Evening star., 1924-11-23

: Admiral Stitt ES
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IN the Navy In 1883 'N$SHSS &34a,$seecnf
and was promoted RE ann e1r,
through the va
rious grades until he attained the
rank of rear admiral in 1917. No
yember &c, 1920, he was appointed
surgeon general OF the Navy by
President Wilson and reappoint ed
surgeon general of the Navy March
4. 1921, by President Harding. In 1902
ADMIRAL Stitt served an instructo
in bacteriology and pathology at the
United States Naval Medical School,
ana in 1905 he served as medical Off :
Ger Of the Nicaraguan Canal Commits
sion and studied at the London School
of Tropical Medicine. obtaining a
diploma with distinction from that
school. Admiral Stitt's naval service
also took him to the Orient. Egypt,
and he also occupied the chair OF
medical zoology in the University of
the Philippines.
The following officers of the Supply
Corps have been selected for promo
ton by the selection board. The re-
= port of the board has been approved
by the President and the officers Sc
lected will become eligible for pro-
motion as follows: Pay director. with
rank of captain, McGill r. Goldsbor-
ough, January IA, 1925; pay inspector,
with rank Of commander. Lewis w.
Jennings, jr., Brantz Mayer, May IS.
1924: William @. Neill. January a.,
1925: Harry T.. Collins, February l..
1925
F Recomm endations have been made
by the conference on oceanography
that the oceanographic expedition
which will shortly be undertaken be
known the Maury United States Naval
Oceanograph Research, in honor Of
Lieut.. Matthew Fontaine Maury. L. S.
". whose pioneer work in practically
all branches of oceanography entities
him to this distinction. The confer
ence further recommended that the
major ship that is assigned to this
work be named the L. 5. 5. Tanner,
in honor of Comdr. Zera l.. Tanner.
L. 5. N. whose long continued ocean,
ographic work has contributed much
to the advance of this science
The Argus and Wayanda. recently
acquired by the Coast Guard for use
as section floating bases, have been
named after former cutters of the
service, the old Argus being one of
the ten original cutters built in 1871,
and the old Wayanda was constructed
in 1869, and served on the Atlantic
and Pacific Coasts and in Alaskan
waters. The Argus and Wayanda are
both similar in design to the Picker
ing, 1885 feet in length. % feet width
and IL feet draft. of concrete con-
struction, and were formerly used by
the Quartermaster Corps OF the Army
under the names Maj. George Z. Pick
EFT and Col. w. II. Baldwin, respec-
lively. These section floating bases
have each been equipped with a ma
chine shop, storeroom and facilities
for quartering and messing the crews
of the picket boats and for repairing
the engines and boats.
At recent meeting of the board of
control of the League of Coast Guard
Women, which was held for the pur-
pose of establishing the field units
of the league, it was decided to es-
tablish, for the present at least, "a
units, with headquarters as follows:
Portland, Me-; Portsmouth, y. H;
Boston, Mass: ProvincetoNn. Mass;
Woods Hole, Mass; Wakefield, r. T.;
New London, Conn; Bay Shore. y. Y;
New York. n. Y; Asbury Park. y. j.:
Seattle, Wash: Philadelphia, Pa:
Lewes, Del: Baltimore. Md: Wash
ington, d. c.: Norfolk, Va: Elizabeth
city, n. c.: Wilmington, n. c.; New
Bern. y. c.; Savannah, Ga; Mobile.
Ala: Portland, Greg; Miami, Fla:
Key West. Fla: Galveston, Tex; Sault
Ste Marie. Mich: Detroit Mich:
Green Bay, Wis: Grand Haven. Mich:
Buffalo. y. Y: Nome, Alaska: Juneau.
Alaska; Astoria, Greg; San Francisco,
Calf.
board has been appointed by the
Bureau of Aeronautics, of which
Capt. Emory S. Land, L. $. NJ, is
chairman, to render report relative
to the permanent employment of the
Navys two dirigibles, viz, the L. 5. ).
Shenandoah and the L. S. s. Los An
geles. other members of the board.
which has sent it's complete report
to Lakehurst. are: Lieut.. Comdrs.
Marc A. Mitscher and Robert r. Pau
mack and Lieut.. Z. 7. Patterson.
Publication will not be made of the
report until it has the approval of
the Secretary of the Navy.
In certain quarters 1t is pointed out
that'an airship hangarshould be con-
structed at San Diego. where, 1t is
insisted, the Los Angeles should be
retained. Under the terms of the
treaty, however, this ship can only
be used for commercial purposes, but
1t has been suggested that 1t could
he employed in transporting mail
from California to Honolulu or Ma
Mia. or in mmerclal WOrk Wltnln
the United States. According to pro-
posed plans. the L. S. S. Shenandoah
will be maintained on the Eastern
seaboard, where she will be employed
as a training ship in dirigible naviga-
tion, and she will participate in the
Atlantic Fleet maneuvers and also
the war games held in the vicinity of
the Panama Canal. Plans are also
being made for the participation of
the Shenandoah in the joint Army
and Navy maneuvers which will be
held in Hawaii next year.
The recent visit of the three battle
ships-viz, L. S. S. California, L. s. S.
West Virginia and the L. S. S. Colo
rado--to San Diego harbor without
question demonstrated that large yes
sells can be easily accommodated in
this harbor. This port has been rec
commended many times as base for
the entire battle fleet, but consider
ing the requirements of target prac-
tice operations and the number of
ships involved, it is believed that the
present arrangement of basing these
vessels at San Pedro will be con-
tinued.
ARMY.
Gen. John J. Pershing, it was an
nounced by the State Department
this week, will head the American
Mission to Peru in December. at
which time the centennial of the bat
tie of Ayacucho will be celebrated.
Ehe other members who will compose
the commission are Rear Admiral
.Iohn H. Dayton, L. S. N: former
Ket,resentattye Frederick c. Hicks OF