Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
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has been assigned to duty In the Bu-
reau of Ordnance. Comdr. Harry l..
Pence, executive officer Of the U. S. s.
Tennessee, will come to duty in the
Navy Department, in the navy yard
division. Comdr. Francis S. Craven,
who has been in command of the
U. S. S. Meyer, has been assigned to
duty in the fleet training Office, Navy
Department, while Lieut.. Comdr. Fred
erick c. Sherman will go to duty In
the Bureau of Navigation. Lieut..
Comdr. Anton B. Anderson, who has
been in command of the U. S. S.
Mervine, is under orders to the Bureau
of Engineering, Navy Department.
Lieut.. Comdr. Louis E. Denfeld, who
has been in command of the U. S. S.
Brooks. will go to duty in the Bureau
of Navigation, Navy Department
Army.
1t has been generally assumed that
the present administration would fill
none of the vacancies in the military
or naval establishments occurring after
March 3, as 1t has been taken for
granted that President-elect Hoover
would have the exclusive privilege of
making appointments to such positions
where the terms of the incumbents
expire after the approaching inaugu-
ration. The single appointment over
which there has been some question
was that of Mai. Gen. John A. Le-
jeune, commandant of the United
States Marine Corps, who will have
completed eight years in that capacity
on March S. This particular problem
has been solved, however, with the an
nouncement made by Gen. Lejeune last
hot lNn nf1inp
and the appointment of Gen. Neville
as his successor Speculation continues
in military circles however. relative to
the position of chief OF Chemical War
fare Service, the present incumbent OF
which is Maj Gen. Amos A. Fries,
who will complete his second term of
four years on March %, 1929, and that
of the chief of Infantry. now occupied
by Mai. Gen. Robert II. Allen, who
will complete his tour of duty in that
capacity on the same date.
There has been more or less specula-
ton, especially in the War Department,
whether the detail to the high-ranking
positions in the military establishment
will be confined to one term of four
years. The Navy Department policy in
this respect appears to be different,
there having been no such assertion that
limitation shall be placed on the
period of Office that the chief of Navy
DEPARTING It bureau shall hold. Whether
President-elect Hoover favors the pres
ent War Department policy of limiting
the term of office of War Department
bureau chief to one term of four years
has not been revealed and probably will
not be known until the time comes for
either the reappointment of Gems. Fries
or the appointment of his successor
OF particular interest to officers Of
TIE Veterinary Corps of tn, Regular
Army is the proposal that fCl purposes
of promotion longevity pay officers of
that corps be credited all full-time serv-
ice rendered by them as veterinarian
in the Quartermaster Department, Cav
airy or Field Artillery prior to June 8,
1916. The seven officers of the Veter-
mary Corps who would be affected are:
Col. w. G. Turner, present chief of the
Veterinary Corps; Col. e. j. Cramer,
station veterinarian at Fort Bliss. Tex;
Col. John N. McKennon, former chief