Show COLONEL GEARY I DUE TO RETIRE Reserve Officer WillBe WillBe Will WillBe Be Promoted After more than five years years' ears service service service ice with reserve resene army officers of Salt Lake City and this area Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Colonel William Tilliam D. D Gear Geary assistant chief of oC staff of the Third rese reserve ve area Saturday prepared to leave Monday for Coronado Cal Cat where he will await retirement Colonel Geary who has almost r 1 t COL WILLIAM VILLIA A. A GEARY F For r Him Colonelcy and Retirement 33 years ears of army service to his bis credit will be promoted to the rank of ot full colonel and retired at at the thc same time late in iii March He came to Salt Lake City InJune in inJune June 1930 as unit instructor of oC offield offield field artillery reservists and was acting chief of oC staff of this Third reserve area for si six months prior to the recent u arrival of Colonel James A. A Higgins chief of staff A native Californian Colonel Geary was appointed to the military military military mili mili- tary academy at West Vest Point from there and was graduated in iii 1907 He took part In the Pershing expedition expedition expedition into Mexico in 1916 and during during dur dur- ing log the World war var served as a temporary temporary tem tern lieutenant colonel with the Eightieth field artillery |