The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-14
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lery (First Minnesota field artillery
national guard, and 11Tth trench
mortar battery to be composed OF
the third and fourth companies, Mary.
land coast artillery corps, national
! guard.
The engineers regiment to be mum
bered III. the First battalion 10 De
the First separate battalion engineers,
South Carolina national guard, anu
the second battalion to be FIRST sep
arate battalion engineers, CALIFORNIA;
national guard.
Field battalion signal troops (Mls
souri, national guard.
The headquarters train and mill
tary police (coast artillery corps,
Virginia national guard, the engineer
train North Carolina national guard,
the ammunition train (Kansas nation
al guard, the supply train (Iexas
national guard), to be known re-
spectively as the 117th field battalion
signal troop, the 117th train and mill
tary police, the 117th engineer train
the 117th ammunition train and the
117th supply train.
The sanitary train to be known as
the 117th sanitary train, comprising
the First, Second. Third and Fourth
ambulance companies, being re-
spectively the First ambulance COM
panies of the Michigan, New Jersey,
Tennessee and Oklahoma national
guard; First. Second, Third and
Fourth field companies respectively,
the First field hospital companies OF
the District of Columbia, Nebraska,
Colorado and Oregon national guards.
Rainbow Division.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-Amer-
ica's Rainbow Division" nineteen
thousand strong-will be the next to
see service in France.
Comprised of national guardsmen
representing states from New YORK
to Texas and California, the new
forces will soon be sent abroad.
1t is the Forty-second division, a
new one, assembled under the recent
reorganization plan. cit represents
the flower of guard troops from all
parts of the country, including cav
airy, infantry, engineers, machine gun
and artillery compantes-hence the
name rainbow division"
Major Douglas Macarthur, engineer
corps, formally press censor, will be
chief of staff of the rainbow division.
Brigadier General w. A. Mann,
chief of the militia bureau, has been
selected as the division commander.
Men Are Enthusiastic.
CAMP BALDWIN, DENVER, Colo.
Aug. 14.-Members OF the First Colo
RADIO field hospital unit of the Colo
RADIO national guard, modified here
with the rest of the Colorado troops,
received the news that they were in
cluded in the rainbow division
with enthusiasm.
Major Edward Lazell Of Denver
! is commander of the unit.
Iowa Boys Happy.
! DIES MONIES, Iowa. Aug. 14.-Al
though no official word has been re
ceived, the soldiers of the Third
Iowa infantry regiment encamped
here were happy lot today when
they learned they had been chosen
as part Of the rainbow division
which will start for France soon.
1t was recruited almost entirely Of
Des Moines men.
The regiment Is composed Of IF
teen units-twelve infantry com
panies, one machine gun, a supply
company and the headquarters com
pany-totaling 2.044 men and officers
Colonel E. r. Benn EFT, Des Moines
is commanding the Third.
With the exception of few per
sonal belongings, the regiment is
well equipped, a shipment Of uni
forms and rifles last week, nearly
completing the equipment.
Fuller Asks to Leave.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-Samue
l.. Fuller, New York, assistant general
manager Of the emergency fleet cor
poration. has asked TO be relieved
from his duties, it was reported this
afternoon at the shipping boards of
flee.
He Is an appointee of General
Goethals and has been expected to re
sign.
Major R. z. Wood, purchasing agent
of the corporation, another Goethals
man, is also understood to have offer
ed his resignation. The designations
will be accepted. Admiral Caps has
successors already picked.
AN APPEAL FOR