Evening star., 1923-06-10

| that such officers be disenrolled.
Active recruit training will be re-
sumed at the Great Lakes Training
Station July /, when appropriations
able.
Since the latter part OF 1921. in the
| interest of economy. the training OF
| recruits has been concentrated at the
naval training stations at Hampton
Roads and San Francisco. Within the
| which was discontinued at the New
port station at practically the same
! time as Great Lakes, has been re-
/ sumed.
! Great Lakes has been maintained
/ simply on an imperative basis, al
| though two of the Navy trade schools
1 the aviation mechanics school and
| the radio school-haVe been maintained
J at that station.
The resumption of recruit training
| at Great Lakes undoubtedly will have
| far-reaching effects on the people OF
| the middle west. where interest In
! the Navy should be promoted.
| Relatives and friends of the high
I class of young men now entering the
Navy will have an opportunity OF
visiting the station during the sum-
| ing. thus avoiding a long and expen-
sive journey to the coast to accom-
plsh the same purpose.
| During the fiscal year 1923, the re-
! cruiting service will be called upon
| to enlist upward of $4,000 recruits to
maintain an average of $4,000 men in
On the basis of 5000 recruits under
| constant training during the year
| Great Lakes has been allocated LOU
+. Hampton Roads. 1000: Newport, l.
| 500. and the newly constructed sta.
/ tion at San Diego, replacing that at
| San Francisco, 1900.
/ A draft Of 110 men was recelEeu on
y I'D he -
| ing from the naval training ssatlon
at Hampton Roads. Va. The COM
manding officer of the wyoming re-
ports that the men were In every
way a credit to the station present
| ing an exceptionally fine appearance.
They were older than the usual run
\ of such drafts, and show ina theS
| rad been carefully instructed ana
drilled.
! with the enlisted strength OF the
Navy about 1000 men short 0. the
| number authorized by. law and re-
| cruiting officers finding II increasing
| ly difficult to secure desirable re
| cruiIs, the department is using every
| . . 80 10 secure new men and to IN
/ crease the dwindling number OF re
| IeuIstments a.. I.roe
Calling attention to the iarge
| shortage. which is increasing oally,
1 the bureau of navigation has just
| sent out a circular letter to all shlps
! and stations directing all cofnElanu-
| ing officers to encourage All men 81
| ing on leave to cooperate III ooon-
! ing new enlistments. 49,,
| II points out that men from the
| ships who are not assigned 10
| cruiting service have great lniluenc'
among their acquaintance at noine,
| their statements about the service
being accepted without question,
| many OF them also visiting small
| towns where there is no regular re
] cruiting service.
Rewards for such work are recon- recon-
7 mended in the shape of addltlonal
| leave and by making comm endatory
| entries on the mems records for the
| results they secure in the way or
\ new men.
| The selection board for the promotion
| of officers of the line Of the Navy OF the
| grades of captain, commander ana neu-
tenant commander to the next hgner
| grade. respectively, viii meet IN, IN 'tie ne
| Navy Department July and will be
composed Of the following named otl-
GERS: Admiral r. E: CoontZ and Rear
| Admirals c. S. Williams, Joseph Strauss.
w. r. Shoemaker y. a. McCully. A. ii.
! Robertson. r. II. Jackson, b. F. Hutch
/ ison and T. y. Magruder.
! Probably four admirals. ten captains
/ and fifteen commanders will be selected
!. It is an interesting fact that not a SIN
gle member of the new board served on
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considerable agitation in some quarters
/ to have the Secretary limit his naming
Of officers to those who had never served
on a previous board. This. depart
1 mental heads point out. is 1mpractlca-
BILE, as there are not ranking officers
| enough available to draw from.
4 Another "sidelight" on the personnel
| Of the new board is that five Of the
| nine members are Naval War College
| graduates.
| The President on Friday approved the
report OF the board Of selection for OFF,
GERS Of the Supply Corps for advance
| ment which recommended the following
| officers: To be rear admiral, Capts.
| T. c. Jewett and F. T. Arms: to rank OF
! captain. Commanders F. X. Perkins,
, T. J. Arms and c. w. Eliason.
/ Pending final ratification of the
naval treaty by France which will
make effective the agreements
reached at the limitation of arma :
ment conference. no final decision Will
! be reached by the department on the
plans for using two of the doomed
/ battleships- as targets
/ In the meantime an interesting dis
cussion is going on as to how the old
/ ships can be used to the best advan-
! tage. Request has been made by the
| Army air service that one Of the bat
| tleships be turned over to be used
this fall in extensive bombing opera
! tions.
| A number of naval officers believe
| that no good purpose can be served
1 by another off-shore aerial bombing
| experiment as it would be more or
| less a repetition of the tests two
years ago with the ex-German war
ships as targets.
| The idea has been advanced and
i seems to have strong support that
! the best disposal of the target ships
will be to conduct extensive maneu-
vers, far at sea, where In All prooa-
bility the engagements of the future
| will be fought, letting them serve as
| the enemy. This would bring into
play the aircraft as 1t operates with
! the fleet in search problem in which
the light cruisers. destroyers and
submarines would play part.
| Tentative plans provide for using
| the North Dakota and Delaware as
! target ships instead of the Virginia
and New Jersey as originally planned
| as it is believed that the more mod
! ern ships will develop some valuable
! lessons that could not be learned from
/ their obsolete sisters. 1t is probable
| that the two ships finally selected will
! be equipped with radio control like
the L. s. s. Iowa was during the Pan
anna maneuvers SO as to provide a
moving target. If the plans Tor using
:; them during fleet maneuvers war con-
ditions will be simulated SO far as
possible and the mimic warfare thus
! staged is expected 10 pe OF great
value in working put problems of
strategy and tactics at the War Col
/ lege for the general boards delibera-
J tions and studies.
| Another problem confronting the
/ Navy that is caused by the continued
delay in ratification of the treaty is
| the condition Of the decommissioned
battleships that are slated to be
scrapped.
| For months past the bureaus have
been drawing heavily on them for
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