Evening star., 1923-07-15

be speeded up to keep the Army bal
| anced somewhere near the allotted
number is what is Worrying the Army
! officers charged with this work today.
| Present indications are that during
| the year the Army will lose $4,000
! men, including those who desert
| rms would leave an army of only
10000 or 100000 men at the end Of
| the year.
! Navy.
Another illustration of the Navy's
/ traditional care for it's dead" is
found in orders just issued to the
new cruiser Richmond to bring back
| to the states the bodies of twenty-five
American sailors now buried at Rio
! de Janeiro.
During the flu epidemic in the fall
| of 1918 forty members of the crew of
the L. S. S. Pittsburgh which was
| stationed at Rio died and were buried
tnere until arrangements could be
| made to bring the bodies home More
| than year ago forty caskets were
sent down, but IT was found imprac-
ticable at the time of the Brazilian
exposition to bring the bodies back
Next OF kin of all the epidemic
victims have been communicated with
ana In the cases of eighteen of the
Il
remains inferred in the crypt beneath.
tne Pittsburgh monument there in the
city. Ihe other twenty-five will be
taken aboard the Richmond when she
| touches RIO on her return from her
! cruise In European waters in Sep
TEMPER and Will be brought to Hamp-
! ton Roads to the Naval Hospital
Ihe caskets are under the charge
OF Rear Admiral Vogelsang, head of
the American naval mission to Brazil
INSTRUCTIONS
by the department to arrange for the
removal OF the bodies from their
temporary resting places in the ceme-
terry there.
| necessary at this time as the five
year burial period required by Bra
lillian health authorities expires this
fali' as well as the temporary leases
or burial spaces. Under the Brazilian
law 1t would be necessary to disinter
and cremate the bodies at the end of
the five-year period to make available
the grave space.
In first-class condition after her
extensive overhauling recently at the
Norfolk Navy Yard, the presidential
yacht Mayfower left Washington this
week. headed for Rockland, Me-,
where, over the measured mile course
traditional trial ground for naval
ships. she Will have her standardiza-
ton trials Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week
Over the mile course, the only deep
water measured mile in American
waters she will be tried out to test
the efficiency of the two DESTROYER
boilers put into her when she was
| converted from a coal to an oil
burner. Her estimated speed now is
sixteen knots, as against the fourteen
she formerly had, and the changes
made In her have added materially to
Eer economic operation as we'll az IN
her "ltveableneSS"
During her shakedown cruise she
Will touch several Atlantic ports and
VIII be in New York for several davs
early In August. returning to Wash
lngton about the middle of the month.
The two new battleships Colorado
, and West Virginia probably will NOT
be added to the fleet until after the
/ first of the year. The former is ex
pected to be ready to leave the yards
of the New York Shipbuildine Com
pany about September l and will go
70 the Brooklyn Navy Yard to be
htted out and to have her fire con-
troll finished. The West Virginia will
not be ready to leave the Newport
pany's plant until about December
and she, too. will go to the Brooklyn
yard. 1t Is estimated that it will re-
quire about four months at the navy
yard to complete the work on the two
big fighting craft.
Prior to the departure of Admiral
X. e. CoontZ, chief of operations for
the west coast between July 20 and
70. the work of getting out the fitness
being expedited, the date as to when
each is to be relieved being left blank.
Two ships of the Cantigny class
! are to be turned over by the Ship
ping Board to the Navy to be convert.
I ed into submarine tenders. Com
mander Fawell of the board of in
| spect1on and survey will shortly in
| spect the tied-up fleet in James river
| and decide which two the NAVY de-
| sires.
When the cruiser Milwaukee leaves
| Puget sound for her record shaka-
down cruise to the islands of the
south Pacific and Australia she will
| be fitted out with the most imnrovad
type of Sonic depth finder and her
commanding officer has been instruct
ed to make chart Of soundinps from
our west coast to Sydney by way Of
Oahu. Samoan Islands, Fiji Islands
! and New Catalonia
she Is expected to reach Sydney in
| time for the Pan-Pacific Scientific
! Congress and her commander. Cant.
William c. Asserson, has been an
! pointed delegate. 1t is expected
| that his chart of soundfngs will be
| received by the scientists there with
great interest. as the agenda of the
congress includes the subject of hydro
| graphy and oceonography.
| The hydrography covered by this
trip is very little known, but It is
believed that great depths heretofore
unknown and uncharted will be en-
| countered. and 1t is believed that the
| apparatus on the Milwaukee will be
able to record these great depths ac-
| Icurately. Considerable difficulty. how