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...studied engineering at the University of the Philippines, earning his way as a chauffeur. Later he had taken a job as mechanic in a bus company, and wound up as its manager. At war's outbreak, he went to work in the motor pool of the U.S. 31st Division, and ended the war as commander of a guerrilla army of 10,000. In 1950, as chairman of the House National Defense Committee, he attacked his own party, the Liberals, demanding an end to politics in the army, a real fight against the Huks, and a cleanup of the evils...
...Army, wary of the National Guard's political pc-wer, has taken from it-as few men as possible. When replacements were desperately needed in Korea, a good many specialized officers and noncoms were taken from small, unassigned outfits and from the two divisions in strategic reserve (the 31st and 47th). But the other Guard divisions on active duty -the 40th and 45th (in Japan) and the 43rd and 28th (assigned to Europe) have been trained as units and left intact. Nearly all the troops taken from these four combat divisions were draftees, not Guardsmen...
...Chief Hoyt Vandenberg presented Major Louis J. Sebille's widow with the pale blue ribbon of the Medal of Honor. The Sebilles' 19-month-old son tottered about waving the boxed medal, while Mrs. Sebille watched a parade in her husband's honor. He was the 31st U.S. fighting man and the first Air Force flyer to win the nation's highest decoration in Korea...
...proud old 31st National Guard ("Dixie"'; Division thinks that it is getting rough treatment from the Pentagon. The division was recruited in Alabama and Mississippi with the slogan "Fight Together-Fight with Your Buddies." It had barely begun training this year at Fort Jackson, S.C. when the Army took 4,300 men from the division, put them in other outfits as replacements. Last week, rumors were flying that a second, even heavier, levy was in the works...
Angry cries of protest sounded throughout Alabama and Mississippi. The 31st's commander, Major General Alexander G. Paxton, announced that morale and training had "hit a new low." Alabama's fat and usually jovial Representative Frank Boykin boiled up, introduced in Congress a sweeping resolution designed to stop the Army from breaking up National Guard divisions. Among its provisions: "In any case where a division of the . . . National Guard shall have been ordered into the active military service of the United States, no unit or component of such division shall be separated, detached, or otherwise removed from...