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GARRARD IS CLEAREDTaft Wiped Bloom Reprimand From His Record.• iECHO OF A FAMOUS CASEOfficer Had Disapproved Jewish Trooper’s Plea for Commission—So Indorsed His Examination Papers—Private Was Promoted After Another Examination •at Fort Leavenworth,An echo of the controversy caused during the summer ol 1911, when Uoi. Joseph Garrard, commander of Fort ftlyer. was publicly reprimand eel by President Taft for Indorsing on the examination papers of Frank Bloom, then a private at Fort M\er, that his promotion to st commission in the army was not desirable, was heard yesterday, when it became known that one of the labt official acts of Mr. Taft was1 to fosue an order obliterating from the military record or Col. Gerrard the reprimand-This action of former President Taft 1s tlx* final chapter in anr army setuaa-tion which held the attention of the entire country, and aroused tho Jews of the nation to such an extent, that charges were, made tat soldiers of the (Jewlsh race were denied promotion In. the army because of their religion.Oliver Confirms Reports.j Assistant Secretary of War Robert Shaw Oliver last night confirmed the report that the former President had issued the order.4'The papers did npt pass through my hands, but I know that such an order Was issued by President Taft Just before he quit office,” said Mr. Oliver. Gen. Leonard Wood, cfmtef of staff, whom Secretary Oliver said has the order, could not be reached at Fort Mycr last night, nor could Col. Garrard.The nature of the order issued by President Taft clearing the record of Col. Garrard was not known to Assistant Secretary Oliver, he said, nor didhe know the exact date of the signing of the order nor when it became effective.The storm which/ held the attention of t+ie country for the summer of 1SU first broke about the head of Bloom inthe spring of that year, when^ as a private in the Third field artillery at Fort Myer, he took an examination for promotion to the position of second lieutenant and failed.Garrard Obiected to Bloom,
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Washington Post
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Wed, Mar 12, 1913
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