The Washington herald., 1918-04-28
NAME MEADE
/. MEN ELIGIBLE
FOR OFFICERS
List Shows Jack Bentley
and Representative John =
son Among Winners.

Announcement Of the names of
the graduates of the Third ofieers'
Training School. which concluded at
Camp Meade. Admiral. Md. April
10. when embryo officers were grad
uated without formal ceremony.
was made last night by the War
Department
Seventeen Washington men are
named in the list and seventy-four
residents Of Maryland, but none
from Virginia are given In the list
made public.
First Congressman
Frederick P. H! Siddons. son of
Associate Justice Siddons. OF the
District Supreme Court who form
erly was commissioner of the Dis
trict, whose home Is at 1914 Bilt-
more street northwest, Is listed as
one of the Washington men now
on the list awaiting commissions.
Although the men finished their
course OF training April 19 and were
given their certificates, no formal
ceremony took place and no list of
those who had graduated had been
made public previously.
Royal c. johnson. former Repre-
sentative in Congress from South
Dakota, the only member Of Congress
who has resigned to enter the army
as a private. was among those given
their certificates
Representative La Guardia, OF New
York, another member OF Congress,
now is flying in France. with COM
mission as first lieutenant in the
aviation section, and Representative
"Gussie' Gardiner. of Massachusetts,
the father OF preparedness" who
was the first member of Congress to
enter the army after the outbreak Of
war and who died from pneumonia
contracted while in training. are the
only other two members OF the legis-
lative branch of the government who
have entered the army.
Red sox Pitcher.
\ John y. Bentley. whose name Is
given in the list. is the former pitcher
for the Washington Baseball Club
and who was to have played with
the Boston Red SoN this year.
All of the graduates now have been
ordered to return to their respective
vacancy when they will be given COM
missions. 4 white stripe is worn by
them to designate their status.
The list follows:
District of Columbia.
Washington men who have COM
pleted the course of training ant
have graduated from the THIRD
series of OffiCers' Training Schools
and now are listed as eligible fol
appointment as second lleutenants
Tney will be commissioned at sucf
time as suitable vacancies occur.
Harry 5. BeaIl, Takoma Park
r. F. D. No 5. Infantry: Louis V
Beauve=ard, 1917 Thirty-third stree
northwest. Infantry; William C
Evans, jr., 1880 Fourteenth stree
northwest. Infantry; Frank Fillmore
4jIS Wisconsin avenue northwest
Infantry: John F. Hamaker, 1856.
PaTkwOod place, Artillery: Franci!
Harper. 31IO Twenty-fourth stree
northeast. Infantry; Alan s. Jones
1920 l. street northwest, Infantry
Samuel J. Leonard, $50 @ stree
northeast, Artillery: David Mackie
IT, 1912 Fourteenth street north
west. Infantry; Henry S. Matthews
jT-, 1871 Thirteth street northwest
ARTILLERY: Ralph S. Moore, Is Adam!
street northwest. Infantry; Waite
B. Posey. 1855 Goodhope road south
east. Artillery; Harold c. Schaeffer
1925 Riggs place northwest, Infan
try; Frederick P. II. Siddons, 1911
Biltmore street northwest. Artillery
Louis c. Slicer. 123 7 street north
west. Artillery; Ralph P. Ward, ~
quebec place northwest, Infantry
Robert W. Wilson. a. v stree
northwest. Artillery.