The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 16, 1941 Page: 7 of 8
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THE CORRIGAN PRESS
Army Changes Promotion Rules The (American) Panzers Are Coming!
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Rule Calls for Advance-
ment of 3,700 Regular
And Reserve Officers.
WASHINGTON.—New regulations
to provide for the temporary pro-
motion of about 3,700 officers of the
regular army and the reserve corps
have been promulgated by the war
department.
Such promotions may be made
only where vacancies exist, but the
regulations were understood to an-
ticipate further orders that will
create such vacancies by the weed-
ing out of over-age reserve officers
now on active duty and the retire-
ment of others who for various rea-
sons will be returned to civil life.
Reserves Affected Most.
The bulk of the temporary pro-
motions will affect reserve second
and first lieutenants, who may thus
be advanced one grade on the tem-
porary list. Among the regulars,
there will be some advancements
In the younger grades but the new
rules will apply more generally to
older regular officers. The younger
lieutenants in the regular army
heretofore have benefited consider-
ably by permanent promotions.
Temporary promotions, in accord-
ance with the rating of officers on
their respective promotion lists, was
authorized among regulars for ma-
jors with 22-23 years’ service, cap-
tains with 12 years’ service, first
lieutenants with three years’ serv-
ice, and second lieutenants with one
year’s service. Also for captains
in the medical department and chap-
lain corps with nine years' service.
Temporary promotions for re-
serve officers were authorized for
first lieutenants with three years’
extended active duty.
The new regulations for tempo-
rary promotions of regular army
officers in the grades of captain and
major to the next higher rank give
regular officers on opportunity to
win promotion during the emergen-
cy at the same rate heretofore made
possible only for their fellow-officers
in the reserve.
Since the army faces the problem
in peacetime of encouraging enough
men to enter the officers’ reserve to
handle on expanded war force,
promotion has been faster in the re-
serve corps. A regular captain
heretofore could expect to be a ma-
jor only after 17 years of service,
of which seven had been spent at
a captain, although a reserve of-
ficer could win his majority in 12
years.
Under the new emergency condi-
tions two officers, one a regular and
one a reservist, each with 12 years’
service, may be promoted to the
rank of major. At the end of the
emergency the reservist will revert
to civil life, while the regular will
revert to his permanent rank of cap-
tain, unless in the meantime, he has
qualified for promotion on the per-
manent list.
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There is realism enough here as 75-mm. guns cut loose in an at-
tempt to fight off tanks of the First armored division, attacking Castor,
on the Louisiana front. The tanks came on to capture the town, in
real ’’blitzkrieg” fashion, supported by attack bombers, who “massaged”
the ground defenses before the arrival of the tanks. The action was part
of a demonstration of how the nation’s newest military arm would capture
a town held by the enemy.
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PETER RABBIT PREPARES TO
MAKE A CALL
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'T'HAT little ice roller that you use
on your skin after you’ve washed
your face is more than just another
beauty gadget. It’s a simply grand
pick-up, after a sticky hot day.
Stroke your temples with it. Your
wrists. And in the morning use it
to get yourself nicely waked up.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Rhode Island Refuge
Of Fishermen Repaired
POINT JUDITH, R. I.—The Har-
bor of Refuge, which shelters small
boats and fishermen from the
treacherous water off here, is hav-
ing its breakwaters repaired.
More than 30,000 tons of granite
is being used to fill gaps torn in the
seawall by the September, 1938, hur-
ricane.
The 3,400 feet of rebuilt seawall
will have a top level of 20 feet
across and a 50-foot base.
DETER RABBIT washed his face
* and hands and brushed himself
with great care. It was very plain
to see that Peter wanted to look his
very best. Little Mrs. Peter watched
him suspiciously. It was very un-
usual for Peter to care how he
looked, so she felt sure that he had
something on his mind, something
she didn’t know about.
“Where are you going, Peter?”
she demanded.
“Over to the Green Forest, just as
I do every night,” replied Peter,
brushing away as hard as ever he
could.
“H-m-m-m,” said Mrs. Peter. ”1
never have known you to be so fussy
about how you look just for a visit
to the Green Forest. Whom do you
expect to see there?”
Peter looked a little bit confused.
The truth is he wasn’t quite sure
that Mrs. Peter would approve of
what he was planning to do, and so
he had told her nothing whatever
about it. Now there seemed to be
no way out of it. Besides, right down
in his heart he wanted to talk it over
with someone.
“Are you going to do something
you are ashamed of, Peter Rabbit?”
demanded Mrs. Peter.
“No,” replied Peter, “it isn’t any-
thing I am ashamed of. I—I haven’t
told you because—well, because 1
was afraid you might think me fool-
ish. But I guess I’ll tell you now
because I am going to do it any-
way. Something has got to be done
and nobody else seems to be doing
anything, so I’m going to. At least
I’m going to try."
Then Peter told her all about his
adventure with the hunter the day
before, and all about the narrow es-
capes of poor Mrs. Grouse and of
his cousin, Jumper the Hare. “Was
that hunter Farmer Brown's Boy?”
interrupted Mrs. Peter.
“No,” replied Peter. “No, it
wasn’t Farmer Brown’s Boy.”
“I’m glad of that,” said Mrs. Pe-
ter softly.
“So am I,” replied Peter. “I
haven’t seen him out once this fall
with his terrible gun, and somehow
I feel sure that he doesn’t want to
hunt us any more. I believe Farm-
er Brown’s Boy is our friend and I
am sure that if he knew about this
other hunter he would stop him. But
I guess he doesn’t know, so we’ve
got to stop him ourselves or some-
thing terrible will happen to some
of us one of these days. That is
what I am going over to the Green
Forest for tonight.”
Little Mrs. Peter stared at Peter
as if she thought he had quite lost
his senses. “Are you crazy, Peter
Rabbit?” she demanded. “What un-
British Tailors Seek
Ways of Saving Cloth
LONDON.—Britain’s tailoring
chiefs have secret talks, trying to
devise a “coupon suit.”
The idea of the “coupon suit”
would be to save material.
Suggestions that trouser cutis,
pocket flaps and jacket lapels
should be abolished were being
considered. But the verdict, for
the lime being, is a secret.
“Where are you
she demanded.
geing, Peter?”
The Only One Who Could Read?
der the sun can you do to stop j
that hunter from hunting?”
“Nothing,” replied Peter. “But
Buster Bear can do something. What
that hunter needs is to be hunted
himself and then he’ll know how we
feci. There is no one big enough to
hunt him but Buster Bear, and so
I am going to call on Buster to-
night to get him to give that hunter
a scare just as he did Farmer
Brown’s Boy once.”
“But you forget that Buster was
just as much frightened by Farmer
Brown’s Boy as Farmer Brown’s
Boy was by Buster,” said Mrs. Pe-
ter.
“No, I don’t,” replied Peter, "but
now that he knows that Farmer
Brown’s Boy ran away from him it
isn’t likely that Buster will be
afraid any more, is it? If he is he
hasn’t got common sense Anyway,
I’m going to find out.”
So off Peter started to call on
Buster Bear, and he certainly
looked his very best as he made
his way through the Green Forest
to the deepest, darkest part where
Buster Bear lives.
(Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.)
Island Just Big Enough
For a Forced Landing
WASHINGTON.—Two army ser-
geants described today how the
crew of a two-engine bomber landed
it on an Alaskan island which was
just a little wider than the plane
itself.
Master Sergeant Barron C. Pow-
ers and Technical Sergeant Ralph
S. Davis from Maxwell field, Ala.,
members of the crew, described
their experience in the Army Air
Corps News Letter.
After leaving Juneau and travel-
ing at 5,300 feet “the right motor
said ‘woof’ and quit,” they wrote.
"We sat quiet, buckling on safety
belts. Wc were headed down. Some
jagged mountain peaks were com-
ing up. We were losing altitude
fast.”
The pilot skimmed the mountains
and headed for a tiny strip of land
dead ahead. The ship bounced fifty
feet high off the north tip of the is-
land over heaps of driftwood and
was braked to a stop just two feet
short of the south tip and deep wa-
ter. Sergeant Powers stepped oil
the distance, exactly 1G5 paces.
The crew salvaged the rations and
radio just before the tide began to
rise and waited on a tiny strip of
land not engulfed by the ocean. Sev-
en hours later members of the Royal
Canadian air force base at Prince
Rupert took them off in a large boat.
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Probably it was the rope rather than literacy that kept “Quecnie”
on guard duty while the boys frolicked in New York’s East river. The
youngsters did not take any chances If the girth of the hawser counts
for anything.
Selectee Finally Learns
That He’s 38 Years Old
RIVERSIDE, CALIF.—William L.
Marks of Flemington, W. Va., is
wiser and older—three years older
in fact—thnn when he was inducted
into the army February 14.
Marks applied for a discharge
when the war department author-
ized release of drafted men over
28 years old. To expedite matters,
he sent for his birth certificate.
It arrived yesterday and Marks
discovered he is 38 years old and
wasn’t eligible for the draft in the
first place.
Better come on and get your
share. Nip, before that cat takes a
notion she wants some.
(Public Lodger—WNU Service.)
Sugar Maple Trees
Sugar maple trees to the extent of
over 30,000,000 are required to sup-
ply maple syrup and sugar industry
of North America. It is estimated
more than 10,100,000 trees are
tapped annually in the United States
and 20,000,000 in Canada.
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A quiz with answers offering
$ NTHER ■ 'r^orma,lon on var'ous subjects
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The Questions
1. What was the fourteenth
state to be admitted to the Union?
2. How many times does the
tide ebb and flow during each
period of 24 hours and 51 minutes?
3. What is the smallest inde-
pendent state in South America?
4. How does the area of Green-
land compare with that of the
British Isles?
5. What king rebuked the flat-
tery of his courtiers by showing
that the advancing waves paid no
heed to his command?
6. Approximately how many
days were required to frame the
U. S. Constitution?
The Answers
1. Vermont, March 4, 1791.
2. Twice.
3. Uruguay.
4. Greenland, with an area of
826,000 square miles, is nearly
7 times the size of the British Isles.
5. Canute (king of Norway,
Denmark and England).
6. One hundred (from May 25
to September 16, 1787, not count-
ing Sundays.
If the beaten eggs are mixed
with milk that is slightly warm
when making custards the cus-
tard will not be watery.
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When baking candied sweet po-
tatoes turn them frequently to per-
mit even browning.
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To remove fresh fruit stains
from table linen, stretch the
stained part over a bowl arttJ pour
boiling water over it.
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If the crust of your apple pie
becomes soggy because the juice
soaks into it, try this: Bake the
crust five minutes in a moderate
oven, then sprinkle it lightly with
a little granulated sugar mixed
with flour (about two tablespoons
of sugar and half that much flour).
Then add the apples mixed with
the sugar and spices. Cover with
crust and bake as usual.
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