The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-12-12
88TH DIVISION Z
MARKING time
5000 Of the Boys at Camp Dodge Will
Be Transferred to Camp Pike,
| Little Rock. Ark.
ARREST TWO AS spy SUSPECTS

ARREST TWO As SPY SOSPES =
First Brush With. the Espionage sys'
tenn of German Government in
- the United States.
DIVISION HEADQUARTERS. Camp
Dodge, Dec. 11-(Special to the Re-
view)-General Plummer's Eighty
eighth division of the first national
army is marking time today, waiting
the arrival of the last increment of
sclective soldiers.
That the order calling the last con-
tingent would be issued December
18th, or shortly thereafter. was indi-
Gated by the action OF division officers
this week in assigning mastering offl'
GERS for the receiving department.
About $4,000 men will be summoned
under the new call.
Censorship, established at the can
tonment this week. forbids publica.
ton OF the number of soldiers now at
Camp Dodge. But indications are
there Is comparatively bakers doz
chi" For announcement has just been
made that 5000 Camp Dodge boys Sc.
lected by lot have been transferred to
Camp Pike at Little Rock, Ark.
Other thousands have gone to Camp
Cody. at Deming, N. NJ, and still more
to Houston, Tex. Those left are for
the most part required to take care OF
the cantonment so that it will be
ready and waiting for the arrival OF
the men of the next increment. Drill
is at Il minimum.
FL Censorship Established.
The people of Iowa. Minnesota. iii.
nois and North Dakota were brought
!. one step nearer to a realization of the
war when Major H. H. Polk, chief in.
tclligence officer of the division, clamp
ed on the lid of censorship on all news
going out of the cantOnment. An or
der forbidding publication of the time
OF departure OF troops, the progress
of the training OF the troops and all
other information that would be OF
value to the enemy was published from
division headquarters. That's why
not a word was said of the many
troop trains that left daily carrying
the 5000 men to Camp Pike. An
..nouncement was authorized as, soon
as the troops reached thetr new camp
Arrest Two A. Spy Suspects.
Camp Dodge has just had what it
believes to be its first known brush
with the espionage system OF the Ger
man government in the United States.
Two men. both alien enemies, have
been arrested and are now confined
in Jail pending steps to inferno them
at FIT. Leavenworth penitentiary for
the duration Of the war. They are
Conrad Ebert and Kirk Jacobs The
former, though an expert stenographer
and we'll educated, was working as a
in nff hon
other, an expert craftsman, was EN-
plovcd as barber in camp barber
shop. ...
Secret service operatives who
caused their arrest refused to divulge
the evidence against them. They did
say, however. that Ebert had written
letters to relatives in neutral coun.
try who in turn forwarded the infor-
nation therein to Germany.
II was following these discoveries
that the censorship lid was dropped.
Troop movements will now be pub.
lisled when they are completed. No
information will be permitted to reach
the public as to the equipment of the
troops or the stage OF their training.
Camp Withstands Weather.
Fears that below zero weather would
bring hardships to the soldiers were
dispelled this week with the advent of
the cold wave Barracks were kept
warm with three furnaces in each.
Some. pipes were frozen, but those
were soon taken care of. The men
who looked forward to the cold wealth
er with forebodings now class the
story as another bit of German propa-
ganda which flies so tlrickly in the war
city and Des Moines. Physicians pre-
dict decrease in disease due to the
checking of the multiplication Of bac-
terra by freezing temperatures.
Are there many war brides? The
county clerk OF Polk county last year
issued $500 marriage license. To-
date he has issued more than 1900
this year, an. increase of 1000. And
the day hardly passes but that khaki
clad youth advances upon the trenches
lures license.
A professor of psychology has de.
clared the United States should send
n singing army to Europe, musical
army. His logic is that music soothes
nerves and preserves morale. The
morale Is the secret. of an army's sue
cess, So Des Moines is doing her bit
to follow the professors advice.
Photographs for Soldiers.
AS a result of a special concert Civ
en- by Edison monograph stars who
donated their work. eighteen army
monographs have been secured for
tho soldiers. The concert was" given
under the auspices of the Des Moines
Capital and more than $1,000 was
cleared. The monographs were
especially designed by Edison for the
army and navy. They are small and
compact. The Harger & Blish COM
pany of Des Moines has volunteered
to give $25 worth of records with ev.
cry one Of the eighteen monographs.
And maybe there hasn't been scram-
bic for the music boxes.
"Sunny Jim" at Camp.
Sunny Jim" went to the hospital
the other day. Several men brighten
cd with her smile. In her arms and
the arms of soldier boys behind her
were more than 800 jars OF fruit and
glasses of Jelly. all for the sick boys.
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