Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
N. G. P.PLANS FINAL
DRIVE FOR RECRUITS
Effort Will Be Made to Bring
Units Up to War Strength
Before June 5

mighty drive for recruits for the Ma
tional Guard regiments will be made in
Philadelphia and throughout the State in
final effort to bring the units up to war
strength before June s, registration day.
Nine new recruiting stations will be
opened either today or tomorrow.
One hundred and forty men have en-
listed in the various branches Of the reg
ular service in the last twenty-four hours.
Others enlisted in the National Guard, en-
gineer corps and other organizations, bring.
ing the total up to 201.
Tho figures were as follows:
Army, so; navy. II; marine corps, 8:
coast guard, 8; First Regiment Infantry,
n. G. p. is; Third Regiment 10: Second
Field Artillery, n. G. p, II; Sixth infantry
g; quarternaster's reserve corps, 1S, and
the Ninth Reserve Regiment OF En-
gineers, Is.
The locations Of the new stations to be
opened and the officers in charge are as
follows:
Boone, Darby. Captain James B. Cousart I;
Croydon. Captain Felix r. Campuzano {;
Morrisvile, Lieutenant Clarence T. Gill
more Coatesville, Captain Charles F. Blum
hard; Phoenixvlle, Captain William c.
williams; Perkase, Lieutenant Rupert B.
Pyle; Reading Captain Charles F. Rsler !;
Harrisburg, Lieutenant oliver NJ. Hartzell,
and Columbia, Lieutenant Herbert p. Hunt.
The stations in the city will be as fol-
| lows: At the armory, Broad and Callowhill
streets, Lieutenant Harry Sage; Union
| League, Broad and SAMSON streets, Ser
geant Alfonso Sproul, and southeast corner
| Fifty-second and SAMSON streets, Sergeant
John Biddison.
The kissing campaign waged yesterday
on City Hall plaza in an effort to obtain
men for the First Regiment is said to have
failed. Few men applied for enlistment.
| Announcement has been made by the
| Philadelphia School Mobilization Commit
| tee that forty-two out of 157 candidates
| had passed the examination for scholar
ships at the United States junior naval re-
| serve camp on the Thames River, in Con-
| necticut.
| Only the first thirty will be permitted to
| go unless naval authorities agree to in
crease Philadelphia's quota, It was said
The examinations were conducted by a
| committee. Of which Charles c. Heyl, prin-
| cpal of the West Philadelphia High School,
| was chairman, and none of the successful
candidates made a grade lower than 20.
| 1t was announced that the successful
| candidates would assemble in the commit
tees rooms in the Widener Building next
| Friday afternoon at l:46 and then pro-
ceed to City Hall to be formally presented
| to Mayor Smith.
The names of the forty-two successful
candidates, of which the first thirty will
go to Camp Dewey, are as follows
| Harold NJ. Patton, 1918 Florence avenue
| F. Heth Riordan, Jr, 59l5 Webster street.
Wilson F. Hobson, Jr., 1920 North Eighteenth
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NAVAL COAST DEFENSE RESERVE
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New Potato Prices Soaring
New potatoes, according TO the predic
| .ton of Charles ]. Brand, chief ofiicer q
n,srlxsts of the Department of Agriculture
will continue to advance in, spite Of the fac
that the supply win steadily increase fron
now on. The present price ranges from 5
20 a. a bushel. This is twice as much a