Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-07
OFFICERS
ON ANXIOUS BENCH
Several Westinghouse at Fl.
Myer to Take Examination
for Army Commissions.
wedding OUT IN PROGRESS

Many young men from Washington
who are students in the training camp
for reserve officers at Fort Myer Will
be spending the next few days IN
state of anxiety. They are among those
who have appeared before the board Of
camp officers to be passed upon as to
military training and educational quail
if1cation in the weeding-out process Tor
selection of 40 men between the ages
of twenty-one and twenty-seven to take
physical examination July 20 for COM
missions as provisional second lieuten-
ants in the regular army. They have
already been recommended by the regu-
lar army officer instructor of their COM
panies as temperamentally lifted TO
command enlisted men.
In this number are some men who
have held prominent positions in Wash
ington. some Of whom have been in the
government service. Among those sent
up by the LIST Battery of Field Artillery
are a number Of college men: P. A.
Berkey, Columbia University; J. r. Ar
deeser. St. Johns College, Annapolis;
H. N. Blue, Rutgers College; G. M. Bell.
Yale: L. w. Glazebrook. Virginia Mill
leyan; r. H. Carter. University Of vir-
ginia L. s. Partridge and w. D. Clark.
members of the Norfolk Blues: c. c.
Nathan, st. Johns College; N. J. Bun
Washington University; w. M. Filings
worth, Virginia Polytechnic Institute;
F. B. Dancy, University of Virginia;
r. x. Callahan. Bowdoin College; Ed
ward P. Burwell. Virginia POLYTECHNIC
Institute; S. Pitney of Princeton and
Harvard, H. B. Crawford, Yale, and R.
G. Clark, Cornell;
Men From I'd Battery.
The I'd Battery probably sent the
largest batch of Washingtn men of any
of the thirteen units in the camp.
u
Charles W. Griffin. Harry D. Matthews.
Poultney Garter. Robert G. Stephens,
David ]. Fitzgerald, Ellis r. Fentress
Allan A. Murray. Malcolm G. Keech,
Richard Fishburn, Warren M. Ffske.
Fairfax S; Landstreet. George F. Dow.
Ober. Fairfax D. Downey. Edgar C.
Outten, George B. Heilner, Robert d.
Frick. c. Thomas Tilley. Frank NJ.
Mitchell, Taylor L. Lafoon, Walter 9.
Goggin, Albert G. Leisenring. Robert
F. LIE Barron. William F. Happier,
Dwight S. Beebe, Julien R. Hume.
Charles D. Wiman, ]. E. Miller, Norris
C. Handwerk, Robert H. Piquet, Charles
A. Meyer. William s. Hayward. Anton
6. Hardy. Terre N. Hendricks. John w.
Holmes: Frazier Croft, Roland H.
Swain. F. Barton Harry, Lloyd N. Lewis
and Andrew wylie.
From the Sd Battery the promising
candidates include: ]. A. Mccain. M. H
Ross. w. A. Ransom. S. White, IT.; r, G.
Meredith. Walter Rompell. Irwin H.
Zeltn. Carl Upton, s. T. Wallis. F. L.
Moore. F. w. Nixon. T. T. Speer, VIII
liam H Packard. NJ. H. Mial. ]. Taylor.
H. M. Robertson. A. L. Schlessinger,
B. D. Williams. c. L. Walker, H. Nor
rison. J. NJ. Wood. ]. W. Roberts and
c. c. Stalker.
While these men are being tested
FOR commissions in the regular army.
the wedding out process is In progress
the men are being told that they had
better resign. as they do not appear
temperamentally fitted to be officers,
and every man in camp is being SUBJ
1ected to very rigid physical exam
ination. Some of the companies are
losing many men. and the 9th dropped
twenty-five In one batch.
Ten for Aviation School.
At least ten appointments from the
FIT. Myer camp to the aviation school at
Princeton are expected to be announced
the first of the week. Capt. Conrad S.
Babcock. adjutant. says that he has
been notified by the War Department
that such orders will be issued.
The I'd Company of Infantry has
been ordered to start tomorrow morn
Ing on the twelve-mile hike to the rifle
range. This company will carry
shelter tents and its own cooking
utensils. making a two-day visit on
delayed this week by a washout
Good pistol scores continue to be
made by the members Of the batteries
on, the range at the post. The Sd
Battery. under command of Capt. Fair
fax D. Downey of Washington beat