Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-12-29 | Page 14 | Navy Can't Find Place for All Annapolis Lads

NAVY CANT CAN'T fiND PlACE fOR All I ADS Some of Graduates Next June to Lack Lack Lack- Jobs Jobi Report By JOSEPH H H. H BAIRD BAIAD United Prees Staff Corr Correspondent WASHINGTON ASHINGTON r j- Secretary of or Na Navy Adams has reported l to President Pres Prees' ident Hoover it il will not be bo to commission all aU of tim the tho midshipmen mid mId- who who Irn graduate u te from om the the naval r academy next June He asked that tho pr proportion of or officers 01 core cers to to mon men be raised from 4 to G 6 per cent so as to provide the thc navy navy with sufficient officers and m make ke possible the commissioning of all an Annapolis graduates The Time secretary's annual report in which tho the recommendation was made surveyed conditions ons in Nicaragua Nic ic- ic aragua and China where U. U S. S marines ma nun- rines have bee been stationed for several soy sev eral years years' and reported t them em com cam quiet Summing up per Bonnel condition in iii the navy the thc report said Tho The morale of th the navy Is high the health of tho the p 1 excellent excellent excel excel- lent tho the condition of or re extremely satisfactory and the number num nurn- ber of or desertions comparatively small NAVY MORALE HIGH Commissioner lo officers in the navy at tho the end end- of the lat last tt fiscal c 11 year Juno June 30 30 1929 1920 numbered or one forty less lew than the maximum m allowed wed pu the tho 4 per cent ent ba basis ls Adams said ald Some OO arId additional v vacancies will be created during the coming coming- year he predicted Consequently with a a. graduating class of ot about and a a. total au authorized authorized au- au str strength of ot only officers oUI cers it will not be bo possible to com com- missIon all of th graduates lJ Of ot class of ot 1930 as e ensigns si ho lie said This situation narn namely b tho the on- on forced discharge of a a. portion graduating class will exist each cach unless the tho law lawIs year ear In iii tho the Is changed hanged in the tho meantime he he added I Adams Adams' also recommended d that senators arid and id r representatives pr bo bo ho aU al- towed lowed to 10 to appoint fIe ml midshipmen simultaneously rather than four our the present n number increase r could coula not nol b be hO made operative until the proportion o of officers officers' to men was uvas raised But it f in hi n necessary Adams said d to supply the tho navy Y with tho the In increased r officer personnel required re by ty the expanding aviation program and the Increased number of ot small ln tho the fleet The secretary also also recommended passage of or the following legislation 1 A law v authorizing increased enlisted strength 2 An act net to revise rc the tho Pay vay laws 3 Amendment of ot the thea act govern govern- Ing promotion and line lino officers 4 v 4 A law providing for th tit of ot stat staff officers ers ers' nn nned not ed cd for fOl- pr promotion ii t Present day laws Jaws sometimes sometime suit In giving Junior officers officers- compensation than their s 15 r. r Adams B said ld