Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

Signal Corps, as commanding oIHCer
of the school and commandment or the
post. The latter has been assigned to
duty in the War Department General
Staff, but is not due to report I'D
Washington until August. In the in
tervening time Col. kumpe, when the
school activities of the Army Indus
trial College are concluded, will pro-
coed to Fort Monmouth to familiarlZe
himself with his new duties. Col
kumpes duties as assistant comman-
dant Of the college will be taken over
by Col. I. J. Carr, Signal Corps. who
has been on duty in the college for
several weeks.
Assistant Secretary of War Hanford
MacNider will present the diplomas TO
the graduates, while the commence
ment address will be delivered by
Robert S. Bookings, honorary ad'
wiser of the Army Industrial College.
Following are the Army officers who
will be given diplomas: Col. Fred
erick w. Van Duyne. Q. NJ. c.: Lieut..
Coils. John B. Higgins. NJ. c., and
John E. Hemphill, S. c.: Majs. Nor
man l.. McDiarmid, NJ. c.: Samuel S.
Creighton, NJ. c.: Robert Shelton, NJ.
c.; Henry r. Smalley, Q. NJ. G.;
Charles r.. Harris, jr.: James H.
Burns, Bethel w. Simpson, Glenn i.
Wilhelm and Keith F. Adamson, all
ordnance officers; Maurice B. Willett,
c. w. s.: Byron Q. Jones, A. S.; AL
fred L. lockwood. c. w. s.; Herbert
Ellis, Q. NJ. c.; Capts. Oliver P.
Echols, A. c.; Edward s. Pegram, jr,,
c. E.; Emil II. Block, Q. NJ. c.; John
Biggar, @. NJ. G.: Jerry V. Matejka,
S. c.; Charles J. Morelle. @. NJ. C..
and Lieuts Leland c. Hurd, A. S., and
Cortlandt S. johnson, A. 5. The Navy
and Marine Corps officer members OF
this class are Comdr. Frederick
V. McNair of the Navy and Maj. Jeter
f. Horton, L. $. NJ. c.
Seventeen graduates of the 1926
class at the United States Military
Academy have been assigned to the
Army Air Service at Brooks Field,
NJ. Greasy, jr.; Alfred II. johnson.
Robert E. NJ. d. Islets, Samuel +.
Harris, jr.; Holger y. Toftoy, Edward
d. Raney, jr.; Shelton Z. Prudhomme,
BENJAMIN P. Heiser. Prentice K. Yeo-
mans, Charles W. Mcclellan. Henry
r. Baxter, John p. Woodbridge, Nor
ris f. Nelson. James B. Burwell, Mar
vim J. Mckinney and William b.
Hawthorne.
With the recommendations made
last week for the commissioning Of %
Army internes as first lieutenants in
the Medical Corps of the regular estab-
lishment, the acute shortage in the
commissioned personnel of that corps
was again prominently brought 10 The
attention of the military authorities.
The 60-odd vacancies which exist in
this branch will make 1t necessary to
curtail leaves due to the fact that the
officers will have to be sent to the
approaching Summer training camps.
The curtailment of an officers leave,
to which he is entitled, naturally
creates a spirit of discontentment, but
despite this situation the morale OF
the members of the medical depart
ment is of an exceedingly high degree.
Remedial measures. to stem the high
tide of designations and vacancies in
the corps have been under considera-
ton by the Surgeon General of the
Army for some time, as it is recog-
nized in the department that steps
must be taken to make a career in the
medical department more attractive,
especially to the young practitioner
in civil life. The attention of the
War Department was called just re-
Gently by Gen. Ireland not only to
the need of a numerical increase in
all the componentS of the medical de.
partment, but also to the wisdom OF
so readjusting the allowances of gen.
eral officers as to make the opportuni-
ties of an officer Of that department
for promotion to general officer grade
fairly commensurate to those enjoyed
by members of the single list branches.
In the event that a material Increase
- ~,k~ L. Of kt1nr nd q
the Surgeon General has
that three additional
brigadier generals be appointed, one
from the Medical Corps, one from the
Dental Corps and one from the Veter-
mary Corps, the first of which would
be placed in command Of the Medical
Field Service School at Carlisle Bar
racks, Pa, while the second and third
additional brigadier generals would
be assigned to duty as chiefs OF the
dental and Veterinary Corps respec-
lively, and appointed from their re-
spective branches. The two brigadier
generals from the Medical Corps now
would be retained in their
present assignments.
Being of the opinion that the tech
meal requirements of the medical de-
partment are just as extensive and eX.
branch. the Surgeon General has also
that at a favorable time
a reallocation of grades and ratings
for enlisted men of the medical de
partment, especially in the higher
categories, be made in order to estab-
lish a parity of opportunity for pro
motion between medical department
enlisted men and those of the other
technical branches.
The knock of feminine hands at the
doors of the Warrant officers Associa-
ton of the United States, which was
followed by the request that they be
admitted to full membership of this
brought to light that
there are two female warrant officers
on the active rolls of the regular es-
Establishment. For time CONSERVATION
reigned among the executive officers
of the association, as a close scrutiny
of the constitution and bylaws of the
did not describe war
rant officer as coming from the fairer
sex. There are few even in the serv-
ice who are aware Of the fact that
there are two women who, as the re-
sult of the passage of the act of April
81, 1926, which appointed all field
clerks as warrant officers, are now full
fledged warrant officers within the
meaning of the law.
The two fair warrant officers are
Mrs. Jean Doble. on duty at San Fran
cisco. Calf, and Miss Olive l.. Hos
kins. on duty at Omaha, Nebr.
The fifth annual convention of the
Warrant Officers Association Of the
United States will be held at Phila-
delphia July and 3.
Navy.