Show 6 U 0 W washington D C BLOCKED ARMY promotions the army ta is pulling all set sorts of wires backstage tn in athe tha sena senate to to t break the logjam log jam aga against dinst s permanent wartime pio promotions motions e especially those ot of general somervell elland and general patton the senate military affairs committee some time ago proposed a policy against rushing through permanent promotions in wartime arguing that temporary promotions were sufficient and that permanent promotions could come after the war when the senate and the put public bile could survey all of an an officers record some senators still remember the manner in which general pershing was jumped from the rank of captain to brigadier general after he married the daughter of sen francis E warrin warren then chairman ot of the mill military tiry affairs committee and they recall also the resentment this caused in thle the army however the policy ot of blocking per permanent manint vf wartime artime promotions Is being opposed by the ardys efficient lobby on capitol hill and recently a new move was made to put through promote promotions ons for generals patton and somervell I 1 their names had been before a subcommittee which was adamant a against promotion patton is now only colonel though holding the tern tem horary rank of lieutenant general Som ervens ells ra rank tak Is similar so chairman Bo bob reynolds bReynolds of the military affairs committee put their names before a subcommittee including himself elbert thomas of utah and warren austin of vermont significantly sandwiched ta between pattons Pat tons and ells names Is that of general wainwright now a prisoner in id japan whom every senator Is anxious to promote so it will be difficult for the subcommittee to promote one without the other two GRILLING GENERAL HERSHEY draft director lewis B hershey and manpower boss paul mcnutt came ta in for some rough handling regarding the bungled draft situation at a closed dobr meeting of the house military affairs committee the other day members took their hair down and said a lot of things that have been rankling ta in their bosoms about conflicting draft orders which have promoted confusion after the meeting adjourned the committee announced that it had refused to approve a labor draft bill inside tact fact however Is that formal action against the labor draft was taken only after the committee had heard a furious grenadine gre against the hershey mcnutt team including a demand that both be fired and replaced by a single draft czar chairman andrew J may of kentucky rep walter G andrews of new york ranking committee republican and reps ewing thorna thoma son of texas john M costello of california leslie arends of illinois and forest harness of indiana all got ta in some forthright licks against the tumbling fumbling of the manpower and draft program the assault was led by texas two fisted thomason who declared that one man should be put ta in corn com charge ot of both military and industrial du manpower with the nation at war mysterious HOSPITAL there Is something awfully mysterious about the war departments determination to get rid of the breakers hotel in palm beach as an army hospital and the extent to which attorney general biddle seems anxious to cooperate in order to unravel the mystery the truman committee called upon biddle tor for the breakers hotel report prepared by his two fisted young assistant attorney general norman littell littell lattell who is in charge of lands acquisition had bad pointed to the foolishness of spending a lot of money making a hotel into info a hospital and then turning it back to the florida east coast railroad just when we are on the verge of 0 a second front and do not know what our casualties will be but when biddle received the truman committees request he got in touch with rudolph halley its acting chiet chief investigator and asked him to withdraw the request halley diplomatically complied But next day when members ot of the truman committee heard about it they called up the justice department and subpoenaed the littau report whereupon biddle promptly surrendered he asked that the subpoena be withdrawn and he finally sent cent the littell report to the committee meanwhile the army is holding up its plans to io evi evacuate cuate the breakers CAPITAL CHAFF 41 igen gen A C U S aide to lord louis Mount batten complains that he has been sitting in new delhi with nothing to d do 0 but read Sand burgs lue life of lincoln Weder Is one of the top strategists in the U S army spent six years in germany ingermann where h he L knew general yodel and other nazi field marshals but instead of 0 being put in a place where he be could advise on strategy against germany he was sent to india a country about which be knows little |