Evening star., 1930-12-08
MOSELEY IS NAMED
MACARTHUR'S AID.
New Deputy Chief of Staff Is
Detailed to Report for Duty
on December Fl.

Detail Of Maj. Gen. George '. n.
MoSeley, now military executive in the
Office Of Assistant Secretary Payne, as
deputy chief Of staff, to relieve Mai.
Gen. Ewing E. Booth, whose detail to
that Office expires December 81, was
announced at the War Department
today. The change was one Of several
made on recommendation of Gen,
Douglas Macarthur, chief of staff.
Brig. Gen. Robert E. Callan, now in
command Of the Coast Artillery brigade
in Hawaii, is detailed as assistant chief
OF staff for supply at the War Depart
ment, to fill vacancy.
Col. Alfred T. Smith, commanding
the 34th Infantry, at Fort Eustis, Va,
Is detailed as assistant chief Of staff
for Military Intelligence, which includes
the press section Of the War Depart
ment, an Office recently vacated by the
detail OF Brig. Gen. Stanley H. Ford as
military attache to the United States
embassy at Paris, France.
Another assignment announced was
that of Col. Irving j. Carr. Signal
Corps, now at headquarters, 4th Corps
Arear, at Atlanta, Ga, as military
executive to Assistant Secretary Payne
at the War Department.
All Wear HOnOrs.
Each one of the officers named has
been decorated for distinguished and
merltorious services, and is we'll known
in this city through service at the War
Department or vicinity.
Gen. Mosely was born In Evanston.
Ill, September %, 1874, graduated from
the Military Academy IN 1899 and
served with the Cavalry In engagements
IN the PHILIPPINES, In Indian campaigns
in the West, In the Mexican border
troubles and was chief of the supply
section of the A. E. F. In France with
the rank OF brigadier general through
out the war. He also served as observer
OF military operations at the German
and French grand maneuvers in 1918
and as observer of military operations
between the Tartars and Armenians and
the Turks and Greeks in 1919.
Since the World War he has served,
respectively, on the staff of Gen. Persh-
ing, with troops in Texas, in the office
of the director of the budget. in COM
mand OF Fort Sheridan, ILL.,; Camp
Custer, Mich; the Artillery bridge In
Hawaii and the Cavalry division at Fort
Bliss, Tex. He reached the grade Of
major general in August last and has
been on duty at the War Department
since August, 1929.
In addition to the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal he was awarded an oak leaf
cluster, which was equivalent to an
award of an additional Distinguished
Service Medal
Records Are Notable.
Gen. Callan was born in Baltimore
and was graduated from the Military
Academy in 1892. Most of his earlier
service was in the Artillery arm. He
took part in the Spanish War in Porto
Rico, and during the World War COM
manded the 33d Artillery Brigade and
Tractor Artillery, comprising force of
$4,000 officers and men. Since his re-
turn to the United States, he has served
in the Office of the chief of Coast Artil-
lery, the General Staff College, at Fort
Totten, N. Y; the Panama Canal Zone,
with the Coast Artillery School at Fort
Monroe and with the Coast Artillery in
Hawaii, where he is at present.
Col. Smith was born in this city No
vernber rs, 1874 and was graduated
from Central High School in 1894. In
the same year he enlisted in the Regu-
lar Infantry and rose through the In
tervening grades to a second lieutenancy
in May, 1897. He served in Cuba dur
ing the Spanish War and afterward in
the Philippine inSurrection and other
important military operations. In jan
uary, 1917, he was made military at
tache at Buenos Aires, Argentina, and
returned to the United States in MAY,
1919, and then made an inspection of
the western battle front. He was grad
uated from the Army War College in
1921 and from the General Staff School
at Fort Leavenworth in 1922. In the
latter year he was made assistant chief
Of staff at headquarters, Sd Corps, Bal
timore, and subsequently had charge of
area. He has been In command AZ
Fort Eustis, Va, since November, 1929.