Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-03
SBOLsHEV|k ACCOMPL|CE
OF TR0TzkY SENTENCED
Gets Twcnty.Ycar Term in Federal
81 Penitentiary for DISCRETION
in Camp Lee Trial.
HERO OF FRONT LINE COMING
Nfajor.Gcneral Omar Bundy, Who
Helped Make History in France,
Will Assume Command WcdncS-
day-To Resume improvements.
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81 Especial to The Times Dispa;ch.l
He CAMP LEE. VA. December 3.-Pri-
Nate Walter l.. llirschbcrg, Bolshcvik.
\, and said 10 he the brains behind the
plot that was Matched in this country
by Lenne and Trotzky for the estah-
lishment of the Rolshevik regime in
Ktnssia. has been sentenced az this eamp
10 twenty years at hard labor At the
Federal Pen!teniiary At Atlanta. ia.
on a charge OF deSertion HirSchhcrG
was to have sailed TO Russia 10 par
ticipate in the work that he and his
accomplices had planned. he missed
one boat and before he could catch
another he had been arrested as draft
BY those officers who have come
in contact with Hirschbers while he
was a prisoner at this camp he was
T recognized as 4 man OF unusual ability.
a graduate OF three colleges. he was
siuden; OF philosophy and Well able
any az ne enbe eis 0W WHY n .n sSuaen, On
attracted much attention in New YORK..
where he participated in |. w. W. dem
+ constitutions. IL, * a speaker Of ab.l-
ity. He admits that h. il "a Socialist
and an l. w W lie is opposed to the
fundamental principles on which this
government is founded and predicted
that revolt would overthrow it. He
5 denied that his object in setting TO Rus
STA was TO participate III establish
ing al state OF anarchy. hu, stated that
lie was merely trying TO evad- service
in the army.
Born Of Russian and Roumanian par
cntage II Ph!ladelphia twenty eight
Years ago. his first experience. accord
ing 10 his statement, was in the book
!. business. Later he was active in the
,-.teal estate business i'll Pittsburgh. lie
attended the Atlantic School in Atlantis
City; the Philadelphia Evening Law
School. University OF Pittsburgh and
Carnegie institute OF Technolosy
OPPOSED TO WAR AS
20 COLLECTIVE MURDER
i, liirschbers on the stand told the
,.ourt that he was opposed TO war
: us II was collective murder. ON one
occasion, while in desertion. he wrote
4 friend that the die was cast and that
ii he was discovered III his seclus ION
he would serve twenty years When
he faced the court he pleaded guilty
OF dosertion. but denied making scdi
;ious remarks.
Hirschberg was ordered here by local
board No. II. of Pittsburgh on May
"a he deserted from the board. Through
the Department of Justice he was ar
= rested in Chicago Oh August -. The
Against him were the members OF the
local board. They were DR.. T. +. Bill
Jugs. George w. McConway and s +,
Hunt.
In the Camp Lee stockade Hirschberg
has been segregated from al! other
prisoners for several months. He oc-
rupied separate tent.
MAJoR-GENERAL BUNDY To
TAKE COMMAND WEDNESDAY
Major General Omar Bundy recently
returned from France. where he was
in command of the First Army Corps.
will report at Camp Lee Wednesday
and assume command of the canton
mcnt. General Bundy is recognized
among the best of the American Army
officers. He Is the author OF the cele-
brated note 10 the French commander
with whom his troops were associated,
IN which he apoiogiZcd for not taking
his advice, but stated that American
troops were not accustomed to retreat
ing. Hence, he inaugurated success
full counterattack and advanced his
service in the. presen, war He was
in command OF troops in the Chateau
thierrE lighting and in other prominent
Petshing's STAFF on the Mexican border.
rigadier-General Hugh S. johnson,
who has commanded the camp since
command OF his the Efficiently reg
ular army brigade, WHICH is, now sta
adicr-General Charles y. Hcdckin. who
was in command from July until last
Wednesday, is now in command OF the
replacement troops. This viii be the
first time that there has been three
general officers in camp since the
last May. General Bundy was an In
diana appoip,ee 10 West Point He
General Clarence L Edwards. who h" Ina has
assumed command Of the Northeastern
Department .At Boslo:.
EXAMINING: MEN For
DISCHARGES FROM SERVICE
Every man stationed at this camp
is nov being examined to determine
whether or not he is in condition TO
work was begun this morning ana was
scheduled TO be completed by to-mov-
row night. Orders received some time
ago directing that all men who were
not in as good physical condition as
the! were when they entered the serv-
Under the new orders. even though a
'nan is no; in tho best condition, il a
medical board determines that addi
uonal trapping viii not improve him
physically he Will be eligible TO dis
charge
Fourteen OF the camps chapla!ns
me, to-day and discussed plans FOR
maintaining the morale Of til. men
and Tor outlining an educational pro-
gram for llliteratc soldiers who ar. on
uuty here. Chaplain JcrEcn, a North
Carolina negro who has recently re-
turned from India. where IL. did mis-
sionary work. delivered u .crvid talk
in which he reCited conditions tna- no
had seen in India IL. also told al
conditions among the mountain whites
and the negroes IN his home STATE"
Chaplain Mcdowell has been relieved
from his duties with his organization
and appointed assistant morale uiiiccr
WILL CONTINUE WORK.
HALTED ny ARMISTICt
orders were received here to-day h,
Tho construction duartcrnaSter 10 con.
;inue the work which was cancelled i'm
mediately on the signing Of the arm
!st!ce, which includes tn" completion
ing school area and the new ward an,