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Show uu WOOD SLATED FOR IMPORTANT PLACE WASHINGTON, July 19. Brigadier I General R. E. Wood, now acting head! of the quartermaster department here, is slated for "an important assignment" assign-ment" in France, Secretary Baker said today. Major General H. L. Rodgers, tho newly appointed quartermaster general, will take up his duties in Washington. Tho secretary added that General Rodgers may not return from France for some time. General Wood was brought back from France on recommendation of Major General Goethals, when the latter lat-ter became acting quartermaster general, gen-eral, and was slated to succeed General Gen-eral Sharpe as head of the supply service. ser-vice. A statutory requirement that any officer appointed head of the quartermaster corps must have served at least four years in the corps, prevented pre-vented this. |