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Major General Ewing E. Booth, commander of the Philippine Department, to command the 9th Corps Area (San Francisco). Also a War hero (Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne), onetime deputy Chief of Staff, General Booth is fair-headed, slight, bubbling with nervous energy. He is noted for loyalty to his subordinates...
Major General Preston Brown, commander of the Panama Canal, to succeed General Parker in the Chicago area. An efficient "old school" soldier, General Brown is blunt, baldpated, muscular. Son of an Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander...
Major General Frank Ross McCoy, commander of the First Cavalry Division in Texas, to be commander of the 7th Corps Area (Omaha). General McCoy is diplomatic but loves a fight. Once when a Southern professor heckled him during a speech at Georgia's Mercer University, he retorted: "There are ladies here, but I would be glad to argue with you-or have a discussion with you-or have a fight with you." He is one of the few fighters of San Juan Hill still on the active list. At that battle, wounded in the leg, he was treated...
Major General Johnson Hagood, commander of the Omaha area, to command the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio). He is small, young-looking, cerebral, likes golf and bridge. Critical, deep-thinking (he used to teach philosophy at West Point), he startled the War Department last April by announcing before the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army was too complex and top-heavy, that the War Department should be demilitarized and given the status of a civil bureau...
...West Indies fortnight ago a mass of hot air began to rise to cooler levels, made heavy rain clouds. Strong Southwest winds hit them, piled them up into a storm, drove them forward, spun them round & round. Out of this counterclockwise rotation with a deep low pressure area at its core was gradually born a tropical hurricane which with a yell of fury headed northwest toward the U. S. coast line 1,000 miles away. As it skirted south of Bermuda it kicked up enormous seas, sent Bermudians scurrying to cover, kept three large liners from putting in at Hamilton...