The Washington herald., 1918-01-21
Army and Navy News
Best Service Column In the City

Several marine gunners have been
recommended for appointment as sec
ond lieutenants in the Marine Corps.
The promotion board consists of Col.
Charles G. Long, Lieut.. Col. Charles
H. Lyman. Douglas c. McDougal, as
sistant adjutant and inspector and
major.
The following marine Gunners (tem-
porary) have been recommended for
appointment as second lieutenants
(pIOvisionaD in class four of the Ma
rine Corps Reserve in the order
named:
Eugene F. Bring. Brownie l. Byrd.
James NJ. Davis. Frederick u. Har-
baugh. Edward ]. Eechan. George
Nelson. Henry :. Hausmann. owen
Arbogast, Thomas J. McCarry. John J.
Darlington, George A. Plamback, Al
bert b. Sage. Frank Pilotte. jr., Ross
L. Iams, John d. Lockburner, Fran
els F.. Turin. Paul F. Howard, Horace
TIlbot, Harry b. Lamont. Gustat \.
Brodstrom, James Maguire. James
Diskin, Harry f. Leland, William a.
Fragner. David Kipness. Ludolf +,
Jensen. and Charles d. Baylis. It also
is recommended that the following
noncommissioned officers be commiS
stoned in the same grade and class
in the order named: First Sergeants
Wyle J. Moore. George Occhionero and
William A. Buckley. Sergeant Major
Thomas ]. Kilcourse. First Sergeants
Harry NJ. Shepard and George w.
SheareT. Gunnery Sergeant Willie
Shouse, First Sergeants Harold W
Whitney and Earl w. Garvin. GtInnery
Sergeant Joseph A. Synnott. First Ser
Thomas 7 Hewitt A1fr1d I
cault. Richard Livingston and Bernard
]. Doherty. Sergeant Edwin DENLY
and Corporal Walter E. Atkinson. Ma
rine Corps Reserve. 1t is further rec
commended that Sergeant Brady l..
VOgt. fleet Marine Corps Reserve. BE-
promoted TO second lieutenant in that
reserve.
There now are 1000 qualified candi-
dates for appointment as provisional
second lieutenants in the regular
army. In addition to the 1900 qualified
candidates who will be appointed is
a large number of enlisted men at
vacancies occur there probably will be
training camps who will be recon-
mended for commissions in this grade
The fourth series of training camps
for officers probably will not open
until spring. The series of the train
ing camps will be largely confined
to the training of enlisted men of he
regular and national army and only a
very few, IL any civilians, will be ad-
mitted.
Appointment of six privates in the
aviation section of the Signal Corps as
SpPnnd liamfano nj nd af
majors in the aviation section as mill
tary aviators are announced by the
War Department.
Majs. Harold E. Hartney, Lawrence
C. Angstrom. and Cedric A. Bourne
were named in orders as being rated
junior military aviators.
Six privates of the Signal Enlisted
Reserve Corps were appointed second
lieutenants in the aviation section.
Signal Officers Reserve Corps. They
are Alvin c. Godale. Howard ]. Meyer.
Joseph H. Nathan, jr.. John c. Sher-
rick. Presley B. Shuss and Leo A.
Smith. All were placed on active duty
and ordered to report in person to
the commanding officer. aviation
depot. Garden City, Long Island. n. Y.
for assignment to duty.
Capt. Robert Hewlett and Second
Lieut.. Herman G. Grueger, of the
aviation section of the Signal Reserve
Corps, have been placed on active
duty and ordered to report here. They
will report to the chief signal officer
OF the army for assignment to duty.
First. Lieuts. Matson G. PenfieId,
Harold c. Lasker, John J. Devaney,
Thomas w. Connette, Marcus X.
Bryan, and George A. Fuller and
Second Lieuts. Leon w. Miller, Robert
F. Ives, Russell r. Goes, George d.
Gutenberg, Guy H. Bloom, Russell
Allen and Clyde T. Donlin, Ordnance
Reserve corps. have all been assigned
to active duty. They have been or
dered to take station in Washington.
reporting to the chief of ordnance.
Capts. Freeman Smith, Paul A. Ray
mond, Lawrence c. Dehn, Homer A.
Plunkard and william Shakespeare,
Ordnance Reserve Corps, have been
assigned to active duty and ordered to
report here to the chief of ordnance.
James w. Thorne has been appoint
cd major in the Ordnance Reserve
Corps. He has been ordered TO Camp
Meade for assignment to duty by the
comma nding general.