New-York tribune., 1920-12-23
TIFFANY &C0!
FIFTH AVENUE s. 37!r STREET
GOLD AND PLATINUM WATCHES AND
WRIST WATCHES
List of
Staff Eliggibles
Causes FurOre
Continued from pass one)

'Ooh'"ueu from paee ohc)
committee making the selections" Sec
retary Baker said, land there is no go.
ing behind its findings. The board
selected the men it thought best quail
fed for staff duty"
Secretary Baker was unable to ex-
plain the absence from the list of Off
GERS who formerly served on the gen
eral staff and whose service was re-
warded with the Distinguished Service
Medal
Their service on the staff merited
the awards they received" Mr.. Baker
said, but the judgment Of the selec-
ton board was that they were not
qualified for future duty on the staff. u
Officers Not on List
Criticism of the selections Of the
staff eligibles undoubtedly will center
around the boards failure to include
three permanent major generals and
eleven permanent brigadier generals,
who are thus classed as untitled for
duty with the War Department staff
All of these officers were in important
commands during the war and despite
the blight of the boards report are
considered still worthy of their rank
There also are thirty-four officers now
detailed on general staff duty whose
names are not included in the list Of
eligibles. These will soon be dropped
from the staff and replaced by officers
who passed the test of the Pershing
board.
Numerous examples that show the
character of the officers omitted can
be gathered almost st random.
Major General Omar Bundy, COM
mander Of the Cd Division, and later
the 4th Army Corps, is not on the list
For time he was instructor at the
War College, where staff officers are
made. Major General Charles G. Nor
ton, who commanded the Goth Division,
is not included. Major General F. j.
Herman, commander of the Service of
Supply in France, is absent.
Others are Colonel (formerly Major
GeneraD George H. Cameron, who led
the Fourth Division and later corps :;
Colonel (formerly Major GeneraD II
P. Mccain, adjutant general during
the war; Colonel (formerly Major
GeneraD Robert Alexander, who led
the Seventy seventh Division; Colonel
formerly Brigadier General) Evan NJ.
Johnson, in active command of the
Seventy seventh all through the Ar
gonne fighting; Colonel (formerly
Brigadier GeneraD c. W: Kutz, now
one of the District of Columbia COM
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OF staff at Tours; Colonel (formerly
Brigadier GeneraD Frank Parker, com
mander of First Division; Colonel
James &. Cavanaugh, who succeeded
Kutz at Tours; Brigadier General
Clarence r. Edwards, who commanded
the Twenty sixth Division; Brigadier
General +. W. Sladen, formerly secre-
tary of the General Staff; Major
Thomas Spaulding, formerly on staff
II Il 10 LoJr i
reorganization bill; Colonel Frank S.
Cocheu, formerly on General Staff duty.
Prominent Civilians Included
The remaining permanent brigader
generals whose names do not appear
on the staff list despite their divisional
and in many cases corps service are:
George Bell jr., Charles G. Treat,
D. Babbitt, John D. Barretts, Grote
Hutcheson and L. G. McAlexander
The list of civilians who are consid-
cred qualified for general staff duty
by being called into active service in
cludes many prominent men 1t is i'm
possible to check the omissions, as the
Army Register, does not contain their
war duties. Frank D'Olier, formerly
commander of the American Legion, is
included, as we'll as +. W. Galbraith
j., tue present QeaO OF the Legion.
Lemuel L. Bolles, national adjutant Of
the Legion also is stamped as qualified
for general staff duty Others in the
list are W. v. Attebury, of the Penn
syivania Railroad, who was railroad
Chief of the American Expeditionary
forces; John Wanamaker j.. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, brigadier general in the
war; Leonard T. Ayres, now with the
Rockefeller Foundation; Henry Breck-
lnridge, formerly Secretary of War;
Charles G. Dawes, formerly Comp
troller Of the Currency; Henry l.. Stim-
son. formerly Secretary of War. and
Rhinelander Waldo and Elihu Root ir.
The following members of the New
York National Guard who distinguish
ed mselves in the World War arc
included in the list: Major General
John +. Organ. Colonel William J.
Donovan, Major Hamilton Fish jr., now
u member of the House from New
York; Marjor John II. Barker, Lieu
tenant Colonel William II. Curtss,
Major Davis T. Dunbar. Lieutenant
Colonel Wade H. Hayes, - r Samuel
/. Hubbard jr., Colonel joan r. XII
patrick, Captain Ogden l.. Mills, Rep
lcsentative-e elect from New York; Lieu
tenant Colonel Edward L. Olmstead,
Captain August T.. B. Peterson, Lieu
tenant Colonel George E. Roosevelt,
Lieutenant Colonel Cabot Ward and
Major William Il. Wright