The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-30
Truck Unit No. S.

Truck Unit No. S.
Truckmaster-M Regh.
Standardization r. Mcclellan,
IT, M. Wait and Percy Randall.
Machinst-Peter Regh.
Assistant-B. G. Kinsella.
Chauffeurs Frank Schneeberger,
gohn j. Powers, Olaf w. Olson and
Harry Vanderspoel.
Truck Unit No. 4.
Truckmaster-Br Kent.
Assistants-W William Kaiser, Horace
A Schryver and T. w. Monta.
Mechanic-John Miller.
Assistant--H. I'll. Moody.
Chauffeurs - Yngze Bjorn, Thomas
Gutz, Ferd Hosken, Alex Schaefer
and Martin Whittier.
These twenty Kenosha men left on
Monday night at ten O'Clock for
Mexico to join the force of truck
handlers for Uncle Sam in the chase
after Villa and their arrival at Column
bus, New Mexico, probably on Friday
morning, will bring the total of
the Kenosha men in the field in
this branch of the service up to
eighty-seven. With the twenty one
men who left last night the Thomas
B, Jeffrey company shipped to the
border twenty-seven more trucks
ready for army service and by ten
O'Clock tomorrow morning another
special train will pull out of Keno
sha taking twenty-seven more trucks
to the border.
BY Sunday morning the Jeffrey COM
parry will have four truck units of one
hundred and eight trucks in service in
Mexico. This is just double the num-
Der of trucks of other makes which
have been put into service by the
United States army officials and it is
certain that the Jeffrey trucks will be
even more in evidence before the end
of another fortnight.
In the company of men leaving on
the specia& train last night a number
were well known. Brad Kent, who is
truckmaster of No. A. is widely known
as a pilot of racing automobiles. Har-
ry Wait, who went with Company No.
3, is from Waukegan and no was one
Of the first men to volunteer for service
in Mexico. He just simply camped on
h JNh ,nii ho
place with the company. Olaf Olson
comes from Scandinavia, Wis. He
wrote to the Jeffrey company some
time ago telling of his burning desire
to help get Villa. He tried to get into
the army but failed so he decided that
if he could not carry a gun and fight
the next best thing for him to do would
be to drive truck and carry supplies
to the men who are permitted to fight.
Percy Randall, who went south last
night, was another one of the members
OF the United States party in the in
surrection in the Island of Hayti.
Yngze Bjorn is son of John Biorn,
one of the best known of the foremen
of the Jeffrey company.
Reports of the Kenosha units now in
the field are most flattering. One re-
port says: 'The Kenosha men who
are driving trucks in Mexico are con-
vincing the officials of the army that
the motor truck units are going to
prove the most valuable asset of the
army in future campaigns"
The Kenosha drivers have withstood
the extreme heat on the Mexican Dor
der and they have shown a willingness
to take up the work which has given
them high standing. 1t is declared
that reports made to the department
from the front have given the highest
possible praise to the work of the men
who have joined the service from Ke-
nosha. There is almost constant de-
mand for more men for this line of
work and applications for membership
in the next company are now being
booked 1t is not known how soon an
other company will be started for the
border, but it is pretty certain that it
will be within another week.