The Washington times., 1925-08-21

which stood first in gunnery and
ninth in engineering on records dur.
ing the competitive year, has been
announced as the winner. officially,
of the. battle efficiency pennant on
the basis of the combined gunnery
and engineering records.
The relative standing Of other
battleships that. were rated in the
battIe-efficiency competition now is
announced as follows:
Oklahoma, Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania, Mississippi, Arizona, Cali
fornia, Colorado. Other battleships
this competition for various
reasons.
Rating of Divisions
Battleship divisions also have
been rated as to gunnery, engineer
ing, and battle efficiency. The
standing of these divisions in battle
| Vice Admiral H. A., Wiley, first: Divi-
| sion 4, Rear Admiral w. V. Pratt,
second; Division Rear Admirals
L. NJ. Mutton and III. j. Ziegemeier.
| third; Division 2, Vice Admirals N.
A. McCulIy and j. S. Mexican,
fourth.
Their standing in gunnery is:
First division. fifth; Second division,
second; Third division, third, and
/ Fourth division, fourth. The stand
| ing in engineering is: First division,
| fourth: Second DIVISION, third: Third
division, fifth. and Fourth division,
second.
/ The 0-3 has been awarded the
battle-efficiency pennant in the
submarine class, with other lead
ing boats as follows: RIA, R-16 and
R12.
Computations of engineering rec
ords of certain other classes of
ships also has been made in the
office of the director of fleet
training, and their relative standing
| is as follows:
Mine-sweeping class: first. Ump-
qua, which is the trophy winner;
second, Whippoorwill, the red e /;
the Tatnuck and the Genessee.
Destroyer class Hurlburt, the
trophy winner and white e.: the
Perciyal, the red "E';; Peary,
Smith Thompson, Reno, Decatur,
Pillsbury, Paul Hamilton, Ludlow
and Doyen.
Greatest improvement in the De-
stroyer class-Hensaw won the
prize and the red e." Decatur,
MeCawlty, Marcus and the Ken
nedy.
! ChapIains Move Office
The offices OF the army. corps
of chaplains in the War Depart.
n1ent has been moved from rooms
! 154-156 to the northeast corner of
the building, facing the White
House grounds. The new rooms
are much roomier than one va
Gated by the chaplains.
Two types of caliber As tracer
ammunition, one producing a red
trace and the other a green trace,
have been developed in the Frank
| ford arsenal. both of which have
been tested by the infantry, cavalry.
field artillery, coast 2artillery and
air service boards. The results
of these tests indicate that this
ammunition was very effective for
night signalling. producing a clear
trace for approximately go yards.
| Experiments conducted during the
daylight. however, indicate that
the tracing mixture did not give
a sufficient briIliance to be ef-
| fective for day signalling or for
designating targets.
| Frankfort Arsenal is to manu-
facture 5000 rounds of each OF
these types. for a more extensive
test by the infantry, and expert
ments will be conducted in an ef-
fort toward increasing the daylight
visibility of these mixtures.
Major o. L. Spiller, u. S. A. on
duty in the office of the chief of
coast artillery, has returned to
Washington from tour of inspec-
ton. He has expressed himself
as being highly gratified over the
results of the anti-aircraft training
of the 202nd coast artillery, anti
aircraft, at Sparta, Wis.
A report of a test of various
types of cars modified for cross.
country work, submitted by the in
fantry board, reveals the facts that
the Ford type has been found to
be the most satisfactory for serv-
ice needs.
Colonel George z. Thorne. u.
S. A. commanding the Twelfth in
fantry. headquarters and the First
battalion of which is stationed at
Fort Howard, and the Third bat
TALON at Fort Washington, Mary
land. has been ordered from duty
with the regiment and to duty with
the ORGANIZED reserves of the Third
corps area, with station in Phila-
delphia.
West Point Movies
Sergeant Sidney Wilkerson of the
signal corps, left Washington to
take some movies of life at West
Point He will take moving pic
lures of the cadets in connection
with the revision of Training OF
the Soldier" films under the di.
rection of Captain +. w. Clarkson.
office of the chief of infantry.
Radio Electricians T. r. Butts,
T. S. Fletcher. w. w. Reynolds and
F. w Workman and Chief Radio
man G. NJ. Gallagher, of the coast
guard service. have been ordered to
the Sperry eyre Compass School at
Brooklyn. for a course of instru :.
ton in gyroscopic compasses.
Surfman George b. AppleGate,
coast guard service, stationed at
Spring Lake station, Fifth district.
was retired from active duty yes
terday, having reached the statu.
tory age of sixty -four years. Apple
gate entered the service in 1902 and
has served continuously in the