The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-01
5000 AtGa..OtS NOW IN
TRAILING At CAMP Lee
Soldiers Make Excellent Record in
Selling Bonds of the Second
Liberty Loan.
(By STAFF Correspondeut)

Wednesday night 5,s72 negroes ha'
become soldiers at this cantonment
The remainder necessary to complete
the 1000 as originally planned for thi'
Increment are expected to arrive dur
ing the next few days, Several hun
dred arrived yesterday, including tbs
following cohttngeuts: Northumber'
lard, seventy-three, Matthews. thirty
four; Accomac, 20S; all assigned to the
Twenty-second training battalion
Wise, sixty-three; Grayson. eighty
Richmond. three. Brunswick, one; Isle
OF Wight, two, Surry. eighty; Prince
George, ten. all Of whom went 10 tht
Twenty third training battalion; Not
toway. one, to the Seventeenth training
battalion. and warwick, one, to the
Twentieth training battalion. In ad'
d'tion there were nine from Powhatan
one from Richmond, six from Pitt
sylvanla. one from Hanover, one from
King and Queen. all of whom were
assigned to the Twenty-third battalion
Negroes from Pennsylvania who
reached the cantonment YESTERDAY
were sixteen from Mckeesport, 2A'
from Pittsburs, forty-three from Fay
cite, three from Somerset, seventeen
from Westm oreland, twenty-five from
Allegheny, eleven from Erie. ntn'
from Crawford. two from Mercer
three from Connellsville, all of whom
went to the Five Hundred and FIFTH
service battalion.
AUSTRIAN SIACKERS
BROUGHT TO CANfI
Six Austrians were brought to CAM
Lee Tuesday, handcuffed together
having been captured in Columbus. o,
to which city they had fed after hav
ing been registered at Pittsburg, Pa
They could speak very little English
and about all that could be gottel
from them was Me no fight" Their
are two Italians in the cantonmen
who say that they wish to go to ltal,
aud enlist in the Italian army, but OBJ
feet TO fighting as members of. TIL
American forces.
/ SOLDIERS SELL MANY
I LIBERTY BOND;
Yesterday the total amount of lib
erty bonds sold to persons reNdini
outside the camp by members of tn
Eightieth division was announced a
s7.S99. 200, The statement itemiset
follows:
Headquarters detachment. One Hun
dred and Fifty ninth brigade. 5000
fartrv. s1.205, 500; Three Hundred an
Eighteenth infantry, st.575.000 Thre
! Hundred and Fourteenth machine gu
battalion $4,000. Three Hundred an
Thirteenth machine gun battalion, So
000, Three Hundred and Nineteent
Infantry. s4,z34,S00; Quartermaste
training school $195.t50; Depot bri
gade. s165 300
Colonel I. r. Hunt, Judge adVocatt
speaking Tuesday night OF the tas
undertaken by Tire soldiers voluntarii
and carried out to SO successful a con
a4.rs++a4t-s@-. s4t-+..-4 s-..f-! 3.@ssts4
had brought back 10 the camp wit
then first payments on the bonds sol
by them.
OF the many who made the trip t
their homes and aided in rolling IL
the total for the national army at thi
camp were Corporals George Bran
ner. Bernard NJ. sullivan, y. T Weay
er and Matthew Harrison, Of Winches
ter and II. l.. Craft. Of Norfolk, VIII
I worked in and around Winchester an
Frederick county and sold $3t.5
worth william Keith, Jr. OF Mid
dietowr, Va, sold bonds to the amour
/ of g. 6e0.
/ Numerous Priyates Promoted.
day as corporals in Battery u, of tn
Three Hundred and Thirteenth fiel
artillery. They are C, J. Williamson
| r, j. Leader, w. w. Farmer. Y. .
tCoherly.4i NJ Moore andvJ sseph seit;
d Tor f.tktns, ~. Va ". .. Price, Cos
I ton, W, Va; O. #. jaime, Monitor. v
Va A. d. Prospero, Harding, w. Va
! s, Pennington. Kerens, w. Va; w. I
| evils. Msrtinsburg. w Va; G.
! Dean. Martinsburg, w. Va; c. C. Rer
nix. Gladly. W. Va; l.. Coherly, Beyer
/ ~, w Va, and O, g. Hovalter, s
| George. w Va Two Richmondert
Captain Andrew Christian and Lieu
tenant g. w, Anderson, commander
of Battery d, and the top sergeant
! George D. Ermentrout, OF Reading
| In the headquarters company OF tn
Thu ee Hundred and Thireenth fel
artillery. the sergsants Just appointe
are Jos II. Baber. Fayetteville, Joi
L. Harvey, Hill Top, w. Va; Home
Hudson. Montgomery, W Va: MIX
Mahoney. Charleston, w, Va; Sam /
Soard, Sun. w, Va. Listed as corpora,
are John @. Buster, Fayette w Va
Ernest H. Curry, Jacox, w. Va; Claud
| Ford. Mount Carbon. w. Va; Henri
/ -. Gibson, Montgomery w. Va: FIRE
| NJ Marcus, Page, w, Va; Walter I
Nickens, Dewitt w. Va; Fred Pot
ter, Oak Hill. w Va, John Smith
/ Fitzpatrick. w Va David Saio
Montgomery. w. Va; Chas. r. Thrash
err. Mount Hope. W, Va; Virgil +
Trevy. Montgomery, W. Va. and Alb
| WEIGH, Harvey, W. Va.
| Rejected From Service.
| Israel Jones, Woodstock. Va: C1ar
ence F. Ohaver, Parsons. w, Va, an
Chas. E. Huse. of Clay. w. Va, wer
named yesterday at division head
quarters as having been rejected fror
/ military service. and left for thei
| homes. Fred Tanhelmer, of Pitcairr
Pa. was also rejected yesterday fror
military service.
| An interesting feature OF the insur
/ ance provision for national army sold
/ iers is that by making g certain aIlot
ment of dis pay. an enlisted man VIII
| by injury is barred from followin
afterward his original occupation wi
be taught by the government a trad
for which his disabilities do not in