Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-12
REGIMENT or coLoREp MEN TO
De TRAINED At IOWA CAN
TORMENT.
MEN FROM DISTRICT
TO FORM REGIMENT
Number Of Negroes Drawn with First
Contingent Not Known Room TO be
Made For Them by Transfer Of
Drafted Men to National Guard Resi-
ments at Demins. N. NJ.
Special 10 Times Repu elican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Division eadqugrcers Eighty =
eighth Division, FRS: Overseas Army.
Camp Dodge, Sept l2-Advices here
today from unofficial sources al Wash
ington are thai 6 regiment Of negro
consc-ipt soldiers viii be trained al
Camp Dodge. They are 10 come from
the four states IN this divisi0n-Iowa,
Illinois, Minnesota and North Dakota
Secretary Baker has announced def
nicely that Iowa Negroes would be
trained 81 Camp Dodge Adju,ant Gen
era Guy E Logan, in charge % mooil-
izat5on Of coEsc-ipts previous - their
arrival 81 Camp Dodge, said today It
was impossible 10 estimate the num-
her Of Iowa negroes drafted in the
first increment until full reports from
county boards were IN.
The negroes viii not be summoned,
however, unit! all other conScripis are
settled at Camp Dodge. That means
the middle Of October a. the earliest
Co!ored men VINO viii soon receive
commissions at the official training
school al F'o-- Des Mojnes VIII COM
nand the regiment
Eoo- for the negro regiment II
3545 VIII be made when the war de-
paIrIenI CON pletes the draft OF con-
script soldiers from the Eighty eighth
division here 10 ill the depleted ranks
OF the Thirty third division now train
ing al Defining. New Mexico The eN-
act number 10 be drafted has not
been announced by the war depart
ment, bui X IS anticipated that enough
men vii BE- taken from the individual
state cansc-ipt quotas 10 fill the ranks
OF the regim enIs from which drafts
were made 20 I'll up the regiments sent
10 the rain bow division from this ter
ritc-y. In Iowa alone, this would mean
400 men for each Of ths mo Iowa
regiments al perning or 4>50, a.! told
one third ~ Iowa's first army quota.
Camp Dodge * Still wrestling with
the problem OF whipping the arst batch
Of conscrjprs into shape Newspaper
men and civilians are still barred from
the registration rooms and no records
OF assignments viii be avai.s bic for
several days. Men are transferred from
one branch OF the service 10 another
daily as their qualifications are sitted.
Their drill is light. Many have not re-
cefved uniforms. Others have hats.
shirts and shoes but no trousers have
been issued them. Some OF the soldiers
were unconto-ta Die with the extreme
" low temperature OF the last few
nights.
First to Receive Serum, Treatment.
Conscript soldiers from Marshall
county are undergoing ar experience
that has come 10 no other soldiers in
the world.
They are receiving a dual serum for
protection against typhoid and para
typhoid fevers. They are the first 70
receive il among the thousands IF con-
scripts in the sixteen army canton
ments OF the United SAFES
The dual serum has JUS been per
fected b the government Il vi.
save from three 10 four weeks lime
in preparation OF the soldiers for the
big training grind that viii MAKE them
fighting men
Heretofore, innoculactons against the
diseases have been administered sepa-
rately. Three shots Ct each Ters
given each soldier. the anti-typhoid Sc
rum ten days apart and the anti-par-
atyphoid seven days apart. F1tty-one
days were required 10 complete the
Immunity treatment" Now, with the
dual serum, innocuIation Tor both can
De com pleted 4 twenty days.
Men are not fit for rigid drill dur
ing the time they are receiving the
treatment. They are reI;eve6 from ali
duty for twenty-tour hours after each
treatment Some soldiers become quite
sick although not seriously. But there
Is the satisfaction IN the end in know
ng that for seven years they are free
from the diseases that have claimed
more men than bullets among many
regiments II past vars.
Paratypho.6 developed On the Mexi-
can border. Il was discovered first
Anong the New York troops at Nc
Allen. Other troops escaped without a
singIe case. The government was not
ons in finding serum that effectual-
~ combats il