Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-14
EXPECT CHIEF TO
RETURN TO camp
IN 4 SHORT time
Major General Z. H. Plummer Will Be
Back at Camp Within Few
Days, Reported.
NO MORE NEGRO TROOPS COMING
Court Martial Proceedings Ate to Be
Brought Against Eight st. Paul
Draft Resistcrs.
Especial to The August

Camp Dodge, Iowa. Feb. 1l.-The
early return 10 Camp Dodge OF Major
General E. H. Piummer. who has been
absent on Official duties since late in
November. is expected at Camp Dodge,
and General PkImmer may again be
on duty at the cantonment within q
few days, it is understood.
His coming back probably will re-
suit in the return to his original COM
mand as head of the One Hundred
Seventy sixth brigade of Brigadier
Genera. r. n Getty, acting commander
at Camp Dodge.
General Plummer, 1t is understood,
will be here in time to supervise the
expansion of the division to care for
the 1880 additional men who are to
report late this month.
Brigadier General Barnum, who
commands the brigade made up Of the
One Hundred Sixty-sixth infantry at
Camp Dodge and the One Hundred
Sixty-fifth infantry at Camp Grant, is
paying his first visit to the local can
Torment, and will spend several days
inspecting the Negro regiment here,
which Is part of his command.
NO MOTE negro TROOPS
No more Negro troops are to be sent
to Camp Dodge for the present, it is
understood The Three Hundred Six
ty-sixth infantry is at full strength
and its training is progressing rapidly
The regiment is part OF the Ninety
second division, made up entirely of
Negro troops and under the command
of Major General c. c. Ballou, who Is
stationed at Camp Funston. Another
Negro division is being organized, in
Gliding chiefly colored soldiers from
toe eastern states.
Court martial proceedings are to be
brought at Camp Dodge at once
against eight St Paul draft resisters,
who were brought here under an arm
ed guard from Fort Smelling last week
and who have refused to obey orders.
The men--A. s. Broms, G. Johnson,
A. W. Carlson, r. Carlson, W. Trues-
dale, W. Troessler, M. Kamman and
C. W. Johnson-are all assigned to the
Three Hundred Fifty-first infantry and
are under direct command of Major
Isaac S. Martin.
They consistently refused to obey
orders following their arrival at camp
and are now confined to the guard
house.
Penitentiary Prospects.
In all probability these men will
spend the duration of the war and
several years more in confinement at
Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. They
will not be charged with draft re-
sistance. but with the more serious
offense OF disobedience of orders, and
the extreme penalty possible is death.
Otto Wangerin, st. Paul soldier, tried
on a similar charge, got Is years at
Fort Leavenworth.
Many officers at Camp Dodge are to
be given an opportunity to transfer
to the aviation service Not more
than 10 per cent of the first and second
lieutenants of the line infantry and
artillery are to be transferred, under
orders issued by the war department,
and men desiring to enter the air
branch of service will be permitted to
make application at. once to the d.
vision signal officer. Several Camp
Dodge officers have already transfer
red to the aviation service.
Following transfer all men are CIV
en- an eight weeks ground course"
and those who show aptitude are then
given another course in actual flying
The possibility of the establishing of
an aero school at Camp Dodge, or at
one OF the Iowa colleges, is indicated
by the order received yesterday.
Whitmer Promoted.
Corporal George Whitmer, former
local and Grinnell athlete and the
first soldier to be received into ser
Vice under the selective draft law at
Camp Dodge, has been made a SER
geant in the quartermaster corps.
All soldiers at Camp Dodge who are
ordered into foreign service are to be
supplied with razor, steel mirror and
shaving brush, it was announced YES
terday. Men have heretofore been
compelled to supply these articles for
themselves