Evening star., 1931-11-29
Army and Navy
News

Navy.
The recommendation of the board for
the selection of officers for engineering
duty only has been approved by the Sec
retary of the Navy. The following ofi-
GERS were selected: Lieut.. Comdrs:
Guysbert B. Vroom, Palmer H. Dunbar.
jr.: Wilbur ]. Ruble, William E. MalloY
and Raymond A. Deming. :,
A number of officers of the Regular
Army, Navy and Marine Corps and ofh-
GERS of the Reserve components OF these
three services held a conference at the
War Department last week for the con-
sideration of the problems entering into
"selective service" for the military-na-
val services. The Navy officers par
ticipating in the conference were Lieut..
Comdr. H. ]. Ray and the following
Naval Reserve officers: Capt. Roy L.
Lowman, Lieut.. Comdrs. L. G. McNe-
mar, M. j. Torlinski. R. Moses, S. e.
Holiday and D. Howard. The Marine
Corps was represented by Maj. W. H.
RupertuS of the Regular Marine Corps,
and two Marine Corps Reserve officers.
namely, Maj. G. A. Ketchum and Lieut..
Troy S. NubSon.
Regular Army officers participating
in the discussions were Lieut.. Col. Wal
StearnS, Richard F. Cox and Clinton
w. Russell. Army Reserve officers at
tending the conference, all Specialist
Reserve officers, were Col. Harry G.
Kramer, Col H. H. Burdick, Lieut.. Col.
G. S. Wallace, MajS. G. A. Riegelman,
E. A. Fitzpatrick, v. ]. O'Kelliher and
j. A. Boise; Capts. J. N. Keelin, r. D.
Wells and H. w. Bennett, and First
LieutS. E. r. Baker, w. j. DuBose and
r. P. Davidson.
Lieut.. Robert P. Mcconnell and Lieut..
(Junior Grade Henry D. Patterson
have become due for promotion Incl
dent to the death Of Comdr John F.
Cox. The vacancy in the grade of COM
mander will not be filled until after the
selection board for that rank has made
its recommendations, as the list OF
selections from the last selection board
for the grade has been exhausted.
Army.
The execution of the policy of
mechanizing a part of the Cavalry, an
ncunced by the chief of staff last May.
began last week, when the War De-
partment approved the transfer of the
1St Cavalry Regiment, which has been
to Camp Knox, KY. The mechanical
Cavalry regiment will be organized, it
is expected, some time after December
/, 1881.
In addition to the 1st Cavalry regi-
ment there will be sent to Camp Knox
for station the following units, which
have been included In the mechanical
force at Fort Eustis, Va: Headquar-'
terS and Headquarters Detachment;
Troop A, I'd Armored Car Squadron:
Company c, 18th Engineers; 10Th Ord
nance Company. 28th Motor Repair
Section, Signal Corps Detachment and
the Quartermaster Corps Detachment.
When organized it is expected that the
mechanical Cavalry regiment will have
a personnel of approximately 40 officers
and more than TOO enlisted men.
Recommendations have been made by
Maj. Gen. H. L. Gilchrist, chief of
Chemical Warfare Service, that fVe
colonies and five lieutenant colonies of
other branches of the Army be detailed
to the Chemical Service for a period of
from two to four years. At the present
time there are one colonel and fiVe lieu
tenant colonies in that service. The
attention of Gen. Gilchrist has been
called to the lack Of high-ranking off,
GERS of the Chemical Service. and while
this condition is realized it is impossi-
BILE, with no existing vacancies, to make
any changes without increasing the per-
Sonnel.