Evening star., 1926-11-14

tain. The seven major generals, TWO
of whom are chief of War Department
branches, with the date of their re-
tirement indicated, are: Benjamin A.
Poore. June %: William Weigel, Au-
gust 2o; Eli A. Helmick, September 27:
| Charles II. Martin. October |; Edward
NJ. Lewis, December 10: Mason NJ,
Patrick, December 13, and James II.
McRae, December "a. The two chiefs
of War Department branches in this
list are Maj. Gen. Eli A. Helmick.
judge advocate general of the Army.
and Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief
of the Air Corps. AS Gen. Helmick's
permanent rank is a brigadier general,
his separation from the active list of
the Army will create two vacancies.
one as the head Of his department and
another i'm the list of brigadier gen.
erals of the Regular Army.
The six brigadier generals who will
retire for age next year are: Thomas
Ii. Slavens, January 1S; Moses G. Ia
linski, January %; Walter D. McCaw.
February 10: Malvern Hill Barnum.
September 3; Robert Alexander. Octo-
ber II, and John NJ. Jenkins. Novem-
Der 5. The retirements for age dur
ing 1927 among the colonels are: c.
Koester. Cavalry. June 2; J. O'Shea,
Cavalry, June %; S. r. H. Tompkins.
Cavalry, July II; w. F. Martin, In
fantry, July 10; r. H. Rolfe, Quarter
master Corps, October Is, and James
Candy, Finance department, Decem-
ber "a. The two lieutenant colonels
who will retire for age next year are:
J. F. Defandorf. judge advocate gen.
erals department, July 16, and L. L.
karn, judge advocate generals depart
ment. who will be placed on the in
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captain to be retired for age during
1927 is Daniel w. Fetterolf, Medical
Corps, whose date of retirement is
March %.
NAVY.
During the year 1927 there will be
four retirements for age among the
They are F'ear Admirals William r.
Shoemaker, February 10; Clarence s.
Williams, October Z; John D. Nc
Donald, November !, and Hilary =.
Jones, November IA. Rear Admiral
Roger Welles will retire for age next
month.
1t is expected that the next board
on selections to recommend Supply
Corps officers of the Navy for promo
tion to the ranks of captain and COM
mander will meet at the Navy Depart
ment the latter part of this month.
This board. which will be permitted to
select % captains and 6 commanders.
will be headed by Rear Admiral T. S.
composing the board being Capts. G..
G. Seibels. 7. J. Arms. c. w. Eliason,
Ray Spear. and f. G. Pyne, with
Lieut.. Comdr. S. r. White as recorder.
A selection board, composed OF
Rear Admirals Andrew T. Long,
Henry A. Wiley, Montgomery M. Tay.
lor,. Charles B. McVay, William A.
Moffett and Frank H. Schofleld. to
recommend officers of the Navy Den
of commander, convenedat the Navy
Department last week. Seventeen Of
ficers will be selected for promotion
to. that rank. This board Is the first
to be held under the provisions OF
the equalization of promotion law,
which requires that rear admirals of
the line should form the selection
board for officers of the corps Of the
Navy when no officers senior to the
rank to be selected are available.
Capt. John v. Babcock, who has
been on duty on the staff Of the Naval
War College, will be relieved by
Comdr. Isaac r. Dortch. who has
been executive officer of the Missis.
sippi. The former has been assigned
as a member Of the American Naval
issued detaching Lieut.. Comdr. Marc
"A. Mitscher from duty on the Lang
ley and assigning him to duty in con-
nection with fitting out the Saratoga
at Camden, n. j. Lieut.. Comdr. Nit
scher will, when the latter vessel Is
placed In commission, head one Of the
air departments. Chaplain Emerson G..
Hangen, attached to the Mare Island
Navy Yard. will be ordered to pro
Comdr. Willis w. Bradley, jr., re-
Gently on duty at recruiting barracks
at Hampton Roads, has been assigned
by the Navy Department to duty in
the office Of naval reserve personnel,
taking the place of Capt. Halsey
Powell. who was appointed last week
aide to the Secretary Of the Navy,
succeeding Capt. Walter r. Cher.
ardi.
Naval maneuvers and joint Army
and Navy exercises scheduled for next
year received an added impetus last
week with the arrival in Washington
of Admiral Charles F. Hughes, COM
mander-in-chief of the L. S. Fleet, &C.
companied by Rear Admiral Richard
Fl. Leigh, Capt. George F. Neal and
Comdrs. William T. Smith, Patrick N.
l.. Bellinger and Albert t. Church. all
Of whom have been engaged In a
series Of conferences with Navy De-
partment officials concerning the 1927
joint war games. Next Thursday
aboard the flagship Seattle at New
York Admiral Hughes will discuss this
phase of the program with the COM
manding general of the 1st Corps
Area and other high ranking Army
officials.
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is not believed that there will be ma
terial changes made in the schedules
previously determined for the move
ment of various components Of the
fleet, the battle fleet and train squad.
ron of the feet base force shall,
from February 19 to March /, be en-
route from the West Coast to Balboa.