Evening star., 1927-10-02

retirement W sep
aration from the
service. The board
takes issue with Nal Gen. Nani,
the statement that
unless an officer is promoted 10 Gel
tain grade by the time he reaches
certain age or length of service he WI
lose interest in his profession. ana
an indication of the incorrectneSs o
such a conclusion the board points ou
that many of the most successful gen
eral officers of the Army served man.
wears in the company grades. zen
eral officers now on the active list O.
who have been retired had service a.
,iautenants as follows: Thirteen years
Gems. Bullard, McRae, Lewis ant
March; II years, Gen. Shank; ID years
Gen. Pershing: Is years, Gen. Read
IL wears, Gen. Bliss, and ~ years
Gen. Liggett. The following genera
officers had service as company offlcer'
as follows: Nineteen years, Gen. sum
merall. now chief of staff; 20 years
Cen. Shanks: q years, Gen. Hines; 2:
wears. Gems. McRae and Ely; % years
Gems. Bliss. Liggett. Lewis. McAndrev
and Harbord, and 2o years, Gen
Dickman.
Outstanding among the recommend
atoms made by this board were that
officers upon own application may bt
discharged or retired AS follows
Those of less than 10 years service
with compensation at $40 per month
for each month of commissioned SerV
ice; those of more than 10 years. who
apply for discharge, compensation al
$40 for each month of commissioned
service. and those Of more than II
wears and less than 20 years com
missioned service who apply for retire
ment to be retired from active ser.
vice with retired pay at the rate OF
21a per cent for each year of service
with which credited for pay purposes
The board also recommended a min
inoIJnn retirement pay Of so per cent
and a maximum of Is per cent OF
active pay at time Of retirement. and
saves to officers who were above "A
wears when appointed the right to
have retired pay computed at per
cent of active duty pay for each year
of commissioned service.
A survey of the recruiting situation
for the 1928 fiscal year indicates that
little difficulty will be experienced by
the War Department in maintaining
an average strength of 1890 men
exclusive of Philippine Scouts. Dur.
ing the month of August, 1927, a total
Of 8, 500 enlistments were made for the
Regular Army. which brought the en-
listed strength on August 81 to
115 900. This conforms almost exactly
to the War Departments recruiting
program for maintaining an average
enlisted strength of 118,150 for the
1928 fiscal year. chis program con
templates gradually increasing the
number of enlistments until a maxi
mum strength of 121 ,450 Is reached on
February 2S. 1925. from which high
strength it will recede to 1850 on
June so, 1928.
The following officers who have been
on duty in Washington, who were ex'
cepted in War Department special
orders from duty with troops. We're
removed last week from the excepted
list. They are: Lieut.. Col. Will L.
Pyles, Majs. Glenn I. Jones and John
3. Rose and Capts. Charles r. Muel.
Ter, Royal K. Stacey and Read Wip'
precht.
Upon the completion Of his tour of
duty in the Philippines, Maj. Frank
D. Francis will be assigned to Walter
Reed General Hospital, Army Medical
Center, in this city.
Navy.
The Navy Department now has un-
der consideration the designation of
an officer to relieve Rear Admiral
Henry H. Hough, commander Of the
YangtZe patrol, who has completed
two years of service af1oat. Rear Ad-
n1iral Arthur L. Willard, who has been
d,,fx, 1Ny,1 ~ 10 ss,f fhn w a h.
ington Navy Yard and superintendent
Of the Naval Gun Factory, assumed
yesterday the duties as Chief Of the
Bureau Of Ordnance, succeeding Rear
Admiral Claude c. Bloch, whose four.
year term as chief of that bureau in
the Navy Department expired that
same day. As, in accordance with
law, Admiral Bloch reverted to his
permanent rank Of captain, and upon
his arrival on the West Coast win as
sumo command of the California, re-
Eeving Capt. William II. STANDBY,
who will come to Washington for duty
In the Navy Department as director
OF feet training as the relief of Rear
Admiral Henry J. Ziegemeier. Comdr.
Allan S. Farquhar, who has been on
duty as executive officer of the
Raleigh, has been ordered to proceed
to Washington. where he viii relieve
during October Comdr. John T. G..
Stapler, who has been in charge Of
the information section of the Naval
will go to the Arkansas as executive
officer. Comdr. Mark L. Hersey, sir.,
who has been on duty at Northwestern
University, will come to duty at the
Washington Navy Yard, where he will
be assisne to command the Allen,
which vessel is attached to that yard
on Naval Reserve service
Nine lieutenants of the Navy com.
pleted yesterday October. II a two
year course in communication engi-
neering, and will be assigned to sea
duty as follows: II. w. Kitchen,
Texas; NJ. w. Arps, Florida; J. NJ.
Fernald. Mine Squadron ], control
force; r. f. Melting. California; p. r.
Kinney, Destroyer Squadron, 8: r. X.
Davis, Light Cruiser Division 8; s. +.
Patten. Pennsylvania; S. H. DeBaun,
Naval Air Station. Anacostia. d. c.,
and r. o. Myers, Destroyer Squadron
u. Capt. Frank II. Brumby, Comdr.
Edmund S. Root, Lieut.. Comdr Eu.
gene NJ. Woodson and Lieut.. Harold
b. Sallada became due for promotion
September II as a result of the death
of Rear Admiral Benjamin f Hutch
tnson.
The report of the joint board COM
posed of Rear Admiral L. II. Camp
bell. Judge Advocate General of the
Navy; Brig. Gen. Ben II. Fuller, l..
s. NJ. c., and Brig. Gen. Campbell
King. u. S. A. appointed for the pur-
pose Of investigating conditions exist.
ing in the three services with refer
o.
motion and attrition. though pointing
out that some Of the problems and
difficulties can we'll be adjusted by
joint legislation. admits that the ma
Jor problems are not susceptible to
such treatment. In touching upon
the method and rate of promotion,
probably the most important phase of
a military or naval officers life, the
board recommended that ID promotion