Evening star., 1944-03-04
Senators Expected
10 Act Quickly on
Service Promotions

quick Senate approval was expect
ed today on President Roosevelt's
nomination OF four Army and one
Marine Corps major generals to be
lieutenant generals, two naval cap
tains to be rear admirals, "a briga-
dier generals to be major generals
and 43 colonels to be brigadies
generals.
Among those advanced were Mai.
Gen. Holland M. Smith, U. S. M. c..
who led the marine assault troops
at bloody Tarawa in the Gilberts
and into the Marshall Islands; Mai.
Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, chief
OF staff to Gen. Douglas Macarthur
and brother -in-law of Stanley r.
lBucky) Harris, former manager of
the Washington Nationals baseball
team, and Brig. Gen. Hugh John
Casey, a hero of Bataan and Cor
regidor. whose family lives at 44Ol
Dexter street NV.
Other major generals chosen for
advancement were Courtney Hicks
Hodges, in charge of the Southern
Defense Command: Raymond A.
Wheeler, in the Burma China India
theater, and John G. H. Lee. COM
manding Army Service Forces for
the European theater. The naval
officers nominated to be rear ad-
m1ral were Louis e. Denf1eld and
Forrest B. Royal.
Knerr Is Promoted,
Hugh Johnston Knerr. an out
spoken critic of the Army's air pol
Icy before he was silenced two years
ago by being called into active serv-
ice, was among those nominated to
be major general. Another Air
Forces officer to be advanced to
major general, Curtis Emerson LIE
May, became a lieutenant colonel
only last June.
Gen. Casey was one of the first
American heroes of the war, among
the first to win the DISTINGUISHED
Service Cross after Pearl Harbor
On Corregidor, he led force of men
into the flames of burning oil tanks
that threatened military installa-
tions and troops and extinguished
the fire despite enemy bombing.
He was awarded the DISTINGUISHED
Service Medal for organizing the
engineers in the Philippines, super
vising the preparation of defensive
positions on Bataan and carrying
out program Of demolition ahead
OF the advancing japanese troops.
He was one Of Gen. MacArthur's
staf1 to escape to Australia by PIT
boat and plane and is now Gen.
MacArthur's chief engineer at Allied
headquarters in the Southwest Pa
cific.
Others Listed.
Those nominated major generals
we're:
Ramsey Hawiey, Medical Corps; Edmund
Bristol Gregory, Quartermaster Corps;
Iesvey s Charles ss%ond ear
GGhauncey' All Forces; Leslie Richard
8uee All ForeE wsm
man, Coast Guard Corps: Howard Arnold
Craig, Air Forces; David Goodwin Barr.
nance Department; James Miilikin Bevans,
Air Forces; Robert Battey Mcclure, Infan-
try: Bennett Edward Meyers, Air Forces; |
Georse Clark Durham, Medical Corps; |
Roderisk ,oI Random Allen, Cavalry; Cecil
Ray Moore, Engineers; George Jacobs
Richards, Engineers: Robert Wells Harper, |
Air Forces; Daniel Noce, Engineers.
Colonels Promoted.
Colonels nominated for brigadier
generals were:
Whitfield p. Shepard, Everett E. Brown,
Joseph Joseph J. ITitty;, Russell A Wilson.
W. Gilland, Charles o. Thrasher, Murray
Clarke Woodbury.. Ewart G, PLANK, Joseph
ala +. Goodrieh. Edward W. Anderson,
p. Smith, Isaac w OFT, Frank Q. Bowman.
Arthur Thomas, Fremont B. Byron, VIII
Charles P: Cabell. Edward Michael Powers,
Thomas Edison Roderiek Condor C.. Nc
Cormack Harry B. Vaughan, Norris B.
Hs;arbold' Joseph P; sullivan, DUNCAN 6.
Terence, J, Tully; Aubry Lee Moore, Arthur
=: McChrystal, John F. Egan. Robert D.
Knapp, Stanhope Bayne-Jones Bartlett
Beaman, Clarence L. Burpee.