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Show SECOND LOOTERS COIJTO 01 Army Heads Decide to Use More Lieutenants WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (By f. P. S.oond lleutenante. and doughboys' burden and th. Jokeamltha" joy. bar. coma Into th.lr owa at last. I'nol. Sam la throwing colonels, majors, ma-jors, and captains out of bis army ta mak. room for mora of them. Whan congress last month looked over" th. army's Hat of offlc.ra, preparatory pre-paratory ta. aaaftta sapmsilatroae- tar th.lr pay. It found that th.r. wer. lea. than a hundred scoad U.ut.n-ants U.ut.n-ants la th. army, while th.r. w.r. thousands of offlcsrs of th. higher grades. , Ho It decided that th. army could g.t along without a few of th. upper , grades, but needed more "ahav.tail.." It accordingly pared down th. authorised au-thorised numbers of colonels, majora captains, and first lieutenants and called on th. army to comm laaion mora aecoade, for a grand total of 12. officers for ths entire army. Th. war department ha. Ju.t appointed ap-pointed a "plucklnej board' of flv. generals ta go ovsr th. rcord. of , very officer in the army to ... who i shsll b. r.leased to msk. room for I th. required second ileut.nanta It I haa designated th. number of off I- oers la each grad. who must bs re-1 leased. Ths bosrd's selection must ! be made, snd ths officer, plca.d b. ! r.l.ased, before December IS. j In (he meantime, examinations srs being held st vsrlous points of ths country in the search for aecsnd lieutenants. lieu-tenants. Approximately l0e muat be found to bring their strength up to the number required by congreea When the proceee Is completed, tha tipper ranks reduced, and tha second "looles Inducted Into the set vice. Uncle flams' army of IIS. 000 men will be officered by one general, l! major generals. 4t brlgadler-generab 4 ' i generals, 4 brlgadler-gnerala 410 j msjors, tIM captains, tMT first lieu- tenants snd 17 71 second lteutensnts. all officers of ths line, snd 1477 officers offi-cers of sll ranks In othsr brsnches. such aa tha medical, dental and vet-i vet-i erlnary cor pa |