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Show J MANY LIEUTENANTS GET APPOINTMENTS ! WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. Two hundred an.l forty-one second lieutenants appointed ap-pointed to the regular army from civil life were ordered to service schools today to-day for training before joining their commands. com-mands. Officers assigned to the cavalry, field artillery and infantry will report to the school a t Fort Leavenworth January 3 and those for the coast artillery go to the school at Fortress' Monroe, Ya., on the 3 s;i me date. It is the first assignment of officers from civil life since the na-i na-i tiuna defense act which authorized their appointment was passed. There still remain re-main more than a thousand vacancies. |