Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
HALF MILLION.
MUSTERED OUT
March Announces Million
More Booked for Dis
charge Here and Abroad
NEAR 100000 HOME SOON
Distinguished Service Medals
Awarded to Several Gen.
eral Officers
NEAR 100000 HOME SOON

Washington. Dec. 2s-More than a
half million men have been dismissed
from army camps to date and more than
1000, 900 are booked for early discharge
here and abroad, chief pf Staff March
announced.
General Pershing has assigned for
early convoy total Of 6S21 officers and
16s.23s men.
In this country s37 900 men are booked
for discharge-37OOO more than last
weeks total.
To date the actual discharges from
American army camps number 5SS,334
men and $500 officers.
Honors TO Generals
General March announced also that
the distinguished service medal will be
awarded to the following prominent gen.
erals whose work at home has been Of
very vital Importance to the prosecution
of the war.
Major General william NJ Black
chief of engineers Major General Enoch
II. Crowder provost marshal general :;
Major General George W. Goethals.
formerly quartermaster general, and
later director of purchase storage and
trafiic; Major General William c. Cor
gas, formerly surgeon general: Brigadler
General Frank, r. Hines, chief OF en-
'barkation, and Brisadier General Henry
Jarvey, director Of operations.
In a special ceremony Secretary Of
War Baker and the chief OF stan will
make the awards. With each medal will
go a statement showing that the serv-
ices these men performed were fully
comparable to those OF officers in the
field In France.
Asked as to casualties Of the Thirty
fifth and EiBhty-ninth Divisions, Gem
ersl March pointed out that the total
replacements asked for the former num-
Der, III officers and 40s6 men, while for
the latter the total was 1876 officers and
5727 men. requirements give a gem
eral indication, though not entirely &C
curate, as to the casualties suffered.
Urges yalidation OF Contracts
Immediate legislation validating War
Department contracts not legally signed
and verbal war supply orders was urged
today by Secretary Baker and Assist
ant Secretaries Stettinlus and. Crowell
before the House Rules Committee. More
than $500 contracts. aggregating Sl,675,-
100000, are held by manufaCturerY in
the United States. and thousands of
others involving millions of dollars are
held by manufacturers in England,
France and other countries.
Secretary Baker, in urging the COM
mittee to give the legislation privileged
status for consideration In the House,
said that the law would not only per-
NIT the Government 70 perform its just
nhlip fipnG httt a1an tvntIII ha
cal for the Government.
Speedy settlement is of Importance"
he said, so that the manufacturers may
embark on peace-time industry" ., o..
lie added that amazingly little diff
fculty" would be had In adjusting the
contracts with the manufa cturers and
said that the department had complete
memorandum. on which the Government
could be protected against unjust claims.
Assignment to early convoy of ad-
ditional army units comprising in all
about eighty officers and 900 men was
announced today by the War Depart
ment, The units include the Twenty
seventh, Forty-ninth, Thirteenth, Ninety
fifth, 18Th, 147th, 155th. 400th and
492d aero squadron; the 105th, 302d,
305th and 307th trench mortar batteries
and the 413th telegraph battalion.
Serving on German Frontier
Following is the complete list OF units
outside of divisions serving with the
Third American Army along the, Ger
man frontier:
Army Troops Headquarters Troops
Field Artillery Brigade, 322d
Field Battalion, Signal Corps, Fifty-first
Telegraph Battalion, Twenty-sixth Tele-
graph Battalion, Second Cavalry Head
quarters, First Squadron, Second Cav
airy, Forty-slxth Engineers Fitty-slxth
Pioneer Infantry, Third Army Military
Police Battalion. Evacuation Hospitals
8 and IL, 314th Remount Squadron, 303d
Remount Squadron, Army Postofflce
927. Sanitary Train Third Army, 1920
590th, 601st and 60Sd Ambulance Ser
vice Sections, Third Army Provisional
Supply Train, Truck Companies Al,
463. 466, 467 and 469, Third Army Air
Service Headquarters, First Pursuit
Group, Pursuit Group. Pursuit Squadron
No. 4, Fourth Air Park, Headquarters
Bombardment Group, Day Bombing
Squadron l66, Headquarters Army OBJ
servation Groups, Aero Squadrons 8
and 81, Photo Sections 2 and 10, Branch
Intelligence Office 462 d and 463 ID Con-
Suuadrons, Third Army Re
gional Replacement Depot, Ordnance
Depot No. 3o3.
Third Army Corps Corps Troops
troops, S0sth Engineers
and train. Ffty-second Telegraph Bat
talon, 30sth Field Battalion Signal
Corps, Third Corps Military Police COM
pany, First Pioneer Infantry, Troop X,
Third Cavalry, Motor Supply Train AIS,
Field Remount Squadron 302, Mobile
Veterinary Hospital No. /. Machine Shop
Truck Unit 405. First Corps Artillery
Park. 501st Mobile Ordnance shop. Head
quarters Third Army Corps Service,
First Aero Squadron, Sixth 30 Sec
ton, Third Corps Balloon Groups Recon-
naissance, First Balloon Company
branch intelligence office, Third Corps
Sanitary Train, Field Hospitals l62, l63
and 332, Ambulance Companies 1852, 163
and 332. Sales Commssary Unit No. 3s.
Fourth Army Corps, Corps Troops;
Headquarters Troops, Headquarters De-
tachments, Fifty-first Pioneer Infantry,
30ist Engineers and Train, Sl0th Field
Battalion Signal Corps, 40bth Telegraph
Fourth Corps Air Service Head
quarters, Twelfth Aero Squadron. Photo
Section No! 4, branch intelligence office.
Balloon Group Headquarters, Fourth
Corps Second Balloon Company, 413th
Motor Supply Train, Mobile Ordnance
Repair Shop, Machine Shop Truck Unit
$50, Fourth Corps Sanitary Train, Am
bulance Companies 30l, S02, 800; Field
Hospitals So4,. s02. sO3 Troops NJ, 30eth
Field Remount Squadron, Detachments
Fifth Mobile Veterinary Hospital. Fourth
Corps Military Police Sales Comnhissary
Unit No, 81, Fourth Corps Artillery
Park.
Army Corps, Corps Troops: Headquar-
ters' Troops military Police. 326th Field
Rnlinllnn SlRnal Corps. ProNihlon Motor