Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-08
IS NEW MAJORS AND
EIGHT CAPTAINS IN
THE OFFICIAL LISTS
Two Hundred and Twenty
Second LieutenantS Are
Given First Lieutenant'S
Places Wednesday

Places Wednesday
Promotions for over two hundred
reserve officers stationed at Camp
Gordon were announced Wednesday
at division headquarters.
Thirteen captains were promoted
to be majors. Eight first lieuten-
ants were made captains and two
hundred and twenty second lieuten-
ants were promoted to be first lieu
tenants. All of these are national
army officers.
The list of these promotions given
below will be read with intense in
terest, as it has been known for
some time that recommendation for
advancement had been sent to Wash
/ ington.
The order from the commanding
general to the adjutant general OF
| the army, which adds "a grade to
two hundred and forty-one of the
fortunate young officers at Camp
| Gordon, bears date of December
| 81, 1917.
Second Lieutenant Howard e.
Davis, of the Three Hundred and
Nineteenth Field Artillery, who was
| promoted to the rank of captain,
was the only officer in the entire list
to skip grade.
In giving out the list of promo
tions, division headquarters re-
quested that no names of units to
which the officers are assigned be
published. For this reason only the
names of the officers, their former
rank and the rank to which they
have been advanced will be found in
the list which follows.
To Be Majors
Captain David r. Hawkins.
Captain Frank W. Blalock.
Captain Walter b. Elcock.
Captain Richard Leroy Boyd
Captain Jesse Cleem Giles.
Captain Charles 5. Stuart.
Captain Benjamin II. Hardaway.
Captain u. s. Cole.
Captain James b. Spencer.
Captain Alfred NJ. Marshall.
Captain Edward c. Harris.
Captain Michel X. Screws.
Captain Albert L. Jensen.
To Be Captains
First Lieutenant steve +. Mitchell.
First Lieutenant Zeptha V. Greer.
First Lieutenant John r. Slater.
Second Lieutenant Howard z. Davis.
First Lieutenant Allen F. Montague.
First Lieutenant Clement G. Rine-
/ hart.
First Lieutenant Jacob r. Harvin.
First Lieutenant Hiles Hamilton.
To BE First Leutenants
Second Lieutenant Spencer Morrow.
Second Lieutenant William o. Win
ston.
Second Lieutenant J. 4. Mcfarland
Second Lieutenant Armstrong Cory.
Second Lieutenant James NJ. Heath.
Second Lieutenant Roller Nell Adams,
Second Lieutenant William f. Enne-
king.
/ Second Lieutenant S. B. Hawkins.
Second Lieutenant James w. Ander-
son.
Second Lieutenant Byron r. Patton.
Second Lieutenant Thomas B. Byrd.
/ Second Lieutenant Allen c. Garden.
Second Lieutenant Hugh Conner.
! Second Lieutenant Leon II. Brooks.
Second Lieutenant Charles S. Harri-
son.
second Lieutenant r. B. Holloman.
Second Lieutenant Walter A. Rich
ards.
Secondl Lieutenant Emory E. Ruffin
Second Lieutenant Roy A. Flynt.
Second Lieutenant Julius i. Bell.
Second Lieutenant W. r.. Pollard
/ Second Lieutenant Paul +. Collins
! Second Lieutenant r. S. Brown.
| Second Lieutenant Leslie c. Greene
Second Lieutenant George H. Cochran
Second Lieutenant a. l.. Lee.
| Second Lieutenant Justus L. Owens
! Second Lieutenant Harry A. Hoffner
Second Lieutenant Virgil l.. Powers.
/ Second Lieutenant Robert j. Cochran.
Second Lieutenant John q. Mason.
Second Lieutenant John w. Brown.
Second Lieutenant a. l.. Miller.
| Second Lieutenant L. Aldridge.
Second Lieutenant John A. Rollison.
| Second Lieutenant Benjamin II.
| Backus.
| Second Lieutenant +. L. May.
| Second Lieutenant Gordon d. Palmer.
second Lieutenant George T. Murrah.
Second Lieutenant George S. Gambler
| Second Lieutenant +. It. Peck.
| SECOND Lieutenant Arthur II. Fuller
Second Lieutenant Rupert Evans.
! Second Lieutenant Joseph A. Woods.
! Second Lieutenant Herbert l.. Will
liams.
| Second Lieutenant D. B. Erwin.
Second Lieutenant Edward L Leath
| Second Lieutenant Zachariah T. STAN
ley.
Second Lieutenant r. E Rainier.
Second Lieutenant Judson M Gardner.
Second Lieutenant ]. NJ Sanders.
Second Lieutenant Robert d. Duke
| second Lieutenant James f. hHnph-
| Second Lieutenant Walter Mcneil
Second Lieutenant John L. Westmore-
Land.
Second Lieutenant Ottey B. Mitchell
Second Lieutenant J. NJ Love.
Second Lieutenant Carl F. Chapman.
Second Lieutenant A. Sans.
Second Lieutenant John II. Parker.
| Second Lieutenant Leon L. Folsom.
Second Lieutenant H Ulmer
Second Lieutenant Louis Lester.
Second Lieutenant James M Douglass
Second Lieutenant Thomas B. Jones.
Second Lieutenant Charley w. Smith.
| Second Lieutenant Charley b. Jones.
Second Lieutenant Walter L. Near
thur.
! Second Lieutenant w. P. Anderson.
Second Lieutenant Joel Z. Hudson.
Second Lieutenant c. B. Merritt.
Second Lieutenant Guy T. Robinson.
Second Lieutenant Thomas E. Royal
Second Lieutenant A T. Powell.
Second Lieutenant c. G. Bettes, Jr.
Second Lieutenant Thomas c. Wylly.
Second Lieutenant Eugene W. Carter.
| Second Lieutenant Julian w. Tindall.
| Second Lieutenant Bertrand Cox.
Second Lieutenant J. H Thompson.
Second Lieutenant Hollis Lanier.
Second Lieutenant j. NJ. Burke.
Second Lieutenant Robert r. Forces