Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27

that they would
cause upheavals and violent changes
of the existing order In the Air Corps
itself; changes that would be inimical
| to the interests Of the corps and would
produce an arrangement of its Officers
no more satisfactory than the present.
Among the remedies investigated were
the following: Creditlng some 400 Air
Corps officers with the actual time in
excess of three months they were in
training for commissions; crediting
these same officers with the average
excess time they were in training, or,
assigning these officers to running
mates for promotion. Any one of these
remedies, it was found, would produce
new inequalities and new injustices
and none of them would be produo-
tive of materially improved distri-
button of Air Corps officers on the
| promotion list. Any of them woulo
| materially improve the present deplor-
able promotion prospects of some 400
Air Corps officers, but none would
establish a satisfactory rate of flow
of promotion.
The following orders affecting Regu-
lar Army officers on duty in Wash
ington were issued last week by the
War Department: Maj. Dwight +.
Johns, {. E., upon the completion of
his present tour of foreign service,
will proceed to this city for assign
| ment to duty in the office of the
Chief of Engineers.
Upon the completion of his present
course of instruction &C the Air Corps
| Advnced Flying School. Kelly Field,
Tex, First Lieut.. Walter J. Reed will
proceed to this city and upon his ar
| rival in Washington will he assigned
| to duty in the Office of the chief of air
corps. He is expected to report for
duty in that Office on March /. Capt.
Bryan l.. Milburn, who has been on
| duty In the Office of the chief of coast
artillery this city, for the past two or
| three years. has been ordered relieved
| of this duty and assigned to duty with
| the Coast Artillery Corps in the Pana.
ma Canal Zone He will sail from
New York for the Canal Zone on June
| 2. The following infantry officers will
be relieved from their duties in the
War Department general staff, effec.
| tive on the date indicated after their
name. and will proceed to Fort Leav-
enworth. kans., where they will as
sumo instructors duties at the Com
mand and General STAFF school They
are Lieut.. Col. Hiram M. Cooper, june
80. and Maj. Martin T.. Wise, May s.
and Maj Harry l.. Twaddle, April 20
Capt. Lyman l.. Si,nms,. who has been
| on duty in the Office OF the chief OF
| finance. this city, has been ordered to
duty in the Hawaiian Department
sailing from New York on May Is for
| San Francisco, thence from that port
| on July % for Honolulu
War Department special orders an
nounce the relief from duty in the
general staff Of a number of additional
officers They are. together with the
| dates of their relief, as follows: Col
Charles 3. Stone, jr., May &c, and Col
James III. Reeves, April go The for
mers new assignment Is the inspector
| generals department, while Col
Reeves Is the same. Lieut.. Col Joseph
A. Baer, June IL, who goes to 18th
June 80. who Is Assigned to 18th Cav.
| airy; Lieut.. Col: Guy Kent, May 10
who goes to the 9th Cavalry, and
Lieut.. Col. Walter o. Boswell, May %,
| who Is assigned TO the 22d Infantry.
Upon the completion of his present
| tour of foreign service, Capt. Law
| renee P. Worrall Is assigned to duty
in the Office of the chief of finance
| this city. Maj. Russell H. Brennan Is
relieved from duty in the office of the
| judge advocate general of the Army,
| Cavalry Division. Fort Bliss, Tex, eff
| fective May A. The following student
officers now at the Army War College,
all ma jors Of field artillery, will be re-
| lieyed of this assignment upon the
completion of their present course of
| instruction and have been assigned as
follows: Charles II. George, to Field
Artillery School, for duty with the
stan: Raymond r. Lee, to Tth Field
Artillery list Division), Fort Ethan
Allen, VT; Donald c. Cubbison, to duty
In the Office of the chief of field artil-
lery, this city, and Joseph r. Davis,
to 10th Field Artillery (3rd Division),
Camp Lewis, Wash.
Navy.
An even flow Of promotion. based
on service of about seven years in
each grade tthe two lowest grades be.
ing considered as one). to be obtained
by separation from the active list of
a number of officers, In addition to the
normal attrition, sufficient 10 main
tain the desired rate Of promotion,
is in brief the principles which the
board, composed of Marine Corps off,
GERS. headed by Brig. Gen., Ben H..
, Fuller, who have been engaged in
studying the commissioned personnel
problems of this corps since last Sep
TENDER. have agreed should be applied
in remedying the unsatisfactory pro
motion situation in the Marine Corps.
The boards proposal provides that all
promotions, except to the grades Of
major general and first lieutenant, be
made from promotion lists prepared
annually by boards of officers and that