Guthrie

Military fay; retired fay (nonddsability); confutation of fay; World War I officer retirement benefits; Reserve officers. — Plaintiff, a nonregular officer who served on active duty during World War I, seeks to recover increased retired pay computed at the rate of 75 percent of the active duty pay of a lieutenant colonel with over twenty years of service at the time of his retirement under the provisions of ¶ 4, § 15 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, 56 Stat. 359, or, in the alternative, to recover increased retired pay without the benefit of the 1942 Act but based upon his contention that…