The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-06-23
State Law Protects Soldier.

State Law Protects Soldier.
Michigan men who enter the service
OF the United States will not lose
their contract interests in property
even should they fail to keep up their
payments. according to Maj. Samuel
ID. Pepper. Judge advocate OF the Mich.
igan national guard
Reports have reached Mai. Pepper
that when the Michigan national guard
was in service on the border. many
men lost the interests they had &C.
CURED In homes, while some had their
wages garnisheed or their insurance
confscated. Mai. Pepper holds that
such action is illegal
Very few seem to know that the
Michigan laws protect the soldier in
actual service from just such distress
ing situations" said Maj. Pepper.
Section So OF the general military
laws OF the state provides: All offi.
GERS and enlisted men who may be in
the actual service OF this state or OF
the United States. In all cases. ex-
cept for treason. felony or breach Of
the peace. shall be privileged from ar.
rest and imprisonment during the time
Of such actual service, and for period
OF six months after such service and
their separate property shall during
the same period be exempt from all
process by way Of execution, levy,
settlement or attachment for debts
contracted prior to or. during such
service
IF soldier who is called into the
service goes away leaving a debt. or
installments fall due during his SER
vice, his creditors cannot get judy
ments satisfied out OF his property dur
ing his service nor for six months af-
ter his service ends The law would
also protect soldiers from having their
families evicted from houses. since 1t
takes~a writ of restitution to get pos
session.
This law would seem to afford q
great measure OF protection to soldiers
from this state whose business affairs
are at all involved at the time of en-,
tering the United States service"
Hospital Corps Get Motors.
Orders to 'motorize" the hospital
and field ambulance companies of the
Michigan National Guard have been
received from the chief OF the militia
bureau at Washington by Quartermas-
ter General Walter G. Rogers.
Colonel Rogers has forwarded to
Washington a requisition for IL motor
ambulances and FIVE motorcycles and
he expects the equipment will be
shipped to Grayling before the state
troops are modified. The IL motor
ambulances will be turned over to the
ambulance company at Bay City. while
the Grand Rapids field hospital unit
will get two OF the motorcycles.
Blankets Sent Port Huron Guards.
Unable to obtain blankets from the
government at present. the Port Hur-
on company of the Thirty third Michi-
gan regiment. which is still In the fed
eral service, appealed to the state war
preparedness board and 20 blankets
were shipped to Port Huron. One OF
the first official acts OF the Michigan
war board was to authorize the pur.
chase of 1000 wooden blankets. Some
of these blankets were given to the
Grand Rapids naval militia and others
were turned over to the state CON.
stabulary.
Judge Henry A. Mandell OF Detroit,
ia holding court in Grand Ira verse
county, this term In place Of Judge
=. w. Mayne, who is. in turn, holding
court in Wayne county.
Corp. Henry Miller. Escanaba, Of
Co. l., Thirty-third Michigan infantry.
who has been Ill since his re-
turn from Mexico. is dead.
A large force OF carpenters Is at
work on the new soldiers and ON
GERS quarters at the Grayling state