The Donaldsonville chief., 1918-04-27
DRAFTED MEN DEPART.
0etachments of Whites and Negroes
Entrain for Camp Pike.

157ty-One more men to Americas
onal army, four of the number
oeing whites and the remainder ne
gcoes. The former increment de-
parted for Camp Pike on T. & P.
rain No. 23 at 3:0a o'clock Friday
te~roons and comprised the follow
g -ag strents:
Whitney Rodrigue, Donaldsonville.
Charles Guedry, Smoke Bend.
Samuel Joseph Landry, Klotzville.
John Arthur Gauthreaux, Darrow.i
Tom Oak, formerly of Donaldson
vile and now located in Fort Worth,
Texas, had been notified to report for
entrainment with this increment, but
failed to appear. Its probable that
Oak has made application for per-
mission to proceed to camp direct
from Fort Worth.
depot by the cadet military COM
panies of the st. Joseph Commercial
Institute and the Donaldsonville High
School, and the members of the ex-
emption hcard. Through the good of
fees of the Red Cross ladies, each Of
the boys was presented with a box
containing a generous assortment OF
sandwiches, fruit, bar chocolate and
other good things to eat, and sup
/ ply of cigarettes and smoking ma
terial. AS the train pulled out the
high school cadets fired two volleys
as parting salute to the gallant
young men summoned to de- their
part in the great struggle for uni
versal freedom.
This afternoon a detachment of 81
negroes left for Camp Pike. on a spe-
cial train over the Texas & Pacific
road which passed here at 2:4O
O'Clock. AS has been the case here
| tofore. with reference to the depart
ure of colored selectme from Dom
aldsonville, the men were given a
I ,ousing send-off by the members of
| Eheis, race, the ceremonies including
an elaborate luncheon at True
Friends Hall, parades from the hall
20 the courthouse and thence to the
depot, and addresses by white: and
colored speakers at the station pend
| ing the arrival of the train. Music
| was furnished for the occasion by the
Claiborne Williams brass band, and
there was the usual accompaniment
Of waving flags and cheering crowds
to inspire the departing patriots and
| make their leave-taking a happy one.
AS before, the women members of the
| colored Red Cross organization,
| CARRIED in regulation costume, took a
prominent part in the demonstration.
| Credit must be given to the colored
people of the community for the pa
| triotic spirit they have manifested in
| connection with the departure of the
| negro increments from time to time,
! and their display of sentiment and
| racial pt1de on these occasions is
worthy of the warmest ommendations
Composing the colored quota were
the following men:
Andrew Barnett.
Melikia Williams.
Mace Bedney.
William Davis.
| Octave Jacobs.
Nathan Irwin.
Parish Cain.
Eugene SWayzay.
Wm. Henry Porter.
David Leblanc.
Albert w iillians. ss.
i 3s3 AZ & oTraine Corn iish
Clarence Ieen ian.
EIvin Butler.
Caleb Edwards.
Robert Curtis.
/ Henry Potts.
Joseph Noel.
/ Lorenzo Hamilton.
James Ulmer.
Clairville Monday.
/ Randolph Irwin.
| Jonas Winzy.
+ Etienne Joseph.
Clifford Leblanc.
Washington Bell.
/ Joseph Ned Richard
Levy Martin.
/ Cleveland Marshall.
! Edward Colwart.
/ Ben King.
Oscar Wooden.
| Oscar Valentine.
John Dorsey.
Lonville Jackson.
Walter Martin.
Joe Winding.
The following men who were to
have gone forward with this cont1n-
gent failed to answer to their names
at roll-call: 4s
/ Joseph Robinson, Modesto.
Melvin johnson, Alexandria.
/ Sam. Davis, DeQuincy, La.
| Edward johnson, McElroy.
/ The next movement of selectmen
] from Ascension will take place We'd
/ nesday afternoon, May 1, when the
/ following white quota will be sent to
!. Camp Macarthur, at Waco, Texas:
Adam Theodore Elliser, Dutchtown
and McElroy.
Leonard B. gGlorioso, Donaldson
vile. q,
Alonzo Sanchez, White Castle and
Mccall.
Leonce Guedry, Cornervlew.
/ John Francis Judice, Barton.
Noise Ollie, Smoke Bend.
The eases of 118 men granted e.e-
/ ferred classification by the local board
on dependency claims, and lyhlch
we're appealed on behalf of the gov
/ ernment by C. C.. Weber, local at
torney representing the war depart
|.ment, have been passed upon by the
district appeal board, with the re-
/ suit that lis of the men have been
] placed in Glass /. Of these, "A are
men who have married since May Ii,
l1917, and Al are men who claimed
exemption because of dependent rel,
Iatives. The ruling of the local board
was sustained in the cases of one mar
/ ried man and two with dependent rel