Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-27
QUARTERMASTER CORPS
IN NEED OF TRANSFERS
Enlisting Committee Meets to
Plan Drive for Impor-
tant Branch
ENROLMENT is LIGHT
Drivers and Bakers Also Desired to
Fill Out Army
Units

The enlsting committee, composed Of
prominent Philadelphians who are aiding
! the quartermasters reserve corps in OBJ
tanning recruits, are holding a meeting in
the Union League this afternoon 10 make
plans for q big drive to begin next week
Teamsters, wagon drivers and bakers are
the men who will be particularly sought in
this campaign
Captain william Clayton. in charge Of
the recruiting station, % South Twenty.
! third street and Or, l. d McEvoy, sur.
! gcon, L 5. A, who has charge of re.
! cruitinR for the United States Medical
! Corps will speak at the meeting on the
scarcity Of drivers in this city.
Efforts have been made to recruit men
| trained for this branch Of the service since
| the recruiting station was opened I'm May,
| d = the results have been very disappoint.
| ing, according to Captain Clayton.
"A big gap in the army for transport
| drivers must be filled soon" Captain Clay.
| ton said. THE city has been secured and
| pleas have been made. but the response has
| been light. Other methods must he EN-.
! ployed as an inducement to attract the
| drivers from other sources"
TRANSFERS ESSENTIAL
II was pointed out by recruiting officials
today that teamsters are just as essential
| as are the men on the firing line The
| Quartermaster Department s the business
| end Of the army. It Is the duty of this de-
| partment to see that the men are furnished
| with supplies and ra'ions. It is for this
| purpose that the drivers are needed at mo-
| bilizaton camps when the units are ready
/ for service
The committee includes G. A. Musselman
! chairman; Charles a. Porter, Jr.. secretary
! Samuel II, Clement. Jr., Robert F. Hooper
| Stedman Bent e. H. Bell and William y.
| Morce.
The Third Pennsylvania Infantry Band
gave a concert in the bandstand in the north
plaza Of City Hall at noon today, and
a number Of recruits was obtained
! Big progress in the recruiting drive OF
| Regular Army Week and National Guard
/ Week was recorded today.
Men, inspired by the call for 10000 vol
unteers for the army and for 1000 Phila-
delphia enlistments in the citys National
| Guard units. focked to the recruiting sta
| tions, The National Guard regiments gath
cred especially large harvests OF recruits
and today Canvassed the city with renewed
energy to exceed yesterdays recruiting fig
| ures. The totals yesterday we're: Army,
! 81 National Guard, 80 Pennsylvania now
| needs less than 1000 men to All up its quota
! Of 1880 for the army,
RECRUITING TELEGRAPH UNITS
orders were received today from the
| War Department TO recruit men for tele-
| phone and telegraph battalions Of the sig
! nal corps. Men wanted are radio, cable
and telegraph operators, inside and outside
Inemen, electricians, machnists, photog.
/ raphers and other telephone and telegraph
employees
| Tonght's National Guard mass-meetings
/ will be held at Fifty-second and Chestnut
! streets at 730 o'clock and at Fifty-second
! street and Girard avenue at $3.50 O'Clock
] - ,f TN.,.
! Supplies. will be the principal speaker
Posters calling upon men TO enlist in their
| home town regiments have been put up
throughout the city on orders OF superin.
| tendent of Police Robinson Night attacks
| also are being planned by the military serv-
| ice division OF the State Public Safety Com
| mittee. Starting tonight motortrucks with
| speakers will tour the city to urge young
| men to enlist. Stops will be made at points
| where men congregate, and speakers will
| deliver the message of Uncle Sam.
| Company b. First Pennsylvania Engin-
| GERS, has completed its muster into the
| Federal service and is drumming the city
| In "A factory-to-factory campaign for
| trained men. The Ninth United States
| Fng'~oer Reserves also are waiting for men
to I'LL the complement before going to
| Franc
The enrolment station at the Colonnads e
| Hotel for applicants for the second officers
| training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison,
Ind did a smashing business today Nearly
| 300 men have applied for the six months
tryout for a commission.
Funds are needed for the wireless school
| fo- enlisted men Of the naval coast defense
reserve. which will open in the Parkway
Building July 2. Nearly $500 Of the $500
necessary for the rental Of the school rooms
| is lacking according TO Lieutenant r. Y
| Cadmus, radio instructor who has received
| more than half Of 1he needed amount in
| public subscriptions.
The marines, who took in six men yester-
day, are recruiting for a nineteen piece
band 10 go TO Haiti The pay is 1S6 to S61
| per month,
The following enllstments we're announced
today:
THIRD PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY
Jane, 4: Mar. 2e 202S s. i2th q.
Albert @ssns, 20, 500 crothers ave.
s6.fmsp s sss u 1S2 i1a S'"5T w. on,srlo ar st
Pfsdf Pfsd ath Mss0G e. iaa bas fsos s. Leeds st.
essiiR ~ ! stgEss s,i.. 20 GI1hys'tsy' I1yg Ter
Clarence HattaI 90 5iI Dupont St
FIRST PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY
ESEsTd, r hI,:EE 81 25j3 Sss s R.SSs, eSs q
John 7: Foley e. sio2 spruce %:
UNITED STATES NAVY
Lewis Weber Holloway, H. s27 Vine st, Cam.
Milton Fredyiek Clark "a, Atlantic City, N. J.
Daniel Francis Edwards, 85, 1908 Edmund 81.
/ Walter Eugene TompknH, 10, 7O2 T. Miller 81.
Joseph Francis Brennan. IT. s4s wsstmore.
land 81. ,
| Edward Raymond Kelly. 90 1924 Wallace st.
| Howard Albert schultEe, "a, 255e Sterner az.
| Harry schenck %, New Haven Conn.
| Pierce Ernst %, 27AO N. sth st.
| Harry Weber, 20. 2444 ~ Gratis 81.
UNITED STATES ARMY
/ August Haney, 2s 2es5 s. sartain st
Frederick J. Roehs. 2s. 1893 y. "a ct