Evening star., 1941-02-01
Artillery Claims Three
Brigadiers Nominated
As Major Generals
Shedd, Prosser and
Cubbison Named; Ridley
Attached to Engineers

The artillery arm OF the service
claims three of the brigadiers whose
nominations for promotion to the
rank OF major general are pending
before the Senate, while the fourth
belongs to the Engineer Corps. All
four are West Pointers.
Brig. Gen. Clarence S. Ridley, in
command of the 9Th Division at
Fort Smelling, Mimi, is the only
engineer officer. A former White
House aide to President Wilson,
he was in charge of Public Buildings
and Grounds in Washington dur
ing the World War.
With the exception of Brig. Gen.
William E. Shedd, who is on gen.
eral staff duty here, the new major
generals are now in command OF
the various posts to which they
were assigned in recent weeks or
months. Gen. Shedd, assistant
chief of staff for personnel. has
been assigned to command the 9Th
Division at Fort Jackson, S. c. He
will not leave to take over the COM
mand, however, until the Senate has
confirmed his nomination.
The other nominees and their as
signments are Brig. Gen. Walter E.
Prosser, commanding the Panama
Mobile Force, Canal Zone, and Brig.
Gen. Donald c. Cubbison, COM
manding the 1st Division at Fort
Devens, Mass.
Ridley Graduated in 1901.
Gen. Ridley was born June %,
1888, at Corydon, Ind, and was
graduated from the United States
Military Academy in 1901 to enter
the Corps of Engineers. He has wide
administrative and field experience.
From 1916 to 1921 he was on duty
in Washington, first with the chief
of engineers, later in charge of
Washington's parks and public
buildings. In this capacity he also
served as White House aide and
superintendent of the State, War
and Navy Building.
In 1890, he directed hurricane re-
lief work in Puerto Rico and then
took courses at the War and Indus
trial Colleges. Gen. Ridley was
ordered to Panama in 1882, serving
as engineer of maintenance to 1886.
He then was appointed Governor
of the Canal Zone for four years.
Last September he was assigned to
duty at Fort Lewis, Wash, and on
January Is was given his present
command at Fort Smelling.
Gen. Prosser was born in New
Albany, Ind, January 13, 1882, and
was graduated from the Military
Academy in 1905. With the artillery
he saw service chasing Mexican
bandits in 1914 and also combat
service in France in the World War.
He Is a graduate of the War Col
lege and has served also in the
Philippines.
Commands 4th Infantry.
In 1889, Gen. ProSSer served with
the 9Th Infantry at Fort Douglas,
Utah, jumped later to Fort Francis
e. Warren Wyo., and last June was
placed in command of the 4th In
fantry at Fort Benning, Ga.
Gen. CubbiSon, from Fort Sill,
Okla, was graduated into the ar
tillery from West Point in 1904. He
was born in Harrisville, Pa, May
s, 1882. AS young officer at Fort
Sill, he witnessed the funeral of
Chief Geronimo, one of the last of
the famous Indian warriors. He
served in the World War in France
and as treasurer of the Military
Academy in 1926. For while he
was r. o. T. C. officer at Stanford
University. After a tour of duty
In Hawaii, Gen. Cubbison was made
commander of the Field Artillery
School and post at Fort Sill in Au-
gust, 1910. He was ordered trans
ferred to his Fort Devens post on
January 13.
Gen. Shedd, youngest of the four.
was born in Danville, ILL.,, February
Is, 1885. He graduated from the
Military Academy in 1907, being
commissioned in the coast artillery.
He is a graduate also of the War
College.
Served Tours In Capital.
He served in France during the
World War and his service included
O detail at the general headquarters
of the A. E. F. After the war he
served three years in Washington
with the Office of the chief of artil-
lery and took courses at various
service schools. From 1928 to 1882
he again served in Washington on
general staff duties and again on
October l, 1899, he was assigned here
as assistant chief of staff for per-
sonnel.
Two of the 20 colonies nominated
yesterday for promotion to brigadier
general have been assigned as as
sistant chiefs of staff at the War
Department. They are Col. Wade
n. Haislip and Col. Harry J. Ma
loney.
Col. Haislip, 50, is from Wood
stock, Va, and was graduated from
West Point in 1912. He was as
signed in 1888 to duty in the office
of the chief of infantry and last
April was made chief of the budget
and legislative planning branch Of
the general staff.
Col. Maloney is now in London.
He was designated last october as
senior Army member of the board of
experts appointed in connection
with the acquisition of naval and air
bases from the British government.
He is 50 years old and comes from
Lakemont, N. Y. He was graduated
from West Point in 1912 to serve
IN the infantry.