The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-24
LOOKS LIKE GUARD
WOULD Be BOOSTED
Indications Point to Formation Of Ad.
dItIonaI Units and Raising
Present Ones to Full
Strength.
NO ORDERS RECEIVED
state Officers, However, Look fo'
Something Of This Sort-New
Units Which Are
Contemplated.
NO ORDERS RECEIVED
DIES MONIES. Iowa

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Iowa national guard, bring
ing the units to war strength, to be
followed by the organization of TWEEN
ty-six new units to correspond with
the company, making the total 10. 400
men, as provided for in the act of the
congress of June 8, 1915. is in the air,
although no orders have as yet been
received to this effect by Adjutant
General Guy E. Logan.
The war department has decided
that the various states have authority
to organize at once the units author
lied by the act Of June 8, which was
originally intended to go into effect
in 1921 but it is pointed out that II
this was ordered it would 1nfl1ct a
hardship upon some states. For this
reason and also because the war de-
partment is anxious to first carry ouu
the selective consumption act, only
permission is granted to organize new
units.
But before these units are organized
the war department says that the
present organizations of the guaro
must be recruited from the present
peace strength, about 100 men to a
company, to war strength, about l5o
men to a company, and no order Tor
this new recruiting has as yet been
received.
Before the new units can be taken
into federal service they must be IN
spected and accepted by regular
army inspector, they must have ar
mories and their new officers must be
examined and passed.
In the meantime the work OF pre-
pairing for the federal census Is pro-
crossing. Governor w. l.. Harding
has sent q letter to every sheriff IN
Iowa and to the mayors Of cities with
more than 10000 population accord
ing to the 1910 census, urging them
to make haste in the tentative selec-
ton of a registrar for each Young
precinct in the state and secure the
rooms where the voting is generally
held, for registration purposes. Inc
registrars and the rooms are TO De
secured without cost If possible, put
they must be secured even II PAID lot.
It is possible that II the war de-
pArtment's selective CONSUMPTION Ia"
is put into force within the next rev
weeks. that it will take precedent
over the plans to recruit the national
guards to war strength and thus de-
Law the movement to secure the new
units allotted to Iowa.
The new units consist OF two new
companies of engineers, making bat
talon formation with the one COM
pany the state now has, an addition
of eight officers and 32S men.
An ammunition train consisting OF
two officers and fifty-one men.
An outpost signal company Of about
three officers and seventy-three men.
An ammunition train for divi-
sion of twenty-six officers and $50
men.
A second regiment Of field artillery
in addition to the one recently or.
ganized. with forty-seyen officers and
/ 900 men to be assigned to the
twentieth territorial division, consist
ing of the states Of Montana, wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho.
plight more troops and reg1mental
Headquarters of cavalry, maNng a
full regiment with the squadron now
organized, calling for thirty officers
and eighty-six more men.
One field hospital with SIX orncers
and seventy-three men, now being or
ganized at Sioux City
One new ambulance company Win
Ave officers and $50 men.
One new division headquarters
tronp with about Three officers and
men.
One new headquarters train OF
twenty-five officers and 212 men.
One battalion of four companies OF
heavy artillery calling for seventeen
officers and $40 men. This last unit
VIII he armed with the AT inch field
nieces and 6-inch howitZers.