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Show SUNDAY HERALD 1uyra rTA eotwrr. vtam PAGE uwmww njrimu gyxvAY march . 1944 rivjrrj This Is the Story Every American Soldier Wants the Public to Read By TOM WOLF NBA 8taff Correspondent LONDON, March 25 Unless the folks back In the States fully understand - the story of the "T O." the Army's Tables of Organization Or-ganization a lot of ..good -and deserving de-serving soldiers who haven't been promoted are going to be badly that a soldier in any enlisted grade is eligible for Officer Can didate School; and in battle he is eligible for battlefield appointment appoint-ment to lieutenant. Overseas Promotions Few In practice, this comes to mean that a man's chances of promo- underrated and unjustly maligned :Uon are iter at home over, at home. The T. O. contain the Army's Hard-and-fast rules for promo tion. Every unit in the U. S. Army lias a table of organization. It states specifically how many men may hold commissioned and noncommissioned non-commissioned ranks in this unit. It also states specifically how high these ranks may be. Assume that the T. O. of a cer- ''ittlTNOttOtCOMnOM. W STIU A COJWOHAl" tain unit calls for seven enlisted men in grades not to exceed one technical sergeant, one sergeant, one corporal, one first-class private, pri-vate, three privates. Assume that John Jones is one of this outfit, he NEVER can be promoted until one of the non-commissioned officers of-ficers leaves the unit. Stop and let that sink in. Unless Un-less one of the non-coms leaves seas. This is true because at home new units are frequently formed. Any enlisted man may be promoted pro-moted to any non-commissioned grade. In our expanding Army, when a new unit is activated at home, there will be places in the Table of Organization for noncommissioned noncommis-sioned officers. If Pvt. Jones Is transferred to this new unit when it Is formed, he may become a master sergeant overnight. Overseas, however, comparatively compara-tively few units are formed. Therefore, once Pvt. Jones leaves the States, his chance of being transferred are less. Thus his chances for promotion overseas are ."mailer than they would be at home. What goes for enlisted men goes for officers as far as the T. O. are1 concerned, with one extremely important additional qualification. No officer may skip a grade. For instance, a captain cannotbe become be-come a lieutenant-colonel without having served as a major. There are rigid time-of-service rules for promotion of officers. A second lieutenant must serve six months before being eligible for promotion to first lieutenant; a first lieutenant must serve six months; a captain, six; a major, nine; a lieutenant-colonel, onei year. The War Department can promote a full colonel when It sees fit. Experience Counts- There is one other qualification for officer promotions. Before an officer is promoted he must occu How Gas Ration Equalizer! WcMcs "A" cop v! 4rept fremS t2 foltewt per week. ""mitMMCv from 460 400 miles per menttt. mm Certain "B"cr4 holders my moke up 90s loer en "A" ration cut in thhi Rationing unchanged; A" value 2 gallons per week. 1 'j V f i ht L! 1 ' " I Jft yyft' ''' r'JkSa, Vs I ' Map above shows how various areas of the country are affected by OPA's recent order equalizing gas rationing nationally at two gallons per week. ant-colonel. Suppose, too, that the T. O. for his unit lists the job which he has been doing as one carrying the rank of major. He cannot be promoted to lieutenant-colonel lieutenant-colonel until he has served three months more as a major in some position for which the T. O. authorizes a lieutenant-colonelcy. In battle there are several mod- the unit. Private Jones NEVER py for three months the position can be promoted not. if he has he will occupy when he gets pro- been in the Army 10 years, not if he has been in 50 major campaigns, cam-paigns, not if he has won 100 medals. The only exceptions to this are moted. Assume that a major has lfications to the rules of promo- served the full time when he gets tion. Most important of these is promoted. Assume that a major! that any man who shows out-has out-has served the full nine months standing ability In battle can be required for promotion to lieuten- j promoted to the next higher rank. Dewey Charqes Administration Yith Deliberate Suppression of News Special And Showie! Sale NEW YORK, March -23 (U.E) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said last night that "the stakes in this war are far too high for it to be fought in the dark," and charged that the administration was at least partly to blame because "newspapers apparently are being denied the right to print all the news.' ' i "Important matters repeatedly have been withheld for months until un-til they leaked out and became the subject of such widespread gossip that they could nc longer be suppressed." sup-pressed." he told the annual meeting meet-ing of the New YcfH Press Photographers Photo-graphers association. Dewey, a possible candidate for the Republican presidential nomi nation, noted several alleged instances in-stances of news suppression and declared that "one such Incident might be charged. Jto blunder; two such incidents begin to lay the unpleasant suspicion of administration adminis-tration policy." ; "Only now,' Tie. said, "do we learn, because it -leaked out, of the shooting down of 23 transport planes and the killing of 410 American Am-erican paratroopers in Sicily, eignt months ago. Even- after a presidential presi-dential broadcast, we still know precisely nothing of what really happened at the -much-heralded conference In Tehran." Dewey said that he could understand under-stand why certain r)ews of a military mili-tary nature should be withheld, but that the "events of which 1 ; speak have not been suppressed to keep Information from the enmy so much as to kep them from our own people." "When we find the state department requesting the British censor suppress political news sent to American papers by American correspondents abroad, it begins to amount to a deliberate and dangerous policy of suppressing the news at home." "The press in this country," he declared, 'has cooperated unanimously unani-mously in voluntary censorship. It will continue to do so. But the stakes In the war are too hign for it to be fought in the dark. The issues are too momentous. It is time we had light as we fight for freedom." Willlrte Pleads For Cooperation Between Nations JANESVILLE, Wis., March 25 (EE) Pleading for an "affirma tive" stand by the GOP in 1944, Wendell L. Willkie declared in an address here last night that the Republican party faces "an administration ad-ministration that the people believe be-lieve has done a good job in the armed effort and an administration administra-tion with power entrenched." Willkie, who is stumping the state for support for his slate of 24 convention delegates In the April Ap-ril 4 primary, told an audience of 1,100 persons that President Roosevelt would know he could be re-elected if he could be "sure the Republicans will try to take advantage of the petty discontents discon-tents of war and oppose international- cooperation." President Roosevelt is "disturbed "disturb-ed that I am trying to make an effective unit of the Republican party," he said, and acknowledged that the GOP was experiencing a ''rebirth" through administration of its 26 governors, new congressional congres-sional delegates and "multiple' local officeholders, but he warned that it must take the position that we face not less, but more sac rifice and effort' 'if It hopes to un seat the present administration in "this most critical hour in the country's history." "The party out of power can-not can-not take over the reins In 1945 by mere criticism and silence,' 'he j warned, but by "taking the aggressive ag-gressive position that nations of jthe world should be brought together to-gether in mutual cooperation to j resent aggression and bring economic ec-onomic prosperity." Such a position, he added, would jnot be incompatible to each nation's na-tion's looking after its own' interests." Tens ofllfe With CfcirRe 7mV,iUt V" mil 11 - (SEA Telephoto) rh rough gaping throng in courtroom corridor walks Joan Barry after ielling Los Angeles Federal Grand Jury the most intimate details of her life and times with Comedian Charlie Chaplin. RECENTS COMMISSION' SPRINGVILLE Lamar H. Hol-ley, Hol-ley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Holley, Mapleton, has graduated and received his wings and a commission com-mission of ensign in the Navy air corps, according to word received by his parents. Graduation was I at Corpus Christ!, Texas, and ha jhas now been transferred to De- land, Fla., for operational training. train-ing. He enlisted in the service in November 1942, and trained at Salt Lake City, St. Marys, Calif., Susanville, Calif, and at Pasco, Wash., before going to Texas. GENUINE ORIENTAL RUGS HAND WOVEN IN PERSIA RATION CALENDAR 11, ' i -8?' 5StK A law . 1 .1. ni x.nJ m r. 1 l.S t T t " i To Tl It IS 14 IS ! 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The patriotic committee will give the program Sunday in the church services at 11:30 a. m. The service group picture will be un veiled and all parents and relatives' of the group are Invited to be present. t Merril Olsen S 2-0 who Is home from Farragut, Idahb having completed com-pleted his boot training will be honored Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Or-vin. Or-vin. The patriotic committee are IsDonsorine the social. All rela tives and friends are invited and pot luck lunch vfill be served. Olson reports back to Farra-Thursday. Farra-Thursday. and Mrs. Leonard Madsen en lertained at theilf home at a dinner party Wedneiday. Later In the evening rook was played the j guests were Mr. and Mrs. Roland ! Harding, Mr. and :.Mrs. Joy O. ciegg, Mr. ana Airs, leiana j. Gammon and Dr. and Mrs. E. Mansfield of Provd. Mr. and Mrs .Jdhn A. Olson and Mr. and Mrs. SMerrlll Olson and children were dinner guests Friday at the homg of Mr. and Mrs. J. Neldon Olson: in Salt Lake. The occasion was Mrs. John A. Olson's birthday anniversary. Relief society will be held at 1 the home of President Mabe ! Bunker Tuesday afternoon. j Mrs. Mary Spencer of Los An- j geles, Calif., visited! here durin- j the week with her, sister Mrs. Thomas Wells. 0TR Co without having served his time In grade IF a vacancy exists. Thus, if Captain Smith, the company commander Is killed in battle, ana 1st Lieut? Klein takes his place, he can be f promoted to a captaincy even if he has not been a first lieutenant for six months. But even if f Lieut. Klein shows outstanding -ability and bravery In battle, he cannot be promoted to captains: unless and until the vacancy exists. An enlisted man can be appointed ap-pointed second lieutenant in battle bat-tle again providing that a vacancy vacan-cy for a second lieutenant exists according to the Table of Organization Organ-ization of his unit. 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