Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-01
BY CARL L. zEIsBERG
EyentnO Ledger star Correspondent

Evcnin0 LEDGER stag Correspondent
CAMP STEWART, Ell PAso, Tex, Aug.
1.-Two philadelphia leutenants made APP
niication for commissions in the regular
srn,v today, forecastlng a larger transfer
~ National Guard officers to the regular
service, similar to that Of 1898. The two
I,o,inr officers are Second Lieutenant Will
liam Findley Brown, Jr., of Company h,
and Second Lieutenant Frederick Hnlz-
bauer, of Company NJ Second Pennsylvania
Infontry. Their applications were approved
NV Colonel Turner. Lieutenant Brown VIII
he assigned to the cavalry and Lieutenant
uolzabaur to the artillery for Instructions
after which they will undergo examina-
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rrroop d and three other cavalry mess tents
were torn down by heavy windstorm that
sIiced its way through the north end OF
Camp Stewart this morning Colone,
wood ordered the cavalry out for patrol
drills on the plain to the east OF camp
today
Honorable discharge from the service of
the United States Army, and disappointment
was the need of the inspectors OF small
arms practice of the Pennsylvania division
who were mustered into the army at Mount
Gretna only to be dismissed by the war
Department.
Captains yesterday. they arc nothing to-
day from a military standpoint. Hope was
held out at division headquarters until
few minutes before midnight for the arrival
of a reyersal of the War DEPARTMENT. q
ruling that the officers were to be dis
missed. When IL was apparent that no oruer
to the contrary would como. the discharges
were Issued Some of the former inspectors
of small arms practice were indignant tnat
they should have been mustered into the
service and then out again Others, VINO
will be assigned to machne-gun companies,
declared their intention of enlisting as
privates until their commissions as lieu
tenants should arrive.
The organization of the new companies
continues today, the assignment of officers
and detailing of privates continuing In the
regiments where the new companies are not
complete. Ofilcering of the First Regiment
machine-gun company was finished To-Day,
with Colonel Aliens request that Second
lieutenant Roland C. Helsler of Company
NJ, be commissioned as First Lieutenant
HOME SOON, BELIEF.
Bets that the regiment will be back in
Philadelphia September 1 were taken with
great alacrity, following the issuance at
headquarters of tho FL Paso military dis
trict of orders that indicate three more
months at least of border work for the
division The orders provide for three
month course OF field training divided into
company training. August to 81 battalion
training, September 1 to 15; regimental
training, September 16 to 25; brigade train
Ing September 26 to 80. and practical field
work and maneuvers, october TO I'll.
A board of officers appointed by General
Clement to determine what field equipment
should be issued to the infantry regiments
met at headquarters today The board con-
sists OF Lieutenant Colonel Edwin N. Jones
Twentieth U, S. Infantry; Major William
C. Rogers and Major Frederick l.. Knudsen
unassigned. and Major Samuel W. Rhoades
assistant ,adjutant OF the division.
Moro important than any war or any
rumor of war was the news today thai
$4,000 is being raised in Philadelphia fol
the soldiers on the border. The glad It'd,
ings came in a letter from ]. Howell Cum
mings, president of John B. Stetson Com
pany, to Private Charles Hesseri who
when he isn't wearing khaki, fills bis
blue uniform with brass buttons on 1t al
he directs traffic at Broad and Arch
streets.