Evening star., 1918-03-31
ACTIVITIES IN NATIONAL CAPITAL
OF INTEREST TO ARMY AND. NAVY,
MARINE CORPS AND GUARDSMEN

, ther duty at Camp A. A. Humphreys.
Va, and will proceed to Camp Devens,
Aver, Mass, for duty with his regiment
| at that place.
/ BY direction of the President. Maj.
Maurice Thompson, adjutant general
| department, National Guard, of WASH
! ington has been drafted into the mill
| tary service of the United States.
! Lieut.. Col. oliver D. Filley, Avia ton
| Section, Signal Reserve Corps, has been
assigned to duty in this city at the Of
flee Of the chief signal officer.
| advocate, at San Francisco. has been
assigned to duty in the office of the
| judge advocate general in this city.
| Capt Karl c. Eberly and First Lieuts.
| Ray S. Nelson and Joel A. Sperry of the
Medical Corps have been assigned to
duty with stationary laboratory No.
| 2 at the Army Medical School in this
city.
serve Corps, with his consent, has been
| assigned to active duty as captain
in that corps at Camp A. A. Humphreys,
| at Accotfnk, Va.
! Chaplain Joseph Clemens, 5th Field
| Artillery, has been transferred to the
| retired list because of physical disa-
bility incurred in the line of service.
| The Navy Department reports the
| death of Thomas Marcella Newman, ap-
! prentice seaman, U. S. n. r. F., who
! March 1S fell overheard from the U. S.
| S. Nahma and was drowned Newman
| enlisted February IS. 1918. at New Or
| leans, La.
Brig, Gen. Benjamin A. Poore of the
National Army has been transferred
| from the 14th infantry Brigade to the
Frank D. Webster of the National Army
from the 18th Infantry Brigade to the
! Sth Infantry Brigade
| Because of physical disability, Mai.
Patrick H Winston. Judge Advocate
| Generals Reserve Corps, has been hon
| orably discharged by direction of the
| President.
| Lieut.. Col. Adna C. Clarke. Coast Ar
! tillery Corps, has been relieved from
| duty at the coast defense works at CAL
weston, Tex. and assigned to duty with
the chief of staff in this city.
Col. Alfred f. Remington, 10th Cav
| airy, has been relieved from further
! duty with that regiment and assigned
with the 18th Cavalry.
! The provisional appointment of Capt.
| William NJ. Husson, sgd Field Artillery,
! has been terminated by the President
i because of the findings of a board of
! officers that Capt. Husson had not the
! suitability and fitness required for per-
| manent appointment in the Army
| Lieut.. Col Oliver D. Filley, aviat ton
section of the Signal Corps. has been
assigned to duty at the office Of the
! chief signal officer in this city
Capts. William A. Kenyon and George
| L. Darte. National Army, recently ap-
| pointed. have been ordered to report
| to the chief military intelligence
i branch, executive division in this city,
| for service on intelligence duty solely
! and Will not be assigned to any other
duty or to the command of troops"
First Lieut.. Thomas E. Jones, 122d In
| fantry at Camp Wheeler, Ga; was SEN
fenced to be dismissed by a general
court artial, on conviction of the
charge of conduct unbecoming an officer
| ana gentleman. The President, how
ever. has commuted the sentence to a
reprimand. to be administered by the
division commander.
| Michael Lynch, master mechanic at
| the Washington navy yard has resigned
to accept better paying position with
| a private manufacturing company in
/ New England. Mr.. Lynch has been en-
, ployed at the local yard for forty years
and has host of friends in this city.
| The War Department has authorized
the establishment of infantry units of
the senior division, Reserve Officers
| Training Corps. at the University of
| Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and at the
Northwestern University, Evansville,
| Ill.
J board of officers. to consist of First
/ r Y
Austin and Herbert B. Wentz of the
| Medical Reserve Corps, has been ap-
pointed by the War Department to con-
duct specialNexaminations for tubercu-
losis, at Camp Meade, Md.
Acting upon the recommendation of
Gen. Pershing, the President has COM
! mfssioned twenty-five enlisted men of
| the aviation section of the Signal Re-
| serve Corps. He also has named Ray
mond H. Matthews of the American ex-
peditionary force as a first lieutenant in
/ the Medical Reserve Corps.
| Those named in the Signal Reserve
| Corps are: Henry c. Allen. William ].
| Armstrong. Thomas Ash. ir.: Henry
Radham. William L. Bradfield, William
s. Cousins Oliver r. Dawes. Thomas L.
| Dawson. Harry o. Fishe. Lawrence W.
! Clifford, Martin p. Kelly, Robert A
Kelly, James F. Lilies. James F. Man
! nlnS, Jf. " Imam Matthew's, WlStar
Morris, Carlisle f. Nicol Thomas L.
/ onotavia, Charles L. Osborne. Fred
! Philbrick, Walter J. Smith, Ralph E.
Spake and Charles A. Amsden.
| Twenty engineer officers at Camp A.
! A. Humphreys. Accotink, Va, have been
assigned to duty with the 601st En-
gineers, at Camp Laurel, Md, as fol-
| lows:
| Lieut.. Col. William H. Sage, jr.; capts.
Raymond c. Moses, Francis L. Palmer,
Gilbert L. Guthrie, Charles A. Lindbery,
Ora G. Baxter and John NJ. Duthie,
First Lieuts Frank L. Jones, Louis C.
Brown. Arthur NJ. Cook, James 'DoEard,
Cyril G. Fitzgerald, Mark D. Mum,
Chandler w. Watson, Eric Ericsson and
Arthur b. Herrell and Second Lieuts.
Walter L. Gay and Andrew w. Dono-
! van.