Evening star., 1936-04-05
SELECTION BOARDS
TO Be CONVENED.
Naval Civil Engineers, Den-
fists and ChapIains to
Be Promoted.

A number of selection boards will
be convened at the Navy Department
during April and May to recommend
oficers of the Civil Engineer Corps,
Dental Corps and Chaplain Corps for
promotion.
Rear Admiral Reuben E. Bakenhus,
Civil Engineer Corps, heads the Civil
Engineer Corps Selection Board to be
convened at the Navy Department to-
morrow to recommend lieutenants and
Junior grade lieutenants to assume
the duties of the ranks of lieutenant
commander and lieutenant. The
board members include Rear Admiral
Norman M. Smith. Capts. Paul L.
Reed, De Witt C. Webb. Walter H.
Allen, Ralph Whitman, all Civil En-
pineer Corps officers. Comdr. Willard
A. Pollard will be the recorder OF the
board.
The Chaplain Selection Board will
meet Tuesday morning to recommend
lieutenants and junior grade lieu
tenants to assume the duties OF the
ranks of lieutenant commander and
lieutenant. Capt j. B. Frazier, U. S. N,
retired, will be the president OF this
board and he will have as board mem
bers Capts. Curtis H. Dickins. Evan
w. Scott, James D. MacNair, Thomas
3. Thompson, Edward A. Duff, with
Lieut.. Comdr. Joseph H. Brooks as re-
corder.
The Dental Corps Board, headed by
Capt. Neil E. Nichols. U. S. N, Will be
convened at the Navy Department on
April 20, to recommend lieutenants
and Junior grade heutenants of the
Dental Corps for promotion to the
ranks of lieutenant commander and
lieutenant. The board members will
include Capts. Herbert E. Kays, An
drew S. Hickey, Charles C. Hartigan,
Randall Jacobs, Newton H. White,
with Lieut.. Comdr. Clemens V. Rault
DENTAL Corps as recorder Of the
board.
Rear Admiral Richard M. Watt, on
duty at Philadelphia as inspector of
naval material, will be placed on the
retired list of the Navy for age on
july l. A selection board probably
will be convened late in May to recon-
mend an officer Of the Construction
Corps to the rank of rear admiral to
I'LL the vacancy that will result from
retirement of Admiral Watt.
Army.
Brig. Gen. Wallace De Witt, as
sistant to the surgeon general OF the
Army, has been appointed president OF
the Central Medical Department Board
that will be convened in Washington
The board will be composed OF Coils
J.F. Siler, F. P. Stone and r. j. Fos-
ter; Lieut.. Coils J. r. Underwood and
w. w. Vaughan; Majs. G. c. Dun
ham, M. M. Scott, A. P. Kitchens
d. H. Mebane and E. C. Alley, and
Capts. H. N. Fuller and j. r. Wood
recorder of the board.
They will examine the 200 medical
officers and 100 dental officers called
for by the Army appropriation bill
now being considered by Congress.
If this increase in medical depart
ment commissioned personnel is ap-
proved, it will probably be some time
before the Medical and Dental Corps
will be actually increased by the above
numbers.
Two medical officers have been Or
dered here for duty at the War De-
partment in the Office of the surgeon
general of the Army. Maj. Charles
G. Souder. now on duty at Carlisle
Barracks, Pa, will succeed Lieut.. Col
George F. Lull, Medical Corps, as CHIEF
of the statistical division. Lieut.. Col
James E. Baylis, now on duty in the
Philippine department, will take over
the duties now being performed by
Maj. John A. Rogers, chief of the
training subdivision.