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with headquarters 2 $ s 81
at Atlanta, Ga. ~
Col. Williams has
been one of the Col. E \. wuI,ams
most popular eX-
ecutlve officers which the. Militia
Bureau has had, having served under
MAJ. Gen. George c. Richards, the
lrst National Guard officer to become
chlet of the bureau, now in civil life,
and Maj. Gen. Creed c. Hammond
the present chief OF the bureau. both
OF whom have lauded his tireless
energy and devotion to duty AS an
evidence of his popularity i'm National
Guard circles. the governors of Ten.
nessee, North Carolina, South Caro-.
llna and Georgia have recommended
Col. Williams to be commanding gen.
erat with the rank of major general.
lie Will be the first active Regular
Army officer who has ever been COM
mtssloned as Il major general COM
mandlng National Guard division.
lie was awarded the distinguished
service medal, Is on the initial gen.
eral staff corps eligible list and served
two terms on the general staff. Col.
Williams is a graduate OF the Army
war College, classes of 1912 and 1920,
the 1910 class Of the Army Staff Col.
lege and distinguished graduate of
the Army School of the Line. His
A. r. F. service was chief Of staff Of
the 36th Division during the war.
Orders were issued this week to the
officers Of the 320th Infantry, Col.
e.. b. Young, commanding. a 10.
cal reserve regiment, which affect
thelr assignment within the regiment.
Lieut.. Col. John Scott. Infantry, senior
executive officer of the Organized Re.
serves IN Washington, is executive Of
ncer or the regiment. They are as fol-
lows: First Lieuts. Charles c. Nc.
Pherson,. assigned to howitzer com
pany, reporting to Capt. Ralph w. AL.
derman for instructions; George j.
Hlll. assigned to headquarters, 1st
Battalion, reporting to Maj. James b.
Jones; Robert L. Clear, transferred
from Company + to Company G, re
porting to Capt. Waldo Burnside:
James r. Greene, assigned to Com
pany f, reporting to Capt. Nelson
Bennett; Edward j. Euker. transferred
from headquarters, I'd Battalion, to
company Fl. reporting to Capt. George
l.. Rooney; Frank II. Holland. assign.
ed to headquarters, I'd Battalion, re-
porting to Maj, Albert l.. Barrows:
Lawrence S. Gross, assigned to Com
pany NJ, reporting to Capt. Grover L.
Moore, and Paul d. Doherty. assigned
to headquarters. Sd Battalion. report
ing to Col. William H. England. Sec.
ond LieutS. Thomas D, Riordan, as
signed to Company A. reporting to
Capt. Claude Burlingame, and John r.
Brosnan, transferred from howitzer
company to headquarters, 320th Infan-
Try, reporting to Col. Glendie b.
Young.
The following changes in the assign.
ments of reserve officers residing in
Washington were announced this
week at Organized Reserve headQuar.
ters: Second Lieut.. William J. Tur-
ner, Jr., Cavalry Reserve, is attached
TO the 306th Cavalry for instruction
and training; Lieut.. Col. Raymond e.
Benedict, Engineer Reserve. having
moved to the 4th Corps Area, is re.
heved from attachment to the 343d
Engineer General Service Regiment,
18th Corps; Second Lieut.. Constant
Southworth, Coast Artillery Reserve,
is relieved from assignment to the Sd
Coast Artillery district; Second Lieut..
Foster V. Tompkins, Air Service Re-
serve, is assigned to 409th Attack
Squadron, 4th Army; Second Lieut..
Walter Ii. E. Jaeger, Coast Artillery
Reserve, is attached to the Sd Coast
Artillery district: Capt. Angus /.
Ward, Engineer Reserve, is relieved
from assignment to the 343d Engi.
neer General Service Regiment, 18th
Corps; First Lieut.. George w. Cres.
well. Medical Reserve. assigned to the
goth Division, and Capt. Peake Vincil,
Engineer Reserve. is assigned to 343d
Engineer General Service Regiment.
18th Corps.
The following men, residing in
Washington and vicinity, filed at re-
serve headquarters this week their
applications to attend the 1926 citizens
military training camps: Kenneth A.
Shroyer Red infantry, 1912 Ingleside
terrace; Watson II. Monroe white
field artillery, 1919 G street: Sanford
w. Ross white infantry, 1923 Column
b!a road; Henry G. Sheen blue field
artillery, 2022 Columbia road; Douglas
S. Brinkley, 100 G street southeast;
James c. Cheseldine, 1918 Thirteenth
street: Simon Eichberg, 1874 Colum.
bia road; James Z. Gorrie. 610 Elliott
street northeast; Roy c. Hall, 1917
Kenyon street; Frank B. Haskell. Blue
Plains. Washington, d. c.; Vincent A.
Howard. 912 Shepherd street; Walter
c, Myers, 5602 Thirty-ninth street;
Thomas G. Ryan, jr., sos l. street;
Henry K. Sweeney, 1907 Monroe
street; Charles NJ. Whelan, 302 Seaton
place northeast.
Three boards of officers have been
appointed by the War Department to
meet in this city at the call of the
president thereof, for the examination
of such persons as may be authorized
to appear before the board to deter
SyzA lao{n
the Officers Reserve Corps. These
boards will confine their activities to
the examination of reserve officers Of
Washington and vicinity in the Signal
Corps, Quartermaster and Ordnance
Department. The detail Of the vari-
Gus boards is as follows: Signal
Corps-Col. Mervyn c. Buckley, Signal
Reserve; Maj. Owen s. Albright, s, c.:
Capts. William S. Rumbough and AL
fred H. Thiessen, both signal officers
of the Regular service, and Second
Lieut.. Robert w. Raynsford. S. C. The
Quartermaster Corps board will meet
for the examination of such persons
as may be authorized to appear be-
fore the board not only to determine
their fitness for appointment in the
Officers Reserve Corps, but for the
practical test of such reserve officers
as may be authorized to appear before
the board to determine their fitness for
certificate of capacity. The Regular
Army personnel of this board, all Of
/ whom are on duty in the Office of the
quartermaster general, are as follows:
Col. William Elliott, Lieut.. Col.
Charles l.. Willard and Majs. Douglas
G. Cordiner and Laurence w. Reding-
ton. The local Quartermaster Reserve
! officers who have been appointed to
serve on this board are Coils. Edgar K.
Davis, Donald H. Sawyer, Eugene H.
Abadie: Lieuta Coils. George G. Will,
Henry T. Stancliff, Malbon G.. Richard.
son. Robert e. Longstreet, Ray b. Rol-
linson and Joe S. Platt.
The third board pertains to the
ordnance reservists and Is appointed
to meet for the examination of such