Evening journal., 1918-04-03
CAMP DIX TROOPS
HELP QUENCH FIRE
Join Bucket Brigade When
Forest Blaze Attacks
NeighborlDg House
SOLDIER BOYS TO
HOLD CIRCUS TODAY

CAMP DIX, Wrightstown. N. D., April
3.-Vaudcyillo audiences the world over
have marvcled at his physical strength
and agility as the top-notch thriller in
the most famous troupe Of Japanese
acrobats on the modern stage. When
America entered the war and put the
draft in operation, the troupe was play
ing in New York and he registered IN
Hoboken A month ago he was called
for the training camp apd he is now
Private Daitaitch ktamura, attached
TO the 309th Infantry.
AT the preliminary examination or the
recruits, regimental surgeons marNeled
at kitamuras display OF muscle ana
pronounced him one OF the finest speci-
mems Of physical manhood examined
by their corps. 10 was Major Upton,
brigade adiutant and famous old West
Point football star, who, in looking
for material for the Camp Dix Circus,
discovered the little Japs real identity.
Tie rushed his find Go "Ringmaster'
Stanley Hawkins and "the famous kita-
mura" will do some Of his daredevil
acrobatlc stunts and iiu-litsu speciali-
IA
opens its four-day run today
A genuine circus parade, headed by
military police with a real elephant "a
mile OF "camoufaged' menagerie wag-
ons. 40 bands, hundreds Of clowns and
a calllope at The tail-end, preceded the
opening of the big show. The parade
started at noon and the FIRST show at
i3O O'Clock. James p. McGovern, gen
eral secretary Of the knights Of Co
lumbus work at the cantonment, was
grand marshal The 'main TENT was
the Y. NJ c. A. auditorium The profits
will go into the division athletic fund.
March, true TO its standards i'm civil
life proved the most unhealthy month
since The opening Of the camp, accord
ing TO the record filed by the sanitary
onlce. OF l3 deaths. A were due TO
pneumonia. one TO mental exhaustion
and a drafted man who committed sui
eide in New York is also credited To the
camp. There were 40 cases each of
pneumonia and scarlet fever. four Of
meningitis. 20 OF mumps, 81 Of tuber-
culosis. two Of diphtheria and % OF
measles.
Big gun target practice has opened
for artillerymen of Camp Dix on the
new range three miles IN the rear of
the base hospital, with Brigadier Cen
eral G.. c. Hearn firing the first how
iizer and other field officers OF the 1891
Artillery Brigade following with great
salvO of shells from field pieces that
soon win be helping the allies blast O
path 90 Berlin and world peace. The
FIRST shells were merely range finders
oh nH on nj
astride the peaked roof OF barn spot
ting the positions in which they fel
about two miles away. Some unantlci
pated excitement was stirred up wheI
the bursting shells started several smal
fires in the dry pine underbrush, whicl
/ only the quick work Of the cannOneerl
! deployed as flre-flghters prevented from
developing into a real conflagration.
The battery positions are on a shghl
elevation well back from the main
road. CannOneers have adopted the
name Of "Vimy Ridge" following the
Idea Of naming scenes Of field opera
tions about the cantonment after IA
nous baltlenelds Of the war. The field
foriincatlons TO the west of the camp
have become famous as "Marne Hilp'
and the rifle range, where dough
boys cNpend thousands OF rounds OF
ammunition daily In balering away at
imitation Huns, is called Npres, with It's
fun quota of pronunclations The i53d
Field Artillery. first 30 use the big gun
range, is made up OF the 3O7th, 3OSti
and 309th artillery regiments. The lat
ter organization has the heavy guns,
which will be motorized. Their guns
VIII seek out unseen targets every day
for the next few weeks Student bat
ieries of the division officers reserve
training school will also have a chance
% use the artillery pieces i'm technical
and practical studies The cannon Will
have a range up to three miles
Even should he lose his gun in O
/ charge, Yankee soldier will be a fero-
clous antagonist for a Hun at close
/ quarters if there is aswide adoption oil
the training plan outlined and demon.
ssr0ted by J. Leonard Mason. Of phna.
delphia, assisted 10y John Smith. at hui
No 2 last night, on Methods OF self
Defense Without Weapons" Masor
/ showed how certain boxing blows
wrestling holds and especially liu-iits,
could be OF great advantage 60 a MAJ
In a tight place in the trenches.