Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-22
PLACES READY FOR
FORT SMELLING MEN
ALI Students Who Win Commits.
sions Will Be Assigned to
Active Duty at
Once.

Minneapolis, Mimi, June 20.-(Spe-
cial Telegram. )-Advices from the
War department indicate there will
be immediate duty for every student
at Smelling who receives a commits
sion.
Originally it was understood stu
dents receiving commissions, but who
were not assigned to duty with the
draft army, would be held in reserve,
but the sending of so many officers
of the regular army to France has
created many vacancies.
Students who receive commissions
here will : assigned to duty not only
with the draft army, but with the spe-
cial branches such as quartermasters'
corps, and so on. The efficiency board
today recommended the dismissal
from the camp OF thirty additional stu
dents and the board will consider the
cases Of fifteen tomorrow. Ten stu.
dents will leave Sunday to take a
course of training in aviation at the
school to be conducted by Ohio State
university, Columbus, o.
Artillery Training Begun.
At the training camp at Fort SMELL
ing the artillerymen started work
ing with the guns loaned by the First
Minnesota artillery, while the infan-
try companies divided their time, in
part, between the rife range and fur
ther drill and conference in infantry
problems. The cavalry troop con-
tinued work in outpost duty.
Enlisting doomed a trifle and re-
cruiting officers gave credit to the
military aspect of the Red Cross
parade.
Details surrounding applications for
the second training camp for officers
at Fort Riley, Kan, in August are an
nounced. Men of more mature age
are wanted for this camp.
The promotion of Lieutenant
Colonel Arthur Johnson of the Thirty
sixth infantry to coloneIcy was an
nounced at the fort. He is expected
to be assigned to the Fortieth or the
i vi lot ihlduLy ys
Following the group of dismissals,
when twenty men were excused from
camp, another group, smaller in num-
Der. was given the freedom of the
landscape. Efficiency boards are pass
ing upon the merits and demerits Of
the men and additional dismissals are
forecast in the next day or two. This
will, it is believed, end the dismiss
sails, save for rule breakages.
The camp took on a more warlike
appearance when the artillerymen
started the mornings work with the
eight guns loaned them for training
purposes by the First Minnesota artil-
1ery. The guns were stationed on the
parade in front OF the hospit.l 4 and the
future gunners were given first in
struction in handling them.
Cleaning was the first part Of the
school OF heavy gunnery to which the
cadets were introduced. Although the
guns have been put in condition only
recently by an expert from Rock Is
land arsenal, the instructors gave the
students thorough course on gun
cleaning. II was clean, poke and
swipe until the guns were dustless.
Mules for motive power were not
trotted out of the post corral as most
of the time was scheduled in the pre-.
liminaries and kindergarten forms Of
artillery usage, but tomorrow the
mules are to be forthcoming. Already
the pleasurable prospect of watching
the artillerymen wrestle with the
mules has spread through the cav
airy and infantry units and the ar
tillerymen in the making are dubbed
mule whackers" along barracks row.