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...ground job. He said that he had become afraid of flying. The Air Force turned down his request. Last December, when he was ordered to fly to England as copilot of a C124 cargo plane, Goodwin refused to obey. Last week at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, a court-martial sentenced him to two years' hard labor and ordered him cashiered...
...Army band from the Murphy General Hospital will provide martial general Hospital will provide martial music...
Last week Hilaly Pasha dejectedly stopped the clock: he postponed the May 18 elections. Muffled by censorship and martial law, the Wafd opposition called his action unconstitutional...
...descendants have been campaigning ever since to clear his record. His son, William Cox, was expelled from Lafayette College for striking a professor who called his father a coward, according to the family. Half a century ago, an unsuccessful effort was made to get Congress to reverse the court-martial verdict. When Theodore Roosevelt, in his Naval War of 1812, said that Lieut. Cox had acted "basely," one of Cox's descendants protested so vigorously that Roosevelt apologized, and corrected his account in a later edition...
Just before World War II, Electus D. Litchfield, a Manhattan architect who is Cox's great-grandson, appealed to President Franklin Roosevelt, who proved sympathetic but without any legal power to reverse the 1814 court-martial. Two years ago Litchfield persuaded Georgia's Representative Eugene Cox (no kin) to introduce a resolution restoring William Cox to the rank of third lieutenant as of his death in 1874. This was the resolution before the House Armed Services Committee last week. The outlook is that Litchfield, now 80, and 30-odd other descendants may see the family name cleared...