Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-21

cases. such as res Rear Admiral LeiEh.
tgnatiOn, retirement on reaching the
statutory age of retirement (64 years.,
interchangeable retirement and volun-
tary retirement after 80 or 40 years
service, the leave will be granted only
on request of the officer concerned.
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, jr.. re-
Gently detached from command of the
Yangtze patrol, has been assigned to
duty as commandant Of the 9th Naval
District and Naval Training Station,
Great Lakes, Ill. Capt. Thomas n.
Kurtz will relinquiSh his duties as as
Sistant to the chief Of the Bureau OF
Navigation on June 10 and will pro-
coed to Camden, N. j., in connection
with the fitting out Of the U. s. g. Salt
Lake City. He will be placed in COM
mand of that cruiser when commits
stoned. Capt. Frank B. Freyer. Oh duty
at the Navy Department as assistant TO
the judge advocate general OF the Navy.
has been assigned to command the U.
S. S. Trenton as the relief Of Capt.
Stafford H. r. Doyle, who goes to duty
as captain of the yard at Portsmouth,
N. H. Comdr. George NJ. Courts, who
has been on duty in the naval INTEL
ligence Office at the Navy Department,
has been assigned to duty at New York
in connection with the fitting out Of
the u. S. S. Pensacola and to duty as
executive officer of that cruiser when
placed in commission. Lieut.. Comdr.
John H. Magruder, jr., on duty at the
Navy Department in the naval intelli-
gence Office, will relinquish these duties
on July / for duty as navigator OF the
u. S. S. New York. Lieut.. Comdr. AL
Ston r. Simpson, on duty at the Navy
Department as member OF the board
of inspection and survey, will command
VO squadron 5B of the aircraft squad
rons of the battle fleet, while Lieut..
Comdr. Donald B. Duncan, III command
of VO squadron Alb, aboard the u. s.
s. New Mexico, will come to duty IN
the Bureau of AeronauticS. Navy De-
partment, about June /. Orders have
been issued detaching Lieut.. Comdrs.
LYMAN K. SwenSon and Richard E.
Webb from duty in the naval intelli-
gence Office about June l, and Lieut..
Comdr. Simon P. Fullinwider from the
Bureau Of Ordnance about July Is.
No officer of the Navy will be as
signed to duty at the Naval Air Sta
ton, Pensacola, Fla, for training until
he has successfully completed the pre-
scribed examination as to his physical
fitness for such duty. This examination
must be completed during the six
months Immediately preceding the as
sembling of the class to which the Of
ficer is assigned. The classes to be as
sembled in the immediate future are
as follows: May %, limited to so Of
ficers; July Is, 70 officers; September
IL, 26 officers, and November z, so
officers.
Officers of the Marine Corps have
been selected for the next courses OF
instruction at the War College as fol-
lows: Naval War College-Col. John
c. Beaumont and Lieut.. Coils. Gerald
M Kincade and Walter N. Hill; Army
War College-Col. James NICE. Huey
and Lieut.. Coils. Jesse F.. Dyer and
Emile P. Moses.
The Summer practice cruise of the
midshipmen from the United States
Naval Academy will be made on three
battleShips of Battleship Division 2 OF
the Scouting Fleet, namely, the U. S.
S. Arkansas, U. S. 8. Utah and the
U. S. S. Florida, under the command
of Rear Admiral Harris Laning, United
States Navy. More than 900 midShlp-
men will make the cruise this sum-
mer, all being members of the first
and third classes at the Academy. The
practice squadron will sail from An
napolis on June 8 for Barcelona,
Spain, arriving June Is and remaining
at that port until July 3. The squad
ron will arrive at the foreign ports as
follows: Naples, italy. July S; Gibral-
ter, July IS; Weymouth. England, July
%: Hampton Roads, Va, August ID,
and arrives at Annapolis August 70.
Army.
The following officers of the Regular
Army will arrive in washington within
the next several months and will be
assigned to duty in the various War