Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-28
FOURTH REGIMENT
MUSTERED IN And
READY FOR TESTS
Physical Examinations Alone to
Be Taken Before Nebraskans
Are in Shape to Go to
the Border.
MAY NEED MORE RECRUITS
Signal Corps Reduced in
Number by Medical
Officers.
MAY NEED MORE RECRUITS
NEWSPAPER MEN IN VAN

Lincoln, June 27.-(Special Tele
gram.)-TE: Fourth regiment of the
Guard has been entirely mustered i'll
and will be able to move at any time,
unless examinations show enough
members excused so that the COM
panies are below the required sixty
five men.
Fourth Now Mustered.
The Fourth regiment of the Guard
has been entirely mustered in and
will be able to move at any time, un-
less examinations show enough men,
bers excused so that the companies
are below the required sixty-fve men.
Captain McMillen of the aero COM
pany has been authorized to secure
from the different companies OF the
Guard forty-hve men for aero service.
Today General Hall sent in the fol
lowing names: Captain Ralph Nc
Millen and Lieutenant Ed. Bagnell,
both pilots; T. NJ. Dillon, Auburn, D
of the Fifth; E. r. Wills, Lincoln, A
of the Fifth; William Lovelady,
Omaha, A of the Fourth; A; White,
A of the Fourth; F. Bolton, Lincoln;
H. J. Devol Lincoln; R. P. Chesney,
field hospital; Leo D. Westover,
Lincoln; +. E. Roberts, LINCOLN; k.
7. Craig, Lincoln; w. T. Hanson,
Newman Grove.
NAV Go Together.
It begins to look this evening as
If the Guard would be able to move
to the south in a body instead OF in
small units of perhaps battalion.
The fear of the governor and
officers that if the regiments went
out in small units they would be
mixed in with troops of other states
and thus lose their identity as Ne
braska troops, has to some extent
passed away with the mastering IN OF
the entire Fourth and with the mus
tering in ofsthe Fifth as fast as pos
sible. all can go when the order comes
10 move. ~ :.
l. understood lost several men undel
.as,. ysicat examination, but InayaastA
he able to qualify. When mustered
n they looked like a body of mer
physically fit, to all outward appear
ance. but the rigid eye. Of the exam
iner saw defects which made severa
step to the rear.
Cha6ng at Delay.
DELAYS in getting the companies
ready are not appreciated by the men
who appear to be anxious to get te
the border. Many of them hav'
thrown up a good business or a gooct
nosition to fight if necessary for tn
old flag and they do not like to thinl
that the delay might possibly keel
them from being among the hrst tt
the front.
This is true especially of the sup
!. ply company from Wisner, command
Nd by Captain Kelso. In that com
pany, which has as part OF its dut,
the task of digging trenches putting
in water pipes and such work., cal
be found men who have accumulated
a good amount of worldly goods, bu
are not at all backward in giving tt
their country the best that is in them
no matter where the duty calls them
Wealthy Men in Company.
Among them are two doctors; on
of them DR.. Riley, is said to be abl
TO draw his check along the si'
figure line, while the other physician
Dr Morris, can 60 to the bank ant
draw $4,000 most any day. Anothe
busy toiled in khaki is John Huff,
we'll to do druggist, while William
Kinccl is the leading hardware mer
chant of the town. Another man,
lumber merchant, is prosperou
business man, yet all of these are It
be found digging trenches, or any
thing else which calls for the service
of the supply company. But DO no
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