Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-09-29
ONE REGIMENT TO COME HOME FOR
EACH NEW ONE SENT TO THE BORDER
General Funston Given Full
Powers as to Which Troops
Shall Be Ordered Back to
Their State Camps.

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"\HE war department has sent or.
ders to General Funston to re-
turn regiments Of the national
guard now on the border in ex.
act ratio Of one regiment to return for
each new regiment sent down.
The Second New York will be one Of
the FIRST regiments to return. and Gen.
eral Funston will be given discretion
to select other regiments. The train
equipment used to transport a regi.
ment south will be used to convey re-
turning regiments north.
When national guard organizations
are ordered to home stations for mus
tering out the members who apply may
be discharged at border stations when
specifications are made in evident good
faith and when they are approved by
all national guard commanders con-
cerned.
Indiana Students to Stay.
University of Indiana students with
the medical corps will not be permit
ted to return with Company | of the
First regiment. stationed at Llano
Grande. This was indicated by the
action in the case of eight University
Of Minnesota men who had been trans
ferred from the university battery to
the hospital corps and who were not
permitted to return to Fort Smelling
with their fellow students.
Among the university students with
the hospital and infantry corps are:
Vernon Brigham. Paul Bailey. vii.
liam McCool and Privates Chancellor
Schwarz and Fred Baker.
The Judge advocate general holds
that a man who Is eligible to retire
from the federallzed national guard un-
der the dependent family act is not
barred from such retirement because
he entered the service after the call
for state troops June 81. He makes
this ruling in a formal opinion present.
ed in answer to an inquiry made by
Senator Kern.
Several Indiana enlisted men made
application to be retired under the de-
pendent family act, but General Fun
ston held that the act did not apply to
them because they enlisted after the
call for the national guard to mobilize
was issued. The advocate general thus
overrules General Funston. ~sEs
$4,000 Men Assembled.
With the arrival of the last contin-
gent Of Ohio troops at Ell Paso the
largest body Of troops gathered in this
country since the close Of the civil
war is under canvas in the camps
near Fort Bliss, $4,000 men. Of whom
$4,000 are national guardsmen. accord
ing to figures announced by General
George Bell. Jr.
Tentative plans are under way In
Washington for review Of all the
troops in this district by President
Wilson in October. The president is
scheduled to speak at the dedication
Of the Elephant Butte irrigation prof.
ect on Oct. IA.
The Ohio infantry, commanded by
Colonel l. w. Howard Of Toledo. and
the Second Ohio infantry. commanded
by Colonel Guy Deming Of Ada. ac-
companied by Brigadier General w. v.
McMaken Of Toledo, are now we'll es-
tablished in Camp Pershing.
The Third Ohio infantry. under Colo
mel r. l.. Huber Of Dayton. bringing
the Cleveland Grays. has also encamp-
ed. The newly arrived Ohio troops
are Quartered just north Of the Fifth
regiment. All Ohio infantry organiza-
tons will be kept close together.
Lieutenant Colonel Benson W. Hough
Of the Fourth Ohio has Joined bis reg
iment
Don't Walk Behind the Army Mule.
The army mule ia one big problem
for each regiment for day or two.
and they are particularly obstreper-
GUS when first taken from the main
corral.
Men of the Ohio battalion Of artil.
lery had busy time when they shoed
thirty-one Of the animals. Sergeant
John Hedges Of Circleville, O., of the
machine gun company Of the Fourth,
is in the hospital because he walked
behind a mule.
Sergeant A. J. Ulam OF Warren. O.,
Of Company D Of the Fifth. has re-
ceived an order for his discharge be-
cause Of dependents and will leave
soon for Warren.
There is still talk that Ohio troops
will be given border patrol duty soon.
Many men say they are eager for It.
The Thirty-frst and Thirty-second
Michigan regiments. which have been
doing such duty. are eager to be re-
lieved.
Balloon For Ohio Troops.
The first nodern observation bal
loon in the American army Is to be
given a test at FL Paso in a few days.
It is the military observation balloon
which a tire and rubber company has
presented to the Ohio national guard
on the border through Battery B Of
the first Ohio artillery.
The balloon is being filled with hy-
drogen gas at the refining plant and
will require $4,000 cubic feet before it
is fully inflated and ready for test
trip oser the army camps
Sergeant Ralph Urson Of Battery B
is in charge Of the balloon as an avia.
ton expert. He was the winning pilot
in the James Gordon Bennett balloon