Evening star., 1923-07-08

Joined by the Pacific fleet for the
Joint maneuvers.
During his four years as ranking
officer of the Navy. which covered
two administrations, ADMIRAL Coontz
has at all times been a close adviser
or the civilian heads of the Navy
and in the service is generally held
responsible for many of the changes
and improvements that have taken
place At one time he stood the
brunt of the attack of the small
Navy" group in Congress and re-
Gently as budget officer has consist
entity fought for what he believed to
be adequate appropriations to main
| tain the treaty Navy. AS one of the
two naval advisers of the Ameri-
can delegation in the arms confer
ence, he helped to draw up the naval
treaty. Under his regime there has
been very considerable increase
in the duties and obligations of the
chief of operations. its scope. being
| much more extensive than in the
past. His selection to be in supreme
command of the forces afioat appears
to have been a fortunate one, as 1t
seems to have the approval OF off1cers
of all ranks.
The L. S. S. Chaumont will sail
July l6. from New York for the west
coast and her passenger list will in
clude about two score members of
| the Congressional party that Is going
to make an inspection Of the naval
establishments on the Pacific coast.
The party will include fourteen mem
bers of the House naval affairs COM
mittee. two of the appropriation COM
| mittee. members of the families and
the clerk and two stenographers OF
J the naval committee.
Most of the party, however. will
not board the Chaumont until she
| reaches Hampton. roads. where she
will be for two days prior to her de-
| parture on July 10 for Port au Prince,
| the first stop on the journey. The
! itinerary provides for stops at Bal
boa. July IS; Corinto. July 80: San
Diego, August Z: San Pedro, August
| 9: San Francisco. August l2. and
will start back for the east coast on
August "a. but most of the party will
return overland.
The list includes Representatives
son and wife. George P. Darrow. wife
and son; James V. McClintic. wife
! and two daughters: William b. OH
| yer tdoubtfuD, Herbert J. Drane and
! ter; Patrick H. Drewry and wife,
! James O'Connor. wife. two sons and
! daughter; Francis F. Patterson, wife
and two daughters; A. f. B. Ste
! phens and wife. A. II. Vestal. wife and
| resentatives Burton L. French. Fred
A. Britten and Philip D. Swing ex-
pect to join the party on arrival at
| San Diego. Representative Charles
r. Davis is not expected to make the
| trip, but Mrs Davis will accompany
! the party. Frank Byron. the colored
clerk of the naval affairs committee.
and Miss Marie Maddox and Miss
Elsie Allen, official stenographers,
complete the list
The Navy started its new fiscal
year on July with S3.074 men. just
1926 short of the authorized enlisted
there were 22.2s2 enlisted. LIS of
whom were turned, back. due to
under age and physical disability dis
charges. leaving a net total or hrst
! enlistments of 27.504. In commenting
on this record OF the recruiting bu-
| r@au. Rear Admiral Washington, chief
of navigation, says: The bureau
congratulates you on the fine re-
suits achieved by YOU and your men.
the result of your fine leadership and
constant devotion to duty"
I UnaIterabIe opposition to three
year enlistment is expressed by Ad-
! miral Fl. p. Jones' commander-in-
chief of the United States fleet. in his
reply to the recent bureau of navi-
officers for suggestions for increas-
| ing the number of recruits in the
drive to get the Navy up to it's au-
J thorized strength
His report recommends that to in
crease the number of recruits the
! following steps be taken: Increase
! the number of recruiting stations and
announce and carry out foreign
cruises for the vessels of the fleet.
/ Following the return to Puget
sound OF the presidential party from,
the Alaskan trip, the Navy band
aboard the Henderson will abandon
| the ship and return to the capital
overland, giving concerts en- route in
more than a dozen of the larger
cities. This band. thirty strong. is
generally looked upon in Washing
J ton as the city's own. Under the
! leadership of Bandmaster c. A
Bender it has developed into one of
the finest playing organizations in
| the country. Located at the navy
yard here. it has been available at
all times for civic and national
events and has won a great follow =
| ing in it's home town and throughout
the country. Recruiting officers all
along the route of their return home
| have been instructed to arrange for
open-air concerts.
Shed tests on the giant airship ZR-T
under construction by the Navy at