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partment will take in filling this ap
preaching vacancy.


preaching vacancy.
Plans are being perfected for the 1928
War College Military Carnival and Ex-
position. which will be held at Wash
ington Barracks october 4, 5 and 6. for
the benefit of the Army Relief Society
The affair last year was very successful
and the arrangements being made for
staging the 1928 military carnival indi-
cate that 1t will Surpass all previous
Army relief functions. The Army Re-
lief Society was organized after the
Spanish-American War by the wife of
the then Secretary of War. Mrs. Daniel
L. Lamont. to lend financial aid to
needy widows and orphans of officers
and enlisted men. The object of the
Society is threefold: First, to collect
funds and provide relief in case of
emergency for dependent widows and
orphans of officers and enlisted men of
the Regular Army; second. to aid in
securing employment for them. and
third. to solicit and create scholarships
and supervise educational opportunities
for such orphan children.
A number of changes have Just been
made among the commissioned person.
mel on duty in the Office of the chief of
Cavalry and the Office of the chief of
Coast Artillery In the Cavalry office,
Lieut.. COL Bruce Palmer, who has been
in charge of the personnel division of
that office, has been relieved by Lieut.
Col. William w. Gordon, who has been
the formers assistant. Col Palmer has
gone to Camp Holabird, Md, where he
will undergo-a course of instruction at
the Motor Transport School. The duties
performed by Lieut.. Col. Gordon as as
siStant in the personnel division will be
taken over by Maj. Roderick r. Allen,
who just recently graduated from the
Command and General Staff School,
Lieut.. Col. James j. OHara, Cavalry,
who has been on duty with the Cavalry
Board at Fort Riley, Kans, is a new
arrival in Washington and has reported
for duty In the material and equipment
section of the Cavalry office as the re-
lief of Maj. Henry w. Baird, who has
been assigned to Organized Reserve
duty at West Palm Beach. Fla. Col.
Roger S. Fitch, Cavalry, who has been
in charge of the training division of the
Cavalry Office, has been assigned to
command the 18th Cavalry at the Pre-
sidio of Monterey, Calf He will be
relieved by Maj. George S. Patton jr.,
Cavalry, who comes to Washington from
general staff duty at the headquarters
of the Hawaiian division. Schofield Bar
racks. Another new officer in the Cav
airy office Is Maj Oliver l.. HaineS, who
has been on duty with the 18th Cavalry
at the Preside of Monterey. He has
assumed the editorship of the Cavalry
Journal as the relief of Maj. Kenna G.
Eastman. Cavalry, who will take the
course of instruction at the Army War
College.
With the advancement of Col. Charles
E. Kilbourne, who has been on duty as
executive officer, Office of the chief of
Coast Artillery, to brigadier general on
August 30, and the subsequent issuance
Of orders directing him to assume COM
mand of the End Brigade at Madi-
son Barracks. N. Y. Lieut.. Col. Claudius
M. Seaman, who has been on duty with
the 7th Coast Artillery at Fort Hancock.
N. j.. was designated as executive off,
Ger OF the Coast Artillery office. Col.
Harry l.. Steele, Coast Artillery Corps.
who was student at the last War Col
lege course, has succeeded Col. James B.
Mitchell. Coast Artillery Corps, as head
OF the training division of the Coast Ar
tillery Office. Col. Mitchell has gone to
duty in the Panama Canal department.
Maj. CleSen H. Tenney. Coast Artillery
Corps, has assumed duty in the material
division of the Coast Artillery office,
succeeding Maj James F. Cottrell, Coast
Artillery Corps, who has been granted
permission to travel in Europe. On his
return to the United States. he will go
to duty with the 9Th Coast Artillery at
Fort Winfield Scott. Calf.
Navy.
Though the shortage in aviation per-
sonnet in the Navy has been the sub
Ject OF careful study in the Navy
Department, this shortage threatens to
become increasingly acute Last week
the Navy Department sent out an ur-
gent appeal for additional officers and
enlisted men for training at Pensacola,
Fla. Applicants from officers for this
training now in the Bureau of Naviga-
ton, it was pointed out in the depart
ment last week, are sufficient to pro-
vide only for the classes scheduled to
report in the near future, while appli-
cants from the enlisted personnel are
barely sufficient to meet the require
ments, and have decreased materially
in the last few months. OF the Naval
Academy class of 1925 there are $40
remaining in the line of the Navy. A
total of AZ officers have been ordered
to Pensacola Cor aviation training, and
i've applicants are awaiting orders to