Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1940 — Page 14
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MAJOR WAR ROLE
FACING RESERVES
On This Group of Officers
Would Fall Duty of Training
Conscripted Army; There’s a Shortage, but Not as Bad as 1917.
By MAJ, PAUL L. REED
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—In all the talk about selece tive service and National Guard mobilization little is said about the organized reserve officers. Yet to these officers would fall a major role in the train ing of a big army of conscripts.
And the Reserve officers extended active duty call as One look at the reserve and the job to be done shows a serious shortage of military leadership—but a situation far better than that confronting the nation when it entered the World War. At that time we had an officers’ reserve of 3000, including graduates of the first two Plattsburg camps. | Today there are more than 100,000] officers in the Reserve. The Reserve would contribute 12.000 to 14,000 of the officers required for training the first contingent of 400,000 draftees under the Selective Service Bill. If the three increments provided for are trained on schedule, 42,000 Reserva officers will be called to active service hv October, 1941. The potential shortage of military leadership be-| comes evident, |
1920 Defense Act Cited
Improved status of the Reserve | goes back to the National Defense | Act of 1920. That act set up the Army in three components—regular Army, National Guard and Organized Reserve, | Strength of the regular Army was fixed at 280,000 men, a figure not authorized by congressional appro-| priations until this year, when the] strength was also increased to] 375,000. The National Guard was] fixed at
800 men for each Senator and Representative in Congress. Appropriations for the Guard never permitted it to assume that strength, and the present authorized total of 445,000 is only a little more than half the figure called for. | No size limitation was put on the Organized Reserve. | The Reserve Officers’ Training " Corps was created as the principal training source for the reserve officers A four-year course was set up in colleges.
500 R. 0. T. C. Units
A two-year basic course is open to all physically fit male students; a two-year advanced course 1s open to graduates of the basic course. In the land grant colleges, including most of the state universities, two years’ training is required. T. C. units have been established. Other sources which have tributed to the organized reserve are the Citizens’ Military Camps, the enlisted reserve, the National Guard and World War veterans.
The Typical Officer
The average reserve officer is a lieutenant or captain about 32 years old, a college graduate, more than
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[likely of an engineering or professional school. He possesses in a limited but sound way the funda{mentals of one branch of the mili[tary service, and he has kept his (knowledge fresh by attending an average of three or four two-week {summer training periods and by tak{ing part in a systematic program of [inactive duty training.
14-Day Camp Periods The reserve is organized into regi-
iments, divisions and corps in the
same territorial zones as the army and the guard. The unit of administration is the regiment. Each regiment or groupment of two, three]
or more has a regular officer as-|
signed as unit instructor. He acts in an advisory capacity, supervises conferences held by the | officers and acts as instructor for army extension courses each officer is expected to study. The so-called active training consists of 14-day summer camp periods. There are two types—the| “unit” training camp in which officers of the regiment train together in their special or technical duties, and the “attached” training, in which the reserve officer,| either individually or in groups, is! attached to a National Guard or regular Army inactive unit.
Here's the Strength
Latest figures on the strength of | the organized reserve by arms and services are as follows: | Arm of Service Officers Men
Infantry ares 36437 1,649 Cavalry 4.935 22 Field artillery 13.915 386 Coast artillery corps.. 8,733 244 Air corps, extended active duty : 846 Air Corps, other 2.156 Corps of engineers 7.828 Signal corps 2,262 Adjutant generals dept 750 | Judge advocate gen- | eral’s department 657 | |Quartermaster corps... 5.898 11 {Finance department... 794 | Ordnance department. 3,029 i hemical warfare sec- | tio “3.107 Medical department... 24.003
Chaplains ..... Caksans 1.057 |
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| 115,517 | Eligible for assignment, active duty and promotion 104,375 While reserve organizations are kept intact whenever possible, rapid (expansion of the army does not] always permit this policy. In the Inew fiscal year, for example, 1811 | reserve lieutenants are on duty with | the air corps—more than double the figure of last year (shown in table).
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were in Dade County jail today, waiting a hearing before immigration authorities. Jolly Consant, one of the group, sald the famous French penal colony had been almost without food cause the guards were not being paid, they had relaxed vigilance. | He said the men accumulated | | 450 francs and bought a canoe | { from natives in Dutch Guiana, | and sailed and paddled to Trinidad in a week. The Trinidad Government gave them a sail- | boat, and they sailed to Arroyo | Puerto Rico, where they remained for a month and a half, before they were ordered away. Friends on the waterfront gave them 12 days’ supplies, and they set off for the United States. They planned to go to Canada and from there to England to join French forces under Gen. Charles de Gaulle. But immigration authorities are likely to order them deported to France.
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valuable exhibits were reported saved. ‘I SAW PLANES Robert Service oO I VM SHOT TO BITS’ Manuscripts me——— { MONTREAL, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—, Two complete manuscripts written Reporter Ducks Bullets as by the author of “Sam McGee” and . “The Lady That's Known as Lou”| He Watches Fierce Dog probably will never see print. ; A new novel by the man who, Fight Over Dover. told of the “Shooting of Dan Me-| {Grew” in meter, was only partly| By EDWARD W. BEATTIE JR. [finished and that, too, presumably | United Press Staff Correspondent {is lost. DOVER, Aug. 26.—British fighter] The man responsible for these planes tackled three powerful Ger- verses, Robert W. Service, was man squadrons of bombers and forced to flee France when the] fighters high in the sunny sky to- Germans entered and he left the day in one of the fiercest dog fights manuscripts in a safety deposit I have yet seen from the Channel [box in Nice. The unfinished novel cliffs. {was a tale of the French National The German formations swept out | Lottery and he said that had to be of the sun and raced inland where scrapped as the subject no longer the detonation of their heavy bombs existed. | British fighters were sitting up in J the sky waiting for the attack. 8 Devils Island From the ground we could see the] . . S planes whirling and diving like tiny C U yu onvictsin U. J. Hundreds of bullets and shell ’ op fragments spattered the streets of| _ MIAMI Fla, Aug. = . P.)/~~ the town as the dog fight progressed | Eight Frenchmen, who escaped and two German planes were seen to crash. One German plane was reported to have crashed into the sea some distance from the coast. A Ger-| man Messerschmitt dove from the| clouds and after a long burst from | British machine guns it whirled to-| ward the earth with great pieces | breaking off its tail and wing. | Thirty seconds after the fuselage |
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Another plane spun down crazily | its pilot tried to bring it under He almost succeeded but| The plane crashed into} the cliffs where I was|
as control. not quite. the sea off standing. Five Messerschmitt fighters aimed] for the balloon barrage, spraying the town with bullets and air cannon shells in their attack. Two of the balloons came down in flames. |
‘UNCLE: BILLY' OF WEST SIDE IS DEAD
William White, known throughout
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after an illness of several years. He| was 7 | A native of Kittyvminster, England, Mr. White came to Indianapolis 45 vears ago. He retired several years ago after being employed for 30 vears at the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. He was a member of the West Michigan Street
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P.). { —The U. S. Court of Appeals today sustained a district court decision dismissing a $750,000 libel suit brought against Secrstary of Interior Harold L. Ickes hy John D. Glass, Tyler, Tex. attorney. Mr. Tyler alleged that Mr. Ickes
Lodge 678. I. O. O. F. distributed in 1938. The three justices | who heard the
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. appeal from the | Annie White; a daughter, Mrs. | district court decision dismissing | Edith Hawkins of Indianapolis; a the suit agreed that the release was son. George White of Muncie; a |brivileged. Chief Justice D. Lawbrother. Thomas White of Cleve- [rence Groner, while agreeing with land, and a granddaughter. | the decision in this case. criticized | Services will be held at 10 a. m. the manner in which the ruling at the West Michigan “broadens the scope of official auBurial will be in| thority,” and questioned the expan[sion of executive offices’ exemption from libel.
HELD HERE TODAY HARRY W. PURCELL Mrs. Madora Millikan, a lifelong RITES WEDNESDAY
Indianapolis resident, died SaturHarry W. Purcell, 2120 W. Walnut
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{compete for $200 in cash prizes at [the third annual state tomato show in the Claypool Hotel tomorrow. The show will be followed by a | banquet in the Riley Room, ending the observance of Tomato Week in! Indiana. Judges for the exhibit will be J.
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MOTHER IS HELD IN GANG MURDER
Red-Haired Woman, 40, Faces N. Y. Charge; 10 Deaths Laid to Group.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—| Mrs. Rose Pantiel, 40, red-haired | mother of two grown children, was] ordered held without bail for hearIng next Wednesday on a charge of murder growing out of the al-| leged gang killing four years ago of Rubin (The Mock) Shapiro, Brook- | lyn gangster, | Mrs. Pantiel, implicated by police with a gang suspected of 10 murders in Brooklyn, was arrested yes-| terday and arraigned today. Magis- | trate Charles E. Hirsimaki ordered | her held. Mrs, Pantiel was accused of “act- | ing in concert with other male per- | sons” to cause the fatal shooting | of Shapiro, Sept. 1, 1936, in Brook-| lyn. Shapiro was alleged to have been a member of a rival gang. Her 22-year-old daughter, Sylvia, | wife of an imprisoned robber, was held as a material witness and District Attorney William O'Dwyer said of her: “There's a girl who for the love of a man in Sing Sing | is going to send her mother to the) electric chair.” O'Dwyer did not] explain the remark. | Mr. O'Dwyer said that while look-
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murdered Isadore Rubin, 45. a painter, in the offices of the painters’ union, on July 21, 1936. Mrs. Pantiel was alleged to have consorted with the so-called “Larney boys,” who, according to Mr. O'Dwyer, were at war with a gang run by Knockout Harry Halpern. Altogether, the war between the gangs cost 10 or 12 lives, Mr. O'Dwyer said. He found no connection between the “Larney boys” and murder, Inc.
TAXI DRIVER'S ‘NIP’ BRINGS FINE OF $30
A “nip” he took to relieve the monotony of taxi driving today cost| Burley J. Follies, who said he lived] at 9 W. South St., fines of $50 and a | sentence of 180 days. Arrested when he attempted to make a U turn in Kentucky Ave, the driver admitted to Municipal Court Judge Charles J. Karabell he had consumed “a half of a half-| pint of liquor.” Follies was fined $10 and costs and | given 90 days for operating a vehicle | under the influence of liquor; $10] and costs and 90 days for intoxica-|
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the rules of the road. His driver's license also was suspended for one year. 7 DIE IN COAST ACCIDENT SAN JOSE, Cal, Aug. 26 (U. P).| —Seven persons died last night when an excursion train struck a automobile at a grade crossing 12 miles south of here. The victims were prune pickers. |
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MONDAY, AUG. 26, 1940 C.1. 0. LEADERS REBEL gr to hundreds of C © 0, unions AGAINST FUND PLEA | for contributions to the peace mob-
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (U. P).—|ilization program, saying that Thirty-six officers of C. I. O. unions | “labor's vital concern calls for suc= in New York led a revolt today cessful mobilization to keep Amer= against Joseph Curran, president of | ica out of war.” New York's Industrial Union Coun-| Leaders of 27 of the 36 unions cil, C. 1. O, who asked financial | affiliated with the United Retail
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