seeker.”JAMES ROOSEVELT, eldest son of the President. has been promoted from Major to Lieutenant-Colonel for his accomplishments in the Gilbert raids by the Marines . . . Mrs. Milton Erlanger will be the second woman civilian to be retained by tire U. S. Army. She’ll be placed in charge of training dogs for the service « . . The ladies’ auxiliary to the Marine Corps will be organized before Jan. 1 . . . John Philip Sousa the 3d has given up his bandleading efforts and now is working for Time Magazine in Philadelphia . . . Spencer Tracy will go to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore today to begin a three-week check-up on his condition.