The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-05-10
9 APPLICANTS
FOR OFFICERS
TRAINING CAMP
Young Men to 60 to Cairo
Today for Final Ex-
animation.
SIX CAPE MEN WERE
ACCEPTED YESTERDAY
Central Department issued Ad-
ditional Orders for Applicants
Yesterday.

Nine young men filed their applica
ton with the local Training Camp As
ISOLATION for the Officers Reserv
Corps, which will begin its training a
Fort Riley, Kan. The applicants vii
leave for Cairo today to take the men
tai examination.
The new applicants are: JOSEPH
Selle, Oliver doc" Edwards, LeoI
Balm, all of Cape Girardeau; Ear
Walker, of Lutesville; Herbert Wick
ham, Otto L. Whitener, Roy w. Par
ker, Harry Dudley and Roscoe Pierce
The last four are students of the Nor
NAL. Wickham is employed as con
ductor on the Hoxie.
A number of young men of the Cape
who previously had applied for the
Officers Reserve Corps, were accepted
after they had been examined in Cairo
ILL.,, Sunday afternoon. They were told
by the officers in charge of the Exam.
lining Board to be ready at any time
to leave for the training camp.
These young men are: George P
Marsh, Leslie Patton, Harry Gaines
Harry Crumb, Howard Frissell, Nor
man Motley and Renfro Gibbs. These
with the exception of Crumb filed their
applications with the members of the
local Training Camps Association,
and were ordered by the Central De-
partment of the Army, in Chicago, to
report at Cairo at once. They left
Sunday morning, returning later dur
ing the evening. Earl Schultz, Boswell
Fox and Hugo Wilder, son of Rev. A.
Wilder, have passed the examination
in st. Louis.
The officer in charge of the Exam
ming Board in Cairo told the Cape
boys that of every ten who applied for
the reserve corps, seven were rejected.
Not one of the local candidates failed
to pass either the mental or physical
examination.
J. S. Lehr, a veterinarian of the
Cape, yesterday received orders from
the War Department to be ready at
any time. He served in the army dur
ing the Spanish-American war, and
received commission as officer. He
will be required to take the physical
examination before he is sent to the
ranks.
The training camp at Fort Riley has
been selected for four States, each
State is to furnish a proportionate
of applicants. The total num-
Der the camp can take care of is $500
men.
Additional instructions for the ap-
plicants were. received yesterday by
The Tribune directing the applicants
how to go about in joining the reserve
corps. These instructions read:
"In view of the short time remain
ing before the opening of the train
ing camp, all examining boards of the
regular army are now authorized by
the Department Commander to con-
duct the examination without making
a return on the documents to the Gen.
trail Department before admitting the
applicant to the examination.
"All those applicants who have sent
their papers to the Central Depart
ment should not wait until they re-
ceive an answer from the Central De-
partment, but Immediately make out
a duplicate of the application and Sc
cure their letters of recommendation
in duplicate and report at the nearest
army officer in charge of an examining
board. These duplicates may be pre-
sented to this officer, who will admit
the applicant to the examination at
once.
New applicants are advised to take
4 preliminary medical examination,
and present these to the nearest ex-
officer.
mo applications should be forward
I'd to the headquarters of the Central
Department. If the applicant is in
ioubt as to the city in which the Ex-
aiming Board is conducted, he may
receive this information at his expense
,y wiring the Central Department of
he Army in Chicago, which is in COM
nand of General Barry"