Evening star., 1926-10-10
Army and NavyNews

on duty as assistant commandant OF
the third naval district and port d.
rector of New York, will be ordered
by the Navy Department to Asiatlc
station for duty. Capt. Herbert Z.
Cooke, commandant of the naval air
station at Hampton Roads, Va, will
be relieved by Comdr. Albert G. Read.
who has been on duty with the air
craft squadrons of the battle fleet.
The former officer, pending his assign
ment to sea duty, will be given tenn
porary shore assignment. Lieut..
Comdr. Thomas G. Berrien, who has
been on duty in the office of the in
spector of engineering material at
New York, will be assigned to COM
mand submarine division 2, control
force. He will relieve Lieut.. Comdr
John A. Brownell, who will come to
this city for duty in the Bureau of
Engineering, Navy Department.
Six line officers of the Navy have
become due for promotion to the next
higher grades on the dates Indicated:
Lieut.. Comdrs. Harold T. Smith and
o. NJ. Hustvedt, Lieut.. P. r. Cutting
and Lieut.. (junior grade) T. F. Well.
'ings, September q; Lieuts. Gunior
grade) j. c. Van Cleve and J. F.
CRUDE, October /.
A board composed Of eight officers
Of the Marine Corps has been ap
pointed for the purpose Of making a
thorough study of the promotion sit.
uation which exists at the present
time in that corps. Promotions to the
various grades in the Marine Corps, 1t
has been brought out, are far behind
those of officers of the Navy to cor.
responding grades in the Navy that
entered the service at or about the
same time. and unless remedial action
is taken the situation promises to be-
come worse from year to year. The
measures that the board will recon-
mend for the establishment of a
system for acceleration Of promotion
in the Marine Corps, and for it's
equalization, as far as practicable,
with that In the Navy, necessarily
will include elimination features ap-
plying probably to all except the low
est one or two grades. The pending
Britten BILL which relates to promo
tion in the Navy, contains some fea-
lures that might be applicable, in
principle, to the Marine Corps, and
the board will take this into account
in preparation of the measure for
that corps. The board consists of the
following: Brig. Gen. Ben H. Fuller,
Col. Harold c. Reisinger, Lieut..
Coils. Douglas c. McDougal and Rich
ard B. Creecy; Majs. Ralph S. Keyser,
Edwin H. Brainard and Selden B.
Kennedy and Capt. Charles libel.
Second Lieut.. Raymond P. Coffman,
motion to the next higher grade as
the result of the resignation Of First
Lieut.. Francis B. Reed, which went
into effect October /.
Seven officers of the Navy Medical
Corps have been nominated by the
Surgeon General OF the Navy as candi.
dates for fellowship in the American
College of Surgeons. 1t has been the
annual custom for a number of years
for the college to invite the Surgeon
General Of the Navy to nominate a
specified number of medical officers
the privilege will again be extended
to the Navy this coming year. 1t has
been the fixed policy of the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery, however, to
nominate only those officers that in
the opinion of the Surgeon General
meet the high standards Of profess
sional qualifications set by the col
lege. The following have recently
been nominated by the Surgeon Gen
eral in the college: Lieut.. Comdrs.
Frederic L. Conklin, Francis E. Locy,
Lewis G. Jordan, John F. Riordan,
Elphege A. M. Gendreau, Horace
Boone and Lieut.. Henry c. Weber.
Three officers of the Navy Medical
Corps have been found qualified for
promotion to the next higher grade,
Lieuts. Leo L. Davis and Marvin M.
Gould to the rank of lieutenant COM
mander, and Lieut.. d. g. William r.
Manlove for the rank of lieutenant.
Lieut.. Comdr. John V. McAlphin of
the Navy Dental Corps, who has been
attached to the Naval Medical School
in this city, left last week for the
Northwestern University Dental
School at Chicago, where he will un-
dergo 10-week course Of post
graduate instruction.