Evening star., 1923-05-27

ernment air messages going out and
coming in for official Washington are
finally centralized
Cryptic code messages to all parts
of the globe. official routine business
of the department, everything, in
fact, that naval communications car
ry from the capital. amounting to
thousands of words daily, is handled
now through this comparatively small
office.
Annapolis and SayvilIe. the two east
coast powerful transatlantic and
transcontinental stations, are con-
trolled directly by the operators here.
their keys sending automatically the
messages flashing from the distant
points.
Arlington too, an important link in
the coastal chain used for medium dis
tance communication with points
along the Atlantic coast and even
with Guantanamo and with ships at
sea, is worked" by an operator at
central.
Long-distance reception from far
flung naval radio stations is secured
by means of six large receiving sets.
each located in a small separate
room, from which leads run to the
central switchboard and to a corre-
spending number of operating desks.
Directly overhead eight-foot loops
pick these messages up.
n WHICH,, udy nlRhI,
is kept on these large sets. One lis
tens in for San Diego on $500 meters;
a second for San Francisco, on 10,500
meters; a third for San Juan. on
S,7S5 meters: a fourth for Balboa. on
1000 meters; fifth for French sta
tions, on $4,000 meters; the sixth is
kept for emergencies. experimental
work and work with the ships
With the opening of Central the
long land wire to Bar Harbor has
heen discontinued and no more does
Bar Harbor reign as the chief send
ing and receiving station for long
distance work. At present the work
there is confined to coastal and radio
compass operations though the equip
ment has been left in Hace for war
time or other emergency uses.
Headquarters OF the Sojourners
Club. Army and Navy officers who
are Shriners, has been opened at 1884
III street, third floor, office of the
Quartermaster Review. for conven-
tion week. The committee on ar
rangement. which has been making
plans for the week, consists of Maj. r
+. Palmer, Q. NJ. c.: Capt. Charles
Stalsburg, Q. NJ. c.; Capt. George F
Unmacht. c. w. s.: Capt. Sam Buck
lew and Lieut.. r. Z. Bassler. L. S. "
The plans for a royal time" for
given at the Columbia Country Club
on the night of June 8, which will be
attended by Sojourners from all
parts of the country and many of the
big ranking officers of Army, Navy
and Marine Corps. Gen. Pershing
ADMIRAL Coontz and Gen. Lejeune will
head the respective service delega-
tions and it is expected that Secretary
DENLY will attend
According to figures compiled in the
department the number of recruits
required in the first half of the next
fiscal year Is as follows: July 4195;
August, 1850: September, 1850; Oc-
tober. 2.616; November, 1884; Decem-
ber, 2.465
At the present rate of first enlist
ments there would be by January
1924 about $4,000 men in the Navy
a shortage under the authorized
strength of 1900 men, Strenuous
cruiting bureau to increase the mum.
ber of desirable recruits in order tc
make up the deficit of more than 2,00(
which now exists.
The next class at the Naval War
College at Newport, r. l., starts or
July 2, and will consist of seventy
officers approximately as follows
Line. captains. 20 commanders, l;
lieutenant commanders and 10 lieu
tenants; Medical Corps 8: Supply
Corps. 8; Civil Engineer Corps, 2
Construction Corps, 3, and Marine
Corps, 8.
The next class entering the Nava
Academy in July will total about 700
according to figures just compiled BY
the department, following receipt OF
reports of the results of the eXami.