The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-07-03

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enemy armies.
| New Camp Rest Rooms.
| To assist the other hospitality CEN
ters of the cantonment in serving
visitors on big days. the Army Y. M.
|C. A. Auditorium at Camp Dodge Is to
be thrown open to the public on Sun
days and holidays, beginning July L,
Fred M. Hansen. camp secretary,
states.
| Rest rooms are to be maintained
in the interior Of the building. &C.
cording to Mr.. Hansen. Picnic par
ties may eat their lunches there.
Drinking water will be provided. and
an information bureau will be con-
Quoted by one of the Red Triangle
workers. To increase the facilities of
the auditorium for carrying out this
plan, large porch is being added to
the building.
Do Not Follow Your Soldier to Des
| Moines.
| Do not follow your soldier to Des
Moines. Red Cross authorities ask
that families of men stationed at Camp
Dodge do not attempt to come to the
city to get work. Practically all the
available positions for women are al
ready filled. 1t is also problem to
find homes for them during their stay
here.
Warn Soldiers of Insurance Fraud.
That persons posing as government
agents have been perpetrating frauds
connected with war risk insurance on
selected men before they arrive at the
cantonment has come to the notice OF
military authorities at Camp Dodge.
All men selected for military service
are warned that they should not at
tempt to take out war risk insurance
policies before they arrive at the can
tonments to which thew are assigned.
The applications cannot be legally
taken except by an officer in the SER
vice authorized to handle this work. IN
at least one instance a soldier filled
out an application for what he thought
was war insurance. Thus far ottlclals
are undecided whether the work Is
that of unscrupulous persons posing as
agents or of others who consider them
selves empowered to solicit this insur-
| ance.
Camp Dodge Promotions.
| Twelve promotions for officers at
Camp Dodge were announced at dl'
vision Headquarters:
| Mai. Joseph H. Barnard has been
made a lieutenant colonel in the ma
tional army and assigned to the Three
Hundred fifty-second infantry.
First Lietenant Edwin N. Sincere
and Benjamin H. Devoe have been
made captains in the engineer corps.
| Second Lieutenants Claude A.
Kneutfer, George w. Barney and Will
tliam Bleimeister. also OF the engineer
corps, have been made first lieuten-
i ants. p5fr So ss-s 'tag.. Z Il y -}ls(
The engineer officers are on duty
with the engineer service battalion.
| Second Lieutenant F. r. Wilkerson
of the ~quartermasters corps. on duty
at the remount station has been made
first lieutenant.
| Second Lieutenants Louis J. Brooks,
Jr., Irwin Hitzman. Clarence A.
Loescher, Robert L. Lyon and Spiller
Hicks, all of the depot brigade. have
been made first lieutenants.
Manufacturing Potash.
The biggest potash factory in the
country is located in the outskirts Of
the military tract at Camp Dodge.
Potash is made by burning the vast
quantities of manure hauled out from
the remount. On a single day l,lOO
loads were dumped upon the botto"
lands across the Beaver. This sub
stance is dumped load in each heap
and dry straw is provided so that 1g-
milton may be made. Acres and acres
are burning all the time and the ash
es thus procured are carefully placed
in sacks and are shipped to what Is
known as a refinery where the real
commercial potash is extracted. Pot
ash is very valuable these times and
prices are high. This makes the con-
version of the refuse from the remount
into ashes a profitable method Of get
ting rid of it. When the camp was
first established the manure was
shipped to farmers within radius of
so miles who desired it for fertiliZing
purposes, the only expense connected
Herewith being freight charges.
Growing crops upon the land and a
scarcity of cars made this imprac-
ticable as the season advanced so the
conversion into potash was developed
Quiet by.Paths Barred to Dodge Men
| in Evenings.
| Late evening picnic parties and
strolls at Camp Dodge will be barred
by an order to be issued requiring
women who visit the cantOnment to
confine themselves. to the main roads
and streets after 9:15 D. m.
| Enlisted men in company with
women outside of the camp site and
within the three-mile zone must also
confine themselves to main roads and
highways after the specified hour.
Four deputy sheriffs and two federal
marshals will enforce the order in the
three-mile zone, while military police
and post guards will see that 1t is OBJ
served in the cantonment proper.
New Registrants will Help Fill Up
| Class 1.
Ninety-five percent OF the new reg
istrants who became Of age since
June 5, 1917, will probably be placed
in class 1, in the opinion Of Adj. Gen.
Guy e. Logan. Comparatively few
men of that age are married. and
many have stated that they will waive
all claims for deferred classification.
For these two reasons the classifying
of the new registrants will be easy
and the big majority will be classified
| OF