Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-26
SANDSTONE DIVISION TO BE RE
TURNED TO IOWA FOR OF.
MOBILIZATION.
MAY EAT CHRISTMAS
DINNERS At THEIR HOMES
Members Of Division From Adjacent
States Also to 30 Returned hsre-
Saw No Actual Fighting But We're
Highly Trained and Ready for Battle
When Armistioe Was Signed.
by f. G.. Dougherty.1

Washington, Nov. 20. - Christmas
dinner at their homes in Iowa is likely
to be enjoyed by the Hawkeye troops
composing the Thirty-fourth or Sand
storm division, according to the an
nouncement BY Chief Of STAFF March
that General Pershing has selected the
division trained at Camp Cody, N. NJ,
as one of the divisions to be first re-
turned from France.
While the Sandstone boys have not
seen actual fighting, they have never
theless won the distinction Of being
veterans in the service" by reason Of
their long period of training in the
New Mexico camp, and the war de-
partment bespeaks for them upon their
return home as enthusiastic a recep-
ton as expected for the thousands OF
victory fighters who actually have
tested their steel against the hated
Hun.
The Thirty-fourth division will be
demobilized at Camp Dodge, high
official of the operations section Of the
general staff informed your CORES
pondent today. "The department, y
he said, "has adopted policy Of re-
turning men to the camp nearest their
home and there go thru the machinery
of mastering them out. This would
take the Iowa boys, at least, to Camp
Dodge, and because there is no other
large camp capable Of accommodating
a complete division in that section, 1t
is reasonable to believe that the en-
tire division, all troops of Iowa, Ne
braska, Minnesota and the Dakotas,
will be returned to private life at the
huge army post at Des MONIES"
The same official gave me assurance
that Camp Dodge would be one OF the
permanent camps of the army. he
pointed out that the policy of the de-
partment provided that the centrally
located camps would be retained in or
der to utilize them when the forces
who are compelled to remain IN Eu-
rope are finally returned to this coun-
try and demobilized. All construction
or expansion of Camp Dodge, how
ever. has been cancelled and no fu-
ture authority will be granted for
spending additional money increasing
the facilities of the Des MONIES army
post.
Iowa Units in Division.
All the Iowa national guardsmen
who were trained at Camp Cody, how
ever, will not return TO this country
with the Thirty-fourth division and
enjoy an early return TO civil life
Upwards of 5000 infantrymen from
the Hawkeye state and Nebraska were
pIucked from the Sandstone and sent
overseas in advance of the Thirty
fourth to fill UP other divisions. These
men, of course, will return to America
and be demobilized with the divisions
TO which they have been assigned.
The Iowa national guard members
originally assigned to the Thirty
fourth division, according to war de-
partment records, follow, the first be-
ing the former state units, and the Sec
ond the new designation:
HEADQUARTERS, first brigade-Head-
quarters, Sixty-seventh infantry brl-
gade.
First infantry-One hundred thirty
third infantry.
Second infantry, first battalion
One hundred twenty-ffth machine gur
battalion.
/ Second infantry, second battalion
One hundred twenty-sixth machine
gun battalion.
Second infantry, third battalion
One hundred thirty-third infantry.
Headquarters company, machine gun
company and supply company--One
hundred ninth trench mortar battery
Separate company, infantry-Ont
hundred thirty-third infantry.
First squadron, cavalry, troop A
Division headquarters company.
First squadron, troop Bone hun
dred twenty-ffth machine gun bat
talon.
First squadron, troop Cone hun
dred thirty-third infantry. :.
First squadron, troop Done hun
bred ninth ammunition train.
First regiment, field artillery-Ont
| hundred twenty-sixth field artillery.
First separate battalion, engineers