Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — HIS ABLE WORK REWARDED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HIS ABLE WORK REWARDED

The senate has confirmed the nomination of Col. Robert E. Noble of the United States army medical department to be a brigadier general, and in so doing has recognized the accomplishment of an efficient officer in a position that has required courage and judgment. As chief of the personnel division of the department ,he has had to pass upon the qualifications and to assign to duty all the medical officers —more than 16,000 of them —who are now in the service, either in this country or abroad. Later, in addition to his other duties, 'he has been called upon to assume the office of director of hospitals bn this side of the Atlantic, and has completed arrangements for the care of more than 100.000 sick and wounded who may be returned from Europe or who may need hospital care in the United States. Brigadier General

Noble, who. was a major at the time the war was declared, pas the honor graduate of the army medical school in 1904; the medical school of the Polytechnic institute in Alabama in 1891, and of Columbia university in 1899,