ARMY & NAVY: Order

ARMY & NAVY

Proceed to your home on or about November 20, 1930, and await retirement.

Thus read an Army order signed last week by General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff. Recipient of the order was General Charles Pelot Summerall, who promptly obeyed himself, set out for his native Florida. He will not reach retirement age until March 4, but his term as Chief expired Nov. 20. His successor. Maj.-General Douglas MacArthur (TIME, Aug. 18), last week assumed the staff chieftainship and the accompanying full general's rank by swearing: "I will well and...

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