The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-13
Fort Riley Commissions An
nOunced by Officers.
rwenty-FOur TOpekans Sue
cessfuI in Final Test.
N SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT
All Will Be in Active Work by
Fall Is Belief.
Three Popular TOpekans Are
Chosen as Captains.


Twenty-four Topekans landed COM
missions thru their three months
work at the officers training school
At Fort Riley. Practically all of the
nan. it is believed, will be placed in
,orvice of the federal government dur
ing the fall or winter. A number of
The men may be called to the service
pf the country in training the new
,onscripts when environments are
opened in September.
William p. Montgomery. for several
years special assistant attorney gem
sral; Joseph c. Wilson, in charge of
4 local adding machine company, and
Harry c. Leland landed commissions
as captains.
Clifford J. Stratton, a we'll known
news writer. won commission as
first lieutenant and was placed on the
reserve list. A commission as first
lieutenant also went to Charnen A
Reynolds.
of men well known in Topeka and in
kansas. won commissions as second
lieutenants
Where They Go.
Men assigned to the officers reserve
corps are subject to call by the gov
'ernment at any time and to any de-
Ipartment of the service. These men
Twill be relieved from immediate serv-
ice, will be permitted to go to their
home stations and to direct their bus
iness affairs. All of the men in the
Preserve CORPS however are subject
ito Immediate orders. They are also
ION the list of available officers for
Iany department of the army service.
lin army circles there is a belief that
these men may be given immediate
assignments with instructions to re-
Itport at one of the training camps late
in August or early in September.
Should the assignments be withheld.
the men will be subject to call by the
lwar department.
Assignments to the national army
will mean that the men commissioned
from the Fort Riley school will be
| placed in charge of organization of
some portion of the new draft army
The men with regular army commits =
sions will probably be sent to canton
ments in advance of the calling of the
cOnscripts. Statements from army of .
Ulcers today indicated that the men
commissioned for national army serv-
ice would not only assist in the train
ing. but would doubtless be placed in
command of branches of the first cor
scripted army
Appointments.
The appointments follow:
INFANTRY.
First Company.
Claude c. Fletcher, second lieutenant
charner A. Reynolds, first lieutenant.
national army.
Second Company
:. Charles f. Rice, second lieutenant, ma
Third Company
Cliff J. Stratton. first lieutenant o. r. c.
William E. Clifton, second lieutenant,
Edmund H. Basye, second lieutenant,
Richard S. BlaisdeIl second lieutenant,
Ss Robert NJ. Yates, second lieutenant. ma
tonal army.
Fourth Company.
William p Montgomery. captain. o. h. C.
Joseph c. Wilson, captain. o. r. C.
Harry r. Leland, captain, national army.
Sixth Company.
clifford r. Hope, second lieutenant, o.
Seventh COmpany.
L. w Wingart, second lieutenant, O. r.
CAVALRY SECTION.
John W. Wood, second lieutenant, o. r
James E. Wood, second lieutenant, O.
John S. Dean, second Lieutenant o. r. C.
ARTILLERY SECTION
Daniel c. Hammatt, second lieutenant
national army.
Albert E. Ferguson, second lieutenant
John Edward Erickson. second neuten-
AIRY Clay Berry. second lieutenant o
QUARTERMAsTER CORPS.
Henry Bennett, Jr., secohd lieutenant
national army.
:. Glenn W. Rogers, second lieutenant, ma.
tional army.
Harlow Hurley, second lieutenant. ma.
tional army.
FIELD ARTILLERY SECTION
Samuel g. Stewart, second lieutenant, t.
be assigned to regular army.
First Company.
To be captain, infantry section. officers
reserve corps: Harry W. Hanson, F.rs
Kansas Infantry, national guard Hugh NJ
Pinkerton, Kansas City; Paul h Cubblson
Kansas City.
To be first lieutenant infantry section
officers reserve corps: Leland c. Aiiis
First infantry, Kansas National Guard
Charles A. Bowman, Kansas City; VecnoI
u. Bates, Manhattan.
To be second lieutenant, infantry section
officers reserve corps: Owen Il. Browne