New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-03-13
- TF7EDA BARA AS CLEOPATRA
TURNER THEATRE, MARCH Nth and 18th

lUKNEK It'll
real darktown melodies the 5000 ne
groes from Alabama take the cake, or
words to that effect. ..-...
Mennonites Ask for Information
Bishop Aaron Loucks, Scottdale, Pa,
of the Mennonite church, and S. c..
Yoder, Kalona, Ia, also member Of
the church, were in conference with
Major General E. H. Plummer at
Camp Dodge Monday, concerning the
| duties to which nearly fifty men of
this creed selected for military service
with the Eighty-eighth division have
been assigned. TIE Mennonites have
nearly all been assigned to the re-
! mount depot for work in caring for the
animals.
+ 200 Take Cooks Course
The 88th Division will not suffer
from the lack of cooks or bakers. Two
hundred men were ordered to duty
| with the cooks and bakers school.
They will be given six weeks course.
Homing Pigeons Are Here
The first installment of homing or
carrier pigeons are here. These birds
will be put into training at once. It
takes genius to do this work. A pigeon
squad as a part of the signal corps has
been organized under the command of
Pvt. John F. Hollenbeck, Company c,
313th Field Signal Battalion, who has
been appointed sergeant first class
and transferred to the Pigeon Detach-
ment, of which he will have charge.
| The men of tie detachment have been
chosen because of their familiarity
with pigeons and ability to train them
to do their work. .... ~.
Home Food For Soldiers Not Needed
The desire to furnish the men at
Camp Dodge with some home cooking
| is natural but TIE officers are doing all
they can to discourage the practice.
The quartermaster department asks
that we again give publicity to the fol-
lowing. ss'Tke Council Of National De-
tense desires to inform the people of
the country that abundant food is sup
piled to the soldiers and sailors in the
camps and environments, and that TIE
sending of food to these men by their
friends and families is not in any re-
spect necessary; that the aggregate
quantity Of food thus privately sent is
enormous, and that much Of it having
been conveyed long distances in heat
ed mail or express cars is more or less
spoiled, and consequently injurious to
the health of the men. The efore, in
the interest of the conservation of food
and also the health of the men, the
Council of National Defense requests
the public to discontinue the sending
of foodstuffs to the camps"
Another Draft April First
It is announced emi-oficially from
Washington that the next draft will
come within a few weeks, probably the
fist of next month. General Biddle,
acting chief of staff of the United
States Army, is quoted as saying that
Camp Dodge would be filled to it's
maximum capacity of $4,000 men as
soon as the second draft was author
lied, but whether it is to be enlarged
will depend upon tie rapidity of the
oop movements to France. General
Biddle said that no more troops were
to be shifted from Camp Dodge to the
south and that all troops now there will
remain until they go to France. The
troops now training at Camp Dodge
+; will be moved to France as soon as
sufficiently trained and as soon as tie
! ships can be provided. It is probable
many of the troops now there will go
ITO France this spring. To the extent
! they go to France, room will be left for
! new seiectives.
| Men Are Known By Number
Each soldier has been given a num-
I Der and on March LIST the men who
have been in training since last fall
were paid off by number rather than
/! by name. The plan is very simple.
The number of each man will be
stamped on two disks, both Of which
! are worn by the soldier. One disk is
! fastened to cord which is suspended
around the neck Of tie soldier and
worn next to the skin under the shirt.
THE other disk is suspended below the
| fist on the same cord. The purpose Of
the two disks is that one may be re-
moved and brought in from the field
to the personnel office. for the purpose
Of expediting the ideentif cation offasthe