Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-06
FORMER CONGRESSMAN
Gets HIS Commission
k"yai r.. johnson, OF South Dakota
Enlisted in January as
Private.
IS NOW STATIONED AT CAMP LEE
soldier From Baltimore browns
"hae Bathing in Appomattox.
Camp Lee Now Has Largest Popu-
lation in Its History.

MI
AMI LEE. VA. June 5.-Congress-
man Royal z. johnson, of South Da-
hota' VINO represents one of the dis
nic's or that State in the House of
representatives was to-day commits
S'ohcd second lieutenant in the National
Army OF the United States The first OF
inc year Congressman johnson left
ashinGton, and on January he en-
listed rs private In the regular army
AS private he attended tho third line
oincers' training school al Camp Meade
Mo- and successfully completed the
course on April! 10. which qualified him
Tor 4 second lioutcnancy Since that
,iinc he has been classed az sergeant
ne reported to-day for assignment at
the replacement camp and without
UNDUE forinality was commissioned SOC
ond lieutenant as have been more than
300 graduates OF the third school dur
ing tbs past five days
Lieutenant johnson Is one Of IN.
-FOUR men who left their seats in Con
srcss 10 enter the service One. Major
Augustus y. Gardner. of Massachusetts
Mhs since dicd. Others ere Captain
flore!ia La Gnardia. of New York. and
second Lieutenant Victor Ifents. of
ONO Lieutenant johnson was the
only man TO enter the service Other
IMAM IS a commissioned officer He Is
thirty-two years old Had he failed to
nave successfully CO npleted his course
in the training school he would neces-
sar!ly hav continued in the service as
an enlisted man. He Is at present as
signed TO duty at the replacement
camp.
CoLOHEI. HARRIS A. EATON
COMMANDS LINE school,
Colonel II. 4. Eaton has been an
pointed commandant of the line officers
training school, which is soon TO start
AT this camp. He is now in Washing
ION on details connected with the open-
Ing OF the school. Colonel Eaton has
just been advanced to his present rank
from observation-disclosures.
Captain Muir has been appointed
senior ins ructor. II Is understood that
captain Muir. as we'll as number Of
other Captains at the camp will soon
be advanced 70 tho rank Of major
Camp Lee school will be one of the
three infantry officers schools to be
conducted in the United States. The
others VIII be al Camp Gordon. Atlanta.
Ga. and Camp Pike. Little Rock. Ark.
The one a this camp will have from
1000 10 $500 students and from the
time il is started will be practically IN
continuous operation until the conclu-
sion Of the war. The various schools
now being conducted at numerous
camps In this country will be discon-
tnued III favor Of the three larger
schools The schools for artillery of
fcers Will De conducted at the two
artillery replacement camps.
TYPICAL CoWBoYs SEEN
AT NETERINAnIANS' SCHOOL
A visit to the veterinarian training
school would lead one 10 believe that
he hal been transferred TO typical
Western surroundings. Cowboys as
typical as ever pictured by any writer
arc now stationed at the school AS
yet they have not been uniformed and
move around in their characteristic
rcgalia. Somhreros arc seen more
worn In this section. The men come
principally off OF ranches In the far
away West Fifty arrived this morning
from Montana. Their first and only
complain was of the heat. When we
left home" they said. 1T was showing"
Others are from Wyoming, Dakotas,
Idaho. Oklahoma. Texas and other
Eleven hundred of the specially
selected drafted men, who will attend
the school have alreaty arrived. and
500 additional students are expected
within the next two days. The men
will receive an eight weeks course,
calculated 20 fit them for service in
veterinary base hospitals in France.
All are men OF utusu7t cNPSt 40
the care and handling OF horses.
Camp Lee now contains more SOL
diers than have ever been quartercd
in the cantonment at one time. All
together there are now $4,000 men in
the reservation, which is expected TO
be slightly increased in the immediate
future. The equipment is built to &C
comnodate $4,000 men.
Occupat alton OF a sector OF the divis-
!onal trenches by the Second Battalion
Of the l45th Infantry began to-day
and is part of a problem of mimic
warfare that is being solved. The
which is composed princi-
pally OF members of the Ohio National
Guard from the city OF Cleveland and
Army men from the city O.:
Ph !lade!phia. occupied the trenches at