Evening star., 1932-03-27
Army and Navy
News
Navy.
aistorieslly Correct Sketches
By CALVIN FADER

The Naval Medical Board that con-
vened recently at the Navy Department
has recommended Capt. Arthur w.
Dunbar for promotion to the rank of
rear admiral in the Medical Corps.
Rear Admiral Dunbar succeeds Rear
Admiral James F. Legs, who was re-
tired on January l, for age, with the
rank Of vice admiral. Rear Admiral
Dunbar is on duty at the Navy Depart
ment as member of the Naval Retiring
Board, Naval Examining Board for off,
GERS of the Medical Corps, and Board of
Medical Examiners.
A board of officers of the Medical
Corps will be convened at the Navy De-
partment April to recommend flve
officers Of that corps for promotion to
the rank Of commander. The board
viii be composed of Rear Admiral Ar
thur w. Dunbar and Capts. VIII N. Gar
ton, Charles S. Butler, John M. Brister,
Benjamin H. Dorsey, Owen j. Mink and
Harold w. Smith, with Lieut.. Comdr.
John r. White as recorder. These Sc
lections are necessary as. result OF
the selection by the line board meeting
last February, which selected line ON
GERS who are running mates Of staff
tunity for selection of members of the
staff corps until after the sessions of
next line selection board, which event
will not occur until next December at
the earliest.
Comdr. Robert H. Shelton. now in
command Of the U. S. s. Buchanan, will
come to duty at the Navy Department
after June / In the Bureau of Naviga-
ton. Comdr. Melville s. Brown, now
IN duty as gunnery officer of the U. S. S.
Saratoga, will, after June /, come to
the Navy Department for duty in the
fleet training office; Comdr. William r.
Purneu, on duty as navigator of the
U. S. s. Tennessee, will after that same
date assume duty in the Bureau of
Navigation. while Comdrs. Harold c.
Train, on duty on the staff of the COM
mander-in-chief Of the United States
fleet, and Spencer s. Lewis, on duty on
the stah OF the commander of the
Scouting Force, will come to duty in the
ONCE OF naval operations. Comdr.
William S. Pye, recently head of the
naval mission in Peru. viii be temporar-
iiy assigned to duty in the naval intel
Three officers of the Navy who are
now taking course at the Naval War
College will come to Washington for
duty the latter part of May Comdr.
Elwin Z. Cults will go to the operations
Office, Comdr. Benjamin " McCandlish
VIII assume duty at the Navy Depart
ment In the communications office,
while Comdr. George c. Logan will go
to the Army War College for instruc-
tion. Lieut.. Comdr. Edwin D. Gibb,
now on duty as aide to the commander
Of Battleship Division g. will come to
Washington for duty at the Navy De-
IN ha t1v,fl
Five or six radio electricians or chief
radio electricians will come to Wash
ington next Fall to undergo an eight
months course Of instruction in COM
munication engineering at the Naval
Research Laboratory. Bellevue, D. c.,
beginning October I, 1882.
Lieut.. Comdr. George p. Brewster,
o. S. NJ, new IN command of the q. S.
s. Borie, which has been at Shanghai
and Marking during the hostilities in
China, will be relieved Of these duties
in the near future and will come TO
duty in charge of the naval unit at
Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md.
Army.
Army regulations have been changed
SO that service as commandant, as
oAoIddlI COIIlIIldlOduL anu DaCLAllOn ana
company commanders of the corps of
cadets of the United States Military
Academy at West Point Is counted as
service in command of troops in the
consideration of an officers detail as
member of the General Staff Corps.
In the past this service at West Point
has not been included. In time of
peace officers of the line are not de-
tailed as members of the General Staff
Corps unless they have served for two
OF the next preceding six years in ac-
tual command Of troops of one or more
OF the arms.
Col. Rex. H Rhoades, now on duty
at the United States Military Academy
at West Point, has been ordered to
Washington, where, on arrival on
August /, he will assume the duties of
chief of the Dental Service, as the re-
lief OF Col. Julien r. Bernheim, D. c.,
who will complete his four-year tour of
duty as chief of this service on June
is, 1882. Col. Bernheim has been or
dered to duty in the Hawaiian De-
partment and he will sail for his new
station on June 10 from New York on
the Army transport st. Mihiel.