Evening star., 1924-05-11

Approval has been given by the
Secretary of the Navy of the report
of the board appointed to select three
officers of the line for st-graduate
training in civil engineering, with a
view to their being transferred later
to the civil engineer corps. OF the
sixty applications which were con-
sidered by the board, the three fol-
lowing ensigns were chosen: Beau
fort w. Fink. jr.. and Henry p Need
ham, both of the class of 1922 and
John r. Perry. class of 1923. These
officers will be ordered to the post
one-year course. beginning July /,
1924, which will be followed by a
two-year course in civil engineering
at the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Troy, n. Y.
Caroline w Spofford, nurse, u. s
~, has been transferred from the
naval hospital. Washington. d. C.. to
the hospital at Annapolis, Md.
Ella V: Parrott, nurse. u. S. N, has
been ordered to proceed from the
Y. :. Relief to the naval hospital
Mare Island, Calf
Aithea kilgore. nurse, u. S. N. has
been appointed from Charleston, w.
Va, to the Naval Hospital, Washing
ton. ID. C.
Olga A. Osten. nurse, U. s. n, and
Mathilda e. Hume, nurse, U. S. N.
are taking a course in anesthesia at
the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Thirty-five competitors have been
selected out OF a total of moro than
1000 of the nations best rffYa shots
to participate in the final eryoars for
places on the American Olympic rifle
team, which will represent the United
states against the picked rifle shots
of the world. The tryouts will he
held at the Marine Corps rifle range,
Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va, from
May IL to May Is. Maj. l.. w. T.
the American Olympic team.
Since the conclu.ion of the prelimi-
nary tryouts on April 10 the board of
officials of the National Rifle Associa-
dates has been working day and
night examining scores and compar-
ing records to determine the best
shots. The board Is headed by Col
Board of Target Practice, and Brig
Gen. f. H. Phillips, secretary of the
National Rifle Association of America
The tryouts which will be held at
the Marine Corps range at Quantico
consist of the Olympic rife matches
fired at 400, coo and 500 meters, by a
team of five men with any sort of
rifle, all shots being fired in a prone
position. In addition, there will be
the Olympic individual championship,
rifle, also from a prone position. An
additional event will be the Olympic
small-bore match, fired with .22-cali-
Der rifles at SO meters, in standing
Olympic program, but in addition
there will be the annual international
free rife matches, which will be held
in France in connection with the
Olympic games, and the international
military rifle match. Both of these
will be fired at 800 yards, shooting in
the standing, kneeling and prone po-
sition, successfully. An additional
match which has been added this year
is the running deer match. This con-
sists Of shooting at a range of 100
meters, from any position desired, at
a mechanical deer which runs on
wheels for distance of seventy feet
in four seconds.
The team selected will sail from
New York on the L. S. s. President
Harding on May %, arriving in
France in time for the first events,
beginning June I. The matches will
be shot at different French ranges
located at Rheims, Versailles and
Chalons. and will continue from June
to July II. The competitors who
have won the right to appear in the
final tryouts at the Quantico elimi-
natfr-n trials are as follows:
roth. j. W. Thompson. a. r. Brian,
ents 1 IT kReq5e a b s EsDqHnfMi a n sler EFSt
Frank La Rue, Second Lieut.. Sidney
r. Hands, Sergt. Frank Loerger, Pri-
vate Dennis Fenton, Capt. Frederick
Van a. Berger, q; NJ. G.; Maj. j: X.
c. a. G.; g. W. Trichel. C. A. c.;
Lieut.. Commander c. T. Osborn.
L. s N, and Chief Yeoman John E.
Berns, L. S. n.
Marine corps-Gunnery sergts.
Morris Fisher and Raymond Q. Coul-
tnr T.
National Guard-Corp. ]. W. Crock
EFT and Private n. w. Dinwiddie, both
of Washington, d. c.; Maj. William
F. Leushner. Q. NJ. c..
which are from Washington, D. c.,
will also compete at Quantico. They
are as follows: Lawrence NueSSlein,
Walter r. Stokes. Ralph c. Stokes, E.
Goldsborough, Los Angeles; c. T.
Carney, Des Moines. Iowa; j. P.
Becker, Dundas, Mimi; S. D. Mono
han, Chicago: C. E. Nordhue, High
land Park, Ill; j. B.. Grier, Rock
Announcement was made this week
by the bureau of aeronautics, Navy
Department, that it is expected that
fight by May Is. The tailoring, re-
fitting and painting of the outer
cover of the ship, which is being
done at Lakehurst, n. j., was over 80
per cent completed on April 80. With
the exception of some work remain
ing to be done on the tail fins and
wa1kaway, the structural repairs on
the ships have been completed. Plans
are progressing rapidly for the air
demonstration to be held at Lake
pected to have at least 100000 Wis
itOrS attend
Approval has been made by the
chief of the bureau of navigation
of a dressy oxford shoe of vici kid
for chief petty officers of the Navy.
Strangely enough, there are regula-
tions which provide the oxford for
chief petty officers, but they. have
never been issued. 1t appears that no
regulations into effect, but that they
are somewhat confusing. The regu-
lations will be clarified so that all
doubt will be removed as to the au-
thority for issuing them to the serv-
ice.
Numerous changes among the i'm
portant positions in the battle fleet
will be made upon the completion
of target practice about June 1. Capt.
Yates Sterling. commanding the
U.S.S. New Mexico, will be relieved
by Capt. Frank Brumby, Capt Ster-
of the Washington navy yard, Wash
ington, d. c. Capt. J. F.. Hines, COM
manding the U.SS Pennsylvania. will
be relieved by Capt. Harris Laning.
who is on duty with the staff, Navy
War College. Capt. Hines will go to
the War College as a student. New
executive officers have been ordered
by the Navy Department to five of the
ten battleships now with the battle
fleet.