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Died. Major General William Crozier (ret.), 87, longtime chief of Army Ordnance (1901-18); in Washington. Made chief of Army Ordnance by Roosevelt I, he helped design the Buffington-Crozier disappearing gun carriage of the U.S. coast defense's-heavy artillery...
Died. Lieut. Colonel (ret.) Charles Robert Morris, 67, deviser of the pellets-in-a-fishbowl process of drawing the first draft numbers; in Lebanon, N.J. He blindfolded Pellet-Picker Newton D. Baker in the first drawing of World War I, blindfolded Henry L. Stimson in World War II. History-minded, he used the same blindfold in both drawings...
Other appointments to the staff, as made by Faculty adviser Commander Stanley L. Wilson, U.S.N., ret., were Thackeray P. Spencer '44, as Assistant Editor; Grover C. Hansen '44, as Business Manager; James W. Wolf '44 as Photographic Editor; and Jack H. James '43, as Aviation Editor, a newly-created post...
Appointed assistant to Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Major General Charles Macon Wesson (ret.), ex-Chief of Ordnance...
According to "The Scuttlebutt," Naval Training School newspaper, Commander C. A. Macgowan USN, (Ret.), officer in charge of the school, predicts that the full quota of 1,000 men will be training here by September...