Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-07
NExTCON1INCENT
or DRAF TEDARMY
MEN co NOV. Is?
Illinois Regiment ut Camp Dodge Is
Ready to Receive SeleetiTes
From This State.
rASToNMENT soon PREPARED
Every Endeay0r viii Be Made TO Out
~ New Soldiers. 81 Hours
After Arrival

Camp Dodge. Ia. Nov. THE Three (
Hundred Forty-nInth Infantry IS ready !
10 receive the 1900 Illinois selective /
service men vino will be assigned to /
he regiment from the final increment (
1l selectiye service men to recruit
The Illinois national army soldiers
regiment TO full strength. St was said
AZ headquarters OF the regiment yes
terday
The final increment Of selectiye ser
Vice men is expected TO commence ar
living at Camp Dodge Nov. ID. Major
General Plummer wired the war de-
partment yesterday that Camp Dodge
will be ready 10 receive the selectiye
service men on that date. Coustruc-
ton work at the cantonment which
has been delaying the sending for
ward Of the final increment of selec-
tive service men until IL is completed,
assurances has been given will be
completed by then.
The war department Is expected TO
Immediately issue orders to local ex-
emption boards so that the first of the
final increment OF selcctive service
men will arrive at Camp Dodge Nov.
Is. and the rest during the next few
days.
Ready TO Equip Them.
The Three Hundred Forty-ninjh IN.
fantry is prepared 10 assign aud out
tit and equip the 1900 selective ser
vice men whom it needs to recruit the
regiment 10 full strength a great deal
more expeditiously than were the g.
600 men from the first and second in
croments of selective service men,
who were assigned 10 the regiment.
Supply officers OF the Illinois ma
tional army soldiers regiment said
that there are supplies OF clothing in
the regiments warehouses now sufii-
cient 20 outfit all the men, who will
be assigned to the regiment, except
men who require the larger sizes.
A shipment Of clothing in the larg-
er sizes was shipped 10 days ago to
Camp Dodge. When the final mere
ment of selectlye service men arrives
at Camp Dodge, the supply officers o.
the Illinois national army soldiers
regiment expect 10 have clothing tC
outfit every man assigned to the
regiment.
Uniformed In - Hours.
A general order requires that every
effort be made to outfit selective ser.
vice men with clothing within q
hours after their arrival at Cam
Dodge.
The selective service men OF thu
final Increment who are assigned t
he Three Hundred Forty-ninth In
fantry will not be QUILTED piece
meal. as the shortage OF clothing sup
plies required the selective servict
men Of the first and second incre
ments TO be. The newly arriving Sc
lective service men will be given com
plete olive drab wooden uniforms
shoes. shirts. hats and overcoats, ev
srything at once. that it has takei
several weeks for the national arm
lodiers at Camp Dodge 10 get. 1t j
promised, too, that there will be n
Ihortage OF blankets, which inconven
enced the selectlye service men of tn
iecond increment when they arrived
md that there will be comforterS TO
he newly arriving men
OihCers OF the regiment are eXpec'
lag the new men TO be assimilate
into the regiment easily.
The regiment is in it's permaner
quarters and each company has bal
racks and half. so that the problel
OF quartering the men as they are as
signed to companies has none Of III
difficulties which attended the quar-
tgr~i,r go tho oatagttvo sa~v{oo MN
who arrived in the second incremen