Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13

Capt ]. A Ballard, Signal Corps,
and Second Lieut. Glenn II. Palmer,
signal Corps, now students in the
course of communication engineer
ing at Yale University, will be as
signed to Camp Alfred Vail. New Jer-
Sey, upon completion of the school
year in June, 1924. twenty-five Ma
nonal Guard engineer officers have
ment TO take the special engineer
course at the Engineer School, Fort
Humphreys, Va, which will begi1
april 10 and conclude May 81.
The Secretary of War has directed
the quartermaster general of the
Army to offer for sale by public
auction on April Is, 1924, the huge
Sll,oOO,0O0 Port Newark Terminal,
Newark, n. j, with all the govern
improvements. Though offered for
sale before, the largest bid ever re-
ceived was S3.25O.00O. but this was
rejected by the government.
Fourteen officers of the Quartermas-
ter Corps, on duty in the office of the
quartermaster general, Washington,
Will be relieved from their present
assignments and ordered elsewhere
70 duty between now and July /,
1874 OF this number Capt. Albert ].
Chappell, Q. NJ. G.. chief of the esti-
mates and Legislative branch, has al
ready left for his new station at
1 T1rt Rosecrans- San Diego, Calf.
me others are. Col. Robert H Rolfe.
-. NJ. c., chief, clothing and ecuipage
DIVISION; Col. Theodore b. Hacker.
9 NJ. c., chief, miscellaneous supply
otFlSion; Col. Jack Hayes, q. NJ c.,
chlef. rail transport division; Lieut.
to'. Edgar ). Slayer, Q. NJ. G., chief,
motor transport division; Lieut.. Col.
Augustus Il. Warfield. Q. NJ c. chief.
surplus property division: Lieut. Col.
klchard II. Jordan, q. NJ. G., chief.
water transport division: Capt J..
Moultrie Ward. 9. NJ. G.. standardiza-
ton branch; Capt. George FL. Hahn,
ASSISTANT to chief, supply service At
the Washington general intermedi-
ate depot the following will be re-
Iteved: Lieut. Col. II. H. Evans, O.
NJ g, and Maj. r. p. Palmer, Q. NJ.
IN inc Office of the assistant sec
Tetary OF war, Col. Edward :. Wal
ton, .. NJ. G., will be assigned else
where to duty, while Mai. Owen G.
collins. Q. NJ. c., will stand relieved
rom CD, office of the chief Of staff.
MAJ. T. p. Harbold, O. NJ. G.. for
merly chief Of the graves res,istra :
tion service in Paris, is now chief of
the cemeterial division in the office
OF the quartermaster general. He
succeeds Maj r. l.. Foster. .. NJ. c.,
H wi9 Is under orders to proceed to the
philippines for duty.
Army officers stationed in Washing
Ton are evincine a great deal of in
Serest in the coming endurance ride
Tor the reason that it will he held
nearby in Virginia. probably in The
nelghborhood of Warrenton begin
nlng October 20 and concluding DC
tober 20. The course will be approxi-
tnateiF 5Og miles in length and will
be covered at the rate of about sixty
miles per day. These rides are pri-
inarlly designed to stimulate interest
IN the breeding and use of good sad
dle horses of the general utility type.
SUI s as the mounted service of the
Army requires. Announcement of the
exact location of the ride will be
given out at later date.
In accordance with general order
No. 8. War Department, current Sc
mes, II is directed that the separate
companies of the Coast ArtilIery
corps assigned to duty i'll the harbor
SSeIenses be organized into regiments.
seven OF these regiments Gst to 18th
Coast Artillery, fnclusive), will be or
gained by the assignment to them of
companies whose continuity of record
makes them the direct heirs of the
old artillery regiments of the same
numerical designations which were
In existence before 1901. At this time
when these old regiments lost their
identity in the Artillery CorpS thew
were IN possession of certain articles,
other relics, which, while probably of
httle remaining intrinsic value at this
time, would be of great historical
value to these new regiments. 1t is
requested that any one having a
knowledge of the whereabouts of any
or the aforementioned articles that
they communicate with the chief of
coast artillery on the subject.
Instructions governing the selec-
lions for the infantry, cavalry, coast
artillery and engineer rife national
match teams were given out this
week by the War Department Here
tofore selections have been made by
regimental competition while this
year the above mentioned teams will
be chosen by regimental selection.
Maj. George W. Price, Sth Infantry,
now stationed at Fort Screven, Ga
has been selected to be captain of the
infantry team. Maj. Per Rance, in
fantry, who was captain of the in
fantry teams for 1922 and 1923, has
been ordered to Fort Leavenworth.
Fort Niagara, n. Y, has again been
designated as the location for train
ing the team.
The cavalry team, captained by