The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-12-14
THiRTY-FIVE ENLISTED MEN
DESIGNATED TO ATTEND
TRAINING CAMP.
PLAN GREAT SHAM BATTLE
Schools in the Care and Handling or
Motor Trucks and Trench Trains
Have Been Started.

Eve enlisted men of the Thirtieth Di-
vision have been designated to at
aend various ordnance training camps
for training courses varying in length
from 20 to 81 days. The 105th mobile
ordnance repair shop, from which
more than half the men come is a
unit of a sort recently organized and
as attached to the ammunition train
for the care Of ordnance property In
Hts charge. The designations were as
follows:
To the Machine Gun School at
Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass.
Tor az days: Privates Howard c. Nc
Nair, George Tohnger, Bail NJ. Smith,
-5esepA L. Dollard and Vernon s..
Etroape.
To the motor section, Instruction
School at Peoria, ILL.,, for "a days:
Ssrgt. F. C. Odum, Priyates c. T. Por-
ter, Charles w. Duffy and John Schib-
beps
To the motor section, instruction
School at ClintonsvilIe, Wis, for rs
days: Sergt. Wade NJ. Craig, Privates
Ferdinand A Ressler and William j.
Singleton. o. P. Winfrey, Pitts Brad
ford and H. G. Winfrey.
To the motor section. Repair School
at Kenosha, Wis. for 20 days: Sergt.
William H. Royal J. \. Ortman, T. D.
Stout and H. A Due.
To the equipment section, Instruc-
hon School at Rock Island Arsenal
H., for % days: Sergt. o. V, Mayor.
Corps. w. P. Sawyer and Willie Rice.
To the Machine Gun Instruction
School at Rock Island Arsenal, ILL.,, for
55 days: Privates Allan Jones and j.
"a Fuller. Corps. Edward Hare, Walter
j. HudneN and ]. P. Leroy.
To the equipment section, Instruc-
zion school at Rock Island Arsenal,
Al, for 42 days: Privates E. w. God
frey, P. H. Schultz, W. c. Armfeld. e.
T. Gulledge, John ". Britt, ]. S. Sim
mons, O. F. Goode and Willie McNair.
Schools in the care and handling Of
motor trucks have been started for
every man in the supply train and in
the motor section CT the ammunition
train who is not already familiar with
E1hese things. The ammunition train
las yet has no equipment, and this will
probably not be issued until arrival in
France. There are still number Of
men il the supply train who are not
as familiar with motor trucks as they
should be- To fit all these men for
the duties which hey will perform
behind the lines, Col. Holmes S.
Springs, commander oi trains, has re-
Gently started schools in both these
organizations.
mess hall for the officers station
Ssd at divisional headquarters is being
constructed Immediately in the rear Of
their quarters, the dining room of the
Finley residence also occupied as quar-
ters, having grown too small.
The officers of the 105th Ammuni-
fion Train are now engaging daily in
an athletic program. the movement
w. Lewis and Maj A. H. Silcox. c.
". Knebel, athletic director at Y. NJ.
G.. 4. Unit No. a2, IS coaching tnG
officers, who just now are spending
most Of their exercise period daily in
playing volleyball.
A great sham battle extending over
a front Of four miles is planned for
che Thirtieth Division for the near fu-
ture. The attack will start on a four
mile front, which is the widest area
she division will ever be called upon
to defend in actual battle. The at
tack will converge as it moves for
ward to a front ret e-sr mile In
length. which is the shortest. sector
Ehe division will ever be called upon to
defend in actual battle. The foe will
be assumed. but Otherwise conditions
will be as nearly like an actual battle
zas possible. In the a4vaHee many tae-
Ssical problems win be met and decided
{ Nv O. Gorgas, surgeon general OF
-she United States azmy, recently vis-
: &ISE CdulS OSftW, GVM&1sS w AhDPCSS
the camp site and sanitary conditions
generally, his visit having no connee-
;sion with the quarantine for the re-
, Gent measles epidemic. When seen by
y representative Of ths press General
Gorgas stated that he thought the site
OF Camp Sewer IDEAL and that he had
found conditions here fairly satisfac-
s-&ory. The epidemic had been handled
u. thorough and efficient manner by
the camp medical aatherities, he
thought.
Camp Sewer was happy place
when the mess csh chat announced
ainner simultaneously carried the
news that the quarantine which for 20
days had kept the soldiers confined to
she military reservation proper and
ever out of the small towns of Paris
and Camp Sewer had finally been lift
ed. Every means of reaching the city