The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-09-28
NEGROES CALLED
TO CAMP JACKSON
Movement Of Colored Draftees froR
Three States will Begin OCTOBER
.sLSouth CaroliRa's TSSa q
e1s-Number to be Furnished
by Each County

| Columbia, Sept. 24.-That 8'4lS
negro selective service troops from
South Carolina, North Carolina anu
Florida are ordered to report to Camp
Jackson, beginning with October Srd'
| is the Interpretation given a tele-
gram from Provost Marshal Gen.
Crowder to Governor Manning order
| ing the mobilization of 26 per cent
negro troops. South Carolina's per-
centage will total ISIS, North Caro-
lina's 4,153 and Florida's 1916.
The telegram from Gen. Crowder
| instructs the South Carolina local
| boards which are deficient in the moo
ilization of the 40 per cent Of white
men recently called to th3 colors to
send additional whites to Camp jack
son as soon as they are certified from
the district boards. They are to Dc
given regular railroad transportation,
and the Adjutant Generals once Is
emphatically insisting that all local
boards send these additional men TO
Columbia before October 3, when the
movement of negro soldiers pegins.
The American Railroad Association
is now preparing the schedule for the
movement of negro troops, which viii
be embodied in mobilization orders
issued by the Adjutant Generals Of
fee within the next few days. The
wire from Provost Marshal Gen.
Crowder follows: i
Gen; Crowder's Telegram
Cali deficiencies in the instalments
of the quota of any local board N
the call of September 10 should be
made up before October 3. On Octob-
re 3 begin sending from all local
boards white men to camp at Colum-
bia as fast as they are certified from
the district to the local boards as Sc
lected for military service, until all
white men included within the quota
for such local boards have been sent. :
It is thought that no special traffic
arrangements are necessary and that
these men can be sent on ordinary ,
trains.
Entirely apart from this movement
of white men send, beginning October
8, 26 per cent of the quota OF each
local board made up exclusively OF
colored men. Schedules for this
movement Of colored men showing the
specific dates on which installments
from each of your local boards should
move will be furnished you by the
American Association of Railroads.
Except as local adjustments made as-
ter consultation with the passenger
representatives are necessary these,
schedules should control"
The apparent contradictions in the
foregoing wire are explained by the
statement that the telegram was also
sent to North Carolina and Florida.
The section directing the filling in OF
the 40 per cent quota is interpreted
as instructing the States to continue
sending white men until the incre-
ment under call for September 19
reaches its total After that date all
other white men above the percen-
age provided for on September 10
are to be sent as soon as certified bv;
the district boards. This will not ap
ply to South Carolina as this State,
will be unable to send 40 per cen,um
OF white men.
The following is the number Of ne
groes who will be sent to Camp Jack
son from the various local boards OF
South Carolina beginning October 3:
Negroes from South Carolina
Abbeville, 45; Aiken, &c; Anderson,
Nn