El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-11
TRUCKS To TAKE
DIVISION To DAM
Gen. Bell Plans to Send
Army By Motor; Officers
Cannot Quit.

One company Of Detroit soldiers.
company B. 51st Michigan infantry.
was Monday morning turned into a
company OF motor truck drivers as part
Of the preparations being made by Brig.
Cen George Bell, jr-. to transport an
entire brigade or division OF infantry
from FL Paso to Elephant Butte dam,
y NJ. and return. as means OF testing
the motor truck in a plan TO make the
infantry as mobile as the cavalry
Co. Is Truck Command.
Company B pulled stakes ard. with
its present commander, Lieut.. Joseph L
Bachus, Joined the provisional motor
truck regiment in Fl PasO. FOrty-nine
members of the company viii be quick
ly trained as drivers. The others viii
be guards II is Gen Bells ambition,
before the national guard is ordered
home, to perform this motor truck
stunt with one whole division. which at
war strength is $4,000 men
The 31st regiment expects to go into
actual border patrol service next sat
urday.
Troops to Border.
Lieut. Col Ambrose {. Pack, eXecu-
tive officer Of the 31st. Saturday night
assigned companies to border points as
follows: Company H. Frederick ".
y -
pany D. Alma Lake, captain, to Fort
Hancock; company A. Charles A
Larned. captain. 10 Canutillo; company
L, Richard Smith, captain, TO Ysleta;
company ]. Albert c Wilson, captain,
10 Clint; company X. Isaac Godfrey,
captain, TO Fabens; company F. Nicho-
las kraemer, captain company q,
James O. Cathcart, captain. and ma
chine gun company, David E. Cleary.
captain. 20 10 guard the cement plant;
company ". David n. Phillips. captain.
viii guard the smelter, and company g
julius Berman- captain, goes TO Kern
Place.
Officers Cannot Resign.
Capt John B. SosnOwski and Capt.
Julius Berman, one the duartermaster
Of the 31st infantry. the other com
mander Of company c. were greatly dis
appointed Sunday when served with
copy of an order issued by the secre-
tary OF war declaring that hereafter
designations for ordinary business rea-
sons or similar reasons viii not be ac-
cepted from national guard officers
while in the field The two captains.
who are at present engaged in some
big business deals in Detroit. handed
their designations TO Col Barlow soon
after returning here from a leave of
a bsence-
Criticism OF Committee.
Criticism Of army officers response
bic for holding Up the pay Of the 51st
Michigan infantry. for what he termed
minor mistakes in the rolls. was made
by chaplain William Atkinson, Sunday
night IN sermon before the members
OF the regiment. The chaplain also took
the patriotic committee of Detroit to
task for failure 10 properly provide for Z
dependents OF soldiers in the field
Knocks Out Patriotism
The men Of the 3Ist have their
minds so taken IN with the thought OF
their penniless condition that they have
all the high, patriotic motives which ,
inspired them TO come south with the g
colors driven out" said the chaplain
In the three months the Detroit SOL
dlers have been in the service, Il is now
practically three months. they have re-
eeived only, in the case OF private SOL
diers, 81 in all Minor mistakes in the !
payrolls have caused the officers in I
charge OF paying off the men to hold I
up their money They should have been 4
paid long before this
Then the patriotic committee Of De
rot has not fulfilled its obligations. J
The men are. in many cases. beset with
Torries as to the conditions Of their
ANTILLES This is unjust" I