Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-06
CAPT. VIM. BERL, JR.,
IS EXONERATED
Wilmington Man at Camp Dix
Cleared of Charges of Care
lessncss Prefsrred by
Supcriors.

Camp Dix, Wrightstown, n. j., Aug.
Captain William Bell, Jr., Of VIII
mington, commander of company In
the 59th Pioneers. was exoneratcd by
the court-martial of charges preferred by
his superior officer TO the effect that he
had not properly investigated and re-
ported on charges of misconduct OF certain
members of his company who clashed with
n detail of military police. The evidence
showed that the captain had based his
report on an investigation properly con-
Quoted
For efforts to cvade military d1ty by
shamming insanity, Private AbIam
Fisher, No. 25 Margin street, New York
city, and q member of Company ~,
153d Depot Brigade. was sentenced by
the camp court-martial to 20 years
Imprisonment Because of the short
time he had been in the service, Major
General Scott, while approving the sen-
tence reduced the term to 10 years.
The General alsc reduced to two years
the 1O-year sentence of Private Nathan
SAINT, of Brooklyn, who refused to do
kitchen police" duty. On charges OF
breaking quarantine, abscntlng hTseif
from camp without leave and later brcas-
ing arrest, Private Louis +. BaIov, OF tho
59th Pioneers, o resident OF Camden,
was sentenced to two years. All three
prisoners will serve their terms at Fort
Jay, and at the end of the terms Will be
dishonorably discharged.
A million dollars a month viii be saved
on the coal bill Of training camps In the
United States under q fuel economy
system which Captain G. J. kalberer,
commandant of the bakers and cooks
school here, is introducing this week In
the instruction course. That education
in the proper firing of mess-kitchen ranges
will save an average Of so pounds Of coal
per range day rs the prediction OF the
captain A similar course may be adopted
by the National Fuel Administration for
use in a popular educational campaign
for housewives throughout the country.
That soldiers here are getting the best
wheat substitutes bread served In any
army camp he has visited WAS the an
nouncenent today of DR.. Jacobs, head Of
the Federal Food Administration Board.
Fortv-one minutes after Engineers OF
the S7th Division received the order
yesterday they had completed a pontoon
bridge 225 feet in length across Cookstown
Lake and an army wagon train had
passed safely across the span. The
demonstration, practically every detail
of which was carried out at double-Quick
time. was one of the most spectacular
training stunts visitors to the camp ever
have witnessed
The Engineer train with wagons loaded
| with bridge timbers and decks was mov-
ing along the road between Wrightstown
and Cookstown when the order came
through indicating the point at which the
bridge was to be swung across the lake,
Within so seconds, chips were flying
from ak blades as the advance party
began TO hew way through strip of
! woods to the lake shore. Another party,
crossing the lake in boat, began similar
operations in constructing an approach
on the opposite shore. Squads of rowers
manned the barges. pulled them into
position and other details, as quickly tied
them in and laid the heavy decking,
the whole operation working like we'll
oiled machinery The bridge was actually
completed rs minutes after the order was
given, and three minutes later the heavy
wagon trains were laundering across
Rapid as this time seems, engineer
officers declared practice would cut the
time down 10 not more than 20 minutes
1t required only Is minutes to tear the
bridge apart and reload the timbers for
moving back to camp.