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Show MANY CIVILIANS GET COMMISSIONS IN REGULAR ARMY WASHINGTON, July 13. The number num-ber of civilians submitted to examina-A examina-A tion for army commissions is incre.as-, incre.as-, ing to a marked degree and hundreds have been accepted and commissioned as second lieutenants during the past few months. War department officials hope a large percentage of the officers of that class needed under the army reorganization bill will be obtained from civil life. Adjutant General McCain Mc-Cain said today that those with an average academic education had found little difficulty in qualifying. Appli- i cants must be between the ages of 21 Jfc. and 27. President Wilson was urged today by k Senator O 'Gorman to order the reinstatement rein-statement of Colonel Louis D. Con ley and Lieutenant Colonel John J. Phelan of the Sixty-ninth New York infantry, ordered mustered out by Major General Gen-eral Leonard Wood for physical disability. dis-ability. Senator 0 'Gorman told the president the doctors who examined Colonel Con-ley Con-ley . differed on his condition and that because of the doubt he believed the president would be justified in ordering Colonel Conley 's reinstatement. The senator said apparently there was more justification for the mustering out of k Lieutenant Colonel Phelan, but also urged his reinstatement. |