Show I h J Ji rr k Vice Adm Ben Natho Na- Na thc tho of Salt Lake City up for promotion President Names S. S S L. L Admiral For 4 Star Rank Special to The Telegram WASHINGTON June 8 B. Truman has nominated Vice Adm Ben Moreen native Salt Laker for promotion to star four-star rank Adm operator of the govern govern- seized ment coal mines has been chief of the navys navy's bureau reau ya yards d and docks and its chief of ot civil engineers since 1937 was born in Salt Lake City Sept 14 1892 He received a bachelor of ot science degree in civil engineering from Washington university university uni uni- St. St Louis in 1913 From 1913 to 1917 1911 he was designing and resident engineer on construction projects for the city of St. St LouisIn Louis In 1917 1911 he was appointed to the navys navy's civil engineers corps with the rank of lieutenant j. j g. g and advanced to his present rank In 1937 1931 In 1918 19 he was aide to the commander of the Azores detachment detachment detachment detach detach- ment of the Atlantic fleet In 1935 Adm received the Wason Vason medal for research on arU artl for concretes from the American Concrete institute ii in 1937 the republic of Haiti medal meda of ot honor and In 1942 the Turner gold medal of American Concrete institute He married the former Clara I Klinksick in 1923 They have I two children Marlon Marion and Patricia |