4 2. In view of this provision of law, all plans for pipe or cable lines to be laid in navigable waters of the United States, under the direction of any agency of the War Department, will be submitted to The Adjutant General of the Army in order that the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and approval of the Secretary of War may be secured prior to the commencement of the work. [2325189, A. G. O.] III__Paragraph I, General Orders, No. 177, War Department, 1906, as supplemented by Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 93, War Department, 1907, and Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 5, War Department, 1914, is hereby rescinded in so far as it refers to the War Department Telegraph Code, 1906. The War Department Telegraph Code, 1915, will replace the War Department Telegraph Code, 1906, for official telegraphic code messages sent on and after December 1, 1915. Receipt of the War Department Telegraph Code, 1915, will be acknowledged directly to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army and no further accounting for the code will be required until it is transferred, when the officer making such transfer will forward his receipt for the code to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army. All copies of the War Department Telegraph Code, 1906, together with appendices, will be returned to The Adjutant General of the Army. [2323779, A. G. O.] IV-So much of Paragraph II, General Orders, No. 40, War Department, 1915, as relates to the zone of equal temperature for Guatemala City, Guatemala, for the year round, is amended so as to place that city in zone 12 instead of zone 13. [2164376 F-A. G. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: PEYTON C. MARCH, H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, October 20, 1915. By direction of the President, the following assignments of general officers are ordered: Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, United States Army, will proceed to Houston, Tex., for temporary duty until such time as will enable him to comply with this order and will proceed at the proper time to San Francisco, Cal., and assume command of the Western Department and the 3d Division on December 5, 1915. Brig. Gen. John P. Wisser, United States Army, will proceed at the proper time to Honolulu, Hawaii, and assume command of the Hawaiian Department on November 20, 1915. Brig. Gen. Frederick S. Strong, United States Army, will proceed at the proper time to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and assume command of the 1st Hawaiian Brigade on November 20, 1915, relieving Brig. Gen. John P. Wisser, United States Army. The travel directed is necessary in the military service. [2333320, A. G. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL: H. P. MCCAIN, The Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, October 27, 1915. Before a general court-martial which convened at Texas City, Tex., on September 6, 1915, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 208, 2d Division, September 1, 1915, and of which Lieut. Col. CLARENCE E. DENTLER, 23d Infantry, was president, and First Lieut. ROBERT W. ADAMS, 7th Infantry, judge advocate, was arraigned and tried First Lieut. Clifford T. Sappington, Medical Reserve Corps. CHARGE I.-"Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in violation of the 61st Article of War." Specification.-"In that 1st Lieutenant Clifford T. Sappington, an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. Army, on active duty in the military service of the United States since prior to August 1, 1915, by order of the Secretary of War, did become drunk at a time when he knew that his services as a medical officer were urgently needed, and did exhibit himself in uniform in a grossly drunken condition to enlisted men of the Army and civilians in the hallways and other public parts of a hotel. This at Texas City, Texas, at or about 1:00 a. m. on the 17th day of August, 1915." CHARGE II.-"Drunkenness on duty, in violation of the 38th Article of War." Specification.-"In that First Lieutenant Clifford T. Sappington, an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. Army, on active duty in the military service of the United States since prior to August 1, 1915, by order of the Secretary of War, was found drunk in camp while on duty as a medical officer of the Cantonment Hospital, Texas City, Texas. This at Texas City, Texas, at or about 12:30 p. m., on the 23d day of August, 1915." To which charges and specifications the accused pleaded as follows: Of the Specification, 1st Charge, and of the 1st Charge, "Not Guilty." Of the Specification, 2d Charge, and of the 2d Charge, "Not Guilty." FINDINGS. Of the Specification, 1st Charge, "Guilty," except the word 'grossly', of the excepted word "Not Guilty". Of the 1st Charge, "Not Guilty of conduct unbecoming an 2 officer and a gentleman in violation of the 61st Article of War', but 'Guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in violation of the 62d Article of War' ". Of the Specification, 2d Charge, “Guilty”. Of the 2d Charge, "Guilty". SENTENCE. "To be dismissed the service of the United States". The court having been reconvened on September 15, 1915, by order of the commanding general, 2d Division, to reconsider its finding of the specification under Charge I as to the allegation "at a time when he knew that his services as a medical officer were urgently needed", revoked its former finding of the specification, 1st Charge, and substituted the following finding of that specification therefor: "Guilty', except the words 'grossly' and 'at a time when he knew that his services as a medical officer were urgently needed', and of the excepted words, 'Not Guilty'." The sentence having been approved by the convening authority and the record of trial forwarded under the 106th Article of War for the action of the President, the following are his orders thereon: THE WHITE HOUSE, In the foregoing case of First Lieutenant Clifford T. Sappington, Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army, on active duty in the military service of the United States, the sentence is hereby confirmed. WOODROW WILSON. First Lieut. Clifford T. Sappington, Medical Reserve Corps, ceases to be an officer of the Army from October 25, 1915. [2328406, A. G. O.] BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: H. L. SCOTT, Major General, Chief of Staff. H. P. MCCAIN, The Adjutant General. |