The Washington times., 1925-02-11

The following promotions have
been made in the regular army:
Lieutenant Colonel William r. Glib.
son, to the grade OF colonel, leav-
ing Lieutenant Colonel VIII II.
Point as the next officer entitled
to promotion. Major Ned B. Reh-
koph has been promoted to the
grade of lieutenant colonel, which
leaves Major Walter X. Wilson as
the senior officer of that grade.
Captains Stuart C. Macdonald
and Motcalf Reed have been pro-
NOTED to the grade Of major, leav-
ing CAPTAIN Hubert r. Harmon as
the next officer entitled to promo
ton. First Lieutenants Edward 3.
Thomas Banbury, VIII
liam E. eastman and William 8
Kilmer have been promoted to the
grade of captain, leaving Albert w.
Stevens as senior first lieutenant.
Second Lieutenants Fred p. Van
Duzee. Arthur G.. Watson, Burns
Beall. John B. Hess and Allen i.
Haynes have been promoted to the
grade Of first lieutenant, leaving
Harold @. Sydenham as the senior
second lieutenant. There are 162
vacancies in the grade OF second
lieutenant.
Examination OF candidates from
civil life for commissions in the
naval corps Of civil engineers has
been under way for the past two
weeks. The examinations are be-
ing conducted under the super
vision Of a central board headed by
Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau.
civil engineer corps.
Marines to participate in the
naval Inaneuvers and joint army
and navy exercises In Hawaiian
waters this spring will be taken
from the forces at Quantico and
San Diego.
The enlisted men going from
Quantico will be taken from the
Tenth regiment (artilleryl the en-
gineer and signal battalions. and
the quartermaster attachments and
the officers IN large part, from
the Marine Corps Schools at that
place, and the personnel leaving
San Diego will be taken from the
Fourth regiment INFANTRY.
Captain Arthur Smith, u. s. M,
who has been relieved Of duty as
naval attache at Picking. China,
has been directed to proceed to
San Francisco and to report to
the commander-in-chief, Of the
United States Fleet for duty. and
later he will be assigned to command
a. battleship.
The twenty-edght chaplains Of the
Navy, recently selected for pro-
motion from the rank Of lieuten-
ant commander to the rank of
will be examined on
their records, and their physical
examinations will be conducted at
their present stations and the re-
suits reported to the Navy De-
partment by telegraph.
In accordance with authority
given by bill just enacted. the
il to pay to the
estate OF the late Captain d. H.
Trfbou, chaplain corps of the navy,
the sum Of 1861. This sum is
the amount Of restitution made
by Captain Tribou out of his pri.
vate funds on account of Victory
loan bonds and other funds stolen
from his safe in his quarters at the
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having been deposited in the safe
for safe-keeping.
A bronze tablet, with the names
Of all the army chaplains who lost
their lives in the late war, twenty
two in all, has been designed by
an eminent artist. This will be
placed In the office of the chief
memorial service along with an
enlarged individual photograph of
each Of the chaplains.
Chaplains Of the National Guard
will be interested to know that
tables of equipment for National
Guard field artillery, prepared by
the Militia Bureau, provide one set
Of chaplains equipment per Ma
tional Guard field artillery regiment.
This includes folding organ.
U. s. COAST GUARD.
Commander H. G. Fisher, of the
coast guard, has been designated
as the commander of the Interna-
tional Ice Patrol, for the season Of
1925.
Announcement is made Of the
recent death Of Lieutenant Com.
mander Samuel M. Rock at the
Marine Hospital, Savannah, Georgia,
after an illness of about month.
He entered the service as an acting
ensign Of engineers OF August IL,
1895 and was commissioned as an
ensign on February %, 1897. He
reached the grade of lieutenant
in the coast guard on
January IL, 1923.
The commandant of the coast
guard. Rear Admiral F. Billiard.
was the guest of honor and speaker
at the luncheon meeting OF the
Foreign Service Association held at
one Of the local hotels.
Seaman, LIST class, Mayk Wooker,
of the Yamacraw, has been COM
mended by headquarters of the
coast guard, for his courage.
and endurance in volun-
teering and in swimming through
the surf with a small line bent on
to a three-inch line to a patrol boat
stranded on the beach south of st.
Augustine lighthouse, Florida.
On February "a. a representative
of the British Embassy will present
to Commander Dorr F. ToZier re-
tired, at the Marine Hospital at
Baltimore, a sword rendered to him
by the king OF Great Britain in
appreciation of the valuable as
sistance rendered by him in con-
Quoting a search for, and investiga-
ton of the loss of, the British
cruiser Condor off the coast OF Van