RT Journal
T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD June 10
VO 112
IS 23
SP 2446
OP 2446
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800230070022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800230070022
AB Admiral Butler Retires 
    Rear Admiral Charles St. J. Butler, medical corps, who retired for age April 1, was ordered detached March 31 as president of the naval retiring board and board of medical examiners and naval retiring board for officers of the medical corps and to proceed home. Capt. Benjamin H. Dorsey, medical corps, has advanced to the rank of rear admiral and been assigned to succeed to duty as president of these boards at the navy department, according to the Military Surgeon.Colonel Siler to Retire 
    Col. Joseph F. Siler will retire from active service in the medical corps of the U. S. Army, June 30, after about thirty-nine years' service. Dr. Siler graduated at the University of Virginia Medical Department in 1898. He was chairman of the Thompson-McFadden pellagra commission, 1912-1915. He served as chief of professional service division, office of the surgeon general, 1925-1929; chief health officer,