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...last week, 14,000 reservists had been called to duty. Most of them were straightway dumped into regular Army outfits to replace professionals promoted to higher commands or assigned to special administrative work. Today every platoon commander of regulars is a Reserve lieutenant, and 70% of regular companies are commanded by Reserve captains. One reservist, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the New York Times, is in command of the Army's big reception centre at Fort Dix, N. J., and many another major and colonel has been dropped into an Army administrative...
Because his appointment as a reservist captain in the Army Specialists Reserve had kicked up such a fuss that it might have "an injurious effect on the selective service program," Elliott Roosevelt last week tried to resign his commission, so that he could go home to Fort Worth to register for the draft. On the grounds that his services were needed and that poor eyesight would disqualify him for fighting or flying, Brigadier General Oliver P. Echols, his commanding officer at Wright Field, refused his resignation...
...demand an independent air force and above all a unified Defense plan for all services, meantime asked by what right the Navy Department (which includes the Marine Corps) undertook to censor his civilian writings. For answer he got a weaseling memo, finding in one paragraph that as an inactive reservist he was not subject to control, in the next that by "custom and usage" he was under the Navy thumb. Replied Al Williams: "I tender my resignation quietly and without publication. . . . My services will always be at the command of the U. S. Marine Corps. And in case of emergency...
...current list of 962 lieutenant colonels, left him in the army, eligible for his pension next year. Said Colonel Giffin: "It is a distinct moral victory. . . . I do not feel any animosity toward Lieut. Smith. He just followed his natural instincts." Shortly afterward, another reservist in Manhattan exercised the privileges of any citizen, filed a report asking whether Lieut. Smith should be dismissed...
...chuted from a floundering transport, leaving his passengers to die. At Long Beach, Calif, last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...