Evening star., 1924-08-10
Army and Navy News
By M. II. McIntvre.


which limited number Of registered
students will be authorized to take
this course OF four years. These stu
dents will be enrolled as reserve mid
shipmen. class 6, and will be commits
stoned as ensigns in class 2 upon
graduation. The reserve midshipmen
will be sent out on a practice cruise
on each Of the first three years.
Orders have been issued by the
Navy Department TO decommission
the U. S. S. Prometheus September
Is and the commission .the u. s. S.
Medusa on this date. 1t Is expected
that the latter vessel will join the
time in October.
Admiral Archibald H. Scales, COM
| mandant OF the Philadelphia navy
Trench and Lieut.. Comdr. Ralph
ID. Wentworth, U. s. N, recently paid
an official visit to the Philadelphia
quartermaster intermediate depot.
The U. s. S. Tennessee, which has
been in drydock at San Francisco, has
Joined Battleship Division Four. Upon
falling in with the Arizona, Rear Ad-
miral w. v. Pratt will transfer his
flag from the Tennessee. The Tennes-
see has been temporarily assigned to
Battleship Division Five until the
arrival of the u. S. S. Colorado on the
West Coast.
Arrangements have been made
will be able to engage in the annual
small arms practice while the ships
are in Puget Sound waters. The
Camp Lewis range is practically the
only one on the coast which is both
accessible to the fleet and suitable for
handling this number of officers and
men.
When the Dobbin is commissioned
she will join the destroyers of the
scouting fleet as tender.
The Riyadavia and Moreno, Argen-
tine ships, will come to New York for
repairs. The former vessel is due to
arrive on September /, while the
Moreno will come later.
ARMY.
Col. Edward S. Walton, Quarter
master Corps, has been designated as
acting chairman of the Interdepart-
mental Board of Contracts and
Adjustments. This board has been
engaged for some time in revising
the forms of all contracts in use
by the Government. It's work when
completed will be of far-reaching ef-
feet in simplifying and abridging
work along these lines.
Maj. Douglas C. Cordiner, Quarter
master Corps, has been ordered to
duty in the Office of the auartermas-
ter general, where he will be in
charge of the planning work in the
Lieut. Col. William G. Ball and
Maj. Clifford L. Corgin, both quar-
termaster officers, have been desig-
mated to attend the next term of the
Army Industrial College. which is
conducted under the Supervision of
the assistant secretary of war.
Col. Rush Wells, Cavalry, who has
been detailed to the Signal Corps for
period of four years as signal Off
GER of the First Corps Area, will take
the place of Col. Gordon Johnson,
Cavalry.
Lieut.. A. NJ. Pigg. Signal Corps,
has reportedd for duty in the ONCE
of the chief signal officer and has
been assigned to the supply division.
Capts. Doris A. Haines. John H.
Balmat and Harold w. Keller, quar-
termaster Corps, have been desig-
mated to attend the next term of the
Harvard School of Business Administra-
tion.
Some complaint has been made by
organization commanders that they
are unable to secure uniformity in
appearance of their troops when
wearing denim clothing due to the
fact that brown and blue have been
issued miscellaneously, it having been
SO packed during and Immediately
after the war. In order to correct
Quartermaster general this week is
sued instructions to the field to seq
regRte as to colors and inventory all
new denim clothing now on hand.
regard to actual amounts and sizes
of each color on hand is received, fur
ther instructions will be issued rela-
tive to issues.
The quartermaster generals Office
is now studying a revision of form
lisa, record of public buildings. The
proposed new form, when approved
will be much simpler than the old
form and will effect a reduction of
clerical work.
What is believed will meet all of
the requirements of the various arms
of the service Is the production of
the EE-S, a new type of field tele-
phone. which has just been developed
by the Signal Corps. One model of
this type has been made up for sub
mission to the different service boards
for trial and corrections. A few will
probably be made up for general dis
tribution to the service, but two or
three years will elapse before the
regular establishment will be entirely
equipped.
During the war three different
the G fd used
end of 1919 the Signal Corps under
took the work of developing a field
telephone which would have the ap-
proval of all the services. In this
| work the Signal Corps made up six
different models of this Instrument,
which for various reasons were not
satisfactory to all of the arms, the
| main objection being in the form of
the transmitter and receiver. One
service preferred a head set single,
another desired a hand set, while
some of the others wanted head set,
| double, or the breast transmitter.
The design of the new type is
such that it is carried in pouch
entirely separate from the telephone
and is attached to the telephone
carrying strap. 1t is not only a great
improvement over similar equipment
used by the Army, but is more COM
pact and much more easy to trans
port
Capt Burt E Skeel and Lieuts.
Alexander Pearson, jr., and Wendell
H Brookly, A. S., have been selected
my Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief
Of Air Service as .th the pilots of the
which will be held at Dayton, Ohio,
October 4. Lieut.. H. H, Mills has
been designated as an alternate pilot.
A Navy Curtiss racer will be piloted
by Lieut. Pearson. while Capt. Skeel
and Lieut.. Brookley will pilot Army
Curtiss racers.
Ten principals and two alternates
land and observation types of planes
to participate in the Liberty engine
builders trophy race, which will be
held October 2. They are as follows:
| Maj. c, L. Tinker, Lieuts. e. B. Bob
zien, A. E. Simonin, r. J. Brown. jr.;
Steinmetz, C. A. Cover. L. A. Walthall,
7. V Reau ir: J. b. Haddon and n