Aviation Training Reforms Include Theoretical Courses
The War Department circular outlines officer aviator certification requirements testing map reading compass aeroplane mechanics meteorology and related topics. San Diego aviation school will offer both practical flight operation and theoretical subjects under Brig. Gen. Scriven and Lieut Col. Reber, with experts from the Smithsonian and weather services contributing lectures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Army
Signal Corps Aviation School
San Diego
Cal
George P. Scriven
Samuel Reber
Signal Corps
Secretary of War
W. J Humphries
A. F Zahm
Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory
Smithsonian Institution
Warnings To Parents On Raw Milk And Cream
A health advisory warns parents that feeding raw milk and cream to children or invalids is risky. It stresses farm cleanliness, healthy workers, disease-free cows, pure water, and cooled mud, and urges pasteurization to prevent tuberculosis scarlet fever typhoid and other intestinal distress. It explains pasteurizing at 146 degrees F for 30 minutes preserves nutritive value and suggests home pasteurization after bottling.
Navy panel maps chaplains and personnel bills
Representative Padgett and the House naval committee will circulate written views from about 50 line and staff officers by December 15 on needed personnel legislation. The plan favors more commanders and lieutenant commanders and expanded chaplain programs with provisional three to four year service paths. Chaplains back a Daniels proposal for more chaplains and provisional appointments. Navy yards management and naval militia expansion are also among winter topics, with Col Waller and Col Dickins in line for Marine Corps leadership questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Military Committee
House
Representative Hay
War Department
Representative Fadgett
House Naval Committees
Padgett
Senate
Daniels
Newport News
Navy
Corps of Chaplains
Daniela
House Naval Committee
Congress
Philippine
Tropics
Navy Department
Navel
National Guard
Department
Naval Militia
Naval Reserve
William P. Bindle
Marine Corps
Littleton W. T. Waller
Marine Barracks
Mare Island
Cal
Col. Waller
Samar
Col Waller
Randolph Dickins
Wuld
Col Dicking
Lincoln Karmany
Col. Dickins
Washington
Frank L. Denny
Charles L. Mctanley
Col
Denny
George Richards
McCawley
Philadelphia
Cyrus 8. Radford
Corps
Richarda
New York City
Whi Yam C. Dawson
Taft
Charles H. Iauchheimer
Department of Justice
Cols. Denny
Lauchheimer
Secretary of the Navy
Navy yard management debate prompts civilian control proposals
A discussion among workers and officers at the Boston navy yard weighs civilian management of industrial yards to cut overhead and confusion from frequent staff changes. A proposed bipartisan board of senators, reps, and civilian experts may report to Congress in December 1914, while questions surface about moving Marine Corps staff officers from Washington duties.
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Mittes
Boston Navy Yard
Navy
Congress
National Parks Need Roads to Access Ruins
The Mesa Verde National Park superintendent asks for widened and repaired highways to improve access to cliff dwellings and ancient villages in Southwestern Colorado. The park spans a vast area but trails and roads are poor, hindered by steep canyons from 30 to 1000 feet deep, complicating development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Intéral Department
Mesa Verde National Park
Colorado
Failie
Texas Battleship Nears Commission at Christmas
The Navy Department reports the battleship Texas at 98 percent completion with acceptance trials finished and likely to be commissioned around Christmas. The New York follows at 2 percent behind, with destroyer Alwyn at 84 percent and submarine H 3 at 38 percent completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Navy Department
New York
Alwyn
Army Orders and Retirements Include Pendleton and Wallace
Army leaves of absence list Col Edwin P Pendleton Maj Evan M Johnson Jr Capt Laurence C Brown and others with varied days and months. Pendleton retired from active service as retiring board in San Francisco under Col Hamilton Wallace and other officers named. Movement of naval vessels includes arrivals at Alcatraz and key West.
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Armory
War Department
Springfield
Mass
Fort Stil
Oklo
School of Fire
Infantry
Ernest Winds
Fifth Field Artillery
Walter G Penfield
Ordnance Department
William R. Smedberg, Jr
Cavalry
Frank S Bowen
Austin M. Pardee
Twentieth Infantry
Arthur Murray
Western Department
San Francisco
Eighth Brigade
Murray
Edwin P. Pendleon
Evan M. Johnson, Jr
Laurence C. Brown
Coast Artillery Corps
Mark D. Weed
Meficial Corps
Josh Perez Brown
Philippine Scouts
Frederic ¢. Test
Twenty
Edwin FP. Pendleton
Army
Cal
Hamilton
Wallace
Quartermaster Corps
Georgh Boll, Jr
Sixteenth Infantry
Willliam
Kqndall
Medical Corps
Morphy and Perry Engage in Noted Sailor Contact
Fragmentary OCR lists names Quien FA MORPHY Att datanhed Perry and Bosign Bw. wore with detached Faul Josey FILL and Iria Peery Boston. Mentions Severn Tonopen evasion and serging ship at New York with N. Paym. Clerk H. P TICHONOR.
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Morphy
Perry
Wore
Also Mentioned on This Page
United States Army
John T. Thompson
Navnal Rifle Association
Charles D. Rhodes
Fifteenth Cavalry
General Staff
Fort Myer
George H. R. Gosman
Metteal
Orlando C. Troxel
Charles Burnett
Fourth Cavalry
United States
Tokyo
Japan
Philippines
Carl FP. Baldwin
Allan
F. McLean
Seventh Cavalry
Arthur H. Bryant
Franz J Feinter
Thirteenth Infantry
Robert C Cotton
Edwin P. Brewer
Scouta
Acouts
Lst
Egut
B. F. Cheatman
Letcher Hardeman
A. J. Mason
Hawaii
Oahu
National Guard Association
Florida
York
Ohio
Connecticut
Missouri
Foreign Service Las
Army Ordnance Proving Ground
Sandy Hook
N. J
J. H. Brown
Brown
Magnina
Ell D Hoyle
Second Field Artilery
Charles J Bailey
Hese
Military Committee
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery
Bris
William Crozier
Ordnance
Crosler
Crozier
White House
United States Navy
Navy Yards
Atlantic
Com
Mesa Verde Reservation
Prince Albert
Euclid PB. Frick
Wredericker
Day
Dennis FP. Quinlan
Clyde
Parker
Wazhth Infantry
Honolulu
Hawaii Territory
Leon 8. Roudieg
Firat Division
Olenard McLaughlin
Twenty-first Infantry
Organized Militia of
Oregon
Philip J. Lauaer
Eighth Infantry
G. Arthur Hadsele
Third Infantry
Maryland
Henry ¥. McFeely
Twelfth Ierestry
Harold B. Coburn
G. Arthur Hadsell
Tafaptry
Buffalo
Ipiter
Alcatran Island
Vestal
Key West
Bajled—Nereus
Norfolk
Cummings
Tom Norful
Chariesiem
Preston
Wom
Gore Jupiter
Tips Cal
NAVAL
W.F. Frederick Piano CO
Dahon VE
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