Evening star., 1941-09-18
499 Majors Listed
For Promotion 10
Lieutenant CoIone|s
Temporary Rank to
Be Given; 90 Advanced
In Air Corps Stepup

A list of 400 ma jorS of the Regular
Army, who have been selected for
early temporary promotion to lieu-
tenant colonies so as to give them
their mobilization rank. was made
public last night at the War De-
partment. Others will follow in
the speed-up process.
In addition to these majors of
the ground arms and services. 80
Air Corps officers who were made
temporary lieutenant colonels on
and since August 13, also were an
nounced.
All the 589 officers involved have
records of % to % years commits
stoned service in the Regular Army,
the temporary promotion being IN
line with policy adopted on
August % to remove inequalities
between regulars and reServists.
Approximately 3,700 regular and re-
serve officers from second lieuten-
ant to lieutenant colonel will re-
ceive temporary promotions under
this new policy, the War Depart
ment said. The greatest number
to be promoted are reserve officers.
Selection Board Acts.
Included in the total number are
54 whose home addresses are in
Washington and vicinity. and more
distant Maryland and Virginia To-
calities.
Mai. Beverly C. Snow. Assistant
Engineer Commissioner of the Dis
trict, was among those on the pro-
motion list. Approximately one
fourth of the officers are on Wash
ington assignments.
The speeding up process OF these
temporary promotions is being con-
Quoted through recommendation OF
a selection board appointed by the
War Department. Since the emer-
gency the Army has been expanded
to five times its 1910 strength and
steps were necessary to provide pro-
motions of worthy regular officers.
In the troop basis there are posi-
tions open for approximately 1,30
promotion-list colonels. Early this
year there were only about CSC
officers of that grade. Late in June
PA lieutenant colonies on the list
were advanced to full colonelcies
and two weeks later it was an
nounced that 436 more would be
promoted to fill vacancies.
All of these lieutenant colonies
who are being promoted on a merit
basis, have not as yet been selected
The next list of temporary promo
tions to colonel is expected to be an
nounced shortly.
Others to Step Up.
In addition to majors with % tt
% years commissioned service II
the regulars, officers of other rank!
eligible for higher grades will bt
given such temporary rank in the
order their names appear on thu
promotion list. They include cap
tains with II years service: firs'
lieutenants with years and seconc
lieutenants with year. Captains
of the medical department and chap
lain corps with years service vii
be promoted according to relative
rank.
Because reserve officers are pro-
NOTED in peacetime in accordance
with the prospective requirement.
of the Army during an emergency
they have been promoted more rap
idly than regulars, whose permanen
advancement is governed by thu
number of years of service and tim'
In grades. The new War Depart
ment policy is designed to remov'
this inequality by speeding up pro
motion of regular officers.
Reserve officers on extended actlv
duty may be given temporary pro
motions to the rank of major unde
certain conditions, chiefly based OF
efficiency. The names of all reserv
lieutenants who are considered
qualified for promotion to the mex
higher grade will be submitted Il