Army and Navy Gossip on Bickham Case and Hawaii Defenses
A lengthy Army War Board session reviews Maj Abraham Bickham in the quartermaster’s department with a report due to Secretary of War. Secretary Dickinson’s Honolulu remarks spur talk of expanded Hawaii garrisons, while training, rations, and equipment debates shape policy for the troops in the Philippines and the continental United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickinson
Honolulu
War Department
Hawaiian Islands
Army General Staff
Hawaii
Wutth Cavalry
Twentieth Infantry
Coast Artillery
Philippines
Ordnance Department
Army
General Staff
Secretary of War
Naval reforms and shipyardnelsony plans face funding limits
The article outlines proposed changes to midshipman appointments after 1913, debates over limiting annual ensign commissions, and the need to adjust the Naval Academy output. It also reports on oil fueled destroyer Roe trials, other oil-burning destroyers, Navy militia flags, dry dock progress at New York, Bremerton, and Pearl Harbor, and promotions within the Naval Medical School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Naval Academy
Naval Service
Roe
Newport News
Delaware
Purrows
Drayton
McCall
Mayrant
Paulding
Perkins
Sterrett
Terry
Trippe
Walke
Warington
Navy Department
Naval Militia
Commission
New York
Navy Yard
F. J. Harris
Navy
An&ward
George Bpearin
Spearin
Williams Engineering and Contracting Company
Wiliams Company
Bremerton
Wash
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Ant
Naval Medical School
P. A. Burges
William Seaman
Rb.x. Richardson
BH. A. Dunn Allan Stuart
Jacob Stepp
Tolfree
C Rogers
EK. H Watson
Vermont
Crosley
Bureau of Navigation
Washington, D. C
Row. Henderson
H. EB. Shoemaker
Naval Medical School Hospital
Washington
D.C
Derek
Boston
Mayo
H. L. Reach
Mas
G. K. Calhoun
Naval
Fiteh
Ume
Walt Oudere
Nygaard
E. Allen
T. Hurdle
G. B McHugh
A. D. Warwick
G Off
J Rea
Duty Navy Yard
Philadelphia
S A. Kenny
Pastemouth
Nhw
G. W. van Brunt
Nav, Academy
Annapolis
Davis
A.W. Carmichael
Herrison
Kan
Turner
F. G, Beisel
A. M. Ghaikon
Thomas
J. W. Rankin
A.M. Renn
Hoep Davia
W. F. Gresham
K. J
Be, Wilson
RS Young, Jr
A. T. Bidwell
D.C. Latzure
H.W. Buvnton
H. J. Knerr
R. W. Clark
J. R. Beardull
W.K. Kilpatrick
AH. Douglace
B. F. Cutts
R. King
E. J. Foy
MR. Pierce
H. Lottin
B. Norton
Yard
Anited
Wty Naval
Militia Pay and Preparations for Gettysburg Camp
District National Guard salaries for the first half of the year are approved as prep work continues at Center Market Armory for the annual encampment at Gettysburg. Navy officials announce submarine airlocks tests while officers and recruits undergo sanitary and training inspections ahead of mobilization and field exercises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Market
District National Guard
Ozark
Norfolk
Potomac
Long Island Sound
Washington
Gettysburg
Maryland
Virginia
Wotherspoon
United States Army
Adjutants General
States
Oliver
National Guard
War Department
Army Leaves of Absence and Duty Details
Army orders list multiple leaves and postings. Capt Hanson B Black of the Second Infantry receives ten days away with fall deferments noted. First Lieut Jacob Schick of the Tenth Infantry is listed for aid including August and September, along with Capt Jacob Coward and others in coast artillery. Capt Edward R Chrisman of the Sixteenth Infantry is detailed for duty with the Camp of Instruction for South Dakota Organized Militia at Water Town around July 21, with reporting instructions to the adjutant general of South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wotherspoon
Comptroller of the Treasury
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Adjutant General of
Gited
Gettysburg
Washington
Joan E. Brooks
Second Infantry
Richard D. Sims
Frank D. Lackland
James P. Greeley
Harry E. Burton
Center Market
Suly
Paul Schilke
Charles Ss. Bryant
Lyman C. Ward
Edwin Bergh
Charles H. A. Naecker
Clarke W. Teates
W. G. W. Butterly
G. Stars
Leander B. Herman
Coring
John Stewart
Joseph R. Meade
Aneral
William P. Hall
Army
Washington, D. C
Examinatien
Georges D. Guyer
Sixteenth Infantry
Fort William H. Seward
Alaska
William
Neely
Halsey B. Yates
Seventeenth Infantry
Jacob Schick
Tenth Infantry
John L. Shepard
Medical Corps
Fort Logan
Colo
San Francisco
Cal
Philippine Islands
St Mantia
Fhilippines Algiman
Walter ©. Howell
Medical Reserve Corps
Presidio
Honolulu
Hawaii Territory
Schofield Barracks
Department of California
Pierce A. Murphy
Fret Cavalry
Fort Myer
Adjutant General of the Army
William A. Phillips
Ordnance Department
H. J. du Pont
International Smokeless Powder and Chemical Company
Parlin
N. J
Quartermaster’s Department
Charles H. Lawson
Quartermaster General of
Fort Hamilton
Fort Wadsworth
Walter 2
Orin B. Mitcham
Heller Brothers Company
Dorest Till
Hanson B. Black
William B. Pence
Coast Artillery
Jacob 3. Coward
Coast Artillery Corps
Fteen Maya
George F. Moore
Edward R. Chrisman
South Dakota
Watertown
S. Dak
Lisgt
Brandy Ja Payaon
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Bric
Willam FB. Hall
Abraham 9. Bickham
Bickham
Maj
Charback, Reynolds
Sin. Carlik. Darnall
Livub
James P. Barney
Infantry Equipment Board
War Department Ois
Ag Fur Ag
Tropics
Muretus
Sparta
Wis
Miiitia
Aecular Army
Col
Hot Brown
Surouis
California
Cipt
Stopford
Nba
Wms
Atascadero
Manchuria
Japan
Llent
Col Ent
Wort Riley
Sixth Field Artillery Regiment
Teem
Junction City
Kans
Humboldt
Kansas City
Seventh Cavalry
Mounted Service School
Denver Country Club
Denver Eiders and Drivers’ Club
G. Sharpe
Signal Corys Laboratory
Signal Corps
Army School of the Line
Kang
James W. Mecandrew
Third Infantry
Edber T. Collins
Marold
Fiske
Twenty
Laurence Walstead
Palmer E. Pierce
Staff College
Coast Artillery School
Port Monroe
William R. Bettison
Claude J. Brigham
Edward Canfield, Jr
Jacob M. Coward
Francis TW. Lincoln
George A. Nugent
John @. Onnstad
Coast
Quartermaster's Department
Edwin P. Brewer
Amos B. Shattuck
Fourth Infantry
William I. Creary
Eighth Infantt
James Db. Tilford
Seealry
Albert C. Dalton
Twenty-ninth Infantry
Verling K. Hart
Vitteenth Infantry
Walter N. Whitman
First Cavalry
Kenneth P. Williams
Thirteenth Infantry
John J. Bond
Thirtieth Infantry
Medical Corps of
Howard Clarke
Gilman
Clemens W. Mc Molin
Henry C. Maddux
Daniel Francis Macuire
Shelly A. Marietta
Henry C. Michie
Raymond W. Mills
Leo C. Mudd
Eugene G. Northington
Arthur L. Pulver
John J. Reddy
Howard C. Register
M. Roberson
James L. Robinson
John H. Trinder
Joseph O. Walkup
Jay D. Whitham
Harry B. Wiliams
Doris S. Conner
Leonard S. Hughes
George B. Lake
James H. Wilson
Thorte
Army Medical School
Army Medical Corps
United States Navy
Navi Department
John J. Murray
West Virginia
Thomas P. Clark
Mississippi
Thomas P. Hayes
Nebraska
Willam B. Cothran
Ole P. Draker
Buffalo
England
British Admiralty
Holden A. Evans
Mare Island
Seattle
Seatte Naval
Thomas F. Rubin
Naval Administration
Evans
Meyer
Phelps
Department
Navy Yards
Division of Militia Affairs
Dubuque
Bluefields
Paul Jones
Ferry
Preble
Lawrence
San Diego
Iowa
Indiana
Massachusetts
Marseille
Wolverine
Detroit
Helena
Siakwan
New Orleans
Chetoo
Prince Albert
Erens’ Aking
Vienna
Berens
Berens’ Bakery
Eye N. W
Wyeth
Dr. Wyeth
Ath Street
7Th Street
N. W
Oper Rentit & P. m
Saltimore
Availadelphia
Lexington St. S. E. Cor. 8Th and
Market Sta
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