Evening star., 1925-04-19
Army and Navy News
BIZ NJ. II. Mcintyre.

| ment general staff, has already been
| relieved and on June l Col. John B.
| Bennett, acting assistant chief of staff,
G-2, will be due for relief Though
| neither the Secretary of War nor the
chief of staff has indicated what as
| signments will be made in the future.
it is believed that Brig. Gen. Campbell
King, who is returning from the
Philippines and is under orders to re-
port to the chief of staff, will relieve
| Col. Bennett. Likewise, as to Brig
Gen. II. A. Smith, who will be re-
| lieved from Fort Leavenworth, there
| is an impression that he will go to
the war plans division.
The other Ia general staff officers
| who have been or soon will be or
| dered from duty in the War Depart
ment to new assignments are: Coils.
George c. Barnhardt, G-3: George S.
Estes. G3; Frank c. Jewell, G-3;
Julian r. Lindsey, GA; William r.
Smedberg, Gil; William E. WEIGH,
G-3; John Z. Woodward, G-1; F. U.
Clark, ca; Albert w. Foreman, war
plans division; Lieut. Coils Raymond
w. Briggs, GIL; James H. Bryson,
office of the deputy chief of staff; Lo-
reno d. Gasser, secretary of the gen
eral staff; Asa L. Singleton, war plans
division, and Capt. James H. Bogart,
G-2.
The seven officers serving on the
general staff with troops who are due
to be relieved are: Coils. Frank S.
Cocheu, chief of staff, Sd Corps Area;
William P. Jackson, chief of staff,
Cd Corps Area; Irving J. Carr, chief
of staff, Hawaiian division; Ralph f.
Ingram, assistant chief OF staff, Ga,
Sd Corps Area; James Justice, as
sistant chief of staff. G-2. I'd Corps
Area: Lieut.. Coils. William P. Ennis,
assistant chief of staff, CA, Panama
Canal department; Joseph IT. Barnes,
chief of staff, China expedition.
New faces will also be seen in the
offices of the various War Department
branches, some of the changes al,
ready being made. In the office of the
chief signal officer, Lieut.. Col. c. A.
Secane, Signal Corps, executive Off
Ger, will go to the War College. Col.
Irving ]. Carr, Signal Corps, chief of
staff of the Hawaiian division, will
come to this Office, as will also Lieut..
Col. John Z. Hemphill, Signal Corps,
now on duty at the Signal School at
Camp Vail. 1t is expected that either
Col. Carr or Col. Hemphill will be as
signed as executive officer of the Of
fee. Col. James B. Allison, Signal
Corps, now on duty at the Army war
College, will go to Camp Alfred Vail,
n. j., as commanding officer and as
commandant of the Signal School.
Only one change will be made in the
Office of the chief of cavalry, this
being Lieut.. Col. Robert McC. Beck,
jr.. on duty in the plans and training
section, who will go to the War Col
Iege. He will be relieved by Lieut..
Col. Douglas McCaskey, some time in
MAY, Col. Beck's tour of duty explr-
ing on May 25. Col. McCaskey is al
ready in Washington.
Mai. James w. Lyon. c. W. s., who
has been on duty in the industrial re-
lations division of this office, will re-
lieve Maj. A. L. lockwood, Z. w. So
chief of the supply division. this oTflce,
who will go to the Army War College.
Mai. l., f. J. Zerbee, G. w. s., VIII
head the industrial relations section,
but, as he is under orders to become
a member of the general staff on June
80, a successor will have to be ap-
pointed. Capt. G. Marshall, chief or
the personnel division of the ONCE,
who will complete his four years In
June, is slated to go to Edgewood
Arsenal, where he Will report ABOUT
August Is.
Lieut. Col Harry G. Barnes, c. A. c..
executive officer of the Office of chief
of Coast Artillery, will leave this office
the latter part of May and proceed to
the Philippines. He will be relieved
by Lieut.. Col. Charles Z. Kilbourne,
who is now assigned to the 9Th Coast
Artillery, at Fort Banks, Mass.
Four changes will be made in the
office of the chief of Infantry, which
are: Col. John H. Hughes, Infantry,
executive officer, who will be assigned
to a regiment, the designation of
which is not yet known; Lieut.. Col.
Augustus F. Dannemiller, Infantry,
on duty in the personnel section, who
has been assigned as professor of
military science and tactics at George
town University, Washington, D. G.;
Mai Jesse c. Drain, Infantry, assist
ant executive officer, who will go to
the War College, and Maj. Vernon
Evans, Infantry, on duty in the per-
sonnel section, who will attend the
Command and General Staff School.
Maj. P. D. Parkinson, Infantry, now
at the Infantry School, will relieve
Maj. Evans.