Evening journal., 1917-06-11
State BATTAHONS
Need 695 More MEN
Military Officers Will Keep
Up Drive for War
Strength Guard
ENOUGH MEN FOR
ENGINEERS CORPS

Delaware's National Guard lacks
forty-eight men 10 bring one battal-
ion up TO war strength, and It lacks a
total Of 695 enlisted men to nj the
two battallons TO a minimum strength,
accord ng TO an announcement made
this morning by Adjutant General !.
Pusey Wickersham.
That the State cannot even bring
one battalion up TO full war strength.
let alone filling the two battalions now
in existence or creating a new one. is
a matter OF sappointment to the
guard recruiting officers. they said
this morning The guard recruiting
officers are bending their efforts to fill
/ the two batialions, but with c95 men
/ TO get and responses slow. they feel
I that someth ng vigorous has got 20
! happen or the guard viii never get
/ its TWO battalions filled.
The recruiting officers in charge OF
: the special drive Of the Second Bat
] TALON I'm the down-State communi-
/ ties. mot yesterday at the Armory to
devise plans for stimulating the re-
cruiting in thai battalion. Those
/ present included Adjutant-General
/ wickersham. Captain L. b. Jacobs.
( Captain John p. LeFever, Captain
Jesse A. Mckay, Captain James Cam
non and Lieutenant John Ramsey.
Whey did not reach any plan of action
other than the campaign now on
The following National Guard Of
. III
day for examination. pursuant 10 or
ders from the Department OF the
East First Lieutenant Joseph A.
Davis, First Lieutenant John w.
Ramsey. Second Lieutenant Irwin
\ Duncan. Second Lieutenant Byron r.
Foster and Second Lieutenant Hal
sted p. Layton. The examining
board at the fort is in charge OF
Major A. d. Raymond.
Orders from the War Department at
Washington, received today by the looal
Federal recruiting station, at Sixth and
/ King streets, are that no more recruits
are to be taken for the Engineer Corps
The orders state that the entire engi
. neer division of the Cnitcl States army
is filed The cavalry division is alsS
well filed and 40 the end of this week
according TO orders received today. re-
cTuitiHg officers all over the country ar,
to refuse to accept any more men fol
that arm OF the service. But there Il
still need for men i'm the infantry and
artillery branches as well as in the ma
rine co7s, and the navy.
The local army recru ting Office
made things hum during the past
few days. twelve recruits beings sem
out Saturday. two yesterday and ter
today. That IS a three day record fo
the local recruiting Offices. included
in the lists OF men sent away since III
/, list published Saturday afternoon are
James Parker. Herbert W. Aherns
David Wiltbank. Joseph X. Roberts
, all 20 the engineer corps; Onufry nj
kolajizuki infantry: Barney Murphy
uuGrtermaster corps; Luigi GrillC
cavalry; George A. Pawley cavalry
Angelo seacci infantry; Camilli Fri
oiln and John Barber, cavalry
Brownslaw TreszkooslIi, Isaiar B. Ne
gcniga: Dwight Hawkins. Lewis A
McLawson. infantry; q. N. Ballback
field artillery: G. J. Huribere. Ma
Biegodsky and Alfred c. Davis. al en-
p ginesr corps.
Orders came to the navy recruiting
station this morning 20 send the fol
lowing apprentice seamen. who nave
been accepted and have been on the
waiting list for some time. TO Phila
deiph,a for transhipment to tn
. training station az Newport r. l.
Paul l. Butler. No. 320 East Four
teenth street; John J. Dillon Jr., No
1401 West Third street; Lester J
Lyons. No. 1885 Walnut street; Leon
ard Moseley. No. 17O1 Washington
. street. Edward Martin, No. 402 Van
dever avenue; W. b. Cox. Penns
grove n j.; Paul ]. Santa Barbara
, No. $40 West Ninth street.
The navy recruiting Office also nc
cepted tho following men for service
Walter Ernest Donovan. carpenter
, mate. No. 1900 Lancaster avenue
. Harold Earl Anendale, Zeb. Vanc
. Frudy and Lester Lee Coleman. all {
! Tiger Ga: Joseph Franklin Dawson
No. 1909 Church street; Arthur Grar
, Vile Ferguson New Castle, an
George Henry Brady, No. 749 Mar,
land avenue.