New CINCUS

Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy is Franklin D. Roosevelt but Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, topranking sailor afloat, must be a truly professional seadog. Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson recommended to Commander-in-Chief Roosevelt for approval before Feb. 1 a batch of Navy shifts and promotions, most important of which will give the Navy a new CINCUS. To replace 60-year-old Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, scheduled for commandant of the 12th Naval District with headquarters in San Francisco, Secretary Swanson named the present Commander of the Battle Force, 59-year-old Admiral Claude Charles Bloch.

CINCUS-designate Bloch, born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in Woodbury, Ky., is a sombre tight-lipped officer who has been cited for meritorious service in two wars, for rescuing Spaniards from Admiral Cervera's burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased."

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