Evening star., 1923-11-04
ARMY.


Beginning March 15, a special COM
mand and staff school course for Ma
tfonal Guard officers above the rank
OF captain will be given at Fort
Leavenworth and will conclude June
10. 1t Is expected that about twenty
ehicers will attend this course.
Officers who will be selected to take
this course will be limited to those
whose previous service and military
experience is such as to insure that
they will be able to complete sue
cessfully the course in question. They
should be general officers, colonels
and lieutenant colonies Of the line
or other field officers. who are or may
be potential tactical staff officers Of
organizations not lower than the
brigade.
An exhibition was given in the Of
flee of the chief signal officer Monday
showing the progress which the Sig
nal Corps of the Army is making in
telephone conversation to and from
an airplane while in flight.
Taking off at Boiling Field. the
plane was piloted to Quantico. twenty
miles down the Potomac. and return.
during which time constant tele--
between the operator H. tine airplane
and the office of the chief signal Off
Ger. Messages from the 1lane were
released through LOUD speaker so
that d.. present could hear, and COM
munfcation to the plane was through
me ordinary desk telephone con-
nected with the Arlington Radio Sta
ton ton The rapid advances which hi,ha have
communication indicate that this
method of communication to and from
birplanes while in flight over long
distances will. in all probability. be
A winter instruction program for
tile officers and men stationed at Fort
homas has been prepared by apt Gapt
Which has been approved by Col. Jo-
oeph F. Gohn, commanding officer of
the 10th Infantry. Among. the sub
3ects which are included in the course
are military sketching and map read
ing; rules of land warfare; hippology;
field engineering; military hygiene
and hrst aid; training methods and
principles and the use of federal
troops In civil disturbances; military
law. administration and mess man.
agement; drill regulations; manual of
the Saber; nomenclature and use Of
the pistol and interior guard duty.
Meeting at Aberdeen Proving
Grounds. Nd, October e., the Army
Ordnance Association in their annual
convention, besides staging an all-day
onstration, elected officers for the
coming year. Benedict Crowell. for
mar assistant secretary of war was
neglected president of the associa-
tion. as was also the vice president
William w. Coleman. Those who
were elected to the board of directors
were: Gen. Guy E. Cript, chairman of
the board of directors of the West
ir,er A-t- a.
McRoberts, president of the Metro
politan Trust Company of New York.
and Waldo c. Bryant.
The American Society Of Military
Engineers, October 80, at Aberdeen
Proving Grounds. staged a successful
demonstrate tion of ordnance and air
craft to which were invited the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers and
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. Approximately 500 engi-
neers gathered to witness the various
exhibitions
Plans have been prepared for the
erection OF a monument over the
tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Ar
lington national cemetery. Two de-
signs have been submitted, one being
drawn by Carrere and Hastings, New
York architects, who drew the plans
for the amphitheater, and calling for
a 35-foot shaft costing approximate
prepared in the office of the quarter
master and is low, massive struc-
ture.
Plans and specifications will in all
probability be submitted to Congress
at the approaching session and 1t Is
hoped that an appropriation will be
authorized for the erection OF suit
able monument.
Contemplated plans for thel i'm
provement Of Arlington national cem-
etery call for. an expenditure OF
s1,4Co.oOo. which will provide for 9r
throughout the cemetery. the planting
of trees and shrubbery and the con-
struction of a new bridge, which will
span the Potomac river in the rear OF
of Columbia side and will approach
the Virginia side in front of the Lee
mansion. This amount will also pro-
vide for beautifying. the drive to
bridge, and it is planned to remove the
unsightly shacks which line the Vir-
ginia side of the river in this vicinity.
The plans are in tentative form only,
but 1t is hoped that Congress will
see the urgent need Of these i'm
provements and appropriate accord
ingly.
tionai Guard Association convened
october "a In its annual sessions.
Gen. John ]. Pershing. not being able
to attend the meeting, expressed his
regrets in a letter which was read
by Gen. Logan to the delegates.
Among those who addressed the meet
ing were Maj. Gen. George c. Rick
ards chief Of the militia bureau; Maj.
Gen. Hanson E. Ely of the War Col
wards of Massachusetts,.
The newly elected officers Of the
association are: Brig. Gen. Milton A.
Reckord Of Baltimore, Nd, president;
Maj Gen. Franklin w. Ward of AL
bany, N. Y, first vice president; Lieut..
Col. LIE Roy Pearson of Lansing, Mich,
secretary (re-elected), and Brig. Gen.
Edward A. Martin of Washington,
Pa, treasurer (re-electeO.
We're elected are: 1st. Col: Cyril L. d.
Wells of New York: I'd. Col. Charles
e. Walsh of Rhode Island: Sd. Gen.
w G. Price, jr. of Pennsylvania; 4th,
Brig. Gen. Robert J. Travis of Geor-
gia; 5th, Gen. r. H. Tyndall of In
diana; 9Th, Col Heinrich A. Pickert
OF Michigan; 7th, Brig. Gen. M. A.
Tinley of Iowa; 8th, Col. P. A. Wealth
erred Of Texas, and 9th, Brig. Gen. J. ].
Borree of California.
Meeting jointly with the National
eral elected Brig Gen. Harry b. Smith
Of Indiana, president; while both Gen.
F. d. Beary Of Pennsylvania, vice presi-
dent, and Gen. Carlos E. Black of
Illinois. treasurer, were reelected to
their respective offices.
Maj. FoIett Bradley and Capts o.
H. Quinn and Charles E. Rust. all
air service officers, recently few to