Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
Army and N avy

will attend the next class at the
Naval War College. Orders have
been issued to Comdr. Ross S. Culp,
who has been on duty on the
Chewink at New London. Conn, de-
faching him from this duty and as
signing him to Asiatic station. 1t is
contemplated by the Navy Depart
ment to assign Comdr. John r.
Shafroth. who Is now undergoing a
course of instruction at the Army
War College as an instructor at the
Army War College for the coming
school year. Two commanders of
the Supply Corps of the Navy have
been ordered transferred from duty
at the Washington Navy Yard.
They are John II. Knapp. who
will go to. the Colorado for duty. and
Charles G. Copp. whose new duties
will be aboard the Maryland. Comdr.
Duette w. Rose. Supply Corps. who
has been OH duty on the Colorado,
has been ordered TO duty at the
Washington Navy Yard. Lieut..
Comdr. T.. c. Edwards, Supply Corps.
goes from the Washington yard to
the Tennessee as supply officer. while
Comdr. Captain elect) J. +. Kutz,
Supply Corps. will shortly leave the
California for duty at the Puget
SOUND Navy 1arQ.
Army.
Lieut. Col. George NJ. Holley, Ad-
Sutant Generals Department, now on
duty at 9th Corps Area headquarters.
will be relieved Of this duty, and is
assigned to duty with the War De-
partment general staff, effective July
1. sailing from San Francisco for the
vsr1x
rival in New York will proceed to
this city for duty. Upon the compile.
ton of his present course OF inStruc-
ton at the Army Industrial College,
this city. Maj. w. Lee Hart. NJ c.,
will go to Chicago for duty at 9th
Corps Area headquarters. Lieut.. Col.
Lorenzo ID. Gasser, now assigned to
duty with the 10th Infantry. Fort
Thomas. Ky, will he relieved Of this
duty on June 80, 1927. and has been
assigned to duty in the office of the
chief of Infantry. this city. Stimuli
taneously with the order of Col
Gasser, War Department special or
ders announced the relief of Lieut.
Col. Richard Wetherill, general staff
Infantry, from his duties in the gen
eral staff, effective June 80. 1927.
and his assignment to the 10th In
fantry at Fort Thomas, Ky. These
two officers evidently are relieving
each other of their present respective
duties. Capt. Curtis ID. Away, In
fantry. who has been assigned to the
5th Infantry at Fort Williams, Me-,
has been relieved of this duty by the
War Department and assigned to duty
as commandant of the Army Music
School, Washington, d. c., effective
May /, 1927. He will relieve Capt.
Raymond G. Sherman, Infantry. the
present commandant of the school,
who has been ordered to undergo the
1929 company officers course at the
Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga,
the instruction in which will begin
September 6, 1927.
Advocates of the Army blue uni.
form were elated last week, when it
was authoritatively learned that this
subject was again up for discussion
in the War Department. and IL the
views expressed by Regular. Army of
ficers on duty in Washington il any
criterion, the adoption of the Army
blue dress uniform, these advocates
point out, will be favored by the serv.
ice at large. During the latter part of
1917 the War Department suspended
the regulations governing the wearing
of the full dress uniform. About a
year and a half later or, to be exact.
on July 8, 1919, the department re-
scinded altogether the regulations gov
erning the wearing of the blue dress
under general order No. Sc. Chang
ing the regulations so that the wear
ing of >the blue dress. would !. be in
vogue has been up before the War
Department on numerous occasions
since general order No. Sc was issued,
but up ito this time nothing. has ever
developed as a result of these discus
sions.
1t is being contemplated by the War