Evening star., 1940-11-03

cial military adviser to the President and
Secretary Of War. He is also the Armys
senior commander in the field. Unless
superseded by a special appointment. like
that Of Gen. Pershing in the World War,
he would be leader of the Nations land
forces in the event of hostilities.
Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, former
chief Of the Air Corps, welded both staff
and tactical functions until the shake-up
Of October 25. Gen. Arnold was made
a deputy chief of staff, and his Office
as senior field commander of military
aviation devolved upon Gen. Emmons,
whose headquarters at Langley Field.
Va are soon to be transferred to Boiling
Field. In recognition of the huge expan-
sion of the air arm, Gen. Emmons was
promoted from major general to lieu
tenant general and thus became equal
in rank to the commanders of the four
field armies. For the same reason. cor
responding advance is believed to be in
store for Gen. Chaffee. who commands
the Army's single mechanical corps OF
two divisions at Fort Knox, KY.
McNair at G. H. @.
Gen. McNair finds admission to the
big Eight" on two grounds. AS chief
Of stan at general headquarters, he is
the connecting link between Gen. Mar
shall and the commanders of field armies.
In addition, general headquarters has
direct command over the air and mo-
torized forces the. air defense command
and large bodies of Reserve troops
throughout the country. In the recent
reorganization, the air force became ex-
clusively combat and tactical training
unit. Procurement, personnel and pri-
mary training were relegated wholly to
the Army Air Corps. the new acting chief
of which is Maj Gen. George Howard
Brett.
Gen. Marshall was born at Uniontown,
Pa, and will be so years old next De-
cember 81 In 1902, year after his
graduation from the Virginia Military
Institute, he was commissioned second
lieutenant of infantry in the Regular
Army There followed IS years of peace
time duty at Western posts and in the
Philippines, interspersed with tours as
National Guard instructor.
During the battle of Cantigny in May,
1918. he acted as assistant chief for
operations of the 1st Division and was
St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offen-
sives. His reward was the Distinguished
Service Medal with five bars. He was
aide-de-camp to Gen. Pershing from
1919 to 1924. Then he served three years
with the 18th Infantry at Tentsin,
China. After holding commands at va
rious posts in the South, he was ordered
to Washington in 1888 as assistant chief
Of the War Plans Division of the Gen.
eral Staff. Appointments as deputy
and then Acting Chief of Staff came in
due course. On September /, 1899
thanks largely, 1t is declared, to Gen.
Pershing's support-he became chief of
staff, with the rank of general.
Gen. Drum Native Of Michigan.
1t was at Jefferson Barracks st. Louis,
that Gen. Drum began his military
career in September, 1898, after obtain
ing an appointment as second lieutenant
of the 18th Regular Infantry. He was
born at Fort Brady, Mich, and was 81
years old September 10. He served in the
expedition to Vera Cruz, Mexico, in
1914, and was aide-de-camp to Gen.
Frederick Funston in 1861. In France
he was detailed as chief of staff of the
1st Army and was engaged in the Aisne-
Marne, st. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne
campaigns. He has since been inspector
general of the Army, commander of the
5th and I'd Corps Areas, commanding
general of the Hawaiian Department
and deputy chief of staff in Washing
ton. He was assigned to command the
LIST Army in August, 1899. 1t has been
reported that Gen. Drum was the War
Departments candidate to succeed Gen.
Malin Craig as chief Of staff.
Perhaps the most colorful of the
group Is Gen. Lear, commanding the
I'd Army, the area of which includes
Missouri and Illinois, and much of the
territory between Ohio and wyoming,
the Canadian border and Louisiana.
He enlisted In the 1st Colorado In
fantry Volunteers during May, 1893, and
was promptly elected first sergeant. In
three years Of service In the Philippines,
including the capture Of Manila, he rose
to first lieutenant. He transferred to
the Regular Army as a second lieutenant
Of the 18th Cavalry in June, 1901. Since
those youthful days he has beheld no
combat service. He was attending
the Army Service School at Fort Leaven-
worth "a April q, 1917, when the United