Show Colonel Webb Due to Retire After 40 Years of Army Service End of a year 40 military career for Colonel William C. C Webb in charge of U. U S. S army recruiting activities here was foreseen Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day with receipt of word that Colonel Colonel Colonel Col Col- Col- Col onel Benjamin E. E Gray will arrive in January to succeed Colonel Webb Colonel Webb will attain his re retirement retirement retirement re- re age Mar March h 15 and become eligible eligible- for retirement April 1 Colonel Webb has accumulated three months' months leave but said Friday Friday Fri Fri- day he had not decided whether to request it All I am thinking of now is filling my quota of ot recruits he said Beyond that I have no defInite definite def def- mite plans Colonel Gray is scheduled to leave New York City late in December travel through the Panama canal to San Francisco and then come conic cometo cometo to Salt Lake City I Colonel Webb joined the Utah national guard in 1896 was a sec see second second ond lieutenant in battery A of the Utah during the Span Span- ish-American ish war and returned here after the war to organize a cadet battalion at the old Salt Lake high school He directed this battalion battalion battalion bat bat- from 1901 to 1914 and nd when the East hig high s school hool opened that year assumed charge of battalions at each school until 1917 A captain in the national guard at the outbreak of the World war he became lieutenant colonel when the field artillery was organized organized organized organ organ- and later was named colonel of the regiment He remained in S p pS S d COLONEL WILLIAM C C. WEBB Ills His retirement foreseen the service after the war and came here as district recruiter two years ag ago after serving as commandant of Alcatraz prison at San Fran Fran- cisco |