The Detroit times., 1917-10-29
MEN
READY FOR
SHOO T ING
Targets Will Be Placed
On Rifle Range
This Week
nv HAROLD " WILCOX.


nv HAROLD '. WILCOX.
Mp G. q STE Il. BATTLE
CREEK. Mich. oct .9-Maj r. b.
Morden. constructing engineer at
Camp Custer. has announced that
tho rife range will be ready this
week for the Inhalation or targets.
The target equipment rs nearly all
here. and the installation should be
a matter OF only a few days. That
means that before the month Ia well
along. the third OF the division that
has been training since the middle
of September viii do some shooting
Skill with the rifle viii be the one
imperative requirement OF the Amer
lean soldier in this war
N the local boards can get ready
10 send the men, the next draft
quota OF 30 per cent will come 10
Camp Custer between the sixth and
tenth of November The camp Will
Doc ready for rhe men az that time.
and whether the men viii come Will
rest With Washington and the local
boards
Because % construction delays
and rainy weather. the portions OF
tho artillery brigade that have not
moved 20 permanent quarters viii
not change barracks until the first
~ Nov ember. according 10 present
plans That means that the infantry
will not be able 90 reach ia perma-
nent quarters until after hat date.
When once seriously undertaken, the
entire transfer OF quarters will take
only two or three days
The old receiving station viii be
abandoned when the next 40 per
cent OF Conscripts comes. The men
viii be received In several barracks
set aside for tho purpose IN the 100
block an the Rattle Creek end OF the
camp This system viii get trial
on The first OF November. when near
~ 600 Negroes from Detroit viii be
received in Building 80 Is One
hundred Negroes from out In the
state arrived Saturday and wcre as
signed 10 the COlored battalion
Maj Fred s. Alger announces that
tho final Liberty loan total for Camp
Custer is Sl.3S9.750 This total mas
ileved that SOME men with depend
cn's subscribed for more bonds than
they could afford such subscrip-
lions viii be annulled Every soil
dicr with family must contribute
halt his pay 90 rho support OF his
wife and children. and no Liberty
bond subscription viii be- permitted
10 stand I'm The way Of Tins allot
ment aud his taking out some war
insurance The insurance drive is
now on in camp Tho war insurance
is the most advantageous propost
tion ever made by any government
20 an enlisted man. and there viii
BE- few soldiers here who do nor
take on, tho FUN 10000 worth of
protection
In response 20 a request made 20
the commanding general by the pass
tor ot So Paul's Lutheran church u
Detroit. several Dotrcitors were por.
mitted 20 90 homo sunday % Rt'ond
tho services celebrating the four
hundreth anniversary or the RpfOr
nation The men for whom leave
81 absence were requested We're as
follows Walter Brumke, Carl Pc
ters. Howard HOFFMAN. Raymond
Prcssel. John Oohmke. Louis
Oehmke. Herman Gatzke. Wilbert
Geddest and William Wrobol
Four more Dctroiters have been
given warrants as corporals in Bat
tory G., Three Hundred and Twenty.
ninth field artillery They are VII
liam Hewitt. Athos Pappas Charles
J Lockwood and Grover N smith.
Camp Custer has lost one OF ia
generals Brig.-Gen Mcmahon. com
handing the artillery brigade. has
been transferred 20 The new Ninety
second division. which viii be train
ed az Camp Dix. y. ] Gen McMa-
hons successor az Custer has not
been announced Meanwhile COL
Cloke. senior colonel OF the brigade.
will act as brigade commander Ills
regiment Is the Three Hundred and
thirtieth field artillery. Mai. II. 5
Terrell. commanding the horse sec
ton OF the ammunition train. and
Mai Orlando rroxell, commanding
the Three Hundred and Twenty.
eighth machine gun battalion. have
been transferred 90 Camp Meade
Maryland Their successors have
not boon announced Several score
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