Evening star., 1932-01-31
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS

army.
An unusual incident occurred last
week, when the Senate recalled some
nine nominations of Army officers after
they had been confirmed as general
officers. The officers affected are: Ed
gar T. Collins, to be major general
Julian r. Lindsey, Cavalry, to be briga-
der general; Perry L. Miles, Infan-
try. to be brigadier general; Louis M
huffman, infantry, to be brigadier gen
eral; Harry Burgess, G. E., to be briga-
der general; Robert S. Abernethy, c.
A. c., to be brigadier general; Alfred
It. Smith, Infantry, to be brigadier gen.
eral; Frederick w. Coleman, F. D., to
be chief of finance, with rank OF
major general, and Oscar Westover
A. c.. to be assistant to the chief OF
the Air Corps, with rank of brigadier
general.
The action, it was explained, was
taken because 1t was not noted by the
committee that the appointments were
made to take effect long time in the
future"
More than a score Of Infantry Off
GERS of the Regular Army have been
assigned to undergo the 1928 course
Of instruction at the Army War College
part of August. They are Lieut.. Coils
Frederick w. Manley, Clyde R. Abra-
ham, Walter S. Drysdale, Majs. Thomp-
son Lawrence, James 3. Ord, Raymond
o. Barton, Earl Landreth, Wallace C
Philoon, Carroll A. Bagby, Fred L. Wal
ker, William G. LiyeSay, Harrison C
Browne, Harold R. Bull, Stephen j
Chamberlain, Jens A. Doe, Ziba L
Drollinger, William F. Freehoff, Harry
F. Hazlet, Paul E. Peabody, Frederick
c. Rogers, Edward C.. Rose, Truman
Smith, Richard K. Sutherland and
James r. N. Weaver and Capts. Oscar
B. Abbott, Francis M. Brennan, Nelson
M. Walker. James c. Crockett anc
John r. Francis.
Navy.
AS the result of the question being
raised as to whether the terms of the
law of 1925 place a limit upon the
number of medical officers eligible for
the rank of rear admiral, the recent
request of Rear Admiral Charles E
Riggs, surgeon general of the Navy and
chief of the Bureau of Medicine ano
Surgery, for the appointment of Sc
lection board to recommend an Officer
Of the Medical Corps of the Navy fol
advancement to the rank of rear ad-
miral has been submitted to the judge
advocate general of the Navy. The Law
of 1926 provides that there shall be
mot more than four officers" OF the
rank of rear admiral in active service
in the Naval Medical Corps.
Twenty officers of the Naval Medica
Corps of the grade of captain, are
eligible for advancement to the rank oi
rear admiral. While the law specifies
that not more than four officers Of that
corps shall have the rank of rear ad-
miral, it is observed that there is nc
specific provision for the appointment
OF that number.
Consideration is being given by Navy
Department authorities Of the amend.
ment OF existing laws which provides
for equalization Of promotion between
line and staff officers of the Navy. II
has yet to be determined whether any
change in existing law which may bt
suggested will involve extra cost II
any event, the project will be submitted
10 the director of the Budget Bureau fol
his comment to the effect that the pro-
posed legislation would or would not be
in conflict with the financial program
Of the President. An advance estimate
Of cost, however, fails to reveal that the
legislation IN contemplation would cOSt
enough as increase to prove a disabling
characteristic, but that question of eX-
pense must come up for consideration
The determination of cost depends
however, entirely upon the provision ot
the amendment, and the finally adopted
phraseolcgy remains, for the present, &
matter of adjustment of differences.
An amendment to existing law woulc
mean change in the existing situation
to the extent that it would provide fol
retirement Of an increased number ot
staff officers of the rank of captain
who would be made rear admirals or
the retired list. This is regarded a.
necessary as means Of rectifying t.
some degree the provision in the pro.
motion equalization law which allow,
for only four rear admirals in the Nava
Medical Corps and three officers Of
that rank in the Naval Supply Corps