Evening star., 1936-01-22
ADMIR-. PETTENG|[L
NAVY YARD CHOICE
Shifts in High Ranking Off,
GERS to Take Effect
Next June.

Rear Admiral George Pettengill.
commander of Battleship DIVISION z,
will come here to assume command ol
the Washington Navy Yard next june
as q result of a shift OF high-rankHls
naval officers announced tooay Wy
Secretary Swanson.
Admiral Joseph F. Reeves. no" COM
mander in chief of the uniteo o'aIes
Fleet. will come here at the same
time to serve with the General Board,
and Can't. Wilson Brown, naval aide
to the President, will receive his COM
mission as rear admiral ana reneVe
Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis as COM
mander of the Training Squadron. No
successor to Capt Brown at the White
House has been announced. All the
changes are scheduled to take effect
June 10.
Capt. A. B. Cook, now commanding
the aircraft carrier Lexington, IS ap-
pointed chief of the Bureau OF Aero
nautics with the rank OF rear ao-
miral. He will relieve Rear admiral
Ernest ]. King, who will be sent TO sea
to become commander Of aircraft OF
the Base Force.
Rear Admiral Joseph X. Taussig,
acting chief of naval operations, Will
relieve Admiral Pettengill, in command
of Battleship Division 2. Admiral
Taussig is acting chief during the ao-
sence of Admiral william H. Standley,
who is in London attending the Naval
Conference. Admiral Taussigs regu-
lar post is assistant chief OF naval op-
erations, but Secretary Swanson mas
not made an announcement about his
relief here.
New Judge Advocate.
Admiral Orin G. Murfin, now COM
mander In chief of the United States
Asiatic Fleet, will be detached from
this duty in october and come TO
washington as Judge advocate gen.
eral. He will be relieved in the Orient
by Rear Admiral H. E. Yarnell. now
commandant Of the 14th Naval DIS
trict.
Rear Admiral James o. Richard
son, now chief of staff to the COM
mander in chief of the United states
Fleet. will relieve Rear Admiral S.
Cannon as commander OF the oestroy-
ers of the Scouting Force.
Vice Admiral Henry v. Butler, for
mer commandant of the Washington
NAVY Yard, and now commandant OF
aircraft of the Battle Force, will be-
come commandant of the 9Th Naval
District.
Rear Admiral E. B. Fenner. now
commandant of the 9Th Naval Dis
trict, will relieve Rear Admiral Thomas
C. Hart as commander of the cruisers
Of the Scouting Force.
Block to Command Division.
Rear Admiral Claude c. Bloch. now
fudge advocate general. will be as
signed to command Battleship Di-
vision l.
Rear Admiral Walter N. Vernon. now
In command of Cruiser Division 3. will
be assigned to command the cruisers
OF the Battle Force.
Can't. J. C. Townsend. now on duty
IN the Office of naval operation, Navy
Department, who will become a rear
admiral in May, will relieve Admiral
Vernon in command of Cruiser Di-
vision 3.
Admiral Hart, upon detachment as
commander of the cruisers Of the
Scouting Force, will come to Wash
1ngton as a member of the General
Board.
Rear Admiral C. w. Cole, now
commander of the Submarine Force,
will be ordered as commandant OF the
navy yard, Portsmouth. N. H.
Rear Admiral Joseph r. Defrees,
now commandant of the Washington
Navy Yard, will be assigned to COM
mand the Submarine Force.
Born in Boise in 1877.
The new commandant of the Wash
1ngton Navy Yard, Admiral Pettengill,
is a native of Boise. Idaho, where he
was born October Is, 1877 He was
appointed to the Naval Academy from
his native State in 1894. His World
War duty as executive officer of the
battleship Wyoming of the 9Th Divis-
ion Battleship Fleet. operating in the
war zone, brought him the Navy
Cross.
Admiral Pettengill served previ-
ously in Washington at the Bureau
of Navigation in 1923, after duty as
commander of the destroyer squadrons
Of the Asiatic Fleet Subsequently he
served as naval attache at Peiping,
China, from 1925 to 1927. Then he
became commanding officer of the
battleship U. S. S. Tennessee. In
1929 he attended the Naval War Col |
lege at Newport r. l.. and then be-
came commander of mine craft of the |
Battle Force. He commanded the
submarine base, New London, Conn.,,
from May. 1882, to June, 1884. when
he became commander of the base
force. He has been commander of
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