Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-12-12
NEWS Notes FROM
CAMP DODGE
Interesting Information From the
Place Where Our Boys
Are Training.


rival of the last increment of selec-
tive soldiers.
That the Order calling the last con-
tingent would be issued December Is,
or shortly thereafter was indicated
by the action of division officers this
week in assigning mastering officers
for the receiving department.
About $4,000 men will be summon
ed under the new call.
Censorship, established at the can
torment this week, forbids pubica-
ton Of the number of soldiers now
at Camp Dodge. But indications are
there is comparatively "Baker's
Dozen" For announcement has just
been made that 5000 Camp Dodge
boys selected by lot, have been trans
ferred to Camp Pike at Little Rock,
Ark
Other thousands have gone to
Camp Cody at Deming, N. NJ, and
still more to Houston, Tex. Those
left are for the most part required
to take care Of the cantonment so
that it will be ready and waiting for
the arrival of the men of the next
increment. Drill is at minimum.
CENSORSHIP ESTABLISHED.
The people of Iowa, Minnesota, IL
linois and North Dakota were brought
one step nearer to realization of the
war when Major H. H. Polk, chief
intelligence officer Of the division,
clamped on the lid Of censorship on
all news going out of the cantonment.
An order forbidding publication of
the time Of departure of troops, the
progress Of the training Of the troops
and all other information that would
be Of value to the enemy was pub
lished from division headquarters.
And correspondents are observing it
faithfully. That's why not a word
was said of the many troops trains
that left daily carrying the 5000
men to Camp Pike. Announcement
was authorized as soon as the troops
reached their new camp.
ARREST TWO AS SPY SUSPECTS.
Camp Dodge has just had what it
believes to be its first known brush
with the espionage system Of the
German government in the United
States. Two men, both alien enc
mics, have been arrested and are now
confined to jail pending steps to in
terne them at Fort Leavenworth pen
itentiary for the duration of the war.
They are Conrad Ebert and Kirk
Jacobs. The former, tho an expert
stenographer and we'll educated, was
working as a waiter in an officers
mess hall. The other, an expert
craftsman, was employed as bar
Der in camp barber shop.
Secret service operatives who
caused their arrest refused to divulge
the evidence against them. They did
say, however, that Ebert had written
letters to relatives in a neutral coun-
try who in turn forwarded the infor-
nation therein to Germany.
It was following these discoveries
that the censorship lid was dropped.
Troops movements will now be pub
lished when they are completed. No
information will be permitted to reach
the public as to the equipment of the
troops or the stage of their training.
CAMP WITHSTANDS WEATHER.
Fears that below zero weather
would bring hardships to the soldiers
were dispelled this week with the ad-
vent of the cold wave. Barracks
were kept warm with three furnaces
in each. Some pipes were frozen but
these were soon taken care of. The
men who looked forward to the cold
weather with forebodings now class
the story as another bit of German
propaganda which flies so thickly IN
the war city and Des Moines. Phys
icians predict decrease in disease
due to the checking of the multiplica-
ton of bacteria by freezing tempera-
lures.
Are there many war brides? The
county clerk of Polk county last veal
issued $500 marriage licenses. Tt
date he has iss~ed more than 1850
this year, an increase of 1000. Ant
the day hardly passes but that :
khaki clad youth advances upon tn
trenches Of cupid in the court hous,
and captures a license.
A professor Of psychology has de
clared the United States should sen,
singing army to Europe, musica
army. His logic is that music soothe
nerves and preserves morale. Til
e morale is the secret Of an army's sue
r cess. So Des MONIES is doing her bi
d to follow the professors advice.
r PHONOGRAPHS FOR SOLDIERS
AS a result Of a special conce1
given by Edison photograph star
y who donated their work, eighteen al
my monographs have been secure
o for the soldiers. The concert wa
given under the auspices of the De
y Moines Capital and more than 81, 90
was cleared. The monographs we,
especially designed by Edison for tt
e, army and navy. They are small ar
TO- compact. The Harger & Blish con
" pany of Des MONIES has volunteers
1t to give $500 worth Of records wit