Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-10
MIXED UP ORDER
EXPLAINED BY.
!. GENERAL MANN
Says Mistake Regarding the
Second Regiment Was due
to Rush Of Business.
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Settle Receives Orders to
Muster in Company I
Of Hankinson.

DlSulhrch, N. ", Aug. 1O.-9eneral
wv; K. Mann, chief of militia bureau,
zter yesterday explains the mix-up
with reference to the Second regiment.
The general says: THE fixed rule of
the bureau in regard to the strength
Of companies to be accepted has been
to require a minimum strength OF
100. Through some inadvertence due
to the press Of business, a telegram
was prepared and sent to the adjutant
general Of North Dakota in Dune, say
ing that the strength required would
be IS. This information did not or
1g1nate with that part of the office
concerned with the raising of. infan-
try regiments and companies, and, al
though my name was signed to the
message, 1t was not brought to my at
learned Of it, steps were taken to &c
stify the matter, and in order to keep
faith with your officials who were act
ing on what they believed was the
authorized minimum strength Of new
companies, recognition a immedi-
ately accorded the three companies
which were under a strength of 100
men, but over a strength of 65. I am
sorry there was any misunderstand-
ing, and hope the Organization Of the
regiment may now be completed at an
early date"
The companies to which General
Mann refers as being under 100 men
but ove IS were B. r and K. His
letter still left the fate Of the regiment
as a whole in doubt, but Major Settle,
chief mastering officer for North Da-
kota, received instructions to muster
in the fourth company which there
tofore had been denied federal recog-
AUTOBIOGRAPHY L Of Hankinson,
which succeeded in recruiting but SO
men-and the major announces that
the acceptance of the twelve infantry
companies means reception for the
Second as a whole and the mastering
in Of the headquarters company and
band in Bismarck, the supply COM
pany at Hillsboro and the sanitary
detachment at Minot.
Baer Wire o. X.
1 The first official act Of John M.
Baer as congressman of the First dis
trict, whose election was certified to
Washington Wednesday by the state
board of canvassers, was O. wire to
Governor Frazier that the Second
has been saved" M.
Officers in Doubt.
While the acceptance Of the Sec
ond as a unit now seems assured, the
fate Of the field and staff officers and
sasnumber Of the COMPANY oomman-
EoSA0 - AANA = d. uOuON H@ : xdCI4Cd1ly
every field and staff officer exceeds
the g limit for his grade. This is a
regulatory matter which may be
waived. The provisions OF section
"a, requiring officers to be selected
from the National Guard or reserve
officers list, however, Is q legal enact
ment, and what authority the war de-
accept North Dakota officers who fail
to comply with these provisions is a
question.
Adjutant General Fraser expressed
the sincere hope hat the war de-
partment may see its way clear to &C
cept the field and staff officers named,
as, he declares, they are men of ex-
cepttonal ability and standing, whose
rejection would be q serious loss to
to the wa department that it use its
utmost authority to make exceptions
in favor of these officers.
Company Oflcers Out.
s$ All Of the commissioned officers of
Company a., Minot, are held disquali-
fed under section "a Of the defense
act Captain Wheeler of Company
d, New Rockford, is ruled out. The
\ first and second lieutenants Of Com
pany G, Crosby; all Of the officers of
Company F, Darlington; the captain
~ 440oSSAdAkS. vi NO1Ilpdly ~ ",
Rolla; the captain Of Company H,
Harvey; the captain and first lieuten-
ant Of Company K, Ellendale; the
captain of Company L, Hankinson; all
of the officers Of Company M, Beach,
and all OF the officers of the Dickinson
Machine Gun company will be ruled
out II the section is strictly enforced.
This will mean the differing Of these
companies by men from the First reg
iment. COMPANY OF Bismarck.
Company D Of Devils Lake and Com
pany q Of Langdon are the only units
Of the Second whose officers have
qualified in every respect and have
been accepted subject to the pro-
visions Of section IA.
To st. Paul.
Governor Frazier and General Fra
ser left last evening to attend review
and Commencement exercises" at the
officers training camp at Fort Shell
Ing.