Silent Fish

Ordered to 28 days of active duty last week was Colonel Hamilton Fish Jr.. of the U.S. Army's Specialist Reserve.* Congressman Fish helped to organize a Negro regiment (the crack 15th Infantry, now the 369111 Coast Artillery) during World War I, served in it as a captain, and won the Croix de guerre. As a procurement officer in the Specialist Reserve, Colonel Fish will have more use for a pencil than for a gun, will presumably return to his loud duty in the U.S. House of Representatives after his Army month is over. While he is an active officer, he will have to be silent on public issues.

* Another active member of the Specialist Reserve: Captain Elliott Roosevelt, assigned to Air Corps procurement.

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