Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-12
.CRONKH|TE names
PERMANENT STAFF
Commander of Camp Lee Selects
Officers Under Whom Vir-
ginians Will Serve.
GIVE MEN THEIR UNIFORMS
Troops May Remain at Canton
ment Five Months Engaging
in Mimic Trench Warfare.
[By a STAFF correspondent. ]

Major General Adelbert Cronkhite.
commanding Camp Lee, to-day an
nounced the permanent stan for the
Eightieth Division of the National
Army. which will be trained here.
Up TO this time some of the officers
OF administration have been tenn
porary, serving until General Cronk.
hite assumed command Of the can
tonment The permanent staff. as an
nounccd. is as follows:
Artillery Corps.
Chief OF star-Lieutenant Colonel
William II. Waldron, Infantry. Ma
tional Army.
Genertl staff Major George A.
Lynch, National Army.
hdjutant-Major John f. Barnes, In
fantry, National Army
Assistant adjutant-Captain David
Okecfe, Infantry, National Army.
Iaspcctor-Maior Albert c. Good
wyn. Infantry, National Army.
Quartermaster-Colon Edward A.
sturges. Field Artillery. National
Army.
SUPERINTENDENT. Colonel Thomas
l.. Rhodes. Medical Corps. United States
Army.
Assistant surseon-Major Henry p.
Carter. Medical Corps. United States
Army.
Judge advocatc-Lieutenant Colonel
Irwin l.. Hunt. Judge Advocate Cen
erals Department.
Ordnance officer-Major Quinn Gray.
Field Artillery. National Army
Signal Ant lS;ret t.,
tenant Fred ". Wright. Signal Reserve
Corps.
Engineer-Coionel George r. Sapuld-
ing. Engineer Corps. National Army.
Post ex C h anGe officer = Captain
serve Corps. 80.
COLONEL RHODES ONCE SERVED
AS WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN
( OF these officers, the last to arrive
was Colonel Rhodes. who has been on
duty at Ell Paso, Tex. for some time.
in charge of the base hospital there.
He has had long service in the med
ical department of the United States
Army. having been assigned TO much
important sanitary work. He was the
White House physician during the Taft
time after President Wilson became
Colonel Rhodes has also served in
the PHILIPPINES and N Panama.
Four officers for duty at the camp
arrived to-day. two of them going in
the medical department. the other two
being infantry officers. Those for the
medical department r'erc First Lieu
tenant John \. Stafford and First Lieu
tenant Creston Sutch. Second Lieu
tenant H. W. Fennell and Second Lieu
tenant Charles j. Sipe were the infan-
try officers. both OF whom were
transferred to Camp Lee from Camp
Meade, Md
Gradually the National Army men
are receiving their uniforms. all of the
Three Hundred and Eighteenth Reg
iment of Infantry receiving theirs last
night. Requisitions for all of the
other organizations are in, and the
quartermaster departemnt is issuing
the necessary equipment as rapidly as
possible. The officers are anxious to
have the men uniformed as soon as
possible, as the clothing now worn by
them is ill-fitted for military work, and
the men themselves will fall more into
the military spirit when they have been
properly QUILTED. No doubt is enter
tained, however. about the men being
completely supplied with uniforms
and all other equipment needed at this
time in few days. The quartermaster
has uniforms and other parts of cloth
ing sufficient not only for the men in
camp, but for the next quota of 40
per cent, which is expected to begin
reaching the camp the middle of next
week.
FEEL NO FEAR CONCERNING
HANDLING OF SECOND QUOTA
The announcement that the second
quota of National Army men will start
their entrainment for Camp Lee holds
no terror for the officers OF the camp,
as they expect to handle them with
the same smoothness which character
iZed. for the most part, the receipt
OF the first 8 per cent. AZ that time
the plan. AS outlined by Colonel WAL
dron, had been untried. but it worked
perfectly. Now that the machinery for
handling the men is in working con-
dition. no difficulty will be experienced.
\ few. men from. West Virginia ar
rived at the camp yesterday morning.
1t was thought that all Of them had
been received, but these were strag-
slers who had been held up for some
reason by their local board. The
officers will not be surprised il there
are one OF two such arriving every
day. Late arrivals Of this kind, while
being OF no trouble to the officers, are
being deprived by the delay OF pro-
linlinary training which would be of
large value. to them.
Drilling of the men is going ahead
without delay. The first instruction
is being received at the company bar
racks, and then the naen are taken
to cleared space near headquarters
where the drilling is on a more ex-
tended order. Yesterday several hun
dred men were engaged on tho field
all day. and officers at the "Whtte
House.n by which the. ad nn Inistra tian