The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-10
RECRUITS WANTED FOR AVIATION CORPS Records in South Improv- ing-More Men Needed
 for Camp

The naval station made a splendid rec ord for recruiting yesterday with IS ac- cepted applicants. This station is sur passing the army station in enlistments daily The office received instructions yesterday to reopen the aviation branch of the service. There are two depart ments of the aviation service, the quar- termasters corps, and the machinists corps.
 The men in the quartersma corps train as pilots and the men in the ma chinists as pilots machinists. Applica- tions for both branches are now being received. For the machinists' corps, a man must have thorough knowledge of gasoline engines and for the quarter masters corps must be above the aver age in education and intelligence The men who enlisted yesterday are the fol- lowing: Louis Stone Rineheart, Everard Bueren Kreider, Francis Olney Strong, Thomas DeLure Sewell, Hugh Margain Randy, Heber Leonard Heflin, Mike Nardin sHoke, Reginald Brown Harp Is- real Brown Sprayberry, Stanley Kelley, James Ebert Brown, William owen w WothiiiS, iHi1lCi " oAhSA.
 The weekly letter from Lieut.. B. K. Johnston, in charge of recruiting for the southeastern district shows that recruit ing in this district has improved during the last week. All the other districts are decreasing. and the south is show ing up very creditably in comparison with the other parts of the country. The records of the chief recruiting stations l., x1,n Cntifh 1c- -fol1 Da1l art off 232, kept S45; Houston sent off 167, kept 4S7 Atlanta sent off 114, kept 364; Little Rock sent off 92, kept 494; Nash vile sent off S9, kept 165; Jackson sent off AS. kept 204; Montgomery sent off S5, kept 50 New Orleans sent off 29. kept 295; Columbia sent off 2s, kept 119 Bir- mingham sent off 27, kept 12S
 Lieut. John Wallis, recruiting officer for the second reserve officers train ing camp, reports that applicants for the camp are still very slow coming in. Lieutenant Wallis has been on a speak ing tour throughout Alabama in an eff fort to create interest in the camp and speaks tonight in Anniston. Ne is get ting a good many applications, but the majority of them are from men who are not qualified. He wants men who have had wide experience in handling men. Men with military training are espe- cially desired
 The regular army got only five men yesterday, John w. Hamilton, David w. Ferguson, William F. Wheeler. Truman o. Craft and Oren A. Paris. The of ficers are anxious for as many as pos, sible to come in the next few days, as the conscription law will probably go into effect within the next week or two, and eniistments in the regular army will then be closed
 . A new office of the First Alabama cavalry opened in Birmingham yesterday and will take in about 20 men, An off, flee under the direction of Capt. Oscar w. Underwood. Jr., was located here a few weeks ago, and secured all the men that were needed. Some of these failed to pass their physical examinations at the regiment headquarters and it is for the purpose of filling the vacancies caused by these mems failure that the office has been reopened. The engineers regiment has been filled, and its station is closed.