Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-22
1000 CAMP DIX MEN
WILL PARADE HERE
Picked Troops Selected to
Boost Liberty Loan in
Philadelphia
HERSEY TO COMMAND
Three Privates Sentenced to Long
Terms in Prison for
Desertion
Camp Dix, wrishtstOwp, y. j.. April

Camp Dix, wrightstowB, y. j.. April
20.
Four thousand picked troops from
Camp Dix will participate in the Liberty
Loan parade at Philadelphia next Sat
urday. Brgadier General Mark L. Her
sey will be in command and It is likely
that Major General Scott and Brigadier
General ]. II. McRae, new commando
of The Seventy-eighth Division, will wit
ness the parade and demonstrations.
The troops ordered to prepare for the
parade include the 3Ooth Infantry, Colo
mel j. NJ. Morgan; 31oth Infantry, Colo
mel w. c. Babcock; 3l1th Infantry
Colonel NJ. b. Stokes; Fifty-ninth Pio-
neer Infantry formerly First Delaware
National Guard), Colonel J. NJ. Reed
As there is no negro infantry at Camp
Dix. two batteries from the 35Oth Field
Artillery. Colonel Dan T. Moore, will
Participate. Each regiment will be ac-
tonpanied by its band.
Orders have been received from the
Hdjutant general transferring to the Ma
tonal Army and assigning 1t TO the
153d Depot Brigade the old Fourth New
Jersey National Guard Band, This band
was organized at the Mexican border
chiefly among Jersey city men, by Salem
II. Davis. II accompanied its regiment
20 Camp Mcclellan. at Admission, but
recently was transferred to Camp Dis.
It's members have been doing herculCan
service during the last fortnight In play
ing for Liberty Loan demonstrations and
are serving In this capacity at Atlantic
City over the weekend.
Organization of a large corps OF IN
terpreterS to serve with the seventy
seventh Division when it goes abroad
will be commenced this week, and a call
has been issued for candidates to report
by noon Thursday. officers and enlisted
men who can speak good English and
one. or more of the languages OF Europe
are in demand. There will be little diff
Guilty in getting French interpreters, as
hundreds of the rank and file are college
men and can converse huently in that
language. while other hundreds have
been preparing through the French
classes conducted by the army y. NJ. 6.
A. in every organization. There viii
also be a demand for those who can
speak German to fill important posts in
seeking information from enemy prison.
ers and for other similar duties.
South Jersey residents will have an
opportunity to witness the efficiency now
boys when squads from the 3llth In
fantry give a demonstration at Burlng-
ton next Thursday evening. The bayo-
net team will be commanded by Lieu
tenant Eberlin, and the men, masked
and padded. will conduct miniature
bayonet fight.
Several South Jersey boys have been
attached to the military police COM
panies during the last few days and
every one of the detail is studying and
working to prove that lie is qualified for
permanent assignment to the force.
Among the fortunate ones are Privates
Leroy Green, of Winiamstown; Wade
lie Coney of Delanco; Stanislas Donizal
of Sayreville; oswald Petit. of Moores-
twn Sylvester Schools, of Camden Ed
ward Fl. Ryan, of Moorestown; Charles
Crooks, of Newtield; l.. S. llurff, OF
Sewall; William G. Lehman. of Bound
Brook Levy Gordon, Of Atlantic city
Francis T. Wall, of Bound Brook; Esper
L. Willis. of Carneys Point; Anthony j.
wunsch of Fort Lee.
Brigadier General James IT. McRae
has arrived to take command of the
Seventy eighth Division, training at
at Camp Dix for overseas service. lie
succeeds Brigadier General ]. T. Dean.
Three Camp Dix privates have learned
that the War Department is determined
10 take stringent measures to check de-
sertions from the training camps. Pri-
yate Vincenzo Celentano, who deserted
from the 303d ammunition train Febru-
ary 16 and was apprehended at Hacken-
sack twelve days later, has been sem
fenced TO twenty years Imprisonment at
Fort Jay. Private John Hirt, of Hay
wood, who deserted January - from the
depot brigade and was apprehended
March 20 in New York city, and Private
George NJ. HUFF of Williamsport. Pa,
who escaped from a camp guardhouse
December % and was arrested at Shelf
field, Pa, March ., each got ten years
Imprisonment at Fort Jay.