Evening star., 1942-12-12

fantry division at Camp Howe, Tex.
The latter won battle honors with
New York's famous Fighting 69th"
during the World War. Gen. Half
ner was a member of the first Of
f1cers' training camp at Plattsburg,
N. Y, in 1917.
Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce, leader of
the Army Air Forces raid on the
Philippines last April, was nominat-
ed by the President to be a full
colonel in the Regular Army. He
holds the temporary rank of major
general and the permanent rank of
lieutenant colonel
Two Named Rear Admirals.
The President also nominated
Capts. Jack Harlan Duncan of
Washington and Francis Eliot May
nard of Watertown, N. Y, to be rear
admirals in the Navy, and named
| Col. James T. Moore Of Columbia,
S. c., to be a brigadier general in
the Marine Corps.
Also in the list of nominations
sent to the Senate were names of
II other lieutenant colonies to be
advanced to colonels. These officers
holding the temporary rank of
colonels except those specified with
higher temporary rank are:
Rufus Sumter Bratton, Sylvester
De Witt Downs, jr; Orlando Ward
Temporary major generaD, Benja-
min Grant Weir, Thomas Hunting
ton Monroe, Roger Burnett Harri-
son, Edgar Erskine Hume, Walcott
| Dennison, James Earle Ash, Bascom
Lee Wilson, Henry Louis Kraft, Paul
Ramsey Hawley temporary briga-
dier generaD, John Dibble, George
Clark Dunham temporary briga-
dier generaD, Rober Burns Hill,
Charles Oliver Purdy and Julius
Joseph Babst.
| Among the younger colonels pro-
NOTED to Col ElWood R. Quesada,
Army Air Forces, native Washing
tonian and University of Maryland
graduate. He gained fame in 1929
as one of the flyers in the refueling
experiment of the Question Mark
and was later Assistant Military At
tache to Cuba. The Army gave him
the Distinguished Flying Cross for
| the Question Mark feat. The plane
was flown a total of $50 hours, 40
minutes and Is seconds over Los
Angeles for new endurance record.
Stimson's Aid Promoted.
Col. Eugene A. Regnier, now with
the mechanical cavalry, is perhaps
| the best known Of the newly named
brigadiers. He was called in as mil
itary aide to Secretary of War Slim
son in 1910. but recently was given
field assignment.
Mr.. Stimson and Col. Regnier
have been friends for years. He was
| formerly aide to Mr.. Stlmson from
| 1927 to 1929, when the latter was
Governor General of the Philippine
| Islands. When Mr.. Stimson was
made Secretary of State, Col. Reg
MED again served as his aide from
1929 to 1893.
Col Augustin M. Prentiss of
Chapel Hill, N. c., who was grad
uated from George Washington
University in 1911 is among the
nominees for brigadier general The
university awarded him a Phi. D. de-
gree in 1927.
Another outstanding man among
the new brigadiers is Col. Hugh
Jackson Morgan. M c., now senior
consultant in internal medicine in
the Surgeon Generals Office in
Washington. He was a private and
lieutenant in the World War His
home is in Nashville, Tenn.
WAAC Superintendent Listed.
/ Col. Don G. Faith, infantry, COM
mandant of the WAAC Training
Center Daytonia Beach, Fla, who
also is to be a brigadier, was the
officer who organized the first train
| ing for the WAACS at Fort Des
Moines, Iowa. Another is Col Al
! bert w. Kenner, medical officer who
distinguished himself in caring for
the wounded in the North African
operations. Col. Joseph A. Michele,
cavalry, nominated to be a brigadier,
Is the United States Military At
| tache to Russia.
The man who trained mountain
troops for the Army ground forces
during the past year in Colorado
also was made a brigadier. He is
Col OnsloW S. Wolfe.
Col. EdYard w. Smith, field
artillery, one of the outstanding Re-
serve officers. also will become a
brigadier He will be the executive
officer for Reserve and ROTC af-
fairs in the War Department. He is
from Birmingham, Ala
/ The full list Of colonies nominated
/ temporary for promotion follows
George Van w. Pope, infantry,
Glencoe, Ill; Clarence P. Townsley
field artillery, New York, N. Y;
Augustin M. Prentiss, Chemical
Warfare Service, Washington, D. c.;
Raymond G. Lehman, infantry,
Santa Monica, Calf; John E.
Upston, Air Forces, Tekonsha, Mich. !;
Thomas w. Blackburn, Air Forces,
Houston, Tex; William C. Crane,
field artillery, Whitinsville, Mass.
Homer Case, Coast Artillery Corps,
! MdTSllIlelQ, MO, DdVlQ MCL. CTdW-
ford, Signal Corps, Mif1intown, Pa;
Ben M. SsWbridge, field artillery,
Yakima, Wash: Archelaus L. Ham
blen, infantry, Gorham. Me; Marcus
B. Bell, infantry, Corpus Christi,
Tex; William c. Kabrich, Chemical
Warfare Service, Blacksburg, Va;
ElWood R. Quesada, Air Forces.
Washington, D. c.; Arthur S. Nevins,
infantry, Springfield. ILL.,; Edward
w. Smith, field artillery, Birming-
ham, Ala; Raphael S. Chavin, Ord
nance Department. Washington,
D. c.; Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air
Forces, Brookline, Mass; Thomas J.
Davis. Adjutant Generals Depart
ment. Brooklyn, N. Y; Edgar E.
Glenn, Air Forces. Kansas City,
Kans.; Robert H. Wylie, Quarter
master Corps, Huntington, w. Va;
James E. Parker, Air Forces, Annis-
ton, Ala; William F. Dean, infantry
Berkeley, Calf. Ain D. Warnock
infantry, Ajo, Ariz.: William H. Will
bur, infantry, Palmer, Mass; Onslow
S. Rolfe, infantry, San Antonio,