The Donaldsonville chief., 1918-04-20
SELEcTMEN SUMMONED.
Five Whites and Forty-One Negroes
to Entrain April 1927.

Five white and forty-one negro Sc
lectmen will be sent to Camp Pike
from Ascension parish next Friday
and Saturday, pursuant to instruc-
tions from Adjutant General C. c..
Nc Crory. The following registrants
have been designated by the local
board to constitute the white incre-
ment:
Whitney Rodrigue, Donaldsonville.
Charles Guedry, Smoke Bend.
Samuel Joseph Landry, Klotzville.
John Arthur Gauthreaux, Darrow.
Tom Oak, Forth Worth.
The party will leave for Camp Pike
on T. & P. train No. % at 500 p. m.
Friday. The forty-one colored select
men will depart Saturday afternoon
on SPECIAL train over the Texas &
Pacific Railroad due to arrive here at
|2:40 o'clock.
Instead of assembling the men at
Donaldsonville the day before they
are to entrain, as has been done here
tofore, the board has notified both
contingents to report at 9 a. m. on
the day specified for their departure,
April 26 in the case of the whites,
and April 27 as regards the negroes.
Offie Norton, formerly of st.
Amant, and who for some time past
has been located at Pineville, was
sent to Camp Pike Wednesday after
noon by the local board as substl-
tute for Felix Comeaux,N of Donald
|sonville, discharged from the service
because Of certain disqualifications:
The publication of the names OF
five negro draft registrants who fail
ed to show up here for entrainment
at the time specified, and who in con-
sequence had been classed as desert
ers, has had the effect of causing
three of the men to put in their ap-
pearance. Walter Lewis, of Prairie
vile, came forward April 2 and was
despatched to Camp Pike the follow
ing afternoon; John Rumsey, of st.
Francisville, reported to the local
board at p. m. Saturday, April 6,
and was sent to camp on T.& P. train
No. 23 arriving here an hour later,
and August Victor, Of Donaldsonville,
who of late has been working in the
vicinity of Thibodaux, materialized
last Monday morning and pulled out
for Pike on the afternoon train. All
of the men claimed they had not re-
ceived their notices and did not know
they were wanted for service until
they were told of the newspaper item
in which their names appeared. The
remaining absentees are Willie john
son, Boutte, and Willie Franklin, Nc
Elroy.
Compilation of the results of the
examination Of Class 1 men in AS
cension parish by the local board
shows the following statistics: Physi-
cally qualified for general service
Whites 1854, negroes 237. Physically
qualified for limited service-W Whites
II, negroes 48. Remediable defects,
general service Whites 5, negroes
| s. Examination temporarily de-
ferred - Whites 23, negroes 33.
Failed to aprea1-Wh 36, re-
groes 78. In the latter class are in
cluded men who failed to file ques-
ltionnaires. Nearly all Of the whites
SO itemized are accounted for, most
of them having voluntarily enlisted.
+ The classification Of registrants by
| the local board is summarized as fol-
llows: Glass 1. whites 305, negroes
1899; class 2, whites 8, negroes @;
class 8, whites 46, negroes g class 8,
Iwhites sos, negroes 1926 class 5,
whites negroes 533 totals, whites
1928, negroes g