MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION. President.-Col. Charles L. Potter. Members.-John A. Ockerson, Charles H. West, Edward A. Glenn, Robert L. Faris, Lieut. Col. Harry Burgess, Col. Herbert Deakyne. Chief clerk.-R. N. Duffey. CALIFORNIA DÉBRIS COMMISSION. (San Francisco, Calif.) Members.-Cols. Thomas H. Rees; E. Eveleth Winslow; Lieut. Col. William Kelly. Chief clerk.-Lewis M. Kalisky. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. (War Department Building.) Chief Maj. Gen. Clarence C. Williams, 1718 H Street. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. (Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue.) Chief Maj. Gen. George O. Squier, The Bachelor. Executive officer.-Col. Charles McK. Saltzman, 1869 Mintwood Place. OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF AIR SERVICE. (Building D, Sixth and B Streets.) Director of Air Service.-Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher, 1723 S Street. - Administrative executive.--Col. William F. Pearson, 1716 Twenty-first Street. OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS. Director of Military Aeronautics.-Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, 1712 Rhode Island Avenue. Chief clerk. OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION. Director of Aircraft Production.-Col. William J. Kendrick, Wardman Park Hotel. Chief clerk.-M. W. Perley, 48 T Street. BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS. (Eighteenth and E Streets.) Chief of bureau. Maj. Gen. Frank McIntyre, The Wyoming. Assistant to chief of bureau.-Col. Charles C. Walcutt, jr., 1869 Wyoming Avenue. Assistant to chief of bureau.-Maj. Campbell B. Hodges, Army and Navy Club. Chief clerk.-L. V. Carmack, The Laclede. PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT. (Headquarters, Manila.) Governor General.-Francis Burton Harrison. Vice Governor and secretary of public instruction.-Charles E. Yeater. Secretary of commerce and communications.-Dionisio Jakosalem. Secretary of finance.-Alberto Barretto. Secretary of agriculture and natural resources.—Galicano Apacible. PORTO RICO GOVERNMENT. Governor.-Arthur Yager. (Headquarters, San Juan.) Attorney general.-Salvador Mestre. Treasurer.-José E. Benedicto. Commissioner of the interior.-Guillermo Esteves. Commissioner of agriculture and labor.-Manuel Camuñas. DOMINICAN RECEIVERSHIP. (Headquarters, Santo Domingo.) General receiver of customs.-Clarence H. Baxter. BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION. (2633-2635 Munitions Building.) President.—Gen. Peyton C. March, Fort Myer, Va. Maj. Gens. Clarence C. Williams, 1718 H Street; Frank W. Coe, 2230 California Street. Col. Claude E. Brigham, care of military attaché, American Embassy, Paris, France. Hon. Fred T. Dubois, The Cairo. Recorder.-Maj. William F. Tompkins, The Chevy Chase. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE. (Room H-316-318, Surgeon General's Building, Seventh and B Streets. Phone, Main 2570, Branch 556.) Chief.-Lieut. Col. Amos A. Fries, 1748 Cochran Street. WAR CREDITS BOARD. (Munitions Building, Nineteenth and B Streets. Phone, Main 2570, Branch 1688.) Governor.-Lieut. Col. M. W. Thompson, 14 Wall Street, New York City. Executive secretary.-B. W. Jones, 14 Wall Street, New York City. Administrative assistant.-First Lieut. P. G. Thompson, 1633 Q Street. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. (Vermont Avenue and Fifteenth Street. Phone, Main 196.) A. MITCHELL PALMER, of Stroudsburg, Pa., Attorney General (2132 R Street), was born May 4, 1872; attended the public schools and prepared for college at the Moravian Parochial School, Bethlehem, Pa.; in the fall of 1887 entered Swarthmore College, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the highest honors in his class; member of Phi Beta Kappa society; was appointed official stenographer of the fortythird judicial district of Pennsylvania 1892, and while occupying this position studied law; upon admission to the bar in 1893 formed a partnership with Hon. John B. Storm, which continued until the latter's death in 1901, when Mr. Palmer succeeded to the business of the firm; was delegate at large from Pennsylvania in the Democratic national convention at Baltimore in 1912 and St. Louis in 1916; member of the Democratic national committee for the State of Pennsylvania; chairman of the executive campaign committee of the Democratic national committee; married Roberta Bartlett Dixon, daughter of Hon. Robert B. Dixon, of Easton, Md., in 1898, and has one daughter, Mary Dixon Palmer; was elected to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-third Congress; in April, 1915, appointed and commissioned judge of the United States Court of Claims, but declined; in August, 1917, appointed chairman of the fifth district, Pennsylvania board, under the selective-service law; in October, 1917, appointed Alien Property Custodian, which place he resigned March 5, 1919, to assume the duties of Attorney General. Solicitor General.-Alexander C. King, 2029 Connecticut Avenue. Assistant to the Attorney General.-Charles B. Ames, 2029 Connecticut Avenue. Assistant Attorneys General.-William L. Frierson, The St. Nicholas; Frank Davis, jr., The Burlington; Frank K. Nebeker, The Wyoming; Robert P. Stewart, 3516 Connecticut Avenue; Thomas J. Spellacy, 1809 R Street; Francis P. Garvan, 1704 Eighteenth Street. Assistant Attorney General, customs division.-Bert Hanson, 641 Washington Street, New York City. Chief clerk and general administrative agent.—Charles E. Stewart, 1316 New Hampshire Avenue. Assistant chief clerk.-Julia B. Rishel, 1000 East Capitol Street. Chief Division of Accounts.-Calvin Satterfield, 1316 New Hampshire Avenue. Private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General.-Robert T. Scott, 34 Malvern Director Bureau of Investigation.-William J. Flynn, Department of Justice. Assistant Director and Chief Bureau of Investigation.-Frank Burke, The Champlain. Superintendent of prisons.-Denver S. Dickerson. Attorney in charge of pardons.-James A. Finch, 3645 Grant Road. Attorney in charge of titles.- Charles S. Lawrence, 1645 K Street. DEPARTMENTAL SOLICITORS. Solicitor for the Department of State.— Solicitor of the Treasury.-Lawrence Becker, 4201 Fessenden Street. Chief clerk and chief law clerk.—Robert J. Mawhinney, 38 M Street. Solicitor of Internal Revenue.-Wayne Johnson, 1802 R Street. Solicitor for the Interior Department.—Charles D. Mahaffie, University Club. Solicitor of the Department of Commerce.-Frederick M. McCarthy, Stoneleigh Court. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. (Pennsylvania Avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. Phone, Main 5360.) ALBERT SIDNEY BURLESON, of Austin, Tex., Postmaster General, (1901 F Street), was born June 7, 1863, at San Marcos, Tex.; was educated at Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Baylor University (of Waco), and University of Texas; was admitted to the bar in 1884; was assistant city attorney of Austin in 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, and 1890; was appointed by the governor of Texas attorney of the twenty-sixth judicial district in 1891; was elected to said office 1892, 1894, and 1896; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses; served on the Committees on Agriculture, Census, Foreign Affairs, and Appropriations, respectively, during his tenure in Congress, and was at the time of his appointment as Postmaster General ranking Democratic member of the Committee on Appropriations; he was the author of a large amount of legislation affecting the development and enlargement of agriculture in the United States; appointed Postmaster General March 4, 1913, and confirmed March 5, 1913; reappointed, and took the oath on January 25, 1918. Chief clerk.-Ruskin McArdle, The Cecil. Private secretary to Postmaster General.-R. E. Cowart, Metropolitan Hotel. Appointment clerk.-Robert S. Regar, 927 Shepherd Street. Disbursing clerk.-William M. Mooney, 1433 T Street. Confidential clerk to the Postmaster General.-Edwin B. Smith, 1440 R Street. Special Assistant to the Attorney General.-Joseph Stewart, 1812 Lamont Street. Senior assistant attorney.-Horace J. Donnelly, 1430 V Street. Assistant attorneys.-Walter E. Kelly, 1418 Webster Street; Calvin W. Hassell, Hyattsville, Md.; William C. O'Brien, 51 I Street. Bond examiner.-Edwin A. Niess, 61 Rhode Island Avenue. 174216°-66-2-3D ED- - 19 Purchasing agent.-Robert L. Maddox, The Alabama; chief clerk, Thomas L. Degnan, 3220 Nineteenth Street. Chief inspector.-George M. Sutton, 1334 Fairmont Street; chief clerk, Alexander B. Hulse, 228 Morgan Street. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. First Assistant Postmaster General.-John C. Koons, 2634 Garfield Street. Chief clerk.-John W. Johnston, 231 Twelfth Street NE. Superintendents of division: Postmasters' appointments.-Charles R. Hodges, 306 Randolph Street NE.; assistants, Simon E. Sullivan, Friendship Heights, Md.; Lorel N. Morgan, 5618 First Street NE. Post-office service.-Goodwin D. Ellsworth, 1248 Girard Street. Assistants.-William S. Ryan, The Ethelhurst; Albert E. Barr, 510 A Street Clerk in charge.-Owen A. Keen, Cherrydale, Va. Dead letters.-Marvin M. McLean, 1551 Newton Street, Brookland. Chief Division of Correspondence.-John P. Miller, Lyonhurst, Va. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Second Assistant_Postmaster General.-Otto Praeger, The Marne. Superintendents of division: Railway Mail Service.-General superintendent, William I. Denning, 4416 Seventh Street; assistant, George F. Stone, 3023 Macomb Street. Foreign Mails.-Stewart M. Weber, Mount Rainier, Md.; assistant, Edwin Sands, 1502 North Capitol Street. Railway Adjustments.-James B. Corridon, 1733 North Capitol Street; assistant, George H. Grayson, 2721 Ontario Road. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Third Assistant Postmaster General.-Alexander M. Dockery, The Raleigh. Finance.-William E. Buffington, 1317 Harvard Street. Registered mails.—Leighton V. B. Marschalk, 1321 Longfellow Street. Postal savings Director.-Malcolm Kerlin, 1428 Columbia Road. Chief clerk.-Charles L. Gable, 4426 Ninth Street. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.-James I. Blakslee, 3200 Seventeenth Street. Chief clerk.-Lansing M. Dow, 2047 Park Road. Superintendents of division: Rural mails.-George L. Wood, Clifton Terrace South. Equipment and supplies.-J. King Pickett, 436 Newton Place. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY. (Navy Department Building, Potomac Park, Eighteenth and B Streets. Phone, Main 2790. Secretary Navy also maintains office rooms on second floor, east wing, State, War, and Navy Department Building, Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.) JOSEPHUS DANIELS, of Raleigh, N. C., Secretary of the Navy (1851 Wyoming Avenue), was born in Washington, N. C., May 18, 1862; son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels; journalist by profession; formerly editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer; married Addie W., daughter of Maj. W. H. Bagley, May 2, 1888, and has four sons; State printer for North Carolina 1887-1893; chief clerk Department of the Interior 1893-1895; trustee University of North Carolina; was the North Carolina member of the Democratic national committee for 20 years; nominated, confirmed, and commissioned Secretary of the Navy March 5, 1913; received the degree of LL. D. from Davidson College, the University of North Carolina, and Ohio Wesleyan University, and the degree of Lit. D. from Washington and Lee University. Assistant Secretary.—Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2131 R Street. Assistant to the Assistant Secretary.-Louis McH. Howe, The Avondale. Chief clerk.-F. S. Curtis, Chatham Courts. Private secretary to the Secretary of the Navy.-Edward E. Britton, 901 Twentieth Street. Confidential clerk to the Secretary of the Navy.-John B. May, jr., 101 Fourteenth Street NE. Private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.—Renah F. Camalier, 1650 Fuller Street. Confidential clerk to Assistant Secretary.-Chester H. Gray, 1517 Seventeenth Street. Disbursing clerk.-M. L. Croxall, 1316 Spring Road. Library of the Navy and History Section.-Officer in charge, Capt. C. C. Marsh, United Chief of Appointment Division.-William D. Bergman, 3360 Eighteenth Street. NAVAL CONSULTING BOARD. President.-Thomas A. Edison. Vice chairman.-Benjamin B. Thayer. Secretary.-Thomas Robins, 13 Park Row, New York City. Special duty.-Rear Admiral William Strother Smith, United States Navy, The COMPENSATION BOARD. (Room 2450, New Navy Building.) Senior member.-Rear Admiral W. L. Capps, Construction Corps, United States Navy, 1823 Jefferson Place. Chief clerk.-William J. Graham, 210 Morgan Street. OFFICE OF NAVAL OPERATIONS. (Room 2054, Navy Department Building, Potomac Park.) Chief of Naval Operations.-Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Wardman Park Hotel. OPERATING FORCES DIVISION. Capt. Albert W. Marshall. INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. (Room 1060, Navy Department Building.) Rear Admiral Albert P. Niblack, 1302 Eighteenth Street. COMMUNICATION DIVISION. (Room 1622, Navy Department Building.) Rear Admiral William H. G. Bullard, 2029 Connecticut Avenue. MATERIAL DIVISION. (Room 2604, Navy Department Building.) Capt. William C. Cole, The St. Nicholas. NAVAL DISTRICTS DIVISION. (Room 2706, Navy Department Building.) Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus (retired), 1848 Biltmore Street. INSPECTION DIVISION. (Room 1607, Navy Department Building.) President.--Rear Admiral George W. Kline, The Benedick. Recorder.-Commander Merlyn G. Cook, 3406 Rodman Street, Cleveland Park. |