Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-03
Army ndNavyNews

the fleet training office, is to be as
| signed to duty in connection with
fitting out the new aircraft carrier
Lexington, and will command that
vessel when commissioned. He will
relieve Capt. William Il. Gherardi,
who has been in i'll health, and who
| will be assigned to duty in the flrst
naval district Comdr. Charles II.
| Davis, who has been on duty as
engineer officer of the Oklahoma, Will
shortly arrive in Washington, where
he will be assigned to duty in charge
of the engineering section of the fleet
training office as the relief of Comdr.
! Homer II. Norton. Lieut.. Comdr.
| Robert S. Haggart, who has been on
duty in the Bureau of Engineering,
will relieve Comdr. Davis as engineer
officer of the oklahoma. Lieut..
lComdr. Raymond Burhen. who has
been on duty i'll the Bureau OF Engl'
neerins. has been assigned to Inc
board Of inspection and survey IN the
Navy Department. succeeding Lieut..
Comdr. Robert Q. Glover, VINO goes 10
the staff of Rear Admiral Clark. Due
to the fact that Capt. Henry V. But
Ter. now superintending the fitting out
of the new aircraft carrier Saratoga,
and who was slated to command that
vessel, will be promoted to rear adj
miral on November IA, it will be nee.
essary to assign him to other duty
| on or before that date. About October
| Comdr Russell S. Cranshaw will go
| from duty as assistant chief of staff
| to the commanderin-chief of the bat
tie fleet to duty in the planning sec
ton of the Bureau of Navigation. The
following Junior line officers are due
| for promotion to the next higher
grades rs follows: Lieuts. II. S. Klein
and A. d. Douglas, and Lieuts. 81. CD
F. J. Bridget, r. F. Hickey, j. r.
Wirth and j. A. Roberts, jr.
Now that the Navy line selection
| board has completed its work, selec-
ton boards to select commanders for
promotion to the rank of captain in
the Medical, Supply, Civil ENGINEER
| and Construction Corps, will shortly
be convened in the Navy Department.
| There will not be any lieutenant
commanders selected for promotion to
| commander in any of the staff corps,
which is due to the fact that the run
| ming mates of the lieutenant COM
manders were not selected by the line
selection board which concluded its
| deliberations on June Fl. The line Sc
lection board selected lieutenant COM
| manders for promotion to commander
from the middle of a Naval Academy
class, and since the running mate of
staff officers is almost always the
Junior officer graduated from the
Naval Academy no staff lieutenant
| commanders were made eligible for Sc
lection or promotion this year.
The report of the Navy line selec-
ton board, approved by the President
last week, is most unusual for the
number of captains that were passed
over, no less than 10 having met that
fate. Eleven captains were selected
for promotion to rear admihals from
a list of 80 officers. When the board
came to the selection of commanders
| for promotion to rear admirals from
up three officers that had been passed
over by previous boards and passed
over, five commanders that had not
been considered by previous board.
In the case of lieutenant commanders
selected for promotion to commander.
the selection board did not pick up
any off1cer who had been passed over
j by a previous board and passed over IS
officers. Upon the conclusion of it's
deliberations, the board recommended
IL captains for promotion to rear ad-
| AuldI, 0f commanders Tor. promotion
to captain, and IS lieutenant comma nd
ers for promotion to commander.
In this connection it is of interest
to know just when the IL captains Sc
lected for promotion to rear admirals
will be advanced to flag rank. Rear
Admiral Edward H. Campbell, who
held that rank by virtue of being Judge
advocate general of the Navy, will
take permanent rank as a rear admiral
from February IL, 1927. vice Rear Ad.
miral c. T. Vogelgesang, deceased
while Walter S. Crosley, being an
extra number, will go up with Rear
Admiral Campbell. and will take rank
from that same date. The following
captains selected for advancement to
the next higher grade. namely. Frank
3. Upham. David F. Sellers, Ridley Nc.
Lean, and Joseph NJ. Reeves, will all
take rank as rear admirals from June
2, 1927. based on the distribution made
on that date when more than 500 en-.
signs We're added to the line of the
Navy. The remaining five captains
Will be promoted to rear admiral on
the following dates: Frank H. Brum.
by, October z, 1927: Harris Laning.
November I. 1927: Henry V. Butler.
November Z, 1927: James J. Raby.
February IS, 1928; and William II
STANDBY. May 80. 1928.