New Ulm review., 1917-05-02
CAPTAIN GR0EBNER
RESIGNS COMMAND.
LIEUTENANT KLAUSE NOW IN
EHARGE OF LOCAL MILITARY
COMPANY.
UPHEAVEL AMONG SECOND REC.
lMENT OFFICERS ALLEGED
CAUSE.

md of Company A., M. N G., having
Received official authority to that effect
Monday, from Col. w. T. Mollison of
Faribault. In the same mail Capt. B.
Groebner received letter from Col.
Mollison, acknowledging receipt of the
captains resignation, which he forwarded
to the regimental headquarters last
Thursday.
The instructions to Lieutenant Klause
contained the information that Captain
Groebner's resignation had been re-
ceived, accepted and that the lieutenant
should assume command of the company
until further orders had been received.
The lieutenant was informed of Captain
Groebner's resignation, but no mention
was made regarding I'd Lieut.. Alfred
Pullman, who also resigned.
Captain Groebner's letter instructed
that officer to turn over his company
supplies to the Lieutenant, and for the
{ present to consider himself relieved of
semmand of the company.
l. Y Klause Busy Recruiting.
Lieutenant Kause has already begun
active work in recruiting the company
In an endeavor to bring it up to the re-
quired strength, and also to induce the
present members, who have not already
done SO to take the ''dual OATH" So far
only five prfvates have done so.
Captain Groebner said Monday that
IN forwarding his resignation to Colonel
Mollison he stated that he was one of
the signers of the ''round robin recent
ly circulated by Major O.'J. Duane Of
st. .>aPeter. The round robin had
stated that the signers felt that for the.
good of the service, Colonel Mollison
should resign, and that unless he did
so they would feel compelled to leave
the regiment. AS the colonel did not
meet the demands made by the signers
he forwarded his resignation as he had
promised. The letter relieving him of his
command was the result.
Second Lieutenant Alfred Pullman
alsgfsent his resignation last Thursday.
y te informed the colonel that while he
7 had not signed the Ground robin it
was only because he had not been given
an opportunity, but that it expressed
his sentiments, hence his resignation.
Long in Service.
Captain Groebner lacked less than a
month of having been eighteen years in
the service. He joined Company A as
a private May 20, 1899; appointed
corporal May IA, 1901; promoted to
sergeant January 2, 1902; appointed first
sergeant June 20, 1905; commissioned
second lieutenant June %, 1906; pro-
NOTED to first lieutenant October 26,
1910; commissioned captain July 2, 1913
Lieutenant Puhlmann was cen mission.
ed second lieutenant from civilian life
in June last year, when he Joined the
guards when the regiment was ordered
to the Mexican border. /
Lieutenant Klause has been eleven
years in the service.
IS The trouble in, Comp any A is clearly
an echo of the discord among the officers
of the Second regiment. 1t has been
stated by scme that tie reason TIE mem
bers of the &C mrany have refused to take
the "dual oath" is because of the feeling
against Colonel Molliscn, among the
privates as we'll as that entertained by
= the officers of the regiment. tits pointed
out that the same feeling exists thruout
tie regiment and that the privates o1
other companies as we'll as in the New
Ulm organization are also refusing tc
take the oath.
Mollison is Blamed.
Major Albert Pfaender, the highest in
@--Iank of any of those returning to New
Ulm from the Mexican border, in dis
cussing the affairs of the Second Regi-
ment regretted the present situation
very much, as it tends to put New Ulm
in false light to outsiders, but stated
that he understood it was due to lack
of confidence in Colonel Mollison, COM
mander of the regim ent. He was out
spoken to the effect that Mollison had
not been fair to New Ulm. ..-
ssThe disorganized condition of the
-'sechine Gun company is due to the lack
~ commissioned officer at New Ulm
34lfch condition could have been remedied
<iby the colonel" said Major Pfaender.
t'In fact when Lieutenants Bierbaum and
Dengler fell out at Fort Smelling right