Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-09
Marine Corps Notes

Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, comman-
nant OF the Marine Corps, has announced
tnat owing to lack Of funds for trans-
portatlon, travel, expense and mile.
age, 1t is necessary to reduce exuense
py changes of station Of officers. due
Tor detachment under the heretofore
length OF foreign and sea duty tours
aenceIortn tours of duty on foreign
station VIII be as follows: Honolulu 40
months: Guam, "a months: Philinpines
"a months; Asiatic Station. excepf
Philippines, 80 months; Nicaragua. "a
months. but assignments to duty with
the Guardta d. Nicaragua win be for 3O
months; Coco Solo, Panama. 40
months; Virgin Islands, 80 months,
GUANTANAMO Naval Station, Cuba, so
months; Haiti, 80 months; GendarIneYie
a Haiti, four. years; United States
Fleet, "a months; United States Spe-
cial Service Squadron, "a months.
The Marine Corps Retiring Board
met wednesday to consider the case OF
First Lieut. John T. Thornton, who is
being examined for the purpose Of de-
termining whether he will be retained
on the active list or placed upon the
retired list Of commissioned officers
Brig. Gen. Dion Williams, who Is at
tacned TO corps headquarters, Is presi-
First Lieut.. Prentice A. ShieblSM at
tached to the local Marine Ba ks,
has been ordered to duty with t, A.
r1ne Detachment of the Cruiser~i siyer.
Capt. Prentice S. Geer, attached to
the recruit depot at Paris Island, s. c..
Is to be detached therefrom November
city.
Mai. Peter @. Geyer of Ouantico. has
been assigned to duty as naval attache
American legation, Tegucigalpa, Hon.
duras, and will leave for his new sta
ton at once.
First Lieut.. Floyd A. Stephenson
now serving in Nicaragua, has beer
ordered to duty at the Quantieo base.
Capt. George Bower, on field staff
duty as an assistant paymaster, has
been relieved from further staff duty
duty.
OF interest to many of residents of
Washington and vicinity, is the recent
Official decision Of the judge-advocate
general OF the Navy on the question of
computing time for retirement Of trans
feTred members of the Fleet Naval Re-
serve under the act of February %, 1925.
sections %, "a and ~ CA U. S. c., sec
ton 784, 785, 1881, as amended by act
OF March 2, 1929 CAS- Stat. 1476; "a
" ,. z. sup. III, section 1850, in which
it was held:
(a) Service in the Army shall b.
counted in computing time for retire
ment of transferred members of the
Fleet Naval Reserve
(b) Service in the Army during the
Spanish American War, and other servs
ice for which double time is allowed by
the War Department, shall be counted
as double time in computing time for
retirement OF transferred members of
the Fleet Naval Reserve
(c) Creditable service in the Coast
Guard and former Revenue Cutter serv-
ice shall be counted in computing tim,
for retirement of transferred member
of the Fleet Naval Reserve.
Records show that employees of hun
dreds OF establishments, where Nava
ReServists are employed will be affected
to the extent that such employees who are
transferred Naval ReserVists of 16 and
20 years active service and who come
within the scope Of this decision viii in
many instances be entitled 10 inarne-
date retirement instead Of having 70
wait for fiill combined 30 years.
O6hcials Of the Marine CWrw at
tached to tho legal Department. ere
studying this decision In 90 far q Il
pertains to that branch Of the naval
service. However, thus far no Ofaeial
announcements have been made 70 the
corps.