Evening star., 1924-04-06


Also touched briefly on the work
which the quartermaster procuring
agency is doing relative to the indus
trial survey.
who spoke on Divisional Supply"
was GIL. in charge of supply of the
SD Division, later instructor on sup
ply at General Service Schools, Fort
I.eavenworth, Kas. Capt. Clayton E.
Emig, Officers Reserve Corps, @. NJ
G., presided at the meeting. Gen.
Hart said in part:
I'VE have at present 1929 quarter
ma asters, which include Regular, Re-
serve and National Guard. That
number is approximately so per cent
of the total required in a war calling
for the maximum effort, and Is a
higher percentage than any other
branch of the War Department. Upon
in twenty five will be a Regular. The
whole hearted manner in which Re
serve and National Guard quarter
masters are putting their shoulders
10 the wheel is most gratifying evil
dence that they realize the respon-
sihility which will be theirs and that
they propose to bear it,
''At the outbreak of the world war
We had less than per cent of the
number of quartermaSterS required
for that effort. With so per cent now.
the difference is striking and is some
thing in which every one of you can
take pride.
"It was worked out that under the
system of decentralization to which
we are committed, the quartermas-
ter generals office would require only
$50 officers III war time. OF that
number. 234 are Reserve and National
Guard quartermasters. These assign
ments, to either the administrative.
personnel, supply. transportation. re-
mount or construction services have
been practically completed and the
chiefs of services have assigned their
respective quotas to division, branch
or section as the case my be.
AT every active quartermaster pro-
curing agency inquiry and inVeS6-
cation have been prosecuted vigor-
ously during the past year to find out
what articles can be procured in the
area and what quantities of each. This
industrial survey when completed will
show just what each factory and
plant allocated to US in the respective
areas can be depended upon to supply
In war time.
An instrument for the blind steer
ing of tanks called the Winkley
"Odograph," has been delivered to
Aberdeen proving ground by the
manufacturer. This instrument will
be given series of tests in order to
determine its practical application for
tank steering by chart rather than by
direct observation.
Effective May Is. the flying field at
Fort Crook, Nebraska. has been desig-.
mated as "offutt Field" in honor of
First Lieut. Jarvis Jenness Offutt air
service. Lieut.. Offutt. who was at
tached to the 56th Squadron, Royal
Air Forces, died August IL, 1918, from
injuries received on this date while
flying at Valheureaux, France.
Reports are being circulated that
the War Department is contemplating
the assignment of new organiza ions
to the 1st Cavalry Division and those
units now on duty with the division
to different posts and stations, so that
a larger number of cavalry troops
can be given this divisional training.
j is pointed out that years assign
ment to the cavalry division and par
tfcipation in their annual maneuverS
will do more toward training cavalry
troops than five years station at a
regular post.
problem should the War Department
put such a policy into effect is that of
transportation. The advocates of this
change, however, declare that there
being a considerable number of cav
airy troops stationed in the south
land the troops could march overland
in the event they are assigned to the
division. 1t is reliably stated that
May, or perhaps this month, which
will cause the present home stations
of some cavalry troops to be changed.
Though the War Department has
made no announcement on this sub
ject. it is believed that some sort of
a change affecting the complexion of
the cavalry division will be made in
the near future.
Approval has been given for con-
Quoting a correspondence course for
Army officers who have been ordered
4ul- tkn av,I rol
staff course at Fort Leavenworth, or
those who are contemplating attend
ing this course in the near future.
After careful consideration by the
authorities at the school it was de-
cided that correspondence course d.
subcourses / to 6. both inclusive, pro-
vided the best course of study in
preparing these officers for the Leav-
cnworth curriculum. An officer from
each branch has been directed by his
this course. The following have been
assigned to this duty:
Field artillery, Maj. Charles S.
Blakely, executive officer, Office of
the chief of field artillery; infantry,
Maj. T. E. Moody; dyaes caSsiry, aRsf'"1daj MAJ. !.
George Diilman. Fort Riley, Kans !:
finance department. Lieut.; Col George
p. Tyner, field artillery &C. s.. The
papers from Coast Artillery Corps Off
GERS taking this course will be sent
to the Coast Artillery School, Fort
Monroe, Va. the course being under
the supervision of the school.
Maj. It. J. Hayes, chief of the per-
sonnel section, office of the chief of
ordnance, left Washington March 81
to inspect the r. o. r. c. units at the
University of Wisconsin. Madison,
Wis, and the Univ ersity of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Lieut.. Col. A. C. Voris, chief of the
personnel section, Office Of the chief
signal officer of the Army, and Maj.
Frank Moorman, Signal Corps, win
inspect the. signal school. Camp AL
fred Vail, N. J., April z. Upon his
relief from detail as member of
the general staff corps, Maj. Moor
man will be assigned to duty at Camp
Vail.
The following Signal Corps officers
are on board the cable ship Dellwood.
which left London. England, March
s7 for Panama and Seattle with ap-
proximately $50 miles of submarine
George s. Gibbs, Maj. Alfred E. Lara
bee and First Lieut.. Harold f. Hub
bell
Lieut. Coz. Gordon Johnston, caval-
Corps for a period of four years,
effective on his arrival in the Uniteu
States. He has been on duty in the
Philippine Islands and will be assign
ed as signal officer of the 1st Corps
Area.
With the opening OF the new Fort
Leavenworth station of the Army
radio net, the Signal Corps will intro
duce for the first time an automatic
sending and receiving apparatus
which is destined to send and trans
init radio messages at the rate of
one hundred words per minute. This
is largely accomplished by means of
she FSreed relay system which IL IN