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and will take charge at once.
E. 7. B. Schumacher, feld instruct
or Of the military entertainment SER
vice commission, has been ct Camp
Dodge for several days planning for
q series Of entertainments which will
be given every Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday Of each week, beginning
Jan. Z.
These entertainments are to be
given at the main Y. M. C. A. audi
forum, it is planned, and will include
high class vaudeville and musical
comedy.
The commission, which is one of
the Fosdick recreational commission
auxiliaries, plans to "send into camp
a bevy Of nice girls like we have at
home that will lend a touch Of home
life to the camp environment; also
well known magicians, ventriloquists
and such other comedians as we pick
up from time to time," Schumacher
announces.
Dependents to Receive First INSTALL
ment.
Hundreds of clerks have been work
ing day and night making out pay
checks for the wives and children or
other dependents of the soldiers in
the National Army. The finance de-
partment at Camp Dodge estimate
that $4,000 of these vouchers will be
required to meet the demands here.
Authority for these checks is grant,
ed in the insurance law passed by
congress just before adjournment in
October. A wife gets SIS direct
from the government and then she
gets SIS as half Of her husbands
monthly stipend if he is an ordinary
private. Then there is S. per month
for each child up to a certain number.
The government checks now being is
sued from Washington are the first
under the new law and will continue
in the future every month until after
the war.
Price of Food Comes Down.
The quartermaster's department at
Camp Dodge gets its supplies from
the government depot at Omaha. Buy
ing in large quantities makes q low
e. price possible. For instance the
ten tons of turkeys consumed for the
big spread Christmas cost the gov
eminent 26 cents a pound, whereas
the average citizen had to pay SO to
40 cents to the home dealer. The
cost of food at the camp indicates
a lowering of price.
The cutting Of the daily allowance
per man from 40.7 cents to 1887 in
dicates there has been a drop in
-four and meat quotations to the gov
eminent, though potatoes have been
boosted. The fluctuations Of the
government rations average is looked
on as a barometer by food merchants
in the country.
Court Martial Board Busy.
The court martial officers have been
busy cleaning up the work assigned
to it before turning the business ov-
er to a new board that assumes duty
the first of the year.
Private John Schaffer, member Of
the headquarters battery of the 338th
filled artillery regiment has been SEN
fenced to six months in the guard
house as the result of a trial by gen.
eral court martial in which he was
charged with violating five articles of
war.
He was found guilty of being alb
sent without leave, escaping from the
regimental guard house where he had
been placed, and destroying a small
amount of government property. He
was found not guilty on charges of
larceny and desertion.
The Judge advocate general has re-
versed a verdict Of guilty in the case
of T. P. Brady, alleged I. W. w. agi-
tator of Minneapolis, and ~annulled
sentence of fifteen years in the fed
eral prison, returned by a general
court martial at Camp Dodge on q
charge of desertion.
Private Victor Anderson of Mime
apolis, Battery A.. 337th field artil-
lery, was restored to duty with his
organization, after having been
charged with desertion.
Anderson is said to have reported