Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-10
WILSON WAR CALL
NOTRECETVED HERE
Third Regiment Officer Says
He Has No Official
Order Yet
NOW IN FEDERAL SERVICE

-. Despite the proclamation Of President
wilson calling all national guardsmen into |
the Federal service, Lieutenant Colonel |
Btookheld, of the Third Regiment ~ @. P
'.s '.s AFTERNOON announced that he had re- |
celNed no official order from Washington |
concerning the proposed mobilization.
The Presidents call is effective beginning
July 25, and, according to the plans of the
war Department, the national guardsmen
will be drafted into Federal service on
August 8.
The Third Regiment is now in the Federal
service and doing guard duty in the western
section of the State. How this regiment Is
10 pe relieved Of guard duty is the big
question that every man in the organization
would like to have answered.
We are ready for any kind OF service"
SAID Lieutenant Colonel Brockfeld, but un-
I'll official word comes from Washington I
snail not place much credence in the report
that we are 10 discontinue our present guard
duty and enter concentration camp in the
South"
Colonel Brookfleld also made IL plain
that the regiment is more than 500 men
short Of the number required to place the
unit on war footing I'VE have about
1900 men at the present time" said the
officer" and to be placed on a war foot
Ing means that more than 500 men must
be recruited. Getting the men and find.
ing equipment for them takes considerable
time"
Like other officers in the Philadelphia
regiments Colonel Brockfed Is anxious to
learn the identity Of the organizations that
Will relieve the guardsmen from their pres
ent duty.
I'VE are guarding bridges and Industrial
plants" he added "and this work is too
important TO abandon. 1t is certain that
some provision must be made to relieve our
men from this duty before they are with
| drawn"
OFFICERS IN QUANDARY
Although haillng the Presidents procIa-
nation as the best piece Of military news
| In months the guard officers are in a
| quandary concerning the order. One phase
| OF the situation that is causing much specu-
| lation is the War Departments plan to send
| them to concentration camp in the South.
| Where this camp Is to be located and
when they are to leave the city none of
| them know.
Regiments Of the National Guard from
| Philadelphia and Pennsylvania are likely
| to lose their identity as such after next
| Sunday, when they will be called into the
service of the United States.
| Although no positive Information on the
| subject available at the local armories
| today, officers agreed in saying that such
probably would be the case and that all the
| regiments would be renamed.
| a
| explained, the First. Third and Sixth regi-
| ments will no longer be known by that
| name, but will be called the Sixty-ffth In
| fantry, etc. any other number above
| sixty-four that the War Department may
designate. There are now sixty-four regi-
| ments of regulars. which will make the new
guard regiment appelations run above that
| number.
Ever since the news of President Wilson's
| latest proclamation relative to the muster
tK,rr ,f
| broadcast, officers have been perplexed
| over the announcement that no guard
| officers above the rank of colonel were
| to be called into the service of the United
States at the present time
COMPLETE KEYSTONE DIVISION
| Pennsylvania Is one Of the two States
| which have a complete division of the
| National Guard to offer the Government
| and the decision Of the War Department
General Clement and several brigadier gen.
erals.
The ruling puzzled local guard officers
but they believe they have solved 1t as fol-
lows
First. No division of the National Guard
is to be mustered In as a complete unit, they
believe
second. The regiments will be mustered
in, regiment by regiment regardless of the
division formation.
do away with the necessity of officers
above the rank of colonel That is, the
regiments will be shuffed, so to speak, into
divisions in the regular army which, of
course, already have higher officers,
Fourth. The higher guard officers. by
the ruling 1t is believed will be used later
on in the draft army.
All the local armories are seething with
activity today. The First Regiment reported
| a total roster of 1860 officers and men, which
IS the largest number 1t has had in years
In all Il needs 2002, and officers said they
hoped to have that number in the near
future,
Two appointments have been made in the
Second Artillery Private Stuart o. Pusey
and Victor Ballou both were made second
leutenants.
| The organization or the Pennsylvania
division comprehends three brigades and
one regiment of infantry, one brigade OF
| artillery, a regiment of cavalry, regiment
of engineers, two ambulance companies,
two field hospitals, one radio and signal
battalion a field bakery company and a
medical, veterinary and dental corps.
Colonel Thomas Biddle Ellis is acting
| brigadier general OF the First Infantry
Brigade Brigadier General Albert ]. Logan,
of Pittsburgh, OF the Second Brgadier
General Christopher T. O'Neill, Of Allen
town of the Third and BrigadIer General
Frederick w Stllwel, If Scranton, is on
detached duty. Brigadier General William
G.. Price. Jr.. of Chester, commands the
Artillery Brigade.
The artillery unit. equipped with light
and heavy field pieces. was expanded during
the tour of service along the Rio Grande by
brigading the Second and Ninth Infantry
with the parent unit, the First Field Ar
} tillery. Colonel William S. Mckee, OF Pitts
burgh commands the First, with headquar'
} ters at Pittsburgh; Colonel Pamilton ID
Turner the Second. with headquarters a
Broad street and Susquehanna avenue, thi
city, and Colonel Asher Miner. the Third
with headquarters at Wilkes-Barre.
The conversion Of the Second Regimen
into artillery left The First Brigade o