Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-29 | Page 4 | Board is Urged as Courtmartial Check

BOARD IS URGED AS " COURTMARTIAL CHECK WASHINGTON". "March 28. Establishment Establish-ment bv law of an appellate court-martial tribunal similar to Xhf. board of re- ' view nw maintained in the office of tbe jjudpi'-advofsUe-fy-eneral way urged today by 1 iieulenant-Culounl VMwin K. Keedy of the .iuclse-advoeate-gencral's offiee, in "a statement before tho special committee commit-tee of the American 1 ;ar" association -which its inquiring into court-martial ' procedure. Colonel Keedy said that, as u lawyer and teacher of law, he had been agreeably surprised by tho efficiency of . annv general courts' martial. He called attention to the fact that there had not been a single execution in the American army for a purely military offense, and said ho had heard there were 11,000 such i executions in the Austrian army.