Evening star., 1943-08-08
They Were Schoolmates at Central High

He served overseas in the World War
as assistant in the Operations Section,
lst American Army, under the then Col.
George G. Marshall, now the Armys
chief Of staff. He then took command
OF the I'd Engineers until May, 1919. He
went to Neuwied, Germany, as plans and
operations officer of the I'd Division. He
attended the Engineers School at Camp
Humphries, Va; was for two years Dis
trict Engineer at Buffalo, N. Y; grad
uated from the Massachusetts Institute
OF Technology with the degree of bache-
lor OF science in civil engineering, and
was personnel officer in the ONCE of
Chief of Engineers in Washington before
assignment as assistant Engineer Com
missioner Q924-1928).
Later he graduated from the Com
mand General Staff School at Fort
Leavenworth, Kans and was executive
officer at the Fort Humphries Engineer
School. He was next assistant engineer
OF maintenance of the Panama Canal.
Then for four years he was district en-
gineer in Pittsburgh, started the food
control work and built most of it. As an
extra duty he helped promote the Or
gan1zed Reserves of Pittsburgh.
Recalled to Active Duty
He retired from the Army In Nav.
1910, and became general manager of a.
lumber company in Crossett, Ark, deal
ing in lumber, paper and natural gas
He was recalled to active duty June l.,
l941, and assigned to the Office of the
Quartermaster General. He was recalled
from the Caribbean area assignment to
take over his present job.
All three Of these big wartime execu-
tlves, on most vital assignments for VIC
tory, are former schoolmates and grad
yates of Central High School. Gen.
Somervell graduated from Central in
1909 At that time his mother was con-
Quoting sWank girls school here
Falrmont Academy-and young Brehon
and his fraternity associates attended
the formal dances, as well as playinp
hockey" from school and winning ap-
plause as sand-lot baseball PLAYERS
When Gen. Somervell was recently a
witness before the House Civil Service
Committee he had a pleasant reunion
with several old schoolmates, including
Robert L. Bailey. contact officer at the
Capitol for the Civil Service Commission.
1t. Col. Charles E. Saltzman, serving
In North Africa, and in the attack on
Italy, was born in the Philippines. He
maintains his residence in Alexandria.
He graduated from Central High about
1920, attended Cornell for one year he.
fore going to West Point. At that tina
his father, the late Maj. Gen. Charles
Mckinley Saltzman, who died last No.
vember, was chief signal officer. Gen.
Saltzman was later chairman of the
Federal Radio Commission and vice
president of the United States Shipping
Board Merchant Fleet Corp. He had re-
ceived two citations for "gallantry in
action in the Spanish-American War
and in the World War was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal "for excep-
tlonally meritorious and conspicuous
service.'' He had made his home in
Burnt Mills Hills, Silver Spring, Md.
1t. Col. Saltzman had resigned from
the Army and been connected with ths
telephone company and was a vice presi-
dent of the New York Stock Exchange.
Before being assigned to England and
the North Africa invasion he had headed
up the executive control in tho Signal
Corp&