The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-22
FRAYNE BAKER
HONOR ED BY
ARMY CHIEFS
Appointed TO War Depart
ment General Staff With
Rank as Colonel
WILL GO TO CAPITAL
May Be in Service Year or
Two--Recognition of Work
During World War

DuAltS "OA" VoA
Frayne Baker, pres; ;dent of the
Benton Transportation company and
a Lieutenant Colonel in the Quarter
masters Corps, Organized Reserves,
has under special orders of the War
Department been detailed to the
General Staff Of the War Department..
and ordered to active duty and d.
rected to report in person 20 the
Chief of Staff, Major General John
l.. Hines, War Department, Wash
ington, d. c., for duty. Specific
wording of the order reads:
"By direction Of the president,
Lieutenant Colonel Frayne Baker,
Quartermaster Corps Reserve, is
with his consent. ordered to active
duty and is detailed under the pro-
visions of Section s. National De-
fense Act as amended, as an addi-
tional member of the War Depart
ment General Staff. He will pro-
ceed from Bismarck, North Dakota,
to Washington, d. c., with the least
practicable delay. reporting in per-
son upon arrival to the Chief Of
Staff for duty"
The ordsr now issued detailing
Colonel Baker to the General Staff
is sequel to his detail to the army
War College fox a course of instruc-
tion in 1924.
Not Permanent
The detail is not permanent and
is only u step in the carrying out
Of the policy OF the Var Department
in detailing selected officers to duty
in the office of the Chief of Staff
for specific duty and training for
emergency assignment in case Of
war.
Colonel Baker was afraid that he
would be unable to comply on ac-
ce.nt Of the press Of duties in con-
nection with river transportation but
has made or is making suitable ar
rangements for the handling Of this
work in order to accept this detail.
The detail is very important one
and is signal honor, as out of ap-
proximately 10000 reserve officers
about six are given active duty on
the War Department General Staff
at any one time.
The length Of the detail is not
specific and is limited by law but
Colonel Baker does not intend leav-
ing permanently, rs hrs duties here
require his return at the earliest
possible time. He states that he
hesitates in accepting the detail on
account of his duties but felt that
the honor of the detail was so great
that he could not afford to pass the
opportunity offered.
In World War
Colonel Baker was in active SER
vice in the World War for 81 months,
eleven months of which was service
in France as Major in the Quarter
master Corps. He served with the
Chief Quartermaster First Army in
connection with the active supply of
clothing and equipment at the front
and after the Armistice, and the
withdrawal Of the battle lines. He
personally supervised the furnish
ing to division Quartermasters Of
clothing and other quartermaster
on its triumphant march into Ger
many.
After his service with the First
Army Headquarters of the EMBARK
alton Camp at St. Nazaire and while
there he had charge of feeding, de-
lousing and cquipping of all the
troops passing through the port Of
st. Nazaire en- route to this country.
He remained at st. Nazaire until the
need Of the port had ceased. Upon
completion of this duty, he returned
to this country and was discharged
July 1, 1919.
Interested in Army
Colonel Baker has since the war
interested himself in army activities
and was in July, 1922, given his pre-
sent grade in the Reserve Corps. He
has remained in the Reserve since
the war for the reason that when
he was ordered to active duty in
May, 1917, he saw first-hand the re-
suit of lack of organization and the
absence of plans that were competent
to carry into operation the mobiliza-
tion that was required for the parti-
cipation of the United States in the
war.
He states that he feels that men
who saw service should stay by the
army and the country, in the pre-
paration and completion of compe-
tent, definite mobilization plans. He
believes in specific jobs for specific
men and sufficient reserve officers
and enlisted men organized and
trained to carry out the plans made.
He also believes in universal mill
tary training.