917-04-30
Army and Navy News
Best Service Column In City.

! Between 1,5o0 and 1000 officers of the
United States Army Reserve Corps, i'm
cluding those who have received their
commissions and those who have passed
examinations and have been recommend
ed for commissions, will be called into
the Federal service the first part Of next
week and ordered to the various training
camps to assist the officers OF the regu.
lar army in preparing for the thousands
Of men who are to report May 8. for a
three-months course of intensive field
training One-half Of those who will be
called out 1--we in the section controlled
by the Eastern department OF the army.
1t is expected that the reserve person
mel will be called upon to report at Platts-
burg and the other camps about a week
in advance Of the official opening of
those camps, Ito give the reserve officers
chance TO get settled and help in get
ting the camps ready"
At the recruiting headquarters for the
| Plattsburg camp, 10 West Forty-fourth
street, New York City. 100 filed applica-
tions in the last twenty-four hours. A
score of volunteer clerks are helping
Capt. Philip Mathews, U. S. A. to handle
the work.
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retary of the National Training Camps
Association, which is composed of men
who have attended training camps at
/ Plattsburg and in other parts of the
country. says that between 1900 and
| l5,0OO members of the association had
filed applications TO attend the officers
camps this summer.
DR.. Henry S. Drinker. president of Le-
high University. who is at the head of
| nF hn
Camps Association, has arrived in New
| York to assist in directing the work OF
the association in the universities and
colleges.
A wireless station which will be one of
the most powerful in the world, and
hangars for the accommodation Of a
squadron Of battleplanes, are under con-
struction at the Philadelphia navy yard.
The wireless station will have a sending
radius ranging from 5000 to 10000 miles
Three concrete bases have already been
constructed for the erection OF the aerials
or poles, which will be 100 feet tall. There
Is a distance Of 800 feet between the con-
crete bases
| Electricians have begun fixing the an
tennae and other apparatus of the gigan-
tic plant. 1t will be possible to relay
messages from the plant around the
| WI ~ 10 navy NaT0 OIL
cials, II Will be an easy matter to send
messages into Berlin and Petrograd. The
United States government has a power
full station at TIckerton, n. J., but for
long time officials have felt that the
plant was too near the coast and too ac-
cessible for attack and obstruction by the
enemy. In order TO destroy the wireless
under construction at the navy yard the
enemy would first have to fight its way
ninety miles UP the Delaware.
The official report telling OF the new
wireless plant, issued by Capt F. S
Van Boskerck, at the navy yard. fol-
Ilows:
| "A new wireless station which when
completed Will be one of the most power
full in the world, is under construction at
the Philadelphia navy yard Mammoth
concrete bases for the aerial uprights
have been set deep into the ground and
electricians will begin setting up the sta
ton Immediately.
gang of carpenters and brick
masons has begun work on the hangers,
which will be used as stations for a large
feet OF battleplanes