Show ARSENAL HAS NEW COMMAND 1 I Captain McDonald Succeeds Suc Succeeds Major 0 O H ct C tam John McDonald USA U S A has ha been named to succeed Ma O 0 IL H who has been ten trun binderieS cd by the war department to 10 the Aberdeen n proving grounds t at Aberdeen Washington Vl Captain C McDonald entered the thes theten s r rIce Ice at the outbreak of the American Spanish American war and served for nearly three years in the Philip Philip- Philippines pines President l Theodore Roosevelt In lOOs awarded Captain Captin McDonald a a certificate of ot merit for distin- distin od service nD IJ IN PRANCE During the world war tsar he served for tor 36 26 months In France with the division and ordnance depart depart- and arid was awarded a distin- distin distinguished service medal He lie was In of ot the Win Win- Win Win-calo cute Ordnance Reserve depot at Fort Wingate N M at a storage depot for T N T and picric picnic acid H Hi He came to tho the arsenal last fall fail In Wingate and has been active In affairs at the ars HEni TWO YEARS Major has been ala ala- sta stationed at the arsenal tor foe the pal t tw lears ears cars He CaptAin On Bundy when he resigned from the regular army He will spend year yell I at Aberdeen n where he will III take tae an Intensive course in the aci- aci ence ci once nce of ot ordnance and gunnery after afler which he wilt will be eligible for for foreign forn n service lor l'or six yea years yeara prior to the war j ho WM was genera general manager of ot one of ot the test largest magnetic iron ore mines s sIn In the east cast the mine having a pro pro- production pro production duc of ot over one million tons annually He was commissioned in 1917 as asa asa a 11 captain and served as an ord- ord ordnance ord ordnance nance ounce officer at Washington ton He Hewis Hews wis 3 promoted to major in 1918 and anol later latr discharged ed He lie was later a major In the reg- reg reg regular ular ulle army During this time he be he served nerved IlS as director ot of o all quarry operations ned ard in direct charge of ot alt raw materials for tor the nitrate at Muscle Shoals Alabama I jle ie designed and constructed complete limestone crushing plant with W a dailY dally capacity of ot tons at al Muscle Shoals 1 riot to coming to Ogden he was In ID command of ot large largo storage depot near Norfolk Va a where guns g tanks tractors and great quantities of t shellS hells were stored ranging from sn n 1 arms ammunition to 14 inch 14 ila naY V shells sheils Ie le expects to take tako two months e of ot absence before reporting at Aberdeen and will motor from Detroit spending time at summer hore on Lake in NeN Iea York state |