ARMY & NAVY

No.1 Gunner

Next to the Army's Chief of Staff rank the heads of the four combatant services: cavalry, field artillery, infantry, air corps. To succeed Major General Fred Thaddeus Austin, retired, as Chief of Field Artillery, President Hoover last week appointed Col. Harry Gore Bishop, 56, who forthwith became a Major General and No. 1 Gunner.*

Now in command of the Eighth Field Artillery at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Col. Bishop is a West Pointer (1897). During the World War he commanded the 159th Field Artillery Brigade, the Third Field Artillery Brigade. He has lived with guns and caissons and horses and the smell of black powder during his whole military career.

Once he made an excursion outside his specialized field, with painful results. Learning to fly in 1917, he left San Diego in an Army plane for Calexico, Calif., unhappily named neighbor of Mexicali, Mexico. The plane was forced down, lost, 50 miles south of the border. U. S. and Mexican troops and civilians searched four days before finding Col. Bishop's companion. He directed the searchers 30 miles to the south where lay Col. Bishop, unable to talk or walk. He had subsisted on two sandwiches, two oranges, radiator water from the wrecked plane.

*Figuratively. Technically, No. 1 Gunner is that member of the gun squad who pulls the lanyard which ignites the discharge.

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