Evening star., 1944-06-09
President Nominates
Il Brigadiers for
Major General Rank
(Fronn Yesterdnu's Last Edition

From Yesterdays Last Edition)
President Roosevelt today nomi.
mated 81 brigadier generals to be
major generals and So colonies ano
lieutenant colonels to be brigadiel
generals. All promotions are tenn
porary.
Brigadier generals nominated fol
promotion are:
Robert. Chauncey Macon, James
Pratt Hodges, Benjamin Franklin
Giles, Archibald Vincent Arnold
William Samuel Rumbough, Uzal
Girard Ent, Lyman louis LemnitZer,
Jay Ward MacKelvie, Frank Sey-
moure Ross, John Wilson O'Daniel,
Walter Leo Weible, William Benja-
min Kean, William Frederic Mar
quat, Joseph Cowles Mehaffey,
Henry Benton Sayler, Robert Boyd
Williams, George Lane Van Deusen,
Archer Lynn Lerch, Earle Everard
Partridge, Ralph Hudson Wooten
and Maxwell Davenport Taylor.
Lerch Native of Nebraska.
Gen. Lerch was assigned as act
ing provost marshal general of the
Army last month. He has been on
duty In that Office since December,
1912. He attended George Wash
ington University Law School in
1889, as additional duty. He was
born at Sumner, Nebr. In 1894, and
has been in the Army since 1917.
Gen. Hodges, so, OF Oakley, Md,
commands a bombardrnent division
of the 9th Air Force IN England, He
has been in the Air Forces since
flying cadet days in 1917. He was
serving with the Sd Bomber Com
mand in this country when ordered
overseas in July, 1912, as chief of
staff of the 9th Air Support Com
mand. Later he was transferred to
the 9th Bomber Command. He Is
rated combat pilot, combat and
technical observer.
Gen. Ent of Northumberland, Pa,
one of the most decorated men in
the air forces, was one of the lead
ers in the bombing raid on the Plo-
esti oil refineries In Romania in
August, 1943. Gen. Ent received the
Distinguished Service Cross for
leading the heavy bombers to the
targets. AS commanding general of
the 9th Bomber Force he was
awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to
Distinguished Service Medal for ex-.
ecuting destructive blows against
Axis installations in Sicily, Italy,
Greece and Romania.
Other Decorations.
He also holds decorations from
Peru for service rendered in settle
ment of the Peruvian, Equadorean
boundry dispute. He participated
in the national balloon race on
May 80, 1928, when his craft was
struck by lightning. It's pilot was
killea and Gen. Ent, then lieu
tenant, was partially paralyzed. He.
maneuvered the balloon to a safe
landing and was awarded the Dis
tinguished Flying Gross.
Gen. Giles of Dallas, Tex, was
made commanding general of Army
Air Forces in the Middle East last
February. Formerly chief of the
aviation division of the National
Guard Bureau in Washington, he
was assigned in August, 1912, to
command the North Atlantic Wing
Headquarters of the Air Transport
Command. Later he was made COM
mander of the 9th Air Force Troop
er Carrier Command. Gen. Giles
received the Distinguished Service
Medal In connection with the ferry
ing service over the North Atlantic
route, which he pioneered.
Gen. Van Deusei of PaSsaic, N. j.,
was made commander of the Signal
Corps Training Center at Fort Mon
mouth, N. j., In October, 1912. A
West Pointer, Sc years old, he has
played prominent part in the Sig
nal Corps for many years. He is
well known in Washington by rea-
son Of prior service and attendance
at the Army War College.
One of the officers nominated for
the rank of brigadier general, 1t.
Col. William Milton Grosz holds a
permanent rank of first lieutenant
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