Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-07
GENERAL MANN
SAYS SECOND
IS RECOGNIZED
Hankinson Company to be
Filled With Drafted.
Men.
Officers of Regiment Will be
Chosen by Presi-
dent.

Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 7.-co-opera-
ton and determined action on the
part of Adjutant General G. A. Fra
ser, at the state capital and Senator
Porter J.. McCumber, at the national
capital resulted according to advice
from the latter yesterday afternoon in
saving North Dakota's second regi-
ment, which for q time seemed
doomed INSTRUMENTATION through q
Brigadier General Mann, chief Of the
militia bureau, admits vas due to an
inadvertency upon his part.
McCumber's View.
Senator McCumber wired Adjutant
General Fraser:
Saw General Mann, who admitted
that the first telegram requiring 66
men was inadvertently sent It should
have read 100 men per company, but
since the telegram was sent that way,
the regiment will be recognized. One
company short will be filed with
drafted men. The regiment not hav-
ing the required strength before Aug
ust s, the officers will be named by
the president, who me that the
recommendations by, the governor will
have weight with him in selecting the
officers"
The whirlwtnd campaign which re-
suited in recruiting the second regi-
ment to required strength in ten days,
won favorable attention everywhere.
The prominence Of former Gov. Frank
White. of Valley City, and other Of
fcers of the field and staff and the
fact that practically all were veterans
of the war with Spain and Of mature
military experience led everyone to
hope for much from the new regiment
and S1fI1rHqy r{0ht a - a~0&,,~o1---
from General Mann that the second
must be Canned" because it did not
muster the minimum Of 100 men to
a company came as thunderbolt.
Units Called In.
The enlisted personnel Of the quar-
termaster corps and administrative
star was ordered into federal service
last night and ordered into a service
cantonment camp somewhere on the
eastern seaboard. The men include,
~Sergeants, first class, Lyman D. Bak-
er, and Chever j. Cameron, Bismarck;
S~ergeants Paul 8. Gallagher, Chauncey
g. Bergherm, Loehrn Casebolt and
Glen w. Fowler. Fargo; Thomas A.
Dowd, Beach; Chris p. Yegen, and
Robert M. Stangler, Bismarck: Priv
ates, first class. Ludwig j. Anderson,
Driscoll; George M. Hazard, Bis
marck; Edward v. Omeara, George b.
Turner, Harold ". Edinburgh, Fred
G. Thompson, Fargo; Edward A. Bask.
erville, Bismarck; Lawrence H. Lob
ben. Driscoll; Oscar Heller, Beach
and Private George O. Wood, Bis
marck.
Muster Today.
Mastering Second Regiment began
this morning as follows:
Captain Wilson, Company c, eros
BY; Company H, Harvey; Captain
Gross, Company A and Sanitary De.
tachment, Minot; Captain Eckman
Company 2, Langdon; Lieutenant Be.
honek, Company G., Rolla; and Com.
pany D, Devils Lake; Captain Halver.
son. Supply Company, IIilisboro;
Lieutenant Renden, Company i, Han.
kinson, and Company X, Ellendale,
Captain Murphy, Company NJ, Beach;
Machine Gun Co., Dickinson; corn.
pany 3, New Rockford and Company
F, Darlington.
The enlisted men Of Company T.. a,
Hankinson will be mustered and en-.
listed and accepted as individuals ever
though the company as a urit lie no,
recognized because 1t reported but Al
men at date Of draft, said Major Settle
chief mastering officer. last nivht