The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-09
live WIRES" Are
NAMED To LEAD
ARMY COMMANDS
Wilson Appoints Three Ma
jors and Eighteen Briga-
der Generals.

Washington, June 9-In nominating
three new Major Generals and Is
Brigadier-G President Wilson
disregarded strict seniority yesterday
and went down into the list for Give
wires for the greater army.
In addition to the army promotions
more than 200 officers of the navy
were advanced to higher grades,
among them Capt. Hugh Rodman,
who becomes a Rear Admiral
President Wilson nominated these
Brigadier-Generals to be Major-Gen
erals: John F. Morrison, William l..
Sibert and Charles G. Morton.
The 18 Colonies promoted to be
Brigadiers are Edwin F. Glenn, John
Biddle, Henry c. Hodges, Jr., Adelbert
Cronkhite, William H. Sage, Omar
Bundy, Richard M. Blatchford, Da-
vid G. Shanks, Robert L. IBullard,
Augustus E. Blocksom, George L.
Bartlett, Joseph T. Dickman, Henry T.
Allen, Chase w. Kennedy, Harry G.
Hale, Samuel D. Sturgis, William M.
Wright and Peyton C. March.
Examination of the army register
shows that a process of selection was
applied in the selection of new gen.
eral officers. Nine of the present
brigadiers were passed over to Sc
cure the promotion Of three new ma
jor generals. Gen. Morrison, first on
the promotion list, stands No. 8
among the ibrigadiers. Gen. Sibert,
second to be named, was No. IL among
the brigadiers, and Gen. Morton No.
10.
The lists show that ten infantry
Colonies, four cavalry, two coast ar
tillefy. one field artillery and one En-
i <ri, CoJN T.,
the order named the iafantrymen
stood numbers four, five, II, 20, "A
| 26 28, 81 33 and 81 in the list Of "a
infantry Colonels.
The cavalrymen stood respectively
numbers six, seven, IT, and % among
| the cavalry Colonies, the coast artil-
lerymen numbers five and seven, in
| the list of 26 Colonies of that arm
| and the field artillerymen, Col. March
| was number eight in Ia Colonies, an6
| Col Bidd1e, former superintendent Of
West Point, ranked third among En-
! gineer Colonies.
Brig. Gen. Sibert was born in Ala.
bama on October IL, 1860. At the
age of 20 he entered West Point, being
| graduated four years later. He wa.
| graduated from the school of applica
| ton in 1887. He attained the ranl
| of a Brigadier in March, 1915. Hi
most notable work was the construc
ton of the Gatun locks for the Pana
ma Canal. He engaged In other i'm
| portant engineering work, and was II
1 China during the time of the grea
floods working in conjunction with tn,
American Red Gross.
| The promotion Of Gen. Morton
comes only a year after his elevation
| to the rank of a. Brigadier. He wa
born in Maine Sc years ago, and hi
most recent service has been in E
Paso, on the Mexican border
Throughout the Spanish -America1
| war, he served as a. Lieutenant Col
onel He entered West Point on Jul,
1, 1879.
Brig. -Gen. Morrison is a native New
Yorker, having been born in Char
| lottesville, N. z, on December rs
1857. He entered military service
at the age of. 20 and his prom otion
came rapidly@ On August Is, 1907
! he became member of the Genera
Staff of the United States Army an,
I after acting in that capacity for fou
| years he returned to active service. Il
| turn he commanded the Twenty first
the Sixth and the Fifteenth Infantr,
| regiments He has seen service il
i Cuba, the Philippines, and was mill
tary attache with the Japanese arm,
during the Russo-Japanese war il
/ 1904. He later was seniof instruc
i tor at the Army War College.