The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-02-22
DIR. SCHUCHERT IS
COMING BACK, AS
BAND DISSOLVES
Nineteen Members OF Mo.
Sixth Band Sent To An
other Band.
OTHERS ARE WITHOUT
ASSIGNMENT AT CAMP
Tribune Predicted Two Months
Ago, That Schuchert's Band
Was To Be Disbanded.

t The Old Sixth Missouri bandswhicI
left the Cape last August with Com,
: pany l. of the same regiment unde,
the direction of Bandmaster Dr. c. r.
Schuchert,, has been disbandcd and
part of the members assigned to the
12Sth L. S. Field ARTILLERY at Fort
! Sill, Okla. DIR. Schuchert, who organ
lied the band partly from members of
his own musicians, will soon return
! home, "a scoh as he is granted his re
lease from the army.
This information has been received
| by the relatives of several young men.
/ who left with the band last August
The change vas made about 10 days
ago, whereby II men of the band OF
the Old Sixth Missouri were assigned
to the 128th Field Artillery, and seven
to three otchr regiments. while the
| remainder are held in reserve to be
detailed 20 other regiments. IL is be
licycd that some viii be transferred
from Fort Sill to other training
camps.
Chester and ElmoTc Kasscl, William
and Thomas banks, Ernest and lobe
Foster and Oscar Kaiser are the local
boys Who were sent to the Field Artil-
Iery Regiment after the Missouri 9th
band had been dissolved.
Scrgt. Arthur Harrison, who left
the Cape as d member of the band,
but who has been detached from the
musicians for some time. informed
his brother Charles l.. Harrison that
Dr. Schuchert had asked for his re-
Tease since he had lost his mon with
whom he went TO the training camp.
Scrgt. Harrison says only seven
men Of the old band are yet to Be
assigned Twelve had been detailed
10 the I2Sth Field Artillery, three to
the band of the l40th Infantry, which
is composed of the Old Sixth Missouri
and Third, and two had been assigned
to the f3Oth Field Artillery and two to
other bands. He said he believed Dr.. /
Schuchcrt Would soon be granted his
discharge and would be back in the
Cape in a short time.
Mrs. SchucIcrt said Saturday she
did not know whether her husband
would return home. She said she had /
not heard directly from him whether
he would ask for his release from the |
army, but had understood so from
the relatives of some of the members !,
OF the band
| twas rumored several months ago
that the band was facing dissolution, !
and the rumOr was printed in The |
Tribune. An effort to Offset the YER
acity of this statement printed in The
Tribune at that time, only strength |
ened the presumption that the Old
Missouri Sixth band would soon goi
out Of existence. 1t was contended by
certain clements il the city that the |
rumor was absolutely false and wa>
laid to the liquor men in the city.
Friends of DIR. Schuchert say he has
nasScd the age limit and that he is ply !
sically unfit for military service. and
for that reason would ask for his re-
lease from the army. The fact that
he declined to resign his seat in the
city council was due to the uncertain
ty of his stay in the army.
The disbanding of the Missouri
Sixth band dissolved the last military
organization that left the Cape last
August The regiment itself, CT which
Cape Girardeau and vicinity furnish
ed one company has been combined
with the Third Missouri National
Guard Regiment, and the two now!
form the 10th United States infan-
try.
Other changes were also made inI
I the ranks of the officers Of the regi-
ment- Capt. Wilson c. Balm who was
in charge of the local company when
it left for the training camp Of the
Missouri National Guard at Nevada,
has since lost his charge and has been
transferred twice. He is now in the
aviation corps at Waco, Tex.
! CHAMBERLAIN is OPERATED
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