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Show PENNA. GUARD OFFICER HEADS MILITIA BUREAU WASHINGTON, De 8Q. Colonel George c. Richards, of Oil ci: . Pa-, was appointed today by President Wilson Wil-son a chlof of the militia bureau of .the war department. Colonel lttckards. who is a Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania national guard officer and attached at-tached tp the Infantry reserve officers' lcQpa WIH assume his duties tomoi-I tomoi-I row, succeeding Major-General Je.sse v. i Qorter, who goes to a lino of com- I maud, Colonel Rickarda vvill have the rank Of major-general and vvill be the first national guard officer to hold thix po-sIMon. po-sIMon. Appointment of & guard officer1 who a member of tin reserve eorps I tp thla posi is proinded for In tic aiiuy re-organization bill passed at thej last eesoion of conrea. |