The Washington herald., 1918-02-18

Of eight II is understood that this
recommendation has been approved.
The immediate necessity. Camp
Greene. is the installation Of q sew
er system for the entire camp,
which Is again urgently recon-
mended.
W. C. GoRGAs.
Surgeon General. U. S. Army.
Engineer z. A. Schmitt, OF the
United States Engineers once here.
has returned from an inspection trip
to the Rappahannock River and to
the army dredge Dalecariia. which
has been icebound at Hopyard on the
Rappahannock. As soon as conditions
will allow, the dredge will be brought
here and placed on improvement work
in the Anacostia Channel
Maj. william J. Mayo. Medical Re
serve Corps, who has been on duty
as the medical adviser 10 the COVER
nor OF Minnesota, has been ordered to
this city for duty in the office Of the
surgeon general
Every officer and cadet at the
Ground School at Princeton, n. J.. has
taken out the maximum amount OF
insurance permitted under the war risk
insurance act-s1o.OOo Total insurance
subscribed for by the officers and ca
diets at the school is 81. .S54.OOO As far
as is known, the Princeton Aviation
School is the first camp OF either the
army or navy TO set a 100 per cent
war risk insurance record.
! The appropriation for furnishing heat
| and light for buildings erected at
private cost under the act OF May 81,
1902, is not available for the installa-
ton OF heating and lighting fixtures in
Y. NJ. c. A. buildings. but only TO
provide the consumabIe supplies neces-
sary for heating and lighting same.
the Judge advocate general OF the
army ruled in a recent decision.
There is no legal reason why enlisted
men OF the regular army. National
Guard, national army. or other divis-
ions Of the army may not be regarded
as interchangeable or why they should
not all be carried on the same muster
roll This decision was given in an
opinion of the Judge advocate general
OF the army.
IT had been decided previously. how
ever. that officers must resign their
commission in one branch OF the army
before they can accept transfers with
new commissions to another branch.
Col. Theodore H Dillon. Corps or
Engineers, has been placed 70 r-.-
mand OF the Thirty-seventh Engi-
neers now in process of oT.-.ul. %
at Fort Myer. Virginia Col. Dillon
relieved Col. Ralph T. Ward. Corps
Of Engineers The latter has been
transferred TO the command OF the
1o4th Engineers at Camp Mcclellan.
S. c.
As the senior officer present, Col
Dillon will be commandant at Fort
Myer. He arrived recently in this
country from Panama. where he was
in charge OF the electric installation
on the canal
Lieut.. Col. Edwin II. Marks, Corps
OF Engineers, With the Twentieth
/ Engineers, who was temporarily in
command OF Fort Myer has returned
to his regiment at Camp American
University.
First lieut. Bertrand W. Ashby.
with the American forces in France,
has been promoted to captain. Capt
Ashby and his brother. Robert T.
Ashby, who is serving as a sergeant
In his company. both were born in
this city. In recent years they have
made their home in Medford, Mass.
Vernon Ashby, their father was a
native Of Virginia descended from
: Revolutionary soldiers. While in this
J city both boys were members Of the
|, District National Guard and later
1 Joined the Guard force in Massachu.
/ setts and went to France with il.