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Colman's Court-Martial...
...court-martial of William T. Colman [TIME, Sept. 27] ... was an inexcusable travesty on justice and decency...
Sirs: The farce . . .. at Selfridge Field should direct public attention to a fundamental defect in the system whereby army "justice" is administered. . . . Aside from the other charges against Colonel Colman, it is difficult to suppose that, were the parties to the as sault reversed, a court-martial would have punished an attack with a deadly Weapon by a colored soldier on a colonel with less than death or life imprisonment...
...romance is a by-product of the cinemilitary career of talented Gene Kelly, who before the Army gets him is a temperamental trapeze star. Private Kelly's yearning to get back in the air (in a plane) and an approaching court-martial for breach of discipline cause him to toy with Kathryn Grayson's affections in hopes that her father, his Colonel (John Boles), will transfer him to the Air Forces. The Colonel wants a less insubordinate son-in-law. Aware that trapeze work involves a certain amount of disciplined cooperation, he asks the young artist...
...Forces court-martial of Colonel William T. Colman (TIME, Sept. 13), onetime commander of Selfridge Field, Mich., handed down its verdict. Charged with shooting a Negro private at the field, the defendant was found guilty of "careless use of firearms." Charged with four instances of drunkenness on duty, he was convicted of "conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline." The court's sentence: reduction to the rank of captain, with promotion barred for three years...