Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-13
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the semiofficial figures verified at the
recruiting office this morning.
Recruiting passed the highwater
mark of Tuesday yesterday, when
the local recruiting office sent 7S3
men to training camps to enter the
service of Uncle Sam. BY far the
greatest number of men picked the
aviation branch of the signal corps,
ground service. These men were all
sent to Columbus Barracks. Ohio,
and left before midnight last night.
The recruiting office was open until
O'Clock this morning enlisting men
in other branches of the service.
The overwhelming rush of men to
enlist in the aviation branch was so
great that the force of twenty men
stationed at the local office were
unable to take care of the rush. 1t
was estimated this morning that at
least two hundred men successfully
passed all examinations, but were
not sent because of small irregulari-
ties in their enlistment and registra-
ton papers that the recruiting Off
GERS were unable to take the time
to correct. AS 6 o'clock last even
ing was the deadline for the enlist
ment of recruits for service in the
aviation branches, the recruits who
were not signed up for enlistment
before that time were not taken care
of.
SiXty-five men from the city of
Harrisburg enlisted yesterday. These
men were all sent into service some
| time last night. The contingent
| from the city yesterday totaled the
] number of Harrisburg enlistments in
| the last days of the recruiting drive
to 11S men. Harrisburg still has
something like two hundred men to
make up in her draft quota.
Scores Enlist
Enlistment figures as submitted to
| the reporter by recruiting officers
| this morning for the first three days
| of this week are: For the district:
Monday, 25S; Tuesday, S94; Wednes-
day,7S3; for the city, Monday, 81;
| Tuesday, 32; Wednesday, 65. OF
the figures reported for the district
yesterday, about $50 men were sent
from Johnstown, but the Harrisburg
district is credited with them.
Men were still. being recruited for
the service for other than aviation
| duty up till IL to-day. Sergeant
Young said that forty men had been
recruited for the stevedore regi-
| ment. Quartermaster Corps, this
morning, who were sent to Newport
News to-day. A hundred negroes
were sent to Newport News in the
same service yesterday.
Recruiting will not stop with the
end of the opportunity to enlist dro IT
eligibles, the recruiting officers said
this morning. The office will con-
tinue with its activities, enlisting men
under twenty-one and over thirty
one for service.
City Makes Record
The Harrisburg recruiting Office
has sent to Columbus Barracks more
mn An q ~ ~ n fcfr tat
cording to Lieutenant Lesher. He
stated he had received word from
the commandant at Columbus Ear
racks that there were far more men
at the barracks than they can take
care of.
That the enlistments yesterday
were not all made simply to escape
the rulings of the draft was evidenc-
ed by the case of a Harrisburg boy
who was discharged from the Ma
tional Guard last July for physical
disability who returned to the re-
cruiting Office nine times after he
was informed that he could not
qualify for service, in an effort to
get the War Department to make q
special ruling in his case.
The following Harrisburg men en-
listed yesterday:
Charles Savington, Fred Fee, How
ara Locker, CnarleS Il. f1ammlll,
Walter Middleton, Paul Zerby, Edgar
Schlayer, James Burkhart, Earl
Heck, George Eissner, Luther Kreps,
Ralph Davies, Guy B. Arnhart, Ern-
est Coldren, John Clark, Joseph
Camubell. Herman Shuey, John e.
Tyler, Edward Gyse, Ralph Hesser,
Frank Poulton, John Runkle, Paul
Lyter, William Smith, Ross King,
Harvey Carson, Paul Meredith,
George Bowman, Robert Chant,
Richard Meyer, Charles Passmore,
Isaac Rockman, Ralph Stintsam,
George A. Long, Bernard eastman,
Michael Donahue, Harry L. Barn
hart, Alphonsis eastman, William
Kelly, Harry w. Shoop, Walter Owen,
Earl Kimmel, Clarence Yost, Charles
Lesser, Carl Schmidt, Charles Enter
line, Louis Hanseal, Harold Corner,
Charles Rud, Cloyd Parker, Lloyd
Garner. Darrell Owes, Michael Keane,
Paul Reindel, Charles Rocco, Lewis
II. Balser, George Saussaman, Hiram
Pensyl. James c. Hetrick, Allen H.
Mitchell, John Turner, Floyd NAL
seed, Charles Phillips, Charles Saun-
derS