Show ARMY AWARDS FIGHT WIDENS Bak Baker Bak r Letter and Gallivan Statement t en nt EI Enliven Days Dar's Days Controversy BT Er Ires sV s. s V Washington ton Jan Controversy O over Or r awards of oC war s ser service serIce rice Ice Decorations U by the war department was widened today when Secretary Baker made public public pub pub- lic tic a letter leller to Representative Gallivan Democrat of Massachusetts challenging challenging ing ing- statements made matJe a few da days a ago o by byth bythe bythe th the latter in the House regarding regarding- former former for for- mer chiefs of oC staffs while Gallivan amplified his previous pre charges chars in j r written statement Mr Bakers Baker's letter dealt with the milItary military mil mu- r records or s and war service of Gen Tasker II IL Bliss BUss and Major Generals Hugh L L. Scott and John BIddle predecessors predecessors cel sors of Gen P Peyton C C. March in the theoffice theoffice theoffice office of oC the chief of oC staff The Tho secretary secre seere- tary tan denied dented emphatically Gallivan's stat statement that the these Q officers Jad been r removed mo c for tor inefficiency and said salt he made the letter public as the tho only means the officers assailed had of oC an answering an- an sering 8 such charges Charges C Representative Gallivan In his statement state stale m merit ment nt declared only one one enlisted man apparently b by error ha had been beena a awarded warde a distinguished service medal whilo l i-l officers and amid three thirty civilians ch titans JUans had been given this decoration Ho lie quoted figures as al to awards made a adding ding that h he did not desire to 10 an anticipate anticipate anticipate an- an or befuddle tho LImo distinguished secretary of or war var In I preparing the re report report Te- Te port called for under the Gallivan reio- reio l llon a adopted by the House iet 1 t It not be forgotten said Mr Ir Gallivan's statement that the tho act creating cre alln the distinguished service medal abolished the certificate of merit meritS the oldest decoration of tie the American arm army which was Co for enlisted men man only onh I do not care car to comment upon the figures which I append It certainly I Is Illuminating and It Is Ig proof conclusive that the tho me has been restricted to toa toa a J. J much narrower field than even I announced In my remarks In Congress Cons The figures quoted showed the following following fol Cul- fol- fol lowing distribution of D D. S. S Ms I Generals Gun Gun- orals a lieutenant i generals g 2 major generals g 69 brigadier generals 12 colonels G lJ lieutenant colonels tS 18 S majors 16 16 captains 2 lieutenants 1 3 J chaplains 13 43 ser sergeants 1 corporals 0 privates atc 1 civilians cl male mule 25 25 cUil- cUil tans lans female S 8 S. How Ho carefully our allies awarded e eth th this Is same satue distinguished tI n decoration the statement said can be noted from flom the time following figures which show khow the thea a awards ward of the D D. D M. M by br countries American Including seven seen to foreigners for for- eigners 6 French lii 1 British 79 Italian 22 2 Belgian n 10 19 Japanese O 4 I Rumanian 1 I. |