Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-24
NEED PR|VATES IN
TRAINING SCHOOL
Camp Dix Commander Points to
the Opportunities for
Commissions.

Camp Dix, Wrightstown, \ j., Aug.
"A Great opportunities are beng Offered
men in the Dix Depot Brigade for adj
vanccment. and nothing is left undone
that qualified men may enter the central
training schools now turning out officers
Najor-t General Hugh l.. Scott camp.
commander, declares there is urgent need
that more men he recommended for the
artillery and machine gun schools
Washing Of clothes, which was for
hidden for n few DAYS. on account OF
the scarcity Of water, may now he re-
sumed Owing 10 the gnat number OF
men in camp n large quantity OF water
IS now being used each day and only
the most rigid conservation viii enable
the camp 10 keep sufficient supply.
The first announcement Of the use
10 I've made Of the l27 non on-commlssioned
officers. who arrived al Dix some weeks
ago after service on the other side IS
contained in the announcement dctall-
ing number Of them TO Camp Funs-
ton for duty in connection with training
tho division now stationed there. The
detachment consists of Sergeant Major
II X Mckinney. Sergeant Samuel Pat-
terson. Sergeant William King and Scr
gcaut Moses Wright, Of the l25th In
fantrv. Sergeant Frank Merritt, Ser
gcant Herbert Page and Sergeant Rob
crt l.. Johns, of the 18th Infantry; Ser
gcant Howard G, Whiteherse. Sergeant
Earl Haine, Sergeant John 7. Nose, Scr
gcant Alfred H. c. Bradow, Sergeant
Arthur Shetncy, Sergeant William
Rlackmcr, Sergeant Christopher Bolgcr.
l25th Infantry; Sergeant Frank l..
Bowan, Sergeant Christopher Anderson,
Sergeant ID " Adler, Sergeant James
Foote. Sergeant Nj l.. OvcrInan and Ser
gcant Alfred G. Burhart, all of the l47th
Field ARTILLERY
Sergeant Van Pcenc, a member of the
French Mission here. has been detailed
10 Anniston 20 assist in training troops.
Forty boxes of athletic equipment
have arrived at Dix TO be distributed
by Byron ), Walton, Of Philadelphia,
camp athletic director. 4 recent order
of the War Department contains the in
formation that hereafter no unit Is 10
carry athletic equipment overseas, The
War Department Commission on Tram
ing Camp Activities Is row sending all
athletic equipment abroad and this Is
distributed to the rest hillets and hos
pitalS The equipment Is left there SO
that every arriving unit gets the ad-
vantage of its use. The same procedure
is now being followed IN this country.
In order that the work Of properly
classifying newly drafted men so that
they may be assigned 10 the work for
which they arc best fitted, may be facilI-
tsted. new board of officers, known as
the Non-Physical Classification Board,
has been formed AT Dix with Colonel
II. c. Davids, the new commander OF the
S11th Pioneer Infantry, at its head
Classification Of men has become an I'M
portant feature of army work and Its
advantages are manifold.
The following officers of the S7th
Division have been transferred 10 the
I53d Depot Brigade: Lieutenant ). NJ
Anderson, Lieutenant X. {. Caughman
and Lieutenant Charles c. Dix.
Through the efforts Of the Chaplains
Aid Society, of Trenton, \. j., an altar
has been sent down here and placed in
the new Knights of Columbus Building
No 4, where mass Is celebrated every
Sunday morning.
Lieutenant Joseph NJ Kelly, Catho-
lie chaplain. who arrived at Dix several
weeks ago and was attached to the Sth
Battalion, has been assigned 10 the 59th
Pioneers, a Delaware unit.