The Washington times., 1926-04-16

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will retire October Ii, and Comdr.
william Il. Maccoun will be ele-
waited to the grade of captain, en-
cheering, and Comdr. A. G.. Nor
man will receive permanent APP
pointment in his grade. Lieut..
Comdr. ]. /. Bryan will reach the
Temporary grade of commander,
engineering.
Capt. W. V. E. Jacobs will re-
tire October %. and Capt. Preston
H. Uberroth, October 96. Both are
| line officers Of the coast guard
The retirement of Captain Jacobs
viii advance Capt. Claude S. Coch-
ran, temporary rating. to the per-
manent rating of captain in the
line. and Comdr Benjamin NJ CHS.
well viii reach the temporary
grade of captain. /.
Comdr. J.. r. Hotel will reach
the permanent rating of com.
mander, and Lieut.. Comdr Claude
NJ. Gabbett will become a Temporary
commander. The retirement of
Captain Uberroth will advance
Comdr. A. L. Gamble to the tenn
porary grade of captain, and Capt.
John G. Berry will reach the per.
manent grade of captain. Comdr.
H. d. Kinkley will be made a
| Comdr. T. G. Crapster will advance
to the temporary rank of com.
mander.
Now that the Army has the roll
collar for the olive drab uniform
the officers are agitating for the
roll collar blouse for the white
uniform.
1t is reported from coast guard
| headquarters that there is short.
age of commissioned officers of
high rank in the coast guard serv-
| ice, that are available for manning
the four destroyers recently turned
over to the guard by the Navy
Department, and there is some
speculation as TO the rank of the
commanding officers for the SHAW
Davis Wilkes and Tucker -
the four destroyers in, question.
The usual policy OF coast guard
headquarters has been to assign an
officer of the grade of lieutenant
commander to command a destroyer
and the executive officer has usually
been Of the grade of lieutenant
and engineer officer a lieutnant com
mander or lieutenant.
At the present time there is a
heavy demand for officers Of the
engineering branch of the coast
guard service and officers from the
engineering branch of the grade of
| lieutenant. Junior grade. probably
will be assigned to the destroyers.
Now that the army sales stores,
of the "commissary" as they were
known, have been eliminated, "big
! business" is now concentrating on
the elimination of the Naval Uni
form Shop, which is located in
Brooklyn. This shop has been sup
plying uniforms to the officers of
the naval service, at a very good
saving.
Warrant Officer William Hayes
| has reported in Washington for
| duty in the office of the chief Of
chaplains. War Department Local
reserve officers will recall Warrant
| Officer Hayes from Camp Meade,
where he was on duty in the ad-
jutant's office during the summer
training camp days.
| Chaplain John T. Axton, chief of
Army chaplains, has sounded a
| warning TO the chaplains OF the
Army against unwarranted use of
military rank. He stated that chap
lains should remember they exer-
else no command. and that the rank
is given because it brings pay and
allowances.
InfoGnation has been received
from the commandaBt of the Four
teenth naval district that the new
| hangar at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
has been accepted, and placed in
commission. The VT squadron 10
has moved its planes into the
| hangar.
The War Department has issued
a revised schedule I'm the program OF
! instruction of National Guard and
reserve officers of the air service. at
the Langley Field air service tactical
school. The course will be four
months and will cover 3S3 hours OF
theoretical instruction and 1855 hours
Of practical work. The practical
work will include signal communica
tons. anti.aircraft defense, pho
Biography, armament and gunnery
navigation and meteorology, engin
leering, observation aviation. bonn
bardment aviation, attack AVIATION
pursuit aviation and combined AFT
tactics.