Evening star., 1934-07-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

AS November approaches and Gen.
Douglas Macarthur rounds out four
years of duty as chief of staff, specu-
lation grows as to the identity of the
officer who will inherit the blue ribbon
of the Army in case Macarthur is not
reappointed. There is no legal obstacle
| to his retention, but it would be a
departure from custom for chief of
staff to serve more than a four-year
| term. Officers available for four years
! of full service, because still sufficiently
under the retirement age of "a, in
clude the following major generals:
| George S. Simonds. Fox Conner, Malin
Craig, Frank R. Mccoy, George Van
Horn Moseley, A. j. Bowley. Robert E.
! Callan, Hugh A. Drum, Stuart Heint-
zelman and Lucius R. Holbrook Ex-
| cept that Mai. Gen Dennis E Nolan,
| famous chief of the A. E. F. intelli-
gence service and now commanding
| the I'd Corps Area at Governor s
! Island, N. Y, will reach retirement
age in 1886, he would be conSpicuously
| in the running. Gen. Nolan is now
! the ranking major general in the Army.
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Rumors point strongly to the Sc
lection of Gen. Mccoy, now in COM
mand of the 7th Corps Area, with
/ headquarters in Georgia. as Gen. Mac
Arthur's successor. Mccoy was in
charge of the elections in Nicaragua
which restored peace to that country
| in 1923. Later he represented the
United States on the League of Ma
! tionS' Manchurian Commission. He
| served with Gen. Leonard Wood when
the latter was governor general of the
Philippines and would be especially
| qualified TO direct military reorgani-
| cation when the commonwealth gov
| ernment at Manila becomes effective
| There are also reports that Gen.
Heintzelman. commanding the Com
mand and General Staff School at
| Fort Leavenworth. is being strongly
| considered. Another officer who en-
| JOYS high favor is Gen. Drum. for
| many years chief of the operations
and training division of the general
staff, later inspector general of the
| Army, and now deputy chief of staff
| The consensus is that the whole mat
/ ter of the chief of staff succession is
on the laps of the gods, with one
/ guess about the outcome as good as
/ another.
| Crown Hill Cemetery, near Indian
| apolis. in which John Dillinger is to
be buried, contains the graves of half
dozen of Indiana's most distinguished
| sons-Civil War Governor Oliver P.
! Morton. Vice Presidents Thomas A.
Hendricks, Charles w. Fairbanks and
| Thomas r. Marshall, Senator Albert
! j. Beveridge and the immortal Hoosier
bard, James Whitcomb Riley.
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/ Former Secretary of the Interior
James r. Garfield, who hasn't been
much in the public eye since he func-
! toned as chairman of the Resolutions
/ Committee at the 1882 Republican
National Convention and won the fight
to keep the Hoover platform from be-
| ing too wet. has been in Washington
I frequently this Summer. On behalf
of the sugar planters of Hawaii Mr..
/ Garfield is preparing an injunction
I against the enforcement OF the ad-
/ ministration sugar ALLEGATION law
passed by the late Congress. The law
/ gives beet sugar. as domestic produc-
ton, an increased ALLEGATION. Cuba
and the Philippines about hold their
own, while Hawaii alone is deeply cut.
The injunction is sought on the ground