The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1918-08-03
DRAFT NEWS AND NOTES.
Various Items of Interest Cleaned
from Records of Local Board.

Ascension's honor roll of men with
the colors was heightened by the adj
dition of thirty names when negro
selectmen to that number departed
from Donaldsonville at 11:50 a. m.
Monday on a special train over the
T. & p, bound for Camp Beauregard.
The prospective soldiers assembled at
the courthouse Sunday afternoon and
were. formally indicted into the MIL
itary service of the nation, after
which they were addressed by Wal
ter Lemann and DR.. D. C. Brumtield,
who calculated for their benefit the
provisions of the war risk insurance
act and the sanitary regulations they
should hereafter observe. Monday
morning the men were breakfasted at
True Friends Hall by the members
of their race, and later gathered In
the court room to listen to talks by
Edmund Maurin, Caleb Weber, and
DR.. J. H. Lowery. There was the
usual parade to the depot, headed by
brass band.
Louis Benn, a Donaldsonville me-
gro scheduled to depart with this con.
tingent, was cut in braWl with an a:
other negro early Sunday morning
and could not report for induction
Another Of the men summoned TO
constitute the detachment professed
| to be white, and was given a To-Day
furlough in order to submit affidavlts
and other proof in substantlatlon OF
Ibis claim. The places of these two
Registrars were taken by alternates.
Milton Brown, negro, who was ar
rested some time ago on the Point
Houmas plantation in this parish,
charged with being delinquent on
the records of the draft board OF St
James parish, was taken to New Or
| leans last week by Chief of Police Il.
E, Dill of Donaldsonville and turned
over to the army authorities at jack
son Barracks. John Graham, alias
"Shine," classed as deserter by the
| local board, and who was nabbed on
the Leighton plantation near Ihlbo-
darx. was also escorted to New Or
leans and given into the custody OF
the Jackson Barracks officials, Officer
lLucien Acosta, JE., accompanying the
prisoner on the journey. Still an
other would-be draft evader OF the
colored race, Adam Toussaint, Jr., OF
Donaldsonville, who is wanted by the
lOption, Pa, board, was arrested here
land is in Jail pending the receipt OF
instructions as to his disposition.
In response to general call for
white limited service men, Ascension
Twill send five draftees to Syracuse, n.
tx, Monday next, the 9Th inst. The
/ following registrants have been Sc
llected to constitute the increment
Edward Guedry, Smoke Bend; Grover
IB. McCrory, Hope Villa; Tony Tridl-
leo, Donaldsonville; Honore j. Blan-
chard, Columbus, New Mexico Elijah
Elliott Rice, ST. Amant. John Samuel
Causin. Donaldsonville, and Leonard
Joseph Gaudin, Garyyille, have been
notified to report as altern9tes.
| Sidney Rodrigue, Of Brignac, who
failed to appear for entrainment with
the white quota which departed fol-
Camp Hancock on the 22nd ultimo,
s showed up last Saturday morning and
Twas sent to Camp Pike on the 3:07
| 8. m. train. Morris Huff, Of Gloster
Miss, one of the absentees from the
NEGRO detachment despatched te
q Camp Funston July 8, arrived hers
Monday and was placed aboard ths
8 afternoon train Kansas CITY bound
Isaac Nixon, of Donald sonyille
I has answered the call for IA coloret
volunteer to receive special training
4 at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn q
: land will depart Aug. Nixon !
: one Of the 1918 registrants.