Evening star., 1929-11-03

Navy.
A compilation prepared by the bureau
| Of Navigation, of which Rear AuIlIIai
Richard n Leigh is chief, showing the
need for oficers of the Navy In the Iu-
| tire upon the completion OF the naval
conference in London, indicates tnaC
considerable increase In COMMISSIONER @
personnel will evidently be neeoeo over
! the present maximum auCnoEZeo
strength of 4eo. This increase Is ne
cessitated bv the existing building pro-
gram for cruisers, % now being author
! ized and a large number OF Whlcn VIII
| in Ali nrobability be completed, II not
the whole number authorized. This In
crease in officers is also necessary que
| tn the added commissioned personnel
that will be required by the Nays D.
year aviation expansion program.
Nv .ulv /, 1880, the calculation
shows ( e0o officers will be needed, in
creasins bv regular incrementS each
vear 1,Tetil the maximum is reached by
.IIIv 1o35. of $500 line officers. This
| 1o25 figure has been assumed to remain
consonant thereafter. although by that
time there may possibly be further Air
| Corns expansion. Under the present
| four-appointment basis for the Naval
| Academy the figure OF 5,49S ofncers was
reached in 1927 but was reduced in the
newt two wears and will be probably
reached again in 1880 and thereafter
maintained. with probably Small sur
nInc each wear of graduates, which cam
not he commissioned unless the number
~ ofScers authorized is increased. How
ever. il Congress authorizes the removal
| of the 5,499 maximum OF ohhcers
whether by increase of the percentage
above per cent Of the total authorized
enlisted strength Of the Navy, the full
| Academy being utilized each year, there
will be $500 officers in July, 1885, and
| S. 900 officers by 1910, 10 years hence:
In the event of the resumption OF
the Accompaniment basis at the Naval
Academy. its first effect would not be
felt for four years. That Is, If resumed
next year, it would not affect the num-
Der of officers until 1884. On TINS OASIS,
however, there would be $500 omcers
available in 1884, 5000 In 1888 ana an
average increase thereafter until the
q 400 needed would be attained in 1888.
The recommendations of the commit
toe appointed to consider ways ana
means of securing a sufficient number
of officer pilots for the Navy nave peen
approved it is understood, and II these
recommendation are placed into ef1ect,
1t is believed that enough ofncers Will
eventually be qualified as pilots 10 take
care of the gradually increasing num-
her of airplanes put into service IN ac-
cordance with the f1ve-year develop
ment program.
During the first six months OF 1880,
classes Of 60 members each will be as
sennbled at Pensacola, Fla, as felloWs:
January 2. Sc enlisted men OF the Navy
and 4 of the Marine Corps, while the
January 80 class will be composed Oh
81 Navy officers and 9 Marine orncers;
The February % class will be composed
of SIS enlisted men of the Navy and :
If the Marines, while the March %
class will consist of 81 Navy omcers
and officers of the Marine Corps.
THE April 25 class will be the same as
the February % class, while the June
80 class will be the same as the Marcn
one of the problems confronting the
Navy Department Is to get enough orl-
GERS to fill the classes 1t Is 1ntenoeo 70
assemble at Pensacola on January SU
March 20, May % and for the tnree
classes in the last six months OF 1880
Consideration is already being given to
| the cases of those officers that were re-
ported to be unsuitable for aviation
service during preliminary training at
the Naval Academy and at the air sta
tions at Hampton Roads, Va. and San
Diego. Calf, in the hope that some OF
them, who still wish to enter aviation
now may be able to qualify on prelimi-
nary. and a similar process is to be fol-
lowed with those that failed to qualify
after going through some training at
! Pensacola.
Army.
With the approach of three vacancies
in the Corps of Chaplains Of the Regu-
| lar Army, of which Col. Edmund P.
Easterbrook is chief, within the next
three months. all Of which will be
among chaplains of the Protestant
| faiths, it is highly probable that the
new appointments for these Protestant
vacancies will be given to those de-
nominations which are not represented
| in the Chaplain Corps at this time
The first of the three vacancies will
occur during this month, while the Sec
ond vacancy will be that of Col. Easter
! brook, chief of the corps, who will be
placed upon the retired list Of the
| Regular Army on account of reaching
the statutory retirement age limit of 81
years on December 81. 1929. The third
of January. Both the November and
January vacancies, it is understood, will
be created on account of these two
chaplains being retired on account OF
physical disability.
There is one vacancy among the
Roman Catholic chaplains, this de-
nomination being authorized 81 chap
lains. A total of 125 chaplains is
authorized for the military establish
ment. Among those denominations
| which are not now represented in the
Corps of Chaplains Of the Regular
Army and from which 1t is expected
the three new chaplains will be selected
are: United Brethren, Church Of God
Church of Christ. Scientist; Church oi
the Nazarene, Adventists. Latter-Day
Saints, Jewish Congregations, Friends
and Orthodox Churches.
Thirteen officers of the Regular Army
VINO were excepted from duty with
troops have been removed from the ex-
cepted list by the War Department
They are as follows: Majs. John A
Brooks, jr; Thomas A. Clark. Robert
Sears and Dwight K. Shurtleff, al
Ordnance officers: and Sewell M Cor.
bett. Francis M. Fits, Arthur p
Kitchens and Larry B. McAfee, al
Medical Department officers; and tht
following captains: Stewart H. Elliot
and Dale C. Hall, both Ordnance De-
partment; Joseph A. Mendelson anc
Frank p. Strome, both Medical Depart
ment, and First Lieut.. Thomas North
F. A.
During the 1880 calendar year II Of.
ficerS of the Regular Army and nine Of.