Omaha daily bee., 1920-08-21
Sc. ~ '.anch Of Military Ali
viii ave Headquarters at
Omaha Fortress With Major
General Bundy in Command.
WILL BE HEADQUARTERS
FOR SEVEN STATES
Establishment of Area Offices
Here Means Building Up of
Post Vacated in 1916 During
Border Troubles. g..

Headquarters of the new Seventh
army corps, created byNaet of the
last congress, will be established at
Fort Crook, just south of Omaha,
according to announcement by the
War department at Washington late
yesterday. VI.
The new army corps area will in
clude the states of Missouri. Kan
sas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota,
North Dakota and South Dakota.
The commander will be Maj. Gen.
Omar Bundy, who won fame abroad
as commander of the hard-fighting
marines and other troops in the
Second division, of the American
evolutionary force.
The auouncement means that
Omaha will return to position of
prestige and power in the admins
tra;ion of army, affairs. Army Of
ficers say that its Importance as an
army corps headquarters will out
rank that held as headquarters Of
the Department. of the Missouri
years ago. Gen4al Bundy, WHO re-
turns now as commander of the
corps. was once stationed as ma
;or at the departmental headquar-
tere here.
To Reoccupy Fort.
The bringing of headquarters to-
Fort Crook means the reoccupancy
of that post for the first time since
1916, when the last troops quartered
there went to the Mexican border.
Numerous army officers of rank are
expected to find residence there.
Other corps areas III the western
states. as announced yesterday, are:
Sixth corps area. to embrace the
states Of Illinois, Michigan and Wis
consin; headquarters at Fort Sher-
idan. Ill.
Eighth corps. area. to embrace the
states of Texas, Oklahoma. Colo
RADIO. New MexiqA sand&AssAxizena ;,
headquarters at Fort Sam Houson,
San Antonio, Tex.
Ninth corps area, to embrace the
states of Washington, Oregon, Ida
no. Montana. Wyoming. Utah, Ne
vada and California; headquarters at
Preside of San Francisco. The
headquarters will he temporarily at.
San Francisco until space is avail
able at Presidio.v
Three Armies.
For purposes of mobilization and
other emergency maneuvers, the,
nine corps areas will be grouped
into three army areas, the first three
corps areas forming the First army
area, the next three the Second and
the seventh, eighth and ninth, thgI
Third. ~f
The commanders of the amy and
corps areas were annoumed as fol-
lows:
First corps area, Mai. Gen David
c. Shanks; second. Maj. Gen. Rob
ert L. Bullard; third. Maj. Gen.
Adelbert Cronkhite; fourth. Mai.
Gen. John F. Morrison; fifth, Maj.
Gen. George F. Reed; sixth, Mai.
Gen. Leonard Wood; seventh, Mai.
Gen. Omar Bundy; eighth, Maj. Gen,
Joseph P. Dickman; ninth, Maj. Gen.
Hunter Llggett.
New Department Heads.
Mai. Gen. Charles Fl. Muir has
,een assigned to command the
Fourth division and Mai Gen John
{. Hines the Fifth division. New
departmental commanders are:
Philippine department, Brig. Gen.
Charles Treat; Hawaiian depart
nent, Brig. Gen. Joseph F. Kuhn; |
Panama department, Brig. Gen. Ed
win B. Babbitt; South Atlantic coast
lrtillery district, Brig. Gen. John
on Hagood. a. r.
Other important army assign
nents announced were those of Maj.
zen. William c. HAM Brig. Gen.
Henry Jervey and Brig. Gen. Dennis
;. Nolan to be assistants TO the chief
# staff and members iof the War de-
,artment general staff. Maj. Gen.
William G.. Ham was named direc-
or of the war plans division, Brig.
zen. Henry Jeryey director of the
'perations division and Brig. Gen:
Dennis E. Nolan to be director OF
\ ,,,;i;4,r,, ;,fe11iCnrce division