Arizona republican., 1917-04-15
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Captain Thomas H. Rynning, who came here to organize the police re- serves, has already made rapid prog ress. He found that the way had been partly prepared for the work by George Kirkland and last night Captain Ryn- ming was able to announce the organ izaton of four of the six companies of reserves. The captains of them are J. H. SOntag, MT. Hanley, T. J. Hawley and Evan Wilson. The company of Captain Wilson will be composed in large part, if not wholly, of members of the Knights of Pythias.
 Beside the other two captains to be named there will be six first lieuten- ants six second lieutenants, six first sergeants. All other sergeants and ccrporals will be designated by the commanding officers of the companies.
 The town will be divided into six dist jets and the members of the vari- ous companies will be arranged as nearly as possible so that the members of the company may be residents of the district to which they belong.
 There will be ] place of rendezvous for each company and a general place for the mobilization of the entire re- serve. It is expected that there will be in each district a sufficient number of automobiles for the use of the com- pany of that district that mobilization may be quickly effected at any given point The uniform of the companies will be khaki trousers, leggings and hat.
 Captain Rynning is gratified at the cooperation he has received from cit izens generally and hopes that it may be extended until the reserve has been fully organized and has attained high degree of efficiency.
 O. H. ReinhOldt, former govern ment mining engineer, was host at a luncheon given at Rudder's Grill at noon, April 9, in honor of Captain Tom Rynning, undersheriff for San Diego county, who was then about to leave at the call of Governor Campbell of Arizona to organize home guards with headquarters at Phoenix During the short time he has lived in San Diego he has become one of the most popular of county officers. He was formerly cap tain of the Arizona rangers and dis tinguished himself for bravery during the Cananea troubles several years ago.
 Captain Rynning came west from Wisconsin about 30 years ago and par ticipated in the later Indian campagnS He is of Norwegian descent and is quite proud of his Viking ancestry, for they MSlt CtltOldlcu liSuleIS, as eNl- denced by their conquestS of Nor mandy and the Sicilies, and through their Norman descendants eventually even England itself. It may be noted that the Norwegian settlers in Wiscon- sin contributed an entire regiment to 1 the Union army during the civil war 1 and among Norwegian members of ] other regiments may be mentioned 1 United States Senator Knute Nelson 1 At the luncheon mentioned all the ] guests were of Norwegian birth or de- scent, but profoundly patriotic as 1 American citizens. Most of them have been quite active in civic affairs in l San Diego and elsewhere Incident ally it may be added that little Nor way appreciates our entrance into the war, for she has suffered more than any other neutral nation-nearly a hali million loss in shipping tonnage and ] over 300 lives lost through the subma i rine atrocities.