Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-14 | Page 13 | Promoted

PROMOTED i J f i fi f P. P J. J Phillips I District Director of U. U S. S Naturalization Is I Advanced P. P J J. Phillips district director of or naturalization for rOt the United States department of labor at Salt Lake announced Tuesday he has been appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed district director of the service at Washington ton D. D C. C to succeed the late Jess Thomas The appointment will become ef effective effective effective ef- ef July 1 I Mr Phillips said and he plans to leave for lor his new post about June 22 Mr Phillips will have charge of or Washington D D. C. C Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land West Virginia Virginia Virinia parts of or Tennessee and North Carolina In his new post Mr Phillips' Phillips successor it is understood understood understood under under- stood will be M. M F. F Lence who has been a senior examiner in m the Denver office of the naturalization service for six years Mr Lence will report here June 22 to take over his new duties Mr 1 Phillips a native of ot Maryland entered the government service in 1018 1918 as chief of the visa section of the state department at Washington He remained in that position until 1922 1022 when he was appointed an examiner exam exam- iner In the naturalization service althe at al atthe atthe the Denver office He came to Salt Lake to become director of ot the office here when It was organized in July 1925 Mr Phillips also was recently elected secretary of the federal business business bus bus- iness mess association here 4