Evening star., 1933-03-26
Army and Navy News

Army.
Two War Department chiefs Of
branches, Mai. Gen. Stephen o. FuQua,
chief Of Infantry, and Maj. Gen. Harry
L. Gilchrist, chief Of Chemical Warfare
Service, will complete next Tuesday
their four year period Of duty as chief
Of these respective services. Neither
one, 1t Is expected, will be reappointed.
Gen. Fuqua will not be 50 years Of age
until December next. which will make
him serve five more years before he
attains the statutory retirement age
limit of 81 years. Whether Gen. Fu-
qua will continue in active service and
revert to his permanent rank Of coll
onel after March 20, or make applica-
tion for retirement after more than so
years service is not known. Several
names have been mentioned in connec-
ton with the approaching vacancy and
it is expected that the identity Of the
new head Of the Infantry arm win De
announced within few days.
There Is considerable speculation IN
military circles as to whether the ap-
pointing authorities will 60 outside the
Chemical Warfare Service In selecting
successor to Gen. Gilchrist. It will be
recalled that he was colonel In the
Medical Corps and attached to duty IN
the Office of the chief of Chemical War
fare Service when he was appointed
head Of the chemical service four years
ago. He will be 64 years Of age next
January.
Among the officers Of the Chemical
Warfare Service eligible for selection as
successor to Gen. Gilchrist are two col
onels and six lieutenant colcnels. The
two colonies include Charles w. Exton
and Claude E. Brigham, the lieutenant
oolonels eligible for consideration be,
ing walter c. Baker, Charles E. T.
Lull, Charles r. Alley, Adelno Gibson,
James w. Lyon and Ray L. Avery.
In the future the assignments of on
c>-s, warrant officers and nurses of the
Army, Navy or Marine Corps to per-
manent duty in the Philippines, on the
Asiatic station, or In China, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico or the Panama Canal Zone
shall be for not less than three years.
All officers who have been ordered to
Washington as instructors or students
at the Army War College or the Army
Industrial College here, will return to
the United States in time to assume the
duties for which they had bsen selected.
regardless Of the new instructions gov
erntng foreign service assignments.
Navy.
Between now and June large numbers
Of officers will come to duty at the Navy
Department and the Naval Hospital
Lieut.. Comdr. Orlo s. Goff, Supply
Corps, now serving aboard the q. s. s.
Sirius, Is scheduled to assume new duty
at the Washington Naval Hospital April
20, while on May ! Lieut.. Raymond A.
Hansen will begin duty with the expert
mental diving unit at the Washington
Navy Yard. Most Of the new Navy ar
rivals will assume their new Washington
duty during June. Those assigned to
the Bureau Of Navigation include
Conld-. Benjamin 8. Killmaster. The
other new assignments are as follows:
Comdr. Alan G. Kirk to Bureau OF
Naval Operations. Lieut. Comdr Hubert
e. Paddock to division of fleet training.
Lieut.. Comdr. Richard II. Knight to
photographic office, Lieut.. Comdr. Allan
E. Smith to office Of Judge advocate
general Of the Navy, Lieut.. Comdr.
Philip r. Weaver to Naval Research
Laboratory. Lieut.. Comdr. Leroy w.
Busbey, jr., to Bureau OF Construction
and Repair and Lieut.. Comdr. Arthur
c. Miles, Construction Corps, to the
Bureau Of Aeronautics.
Captains of the Navy will shortly ar.
rive in Washington for duty as follows:
Capt. Benjamin Dutton. jr.. to Bureau
Of Navigation; Capt. John N. Ferguson,
to Naval Observatory; Capt. wilhelm
Z. Frtedell, to naval gun factory,
Washington Navy Yard; Capt Hamil-
ton F. Glover, to Army War College as
instructor; Capt. Neil E. Nichols and
Capt. Andrew C. Pickens, to Bureau Of
Naval Operations.
Capt. James P. Lannon, now on duty
In the operations ONCE at the Navy
Department, will assume command In
June Of the South China patrol. Dur
ing that same month Capt. John H.
Newton. now commanding the U. s. s,
Trenton, will assume new duty as head
OF the Postgraduate School at the
Naval Academy