Evening star., 1937-02-07
15OARE ADVANCED
IN MARINE CORPS
65 Captains and IS First
Lieutenants Win
Promotions.

mended the promotlOn Oh % SaP'oA1Ao
and IS first lieutenants. after Secre-
tarv Swanson had Endorsed 1t. Two
of the new majors and five OF the
new captains are on duty in the
District. while is of the new majors
and % O. the new captains are seFV-
ing at Quantico. Va.
First Lieut.. Robert Hugh Williams,
who was among he Washingtonians
selected, is one Of the aides to Maj.
Gen. Thomas Holcomb. commandant
of the Marine Corps.
The list of names will be sent shortly
by President Roosevelt to the Senate
as his nominations for confirmation.
The captains OH duty in Washing
ton. chosen for promotion are Clar-
ence Rodney Wallace and Merlin
Frederick Schneider. while those on
duty at Quantico are Chesley George
Stevens. Christian Frank Schilt, prom
tnert aviator; Walter AloySius Wacht-
Ter. Ivan w. Miller. James Stanley
Monahan. Augustus William Cockrell,
James Marcman Smith. Ernest Ed
ward Linsert, Lewis Albert Holm. Ran
dolph Mccall Pate. James Marshall
McHuph, George Joseph O'Shea. Will
liam Montgomery Mitchell. Evans
Fordyce Carlson. Monroe Samuel
Swanson and George Franklin,
Good. ir.
LieutenantS Here Promoted.
The first lieutenants, on duty IN
the National Capital. picked for ad-
vancement. are Paul Dwight Sher-
man, Russell Lloyd. Ernest Walter
Fry, jr., and Lewis Cheatham Hud-
son, jr., while those serving at GUAM
tico are Harry Cox Lang, Orin Kirk
patrick Presley, Randall Mamre Vic
tory. Carson Abel Roberts, Richard
Jacobs Mcpherson. Chester Robinson
Allen, Clarence Joseph O'Donnell, Cor
nelius Peter Van Ness. Lewis Richard
Tyler, Peter Alexander Mcdonald. Paul
Wesley Russell. Charles Harold Hayes,
Wright Carney Taylor. August Larson,
Henry Talmage Elrod. Edward Bruce
Carney, Austin Roger Brunelli. Luther
Samuel Moore, Charles Reed Jones,
Clifford Henry Shuey, John Henry
Cook. ir., and Edward James Dillon.
First Lieut.. Nelson Kenyon Brown.
on duty at Fort Belvoir. Va, was also
selected for advancement.
The board has been in session at the
Navy Department under the preSi-
dency of Col William P. Upshur since
January IS and has just completed its
labors.
In addition to the above named,
these captains were selected for pro-
motion to majors: Edwin Mehlinger,
on duty at Newport, r. l.; Donald
Spicer. Augusta. Ga; Sherman Lloyd
Zea, Portsmouth, N. H; Frank Per-
cival Snow. Paris Island, S. c.;
Walter William Wensinger, U. S. S.
New Mexico; Lawson Harry McPher-
son Sanderson, San Diego, Calf; ia
cob Frank Plachta, San Diego; Har-
old Elicit RoSecrans, U. S. S. Port
land; Leo Sullivan. San Diego; Hayne
Davis Boyden. Montgomery, Ala;
Franklin Garrett Cowie, San Diego:
William Elmore Maxwell, U. S. S.
New Orleans: Ronald Aubry Boone.
Shanghai, China; William Baynard
Onley, Norfolk, Va; James Hershel
Strother. U. S. S. Tennessee; Joe
Nelson Smith, Pasadena, Calf: Louis
Eugene Marie, jr., Paris, France; John
Albert Bemis. Peiping. China: John
Crawford Mcqueen, U. S. S. Quincy:
Howard Nathaniel Kenyon, Philadel-
phia, Pa; William Wallace Davies,
US. S. Oklahoma; Vernon Edgar Me-
gee, Montgomery, Ala; Orin HUI
bert Wheeler. U. S. S. Saratoga; Will
liam Oscar Brice, Montgomery, Ala;
Francis Marion Wulbern, U. S. S.
Tuscaloosa Edwin Allen Pollock,
Norfolk; Lucian Cary Whitaker,
Guam; John Curling Donehoo, jr,
U. S. S. Nevada; Raymond Paul
Coffman. San Diego; Rupert Riley
Deese, San Diego; James Profit Rise
ley, Fort Riley. Kans.; Harry Ed
ward Dunkelberger. Hawaii Clayton
Charles Jerome. BogOta, Colombia;
Charles Campbell Brown, Shanghai;
Eugene Hayden Price, San Diego;
Lyman Gano Miller, U. S. S. Arkan-
sas; James Austin Stuart. U. S. S.
Pensacola; Howard Reid Huff, Ports
mouth, N. H.; William Willard Orr,
Philadelphia; Oregon Albert Williams,
San Diego; Lawrence Raymond Kline,
U. S. S. Chicago: William Winches-
ter Paca, Hawaii; Shelton Cornell
Zern, Shanghai John Edward Curry,
U. S. S. Houston; Richard Malcolm
Cults. Guam; Frank Doudet Weir,
San Diego, and Merrill Barber Twin
ing, Fort Benning, Ga.
Promoted to Captains.
First lieutenants chosen for promo
tion to captain include: Francis Jo-
seph Cunningham, San Diego: Ber-
nard Hope Kirk, San Diego; Richard
Potts Ross, ir., U. S. S. Colorado; Otho
Christopher Ledbeter, Olongapo, P. l.;
Deane Carroll Roberts, Pensacola, Fla;
Albert Ferdinand Moe, San Diego;
James Vincent Bradley, jr.. U. S. S.
Mississippi; Joseph Howard Berry, U.
S. S. Pennsylvania; Zebulon Corbin
Hopkins Virgin Islands; Wilfred John
Huffman, San Diego; John Bum Hill,
Shanghai James Raymond Hester, U.
S. s. Nevada: William Frederick Parks,
U. S. S. Lexington; William Arthur
Willis, Pensacola; John Stanley Holm
berg, Pensacola; John Frederick
Stamm, Guantanamo, Cuba; John
Wehle, San Diego; James Phillips
Berkeley, Fort Monmouth, N. j.; Will
liam Putnam Battell, Philadelphia;
Edison Laurence Lyman, Fort Sill,
Okla: Archibald D. Abel, San Diego:
George Harlon Cloud, Shanghai;
Charles Edward Shepard, jr., San
Diego: Michael McGinniss Mahoney,
New York, N. Y.
Thomas Brandenburgh Hughes, Fort
Sill; Frank Gilbert Wagner, jr., San
Diego; Paul Moret. San Diego; Harold
w. Bauer. San Diego; William Bag
garley Mexican, U. S. S. Texas; Fred
. Dale Beans, Fort Benning; Glen GAL
1oway ~Herndon, San Diego; Wallace
Martin Greene, jr., Guam; Francis
Hubert Williams, U. S. S. California;
William BaSsett Steiner, San Diego;
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