Volume 50 · 948
Private Law 75–128
To authorize certain officers of the United States Navy, officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the United States Army and officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps to accept such medals, orders, and decorations as have been tendered them by foreign governments in appreciation of services rendered.
Approved April 24, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize certain officers of the United States Navy, officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the United States Army and officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps to accept such medals, orders, and decorations as have been tendered them by foreign governments in appreciation of services rendered.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following-named
Navy, Army, and Marine Corps.
Acceptance of certain decorations, etc., tendered by foreign governments, authorized.
officers of the United States Navy, officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the United States Army, and officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps are hereby authorized to accept such medals, orders, and decorations as have been tendered them by foreign governments in appreciation of services rendered:
Navy.
United States Navy: Rear Admiral William H. Standley, retired; Captain Laurence N. McNair; Captain William D. Puleston; Captain John T. G. Stapler; Captain Rufus F. Zogbaum, retired; Captain Harry J. Abbett; Captain Archibald L. Parsons (CEC); Captain Grear A. Duncan (CEC); Captain Ernest R. Gayler (CEC); Commander Wallace L. Lind; Lieutenant Commander Ben N. Wyatt; Lieutenant Commander Frederick S. Holmes; Lieutenant Brook S. Mansfield; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Robert R. DeWolfe; Captain Charles C. Gill; Captain Henry K. Hewitt; Captain Paul H. Bastedo; Captain Ross T. McIntire (MC); Lieutenant Paul W. Hord; and Lieutenant Augustus D. Clark.
United States Army: Major General Andrew Moses; Colonel Charles Burnett; Colonel Albert Gilmor; Lieutenant Colonel John A. Crane; Lieutenant Colonel Henry B. Cheadle; Lieutenant Colonel Clarence H. Danielson; Lieutenant Colonel James A. Dorst; Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Eichelberger; Lieutenant Colonel James A. Lester; Lieutenant Colonel Herbert E. Marshburn; Lieutenant Colonel Alvan C. Sanderford; Lieutenant Colonel Rodney H. Smith; Lieutenant Colonel Iverson B. Summers; Lieutenant Colonel Basilio J. Valdes, Philippine Army; Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Van Volkenburgh; Major Charles R. Finley; Major William Sackville; Major William E. Shipp; Captain William D. Hohenthal; Captain Carnes B. Lee; Captain Edwin L. Sibert; Second Lieutenant Stephen Walsh Holderness; Private Mikael Torres; Doctor William H. Brown, civilian employee, Philippine Government; Doctor Samuel M. Burka, Air Corps Civilian Employee; Captain Ciriado Carillo, Philippine Coast Guard; John B. Johnson, Air Corps Civilian Employee; Jean A. Roche, Air Corps Civilian Employee.
Marine Corps: Colonel Frank E. Evans; Lieutenant Colonel Pedro A. Del Valle; Lieutenant Colonel Maurice G. Holmes; Captain Harold D. Hansen; First Sergeant Frederick Belton; Major General Charles H. Lyman; Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt (VMCR); and Captain John D. Blanchard.
Approved, April 24, 1937.