TY - JOUR T1 - GOvernment services Y1 - 1939/06/10 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800230070022 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 2446 EP - 2446 VL - 112 IS - 23 N2 - Admiral Butler RetiresĀ  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 RetireĀ  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, SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800230070022 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800230070022 ER -