Evening star., 1923-06-03
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
BY Nj. H. MCINTYRE

In strict conformity With Held service
| regulations, to serve as q nnodelArmy
camp. for the inspections of the cftys
guests.
The Medical Corps has set up a
typical division hospital south OF the
Washington monument. which will
supplement the eity's hospital facil-
titles In caring for emergency cases.
Ambulanees are included in the equip
ment and will be stationed about the
city subject to call as are the Emer-
gency Hospital vehicles.
The Technical Corps and the air
service have set up. under canvas. a
complete military exposition near the
Lincoln Memorial. For the ordnance
department, company. composed of
Z officers ana los enlisted men. from
the Ordnance Specialists School, will
operate two repair trucks. three ar
tillery repair trucks, two small Army
trucks and six artillery supply trucks,
carrying on demonstration work with
the equipment during the week.
a detachment of three officers and
forty men from the Coast Artillery
Corps will operate five Cadillac
searchlight cars, a light repair truck
and a rs anti-aircraft gun on a truck
mount The searehlights will be used
IN connection with the night celebra-
tions.
A truck equipped for demonstration
of the chemical warfare service also
is included in the Army display. man.
ned by twenty enlisted men under the
command of two officer specialists; !;
and the Signal Corps will have two
trucks equipped to show modern
methods OF Army field communities
tionS.
In addition to the great monoplane
T-2, which made the jump from New
York to San Diego, Calf, without
step; the air Service has installed. for
exhibition purpo ses, the largest bomb
nl2nR a
smallest pursuit plane. Besides the
| flying craft, exhibitions Of aircraft
| equipment and aerial photography
| methods and results have been set UP
! IN tents. Those particularly inter-
ested in aircraft work will find an
additional and more extensive exhibit
| tion at Boiling Field. Anacostia, with
| ofncers on duty to explain equipment.
From Fort Humphreys, Va. the en-
gineer training camp. detachment
| OF the 18th Engineers will bring in
during the week photographic truck.
J which will turn out for distribution
to the public maps showing the traf-
fic rules and arrangement of the city.
ana the road to the camp and to
Mount Vernon. Va.
! A feature of the field encamprnent
] on the Mall will be the establishment
! there for the week of the great Army
band from the School of Music.
| Secretary Weeks is due back In
! Washington June 10 from the tour of
inspection that carried him. with a
! party or congressman. to Porto Rico,
through the Panama canal and up the
| west coast to San Francisco While
most of the congressman continued
! on TO Alaska and Honolulu Mr..
Weeks found it impossible to take
the longer trip and hastened back to
his desk. stopping on the way to in
speet number of Army posts
That the War Secretary has been
| impressed on his trip by the need of
serious attention on the part of both
| the executive and legislative branches
OF the government to Army matters
cannot be doubted by any one who
followed press reports of his remarks
! at various points. It may be signifi-
eant that he timed his return to
eaaisa 6sfors 50 srs.asnt t REACH the
left on a two mouths journey to
Alaska and subsequent trip through
the Panama canal and TO Porto Rico.
If Mr.. Weeks has matters relating to
the military establishment to lay be-
| fore the President as a result of the
personal inspection of posts he has
visited, which seems more than like
ly. he will probably have the opppr-
tunity to do so In the ten days that
will elapse after his return and be-
fore the presidential party sets out.
To some observers inl Washington it
seems quite proba BILE that the out
lines of the policy the administra-
tion will, pursue in approaching Con-
gress this winter for Army legislation
viii have been agreed upon before
Mr. Harding starts on his trip.
Navy.
Every effort Is being made by the
Navy Department to stimulate re-
cruitirg and increase the dwindling
number of. establishments that for
some time past has been causing such
deep concern.
Two of the suggestions received in
reply to the bureau of navigations
request to commanding officres for
recommendations to improve condi-
tions were of particular interest
Capt. C.. L. Hussey, naval attache at
London. has advised the department
that he has received a number of in
auiries from former enlisted men OF
the British navy as to the require
ments for enlistments in the Ameri-
can Navy He quoted an extract from
the Naval and Military Record under
the title Sequel to Naval Reduc.
items" referring to technically train
ed men as follows:
There are still some, however. who
have. waited in vain for suitable
openings, and, in the absence of any
prospect of employment at home,
about a dozen are contemplating try
ing their luck in the United States
Navy. in which pay is good and for
which the number Of candidates for
entry is believed to be below reouire.
ments. In order to join the American
navy 1t will be necessary for these
ex-naval men to become naturalized
as citizens of the United States. so