National Affairs: ARMY & NAVY

No.1 Gunner

Next to the Army's Chief of Staff rank the heads of the four combatant services: cavalry, field artillery, infantry, air corps. To succeed Major General Fred Thaddeus Austin, retired, as Chief of Field Artillery, President Hoover last week appointed Col. Harry Gore Bishop, 56, who forthwith became a Major General and No. 1 Gunner.*

Now in command of the Eighth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Col. Bishop is a West Pointer (1897). During the World War he commanded the 159th Field Artillery Brigade, the Third Field Artillery Brigade. He has lived...

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