General Managers

There are some 200 Infantry Colonels in the U. S. Army. Every four years one of them becomes a Major General simultaneously with his appointment by the President to be Chief of Infantry. This promotion came, last week, to squat, solid Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, 54, commander of the 16th Infantry, Governors Island, N. Y. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Robert H. Allen of Bethesda, Md.

The new Chief, a Louisianan and not a West Pointer, entered military service in the Spanish War as Captain of volunteers. In the Philippines his men were once demoralized by peppery fire while fording a stream. Drawing them up beneath a sheltering hill, Lieut. Fuqua drilled them in the rudimentary manual of arms until their nerves were steadied. Again, plunging through Philippine underbrush, he found an orphan Filipino being flogged by his uncle. The Lieutenant bought the boy for 30 pesos ($17). gave him freedom, education, employed him as personal servant.

Maj. Gen. Fuqua has been decorated by the U. S., England and France. As Chief of Infantry, he is its general manager.

At the same time President Hoover appointed a staunch lowan, Col. Harry L. Gilchrist, 59, to be Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, also with the rank of Major General. He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and de- gassing processes.