Stars & Stripes

Last week the War and Navy Departments promoted all retired World War officers to the ranks they held in Wartime, as authorized by Congress last June. Accordingly Maj. Generals Tasker Howard Bliss, 76 (Chief of Staff, Sept. 22-Dec. 31. 1917), and Peyton Conway March, 65 (who succeeded Bliss), are entitled to wear the four silver stars of a full general whenever (rarely) they have occasion to appear in uniform. Notable among those permitted by the new law to wear the one broad and three narrow sleeve-stripes of the full admiral are: Henry Thomas Mayo, 73, 1916-19 Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet; William Shepherd Benson, 74, Wartime Chief of Naval Operations; William Sowden Sims, 71, 1917-18 commander of U. S. naval forces in European waters; also Hugh Rodman, 71, Hilary Pollard Jones, 66, Robert Edward Coontz, 66. Last U. S. Army officers to receive the rank of a lieutenant general (abolished as a regular Army rank in 1907, temporarily revived during the War), are Maj. Generals Hunter Liggett, 73, and Robert Lee Bullard, 69, Commanding Officers of the 1st and 2nd Armies, A. E. F. Stars & stripes alone are awarded these officers, Congress having specified that no upping of retired pay accompanies the promotions.

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