The Washington herald., 1922-01-13
EXPECT TO NAME
FOUR NEWPOLICE
CAPTAINS TODAY
Commissioners to Pick
Shelby, Stoll, Sheet,
Keefe, Is Belief.

-Four police Iieutenants will be
promoted to captains and various
other promotions and changes made
in the police department when the
board Of District Commissioners
meets this morning, 1t was learned
The list of promotions and
changes has been approved by the
police department 1t is now in the
hands OF the Civil Service Commits
sion which is expected to approve
IL by tn etime the District Commits
sioners meet.
Subject to last minute changes,
the lieutenants slated for promo
tion to captains are Lieut.. w. s
Shelby. of the police school; Lieut..
/. J. Stoll Of the Tenth Precinct.
Lieut.. Ira Sheetz, attached to the
Second Precinct and in charge of a
special investigation SQUAD, and
Lieut.. E. J. Keefe of the Third Pre-
cinct.
-Four Sergeanfs to Advance.
Four sergeants who are sched-
uled for promotions TO lieutenants
are ]. F. Beckett of the First pre-
cinct; W. p. Hess, of the Third
precinct; J. NJ. Walsh. Of the
Seventh precinct. and o. T. Davis,
of the Fifth precinct.
Policemen Lee. McLucas, Swain,
Mcdonald, Maloney and Carlin are
expected to be appointed sergeants.
The list of policemen slated for
promotions today is the second that
has been forwarded to the Commits
sioners by the Civil Service Com
mission. The first list did not meet
all of the complicated civil service
requirements and was returned for
correction. Commissioner Oyster
has declared that IL was his inten-
tion to follow strictly all evil
service rules. He refused to COM
ment on the scheduled promotions.
declaring that he would not make
an announcement until the names
had been approved by the entire
board of District Commissioners.
Not to Choose Major.
The change in the police depart
ment come as the result Of the
Commissioners plans to retire
Capt. w. F. Falvey. of the Seventh
precinct, and Capt. G. H. Williams.
of the Fifth precinct. Capt.
Thomas Judge. Of the Tenth, and
Capt. James Hartley, of the Ninth
precincts already have been re-
tired.
The Board of Commissioners will
not appoint a major and superin-
tendent OF police at their meeting
this morning to fill the vacancy
caused by the retirement Of Mai
Harry L. Gessford, who recently
resigned. While the appointment
of the new superintendent OF police
IS being guarded with the deepst
secrecy, the name of Inspector
Daniel Sullivan. who is now acting
as head Of the police department, is
mentioned prominently for the posi-
tion,
Changes In Assisnments.
The Civil Service Commission
rules require that as the names arc
listed by the commission so must
they be considered in groups of
three. That is, one man must be
chosen from among the first three.
Another Is then added and one of
the three chosen. II any name re-
mains on the list through three
consecutive choices and Is not
picked, IL ca nthen be dropped from
the list. This method has been fol-
lowed in making the scheduled pro-
motions in the police department.
After the promotions have been
approved by the Board of Commits
sioners, a number of changes will
be made in assignments. An au-
thoritative source last night indi-
Gated that Capt Lord. of the Elev-
enth precinct, has asked for the
assignment to the Tenth precinct
and will probably receive that
transfer. Lieut. Shelby will prob
ably be assigned toe the Eleventh
precinct after his promotion has
been approved.
Capt. Bean, Of the Eighth pre-
cinct, will probably be assigned 10
the Seventh precinct. and Lieut.
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