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Last week President Hoover appointed Brig.-General Samuel Hof, Assistant Chief of Ordnance, to be the Army's Chief of Ordnance, with the rank of Maj.-General, filling the place of Maj.-General Clarence Charles Williams, retired on April 1. So elated was broad-shouldered, 72-inch Maj.-General Hof that he went straight to the golf course, beatfor the first time an habitual opponent...
...Independence of Haiti is such that she relies upon U. S. Marines to keep order while her finances, public works, sanitary service, agricultural service and police are controlled by the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig.-General John Henry Russell, who has the rank of an ambassador-i. e. is the direct Representative of the President...
...Died. Brig. General Dwight Edward Aultman, 57, U. S. A.; commandant of the Fort Sill (Okla.) Field Artillery School; after long illness. Organizer of Cuban army field artillery, in 1915 he was a U. S. artillery observer on the German Western Front, was Wartime Chief of Artillery of the Fifth Army Corps...
...country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial law, stationed Marines with machine guns on President Borno's palace lawn. President Borno announced that he would not seek a third term...
...point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm...