Evening star., 1936-06-07
Z ARMY MEDICAL
MEN COMING HERE
Surgeon Generals Office
Duty Given Officers in
2 or 3 Months.

Within the next two or three months
a dozen officers of the Army Medical
Department will arrive here for duty
in the Office of the surgeon general Of
the Army. They include 10 medical
officers, one dental officer and one vet
erinarian.
The medical officers are headed by
Col. William L. Sheep, now on duty as
executive officer of the Army and Navy
General Hospital, Hot Springs Ma
tional Park. Ark, who will relieve Col.
L. B. McAfee as chief of the personnel
division. Col. McAfee's new assign
ment will take him to FitZsimons
General Hospital, Denver, Colo. The
Army Medical Library will have new
librarian in the person of Col Harold
w. Jones, who will relieve in that
capacity Maj. Edgar E. Hume, whose
new duties have not been definitely
determined. Col. Jones is now on duty
in the Hawaiian Department. Upon
graduating this month from the Army
Industrial College, Lieut.. Col. Robert
D. Harden will relieve Maj. Harold D.
Rogers in the finance and supply di-
vision. Maj. Rogers will assume new
duty in the Office of the Assistant Sec
retary of War. Upon completing his
present tour of foreign service in the
Philippine Department, Lieut.. Col.
James E. Baylis will return to the
United States and proceed to Washing
ton, where he will assume new duty in
the planning and training division of
the surgeon generals office. He will
relieve in that capacity Maj. John A.
Rogers, whose new assignment will
take him to Letterman General Hos
pital.
Maj. Charles G. Souder, on duty as
an instructor at the Medical Field
Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pa,
will succeed, in the statistical division
of the Office, Lieut.. Col George F. Lull,
who will assume new duty at the Car
Isle station. The Army Medical Mu-
scum will have new curator in the
person of Maj. James e. Ash, who is
now on duty at Letterman General
Hospital. He will relieve at the Med
ical Museum Maj. Raymond o. Dart,
who will assume new duty at Letter.
man General Hospital Capt. Eugene
w. Billick, who has been undergoing
instruction at Fort Leavenworth,
Kans., will be assigned to duty in the
personnel division. Three other off,
GERS, all captains, will assume new duty
in the finance and supply division.
They include Capt Earl Standlee, un-
der instruction at the Army Industrial
College, and Capts. Martin E. Griffin
and Reuell E. Hewitt, both of whom
are on duty at the New York depot.
Maj. Walter D. Vail, who is ap-
preaching the end of his tour of duty
in the dental division will be relieved
by Capt. Harold G. OFT, who is now
on duty at Fort Francis E. Warren,
Wyoming. The new duties of Maj
Vail will take him to Hamilton Field,
California.
Maj. George L. Caldwell, on duty
at Fort Riley. Kans., will take over
the duties now being performed in the
veterinary division by Maj. Seth c.
Dildine. The latter officer will be on
temporary duty at Carlisle Barracks,
Pa, until the middle of December.
Navy.
As the result of retirements on
June l the following officers of the
line became due for promotion on that
date: Lieut.. Comdr. Armit C. Thomas,
Lieuts. Jewett P. Moncure and Wade
De Weese and Leuts. (Junior Grade)
Charles H. Lyman, Sd; Bert F. Brown
and John M. Taylor. Incident to the
foregoing promotions Of Iieutenants,
Junior grade, in the line, the follow
ing officers Of the staff will become
due for promotion to the rank of lieu
tenant: Leuts. (Junior Grade) James
H. Rodgers. Oscar Stiegler, Francis
x. Forest and George c. Weaver of
the Construction Corps, and Lieuts.
(Junior Grade) Robert H Meade of
the Civil Engineer Corps.
The following officers were placed
on the retired list of the Navy on
June /, without affect on the pro-
motion situation: Lieut.. Comdr.
Francis D. Gibbs (medicaD; Capts.
Philip j. Willett and Thomas P.
Ballenger, and Lieut.. Comdr. Richard
D. Micou, all Supply Corps, and
Comdr. Eugene H. Tricou Of the latter
corps.
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