Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-21
JOHN n. ROBINSON
NOW A LIEUTENANT
Other Delawareans Made Non
Commissioned Officers
at Camp Dix.

Camp Dix, Wrghtstown, \. J., June
et.-Under the new plan To commission
military band leaders. John y. Robinson.
director of the 59th Pioneer Band, has
been made hst lieutenant. Several
additional promotions of non-commis-
stoned officers TO commissioned officers
are announced today among the Delaware
men. These include Sergeants Herman
t. Belts and \. 4. Wick To DC first lieu
tenants, Sergeants William Cell, Charles
Gerard, Ronald Diefenderfer, Joshua
Davis, Hugh McC aughan. James Powell,
benjamin Miller, George Schultz, Delhert
Spicer, Herbert Hartman, Herbert w.
Weir. John j. Lafferty, Stephen Curtis,
William A. Russell and Wagner Herbert
Hartman. second lieutcnantS
Captain E,llery \. Peck, who has been
attached to the base hospital here, has
been relieved from duty at this camp and
will report with the Army General
Hospital, No. IL, at Cape May.
The first of 500 negroes drafted from
New Jersey reached camp yesterday
and will be attached to the 18th Battalion
of the 153d Depot Brigade for training
A detail of $50 negro soldiers, who have
been taking q course In special training
at the Tuskegee Institute, reached camp
Yesterday and go to the same battalion.
The vanguard of the first Southern negroes
brought to Northern camps for training
Will reach here tomorrow as part of the
$500 quota from Florida While previous
colored quotas assigned to Camp Dix
have been trained as artillerymen, the
new arrivals will be formed into an
infantry regiment.
Many South Jersey boys of the most
recent draft are included In transfer
of 9S selected men from the Depot
Brigade yesterday to the 3l2th Field
Signal Battalion of the S7th Division
The majority OF these men are electri-
Clans telegraphers or mechanics, whose
technical knowledge will be of value in
the work of the Signal Corps
Naturalization of the weekly class OF
alien soldiers will be one of the interesting
features of camp life witnessed by $50
magazine and newspaper publishers and
writer's, who will visit Camp Dix today
as guests of the Army y. NJ. c. \. Al
though 1000 already have been granted
citizenship. more than 500 foreign-born
soldiers will present themselves At the
Liberty Theatre today and the prospect
Of other large classes selected from the |
new draft have resulted in the NaturaliZa- |
ton Bureau opening permanent offices
here
and the redistribution Of training bat |
taions throughout the cantonmcnt, Lieu |
tenant Sweeney, chief Of the Camp DIX |
Fire Department. has completed the |
organization of II new FIRE zones and |
soldiers viii be drilled frequently in
tre-hghting Much emphasis is being |,
placed on fire prevention, which has given /
the camp record OF only one destructive !
blaze since it was opened
\ great human Liberty Bell, formed by |
p, 900 Camp Dix men, was photographed |
on the parade ground Yesterday afternoon. |
under government auspices and In the |
Fourth Loan drive, the unique picture
will be one Of the most stirring appeals |
for subscriptions The soldiers were
grouped 10 resemble the bell. suspended
from the beam and with the historic
crack showing across its face. The
ground plan OF the formation. however
bore little resemblance TO the photo
graphed design which IS study IN per
spectiveS
The bell will be 4 companion picture
for the famous living American flag
formed by 10000 BlueJacketS at the Great
Lakes Naval Training School, and now |
familiar TO the entire nation. 1t IS the |
largest group ever photographed and |
for several days, Arthur : Mole and |
John d. Thomas. Of Chicago who also /
made the living flag picture have been |
working out their diagrams on the parade |
ground from surveys on a 75-foot observa- |
ton tower erected especially for the pur- |
pose and from which the remarkable i
photograph was made