The Washington herald., 1918-01-25
Army and Navy News
Best service Column IN tie cit,

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I Five commissions in the national /,
army. one as q major. were given J
to District residents yesterday. the
War Department announced. Irwin |
s. Osborn. Of the United States Food
Administration. was appointed ma
jor in the Quartermaster Corps OF
the national army. The four other
District residents who received
commissions. with their rank, fol-
How:
Robert N. wane. s2as Hiatt place
northwest. and Raymond H Jack
son. of the Ford Motor Company.
first lieutenants, Quartermsster
Corps; John w. Briggs. 1871 / street
northwest, second lieutenant. Quar-
termaster Corps. and Edward Will
son wardin. 129 Interior Building.
ifrst lieutenant Sanitary Corps.
Col. Ralph T. Ward. United
States Corps of Engineers. who will
go to France in command of the
lTbirty-seventh Engineers, IL now m
command at Fort Bfyer. Va Col.
Ward is the senior ofiicer stationed
at the fort and will remain in COM
imsnd pending selection of a success
sor to Col. Charles w. Fenton. cav
airy, who died recently. Organizs-
tion of the Thirty-seyenth Engi-
neers is the special duty to which
ICol. Ward has been assigned. The
regiment will be composed almost
entirely Of electrical engineers and
mechanics. It Is known as the
"electro-mechanic regiment" Col.
Ward is a graduate OF the Military
Academy.
Three National Guard officers were
discharged from the service and the
resignation of a fourth accepted by
the President. Il was announced yes
terday by the War Department.
Mai. Joshua F. Bullitt, Hath Infantry,
United States National Guard (vtr-
ginis). has been honorably discharged,
as have Col. Albert W. Davis. Of the
Ohio National Guard. and Col.
Charles Z. Morrison, OF the 10th In
fantry. United states National Guard
Cwest Virginia.) The resignation OF
Col. Gordon Strong, 124th Field Artil-
lery, United States National Guard
QIlinois), has been accepted.
Disability incurred in the line Of
duty caused the retirement OF Maj.
William A. Duncan, OF the Medical
Corps, II was announced by the War
Department yesterday. Mai. Duncan
has been stationed recently at the
Walter Reed General Hospital. With
his transfer to the retired list he was
advanced in rank TO lieutenant col
onel.
Lieut. Col Herman w. Schulz, on
duty in the office of the chief OF ord
nance. has been detached from that
duty and ordered TO the proving
ground at Aberdeen. Nd. Col. Schulz
relieves Mai. Richard ii. Somers. OF
the Ordnance Department.
Charles Atwood Kofoid. Of Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley. Cal. has
been commissioned a major in the San
itarl Corps OF the national army.
Frank COTE Phipps Barnes has been
made a captain in the aviation section
of the Signal Officers' Reserve Corps
and assigned to duty in the equipment
division Of the finance department.
5 Edwin P. Crais and Daniel Crawford.
t first class privates in the Enlisted Re
= serve Corps, have been commissioned
Z first lieutenants in the aviation sec
s ton, Signal OficerS Reserve Corps,
= and the following first class pr1vates
made second Neutenants in the same
' corps: Auguste f. Boudreaux. Henry
= 1. Brownback, Rush F. Grouse. Harry
/ L. Hind, Roy l. Johnson, Arthur NJ
$ Culrepper. Joseph Stickney kimball.
= Willard 6. Putnam, Justin P. Quirk'
Harold Rosenheld. Leo c. Shippey,
r FLOYD C. Slentz. Floyd A Taylor,
, Norman H. Wright, Clarence n. Wal
! ker. They are placed on active duty
! and will report to the commanding Of
: hcer. Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas,
/ for duty.
1 Capts John G. L. Cunningham,
. Wade II. Adams and John P. Davies,
= Ordnance Reserve Corps. have been
= placed on active duty and ordered to
= report to the chief of ordnance here
L for assignment to duty.
, Mai. Eugene 1. Swift. L. s. A, re-
, tired, has been assigned TO active
: duty by order of the President and
ordered to Fort Mcdowell, Cal, for
5 duty. Mai. Swift was born in Penn
1 sylvania June q. 1868. He was made
4 assistant surgeon in the army in Au-
? gust. 1857. He served in the regular
: army UP to the Spanish-American
war. when he served with the volun-
/ teer forces, reaching the rank OF
, major. He was discharged from the
[ volunteer forces in June, 1901. In De-
e cember Of that year he was retired
: from the regular army with the rank
Of major. He was made captain ana
:. ,sistant surgeon in the regular army
5 in August, 1892. and major in the reg
ular army in May, 1901.
i The discharge from the service OF
, the United States of Mai. Etienne de
ZIP. Bujac, Hath Machine Gun Bat
TALON, National Guard Of the United
States, CNew Mexico) was announced
: yesterday. His retirement dates from
January H.
Mai. Luther r. Hare. L. s. A. re-
tired, has been designated professor
of military science and tactics at the
University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
Mai. Hare was born in Indiana Au-
gust "a, 1881. He was appointed TO the
military academy at West Point from
Texas in September. 1870. Graduating
in June, 1874, he was appointed sec
ond lieutenant and assigned to the
Seventh Cavalry. Two years later he
was made first lieutenant and In 1880
was promoted to captain. When the
Snanish American war broke out he
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