The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-09-24
PROMO TON
ROAD OPEN
T0DRAFTED
Many Vacancies In Of
ficers' Corps Must
BE Filled
ALL REGIMENTS
FOUND SHORT
First and Second Lieu
tenants Are Very
Scarce
By HAROLD v WfLc0X

CAMP CUSTER. haiti Y
CREEK Mich Sept PA little
nsuring this morning developed
some startling Information regard
ing the excellent chance which has
come 20 ambitious conscrIpts fo win
officers commissions Every regi
ment in camp Is short from ~ 90 800
OF the officers which the regular or
gAniEation demands This shortage
is all the more pronounced in the
depot brigade. which has taken
many officers from ,he division.
This week nearly eco second Neu-
tenants were sent 90 North Caro-
lima 20 help train tho National guard
OF Oregon and Washington
First lieutenants are particularly
few. Most Of the good material for
first neutenants Al Fort Sheridan
was made into captains, and the
here are regular army men who
have been promoted II the second
training camps oil up the National
army regiments now formed. u Is
certain that officer material for The
second draft must come largely from
the conscripts Of the first draft.
Cold figures prove this Ambition
can take man a long way from the
ranks In short time in the Ameri-
can army now
The site for the rife range has
been tentatively selected and laid
out One continuous firing line will
serve for he ranges up 10 300 yards,
and another firing line will serve
the longer ranges. Across the road
will be the machine gun range.
Regular battle scenes viii BE- fea-
tured there Conditions OF attack
will be reproduced and no hrlng
will be permitted until the enemy
targets are within IS yards OF Che
machine gun emplacements Il
takes nerve and experience 20 with
hold fire until the enemy is within
76 yards That nerve and expert
ence will be developed here
The first Chinamsn has come 20
Camp Custer His name IS Woo
Sun, he halls from Detroit. and he
has gone 70 the third company ~
the twelfth battalion OF the depot
brigade He is a cook by trade and
he's cooking here More Ike him
are earnestly desired
Mike Marck. from the first d.
vision OF Detroit, arrived In camp
Thursday afternoon Early Friday
morning sentry found him lying
unconscious on the ground He
was quickly taken 10 hospiial
and for time his life was des.
paired of because OF bis exceedingly
high temperature. Later Marck be-
came better and his case was dag
nosed as laryngitis In theebase hos.
pital Is one upstate man with
slight attack of appendicitis. and
another who "keeled over" from ex-
haustion yesterday
II is wonder that more men do
not keel over" when they arrive
Frequently men travel all day with
out anything 10 eat until they reach
camp. Some delegations had break.
fasts yesterday morning before the
most Of the state was awake, and
had nothing more 10 eat until late
in the afternoon The army can't
feed men until they get here, and
local boards are 20 blame for this
privation The Camp Custer policy
now is 10 feed men as soon as they
come and are assigned. regardless
OF the hour
Detroit local boards have done
splendidly in caring for their men
on route and in sending complete
data regarding them
Some OF the men are penniless
when they get here but not all
Eighty men from Detroit were az
signed 10 one artillery battery Fri
day That night the captain said
that some sl.700 in cash had been
given him by these men 10 bank
Capt. James r. Burns. Of the
Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth
field artillery, has been transferred
20 the Sixty.seventh field artillery A.
Camp Albert Mills. Long Island
Capt Oscar c. Brady comes from
Camp Albert Mills 10 replace Capt
Burns here
Therell be no football game this
weekend. The proposed tilt for The
division team was called on be.
cause so many officers are busy AZ
the receiving station.
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The western teams are the big
works in the American league this
season. Grabbing three % he -four
positions in the first division indl
Gates that the wcsfornors have The
goods.
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