Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-31

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Hawaii. sle0, 900: Camp Devens. Mass.
Barracks. $500. 900; hospital, 500 900:
Camp Lewis. Wash. Barracks, $500 900.
hospital. 500 600: Camp Mcclellan. Ala.
Barracks. 100000: Camp Meade. Md.
Barracks. 100000: hospital. $50. 600:
Brooks Field, Tex. Barracks. 1854 00u:
officers quarters. 5000. 600: Kelly Field
tiers. 100000: Mitchell Field. N. Y,
Barracks. SO, 1000
Rockwell Field, Calf. Barracks. s24o.-
600: on-commissioned officers quarters
$4,000: officers quarters. $500, 600:
Scott Field. H. Barracks. SiO0. 900: Sell
fridge Field. Mich, Hospital. $50. 900,
Fort Benning. Ga, Barracks. $500 600:
Fort Bliss. Tex, non commissioned off,
GERS quarters. 100000: Fort Bragg
N. C., Barracks. $262,000 Fort Hum
phreys. Va. Barracks. $4,000: Fort
Jay. Governors Island. N. Y. Barracks.
$500 900; Fort Sam Houston, Tex, Bar
racks. 100000: West Point Military
Academy. officers quarters. $4,000 Al
brook Field. Panama. Barracks. $780,
600: officers quarters. 100000: non-
commissioned officers quarters, $l26. 900.
Caretakers Guard Forts.
All but eight OF the Notifications
guarding the coasts OF the United
States are In the hands OF caretakers,
IL was revealed in testimony made pub
lie simultaneously with It's report OF
the bill.
Maj. Gen. Andrew Hero. jr. chief
Of Coast Artillery, who attributed the
condition 10 reductions the Coast
Artillery had suffered along with other
branches of the Army and TO transfer
OF many OF his men 10 the Air Corps.
| said the caretaking attachments con-
| sisted Of from 20 10 "a men at each
| fort.
While they maneuver the guns and
installations once a week. or every
day" he said. the armament and
power plants do not receive that daily
attention and functioning at drill that
La necessary and that Is normally the
case In Panama and In Honolulu.
When a National Guard unit or
Reserve Officers Training Corps unit
come 10 shoot one Of these guns.
| usually something unforeseen happens,
| something that the caretakerg would
not In the normal course OF their
duties have forescen.
Efficiency Doubted.
80 am not quite sure about the
| real efficiency III those harb0r defenses
| In the hands Of caretakera,"
| Gen Hero said the garriSons mt the
| eight excepted stations were fairly rea-
sonabie" and that the system Of coast
| defenses generally WAS In a aatisfac-
| tory condition.
| Receipts from power developed at
| the Governments Muscle Shoals prop
critics have yielded between / and 20
ft1s tsssys 81 ant IA
| Edgar .JadWin, chief Of Army Eugi-
neers has estimated IN the House COM
miltee.
| The hearings before the committee
on the appropriation bill disclosed the
estimates, which were based upon the
various assumed investment, depfecia-
| ton and interest figures.
Only One Purchaser.
| The total gross revenue from power
| developed al Wilson Dam. which was
| the only plant entering the calculations.
| during The ~ years IL has been Oper~
/ atlng WAS flxed by Gen Jad"in at
| 81. 1913 ga
The Alabama Power Co. 6en, Jad-
| win said, Was the only concern buying
power from The plant,
In addition TO the Wilson Dam earn
! ings, Gen, .jadWin testified, the Govern
meni is receiving $4,000 a month
rental from the steam plant, operated
| by the same power company.
/ The department asked for an appr0~
Driati0n VI a215 900 for maintenance and
operating expenses. but It's engineers ex~
planned that They considered the plant
virtually completed and on All operating
bssis The total power plant invest
| ment at Muscle Shoals was flAed al
$40 900 900,