Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-03
ATRPLANES PLANNED
FOR CAMP MCCLELLAN
signal Corps officer Makes
Survey With View to Estab-
fishing New Department
MoToRTRUcK COST
Trial Trip of Supply Train Demon
,trates Usefulness and Economy
Of Army Equipment

u..douarters Blue and Gray Division,
A..n Mcclellan, Admission, Ala. April 3.
A,rplanes may soon be added to the
..u,,arv at Camp Mcclellan. Major
,..,ss r Alfonte. Of the aviation Sec
,,on o, the signal corps, was here day
A. two ago and made a complete sur
v.v NJ the entire Federal reservation for
me purpose of gathering data which will
,,rrn the subject matter of a report
s..,,rv. with the adaptability Of this
..,,,n for aviation work. Major AL
e@r,s has made similar Inspections of
.,her training camps in the South and
srent from here TO a camp in Oklahoma,
,,here he will take command.
romp,nation of the cost OF the re-
~, trip of the motor section of the
ammunition train to Atlanta, where
,hev received quartermaster stores for
,hIs division, shows that the cost OF the
.ntire trip in repairs, gasoline, oil and
erease totaled S1251.30. Altogether,
slytv-seven trucks. four other cars and
,voo motorcycles made the trip. Cost
~ repairs and other necessary costs
amounted TO S276.42; gasoline, $927.62 !;
oIl. ss6Ss; grease, $10.SS.
total of 100 tons was brought back
~ the train from Atlanta. This con-
si,aed of 100 tons Of sugar, sixteen tons
az rice and four tons of general mer-
ctandise The distance from Camp Nc
ciellan to Atlanta was 133 miles, the
trucks going from here &c Rome, a dis
taiice Of sixty-one miles, and from Rome
10 Atlanta, an additional run of seventy
two miles The roads for the most part
were good.
Company D, of the 111th Machine Gun
Battalion the New Jersey battalion,
came cut of the recent machlne-gun
inspections with the highest general
average of efficiency in the entire
schedule of work covered in the two
DAY Inspection, They had total count
of'iss points out of a possible score Of
ass. Company D. the Maryland COM
.pany Of the 10th Machine Gun Bat
talicn, was second with 1865. The stand
ing Of the other companies follows
Third. Company A, 10th. 1853; fourth,
Company c, 111th, 1856 fifth, Company
A, 112th, 151; sixth, machine gun COM
pany, 1f5th Infantry, 143; seventh. ma
chine gun company, 116th Infantry I;
eighth. Company d, 112th, 1870: ninth,
Company B, 111th, and Company A,
l11th, tied 1876; eleventh. Company c.
il2th, lS1; twelfth, Company b, 1t2th,
l22; thirteenth, machine gun company,
18th Infantry, S5; fourteenth, machine
gun company 18th Infantry, 20. Ex-
cepting where noted as infantry regi-
ments. the numerical designations refer
TO the respective machine gun battalions.
Lieutenant Colonol William A. Carl
ton. who has been serving here, as the
camp quartermaster. has been relieved
Of his duties and has been assigned To
the Fifty-fourth Infantry Regiment, at
chckamauga Park.
-Four new captains of engineers are
due here within few days They are
men who have been transferred from
the engineer reserve corps to the Ma.
tional Guard and appointed captains
In the 10th Regiment here. They are
Captains Ferey II. Rldgway, John c.
Wolf James A, Grant and William II
Baker.
Three officers have been assigned tc
new commands here. Captain James NJ
Charles. who was promoted from a first
lieutenant a few days ago, has beer
ordered to the supply train from the
10th Military Police and train head.
quarters, where he was the supply Off
Ger. Captain e. MacJohnson has alsc
gone to the supply train, and Firs,
Lieutenant r. T. Grubert to the 1IOtf
Machine Gun Battalion.