Evening star., 1917-01-06
FIRST NAVY PROMOTIONS
UNDER SELECTNE PLAN
Eleven Captains to Be Rear Admirals
and Many Other Officers to Be
Advanced One Grade.

The first promotions in the navy un-
der the new selective system. just an
nounced by the Navy Department, in
cludes the names of eleven captains to
be rear admirals and more than a hun
dred officers Of lower rank to be ad-
vanced one grade.
Those chosen to become rear admi-
rails are Capts. Harry s. Knapp, Will
liam L. Rodgers. Harry Mel. P. Huse.
George W. McElroy, Robert s. Grimm.
Hood. William s. Sims. Hugh Rodman
and Henry B. Wilson. Among the
number are several who were far down
on the seniority list. and who would
eral years at least under the old sys-
tenn Of advancement by seniority.
Nominations at Once.
Nine Of the captains named to be
rear admirals will be nominated by the
President at once-Capts. Knapp. Rod
gers. Hood and Sims to I'LL existing
vacancies in the line. Capts. McElroy.
Griffin and Burd as extra engineering
officers. for that duty only. and Capts.
Huse and Oliver as additional extra
number officers in the grade.
OF the commanders, twenty-one, in
Guiding one extra-number officer. are
available for immediate promotion, and
OF the lieutenant commanders fifty
six can go up a step at once. Capts.
Rodman and Wilson will be nominated
to I'LL vacancies due to any cause in
the grade of rear admiral during the
coming year, and in the same way COM
manders and lieutenant commanders
for whom no vacancies now exist Will
be advanced.
The commanders named for captain
are Cleland N. Of1ey, Louis r. de Steig-
uer. William w. Phelps. Louis A. Kai-
ser. William c. Cole, John v. Chase.
Henry ]. Ziegemeier, George W. Will
T. Vogelgesang. Charles B. Mcvay. jr.:
John H. Dayton, Lucius A. Bostwick,
William A. Moffett, Julian L. Latimer.
De Witt Blamer. John K. Robson, Ar
thur l. Willard. Edwin T. PolIack.
Noble E. Irwin. Waldo Evans, Reginald
r. Belknap, Thomas J. Sem, Charles
F. Preston. Richard H. Leigh. Adelbert
Althouse and William D. Brotherton.
Promotions to Commanders.
Lieutenant commanders have been
designated for promotion to grade of
commanders as follows:
Earl P. Jessop, Arthur Crenshaw,
Anon Bronson, jr.; Harry I. Yarnell.
Harlan P. Perrill. David E. Theleen,
Arthur ]. Hepburn, Thomas c. Hart.
William H. Reynolds, Cyrus r. Miller,
Orin G. Murfin, Leonard r. Sargent,
Luther NJ. Overstreet, David F. Boyd,
Louis c. Richardson. Walton r. Sexton,
William D. Leahy. Andrew T. Graham,
Arthur St. c. Smith. Willis Mcdowell,
Austin Kautz, Charles T. Owens, Will
liam C.. Asserson, Clarence 8. Kempf,
John Halligan. jr.; William c. Watts,
Wilbur G. Briggs. Lyman A. Gotten,
Frank L. Pinney. Zeno E. Briggs. Will
liam T. Tarrant, Clarence A. Adele,
Thomas L. johnson, Yancey 8. Will
liams. Edward T. Constien, George +.
Pettengill, David c. Hanrahan. Charles
P. Nelson. Herbert G. Sparrow. Edward
B. Fenner. Victor A. Kimberly. Joseph
K. Taussig. Claude c. Bloch. Henry E.
Lackey. Edward C. Kalbfus. Clark H.
Woodward. William S. Miller, Cyrus w.
Cole. John w. Greenslade. Charles E.
Courtney. Adolphus E. Watson, Henry
L. Brinser. James H. Tomb, Frederick
J. Horne. Edgar B. Larimer, Alfred w.
Johnson. Walter NJ. Hunt. Chauncey
Shackford. Ralph e. Pope, Zachariah
H. Madison. Charles P. Snyder. Joseph
R. Defrees. Willis G. Mitchell, John j.
Hyland. Samuel w. Bryant. Edward S.
Jackson. Henry L. Wyman, julius F.
Hellweg, Sinclair Cannon. Robert Nor
ris. John d. Wainwright, George w,
Steele, jr.; tSafford H r. Doyle. Will
liam N. Jeffers, John W. Timmons,
Charles S. Freeman and Robert L.
Berry.