Evening star., 1939-04-01
Navy Announces
Transfers Of Is
In High Command
Commundunts Named
For Atlantic and
European Squodrons
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The Navy selected new COM
mandants for its Atlantic and Eu-
ropean squadrons yesterday and
announced the principal assistants
OF the new chief of operations.
Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis, tall
Georgian. will command the At
lantic force created last year, and
Rear Admiral Charles E. Courtney,
an Alabaman. now director of naval
communications. will head the
squadron dispatched to European
waters in 1896 when the Spanish
war started.
The high command transfers, in
cluded among "a others announced
at the same time, are expected to
take place in early summer. Of
ficials described them as routine.
Thirteen other rear admirals were
assigned to new posts earlier this
month.
Intelligence and Operations Shifts.
New directors of naval intelli-
gence fleet training, and the assist
ant chief of operations were includ-
ed in the latest shifts of command
Serving directly under Rear Admiral
Harold R. Stark, soon to become
chief of operations, they will con-
6titute the Navys equivalent to the
Armys General Staff.
Assigned to these posts were:
Rear Admiral Robert E. Ghormley
of Moscow, Idaho, assistant chief of
Naval Operations.
Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson,
Carlinville, ILL.,, director of Naval
Intelligence.
Rear Admiral Herbert F. Leary,
Jamestown, R. l., director of fleet
training.
Ellis Succeeds johnson.
Admiral Ellis is a former director
of Naval Intelligence. A native of
Macon. Ga, his present home is
Kansas City. AS commander of the
Atlantic Squadron he succeeds Rear
Admiral Alfred w. johnson, as
signed to the General Board.
Admiral Courtney, new COM
mander of the European Squadron
Is Spanish-American War veteran
New York City is his home.
Rear Admiral Henry E. Lackey
who has commanded the European
Squadron. was assigned to be presi-
dent. general court martial, Sd Naval
District.
Other New Assignments.
Other new assienments were an
nounced as follows:
Capt. Leigh Moves to the director
of naval communications.
Rear Admiral William S. Pye to
be commander, destroyers, Battle
Force.
Rear Admiral Walton R. Sexton
to duty with General Board in
Washington.
Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim
nell to be commander, cruisers,
Battle Force.
Rear Admiral Ralston S. Holmes
to be commander, Destroyer Flotilla
!, Battle Force.
Rear Admiral John H. Newton to
command Cruiser Division a.
Rear Admiral Andrew c. Pickens
to command Cruiser Division 7.
Capt. Robert A. Theobald to be
chief of staff of the commander in
chief of the United States Fleet.
Capt. Arthur L. Bristol to be COM
mander of Patrol Wing 2, aircraft,
Scouting Force, based at Pearl Har-
bor. Honolulu.
Real Admiral John M. Smeallie to
be commandant of 18th Naval Dis
trict and commandant of Cavite
Navy Yard.
Rear Admiral George J. Meyers
to be commander of base force.
Rear Admiral William C. Watts
to be commandant of 9th Naval
District at Chicago.
Rear Admiral Joseph r. Defrees,
a former commandant of Washing
ton Navy Yard. to be commandant
of naval, district operating base at
San Diego.
Rear Admiral Sinclair Cannon to
become senior member of Pacific
section of the Board of Inspection
and Survey.
Rear Admiral George F. Neal
probably to become president of the
general court-martial at San Fran
cisco.
Rear Admiral Arthur P. Fairfield
to be commander of Battleship Di-
vision 3.
Rear Admiral John D. VAIN
wright to duty with General Board