Word: axton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxious to be rid of him because he had agitated for higher rank for his comrades in arms and prayer (TIME. Oct. 17). Upon this the War Department did not comment but ordered him to Walter Reed Hospital for examination. He went unwillingly-and last week Col. John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund...
...Chief of Chaplains Axton was last week ordered to Walter Reed Hospital for physical observation, preliminary to appearing before an Army retiring board. Citizens wondered...
Observers guessed that it might be because Chief of Chaplains Axton, who at present has the rank of a colonel, has advocated making colonelcies possible for all chaplains and giving the chief of chaplains the rank of major general. Major general is the highest U. S. Army rank, except in war. Infantry & artillery officers resent the idea of the chief of 125 "sky pilots" being ranked equally with the few U. S. soldiers who rise to command 10,000 to 12,000 (a peacetime Army division...
Whether or not Chief of Chaplains Axton would be involuntarily retired or not appeared to depend upon the lobbying strength of various church organizations in sympathy with his efforts to obtain for modest "sky pilots," Army rankings which they consider commensurate with the spiritual plane of their duties. Should Chief of Chaplains Axton, the Utah Congregationalist, be retired, next in line for his post would be Chaplain E. P. Easterbrook, Methodist Episcopalian now stationed at Fort Sam Houston...
...Naval Academy. This plot was dug open last week to receive a casket from Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, containing the body of onetime (1921-25) U. S. Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks, who died July 12, 1926. Chief of Chaplains of the Army John T. Axton (see p. 11) read the committal service...