Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-01-03
SELECTION board
OF THE NAVY
Makes Its Report Temporary Pro
motion Recommended.
MADE PUBLIC RECENTLY
Brief Sketches Of Prominent Naval
Officers Ia The List
Published.

The report OF the Board of Rear
Admirals Of the Navy appointed to
recommend temporary promotions in
the grades above lieutenant com
mander was made public ON Decem-
Der "a, after having received the ap-
prevail of the President. Twelve cap
talns are named to be temporary rear
admirals, ffty-one commanders to be
temporary captains and one hundred
and twenty-three commanders TO be
temporary commanders Those named
for promotion in, the various grades
are:
To be ar-Admirals-T Thomas W
Kinkaid, William S. Smith. Spencer S.
Wood. Joseph l. Jayne, Charles "
Dyson. Clarence s. Williams. John d
Mcdonald, Hilary F. Jones, William
II. Shoemaker, Joseph Strauss, Ed
ward w Eberle, Robert e Coontz
To be Captain CLARK d. Stearns,
Robert X. Crank, Henry B. Price, Ste
phen Y. Graham, William p Scott.
Joseph M. Reeves. Roscoe G. Moody,
Frank Lyon, John Nice Luby, Hutch
/. Cone, Robert ". McNeely, George
r. Glen. Frank III Brumby, James p
Morton, George 1. p. Stone, Harris
Eaning, Franklin D. Harms, David "
Fodd. John " Klemann, Henry Y. But
Ter, Walter r. Gherardi, James J.
Raby. william IA STANDBY, Kenneth
NJ Bennett, Edward IL Watson,
Rufus u. Johnston, Thomas T. Craven
Daniel w Wurtsbaugh, Ralph Earle,
Gatewood s. Lincoln, Ivan G. Wetten-
gel, Charles NJ. Tozer. Wat 7. Culver
ius, Duncan NJ Wood, Leigh c. Pal
mer, Albert w. Marshall, Thomas A.
Kearney. Dudley w Knox, Edw. Nc
Cauley. Jr.. William l.. Littleaeld,
Earl 4. Jessop, Arthur Grenshaw,
Anon Bronson, Jr., Harry Z. Yarnell,
Arthur Macarthur, David e. Theleen,
Arthur J. Hepburn, Thomas G. Hart,
Cyrus r. Miller, Grin G. Murfn, Lu-
Their NJ 0yerstreet.
To be Commander Hilary VIII
Jams, Fletcher L. Schoffield, Louis
Shane, Henry c. Dinger, Walter G
Roper, Allen Buchanan, Richard D
! White, Hollis T. Winston, Frederick
r, Naile. Emil P. Svarz. Herbert O.
Cooke. William v Tomb. Bayard T
Bulmer, Robert T. Menner, Benjamin
c. Barthalow, Merlyn G. Cook, Wal
lace Bertholf, Lewis Coke, Frank Nc
Common. Theodore A. Kittengeg, Guy
Whitlock, Jesse B. Gay, Levin J. Wal
lace, James O. Richardson, James p.
Murdoch, David A. Weaver, Neil Ern-
est Nichols, Otto c. Bowling, Charles
". Early, Wilson Brown, Jr, Robert
Henderson, Edward c. S. Parker,
Joseph o. Fisher. William I. Conn,
Jr., John H. Blackburn, Frank 2.
Freyer, Carlos Bean, Roscoe Conklin
Davis, William d. Puleston, James D.
Wilson, John s. Arwine, Jr, Austin
s. Kibbee, Martin K. Metcalf, William
Amorum. John S. Abbott, Thomas n.
Taylor, Frank H. Sadler, Charles r.
Smith. Frederick v McNair, Jr., John
Rodgers, Charles Belknap, Jr., Dan
iel T. Client, john Grady, William d
Greetham, David Med. lie Breton, An
drew c. Pickens, Nathaniel II Wright,
Prentiss p. Bassett, Husband E. Kim
mel, Robert a. Dawes, Paul e. Damp
man. Clyde S Mcdowell, Paul p.
Blackburn, Charles c. Soule, Jr.,
Charles n Bullock, Lawrence P.
Treadwell, Halsey Powell, Forde A
Todd, Gloon w Mauldin, Chester L.
Hand, Aubrey x. Shoup, Abram
Claude, Nathan W. Post, William II.
Halsey, Jr., Roscoe r. Dflen, Allen B.
Reed, Christopher r. p Rodgers, 4
David W Bagley, Charles w. Dens-
more, David Lyons, Joseph F. Dan
iels, CASTOR De p. tombstone, Frank
Rorschach, Stephen Clegg Rowan,
Walter s. Anderson, Henry d. Cooke,
Samuel M Robinson, William w
Smyth, Ralston S. Holmes, Francis J.
Cleary, Fred II. Poteet, William
Giles. Ralph A Kock, Lamar r.
Ieahy, Milton S. Davis, Charles G.
Moses, Sam c. Boomis. Charles A
Blakely, Masgillivray Milne, Wilbur
r. Van Auken, Harold r. Stark, Wal
ter A. Snead, Arthur c. Kali. Clarence
E. Wood Max H. Frucht, Charles s
Joyce. Ormond l. Cox, Royal e. In
gersoIl, Herbert F. Leary, Chester W.
Nimitz, Reuben B. Coffey, Joseph v
Ogan, Albert T. Church, Logan
Cresap, John n Ferguson, Louis c.
Farley. Arthur G. Stott, William S.
McLintic, Byron McCandless, Roscoe
@ MacFall, Robert L. Irvine, Bruce L.
Canaga, Walter b. Woodson.
Following are brief sketches of the
officers announced by the Committee
on Public Information on December
"a as temporarily promoted that day
to the grade Of rear-admiral:
Thomas w Kinkaid is at present in
charge OF the Engineering Expert |
menting Station at Annapolis He is
a native Of Ohio, born February 27. |
1860, and was appointed from that /
State During HIS entire service in |
the navy he has been assigned to en-
cheering duty.
William Strother Smith is on duty /
in the Navy Department with the Ma
val Consulting Board, Of which Mr.. |
Thomas A. Edison is president He is
a native OF Virginia. born September |
is, 1857. and was appointed from that
State. He served for many years as
a member Of the Inspection Board,
and engineer officer at the Philadel-
phia Navy Yard.
Spencer S. Wood is in command Of
a battleship He was formerly a
of the General Board. He is
a native OF New York. born August z,
1861. and was appointed from that
State in 1878.