Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-06

quotas in Class 1, the new call IS ap- portioned under the first draft system, based on population. Rhode lslands cross quota is given as 5,640, from which credits for 2,792 army enlist ments and 1,54O credits for men all ready taken in the second draft are subtracted, leaving a. net quota or Il .263. the number of men summoned in the second call. This is the largest number of young men called for at any one time. . The director of the draft in Rhode Island, Capt. George H. Webb, has commenced to make the apporuonment among selection boards. Each district will receive it's own due in credits, and it is possible that some may have to contribute but very few men in this contingent. In this call 45 colored men are included.
 - According to Captain Webb, the | state has 5,913 white men and 2lS -coiored men available for full military l service in Class 1. This does not in 1 clude the men taken in the draft re- gently or the others in Class l who l are held for limited service, but repre- l sents only the actual number of fully | qualified men The state will, there fore. have 1850 white men left for fu- ture calls, when the new increment IS sent, and will have contributed 2,S03 men in the second draft, as against G,211 sent in the first. Captain Webb states that the new state gross quota of 5,64G, which is smaller by 620 than the gross quota of the first draft, represents what is viewed as the second national army, but that it does not mean more men will not be called continuously Throughout the year until Class 1 is exhausted and possibly Class invad- ed. The recent statement that Rhode Island might not send any more men in the second draft, he says, are obvi- ousiy incorrect.
 Under a special call Rhode Island will furnish 1s9 men to various camps and forts for specific work in which they are needed. The largest unit is for 10s carpenters and helpers to be sent to Camp Sevier, Greenville, N. c. The other men or units summoned and the places where they are to be sent on May r are as follows: Two buglers to Camp McArthur, Waco, Tex; g locomotive engineers and fire men. two car repair men and one wag- on maker to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis; three bargemen and boatmen, two construction foremen and one steersman to Laurel, Md. for engineer corps; nine railroad brake men. hagmen and conductors to Fort Ayer. Va: five cooks, a gas plant worker. instrument maker telephone or telegraph linernan surveyor or transit man and three telephone operators to Washington barracks; 13 gunsfhiths, to ordnance corps, Camp Hancock, Au- gusta, Ga: II boiler makers and help CTS and three floor hands to ship re- pair shop, No. 301. Hoboken, N. J. All these must be white men, and one col ored brickisyer is to be sent to Fort Wayne, Mich.
 This IS the first specialized call which provides that Class 1 men whose questionnaires indicate that they could qualify for the particular work for which they are wanted are to be in- dueted and sent tc the places indicated. Captain Webb has instructed selec- ton boards to draw the u2en needed and that men in deferred cissses z-iu be allowed to volunteer for the Nlaces offered provided they waise their rights of further exemption.
 Captain Webb has made tce a-:2c,,. tionment of the new draft cal il: .r., state for 126S white registr;;Yt,. ana 45 colored, and each selection i,ea5rd must furnish it's allotment. the whltc men to go to Camp Upton or or about May %. The distinction Of the coll ored men has not been announced. but they are to leave witcin three weeks after the other contingent is ertrained The apportion is as follows:
 State Division No. l which includes washington county and East and Wes4 Greenwich, 64 white, 1 colored; Di- vision No. 1. 64, and 2. Division 2 n and 1: Division 4. I2o and i. Division 5. 1Ok and 4; Division 6. g ana 2: Providence 290 and %; Cranst5n. 1gS and l; Pawtucket, 3 and ?: Central Falls, 7S; Newport, 112 and {: Woo4 socket, 10S and 1. The Pawtuc;zet quota is almost eliminated 5v rhe credits. Newport has only 65 army enlistments, with but eight credited tC Cranston.
 A fire at the Henry D. Bailey mil! ;y Hope Valley, early Sundzy roorrirt: destroyed the stock house and contents Out the main building wes saved. Tft ire alarm was sounded and the vii. agers responded and seon there vTere three streams Of water on thc burrin1 building from the mill hydrant. There Is no fire department in Hone Valley but the motor chemical apparatus iron Richmond assisted in keeping the frt within the building where it originat ed The cause of the fire is not known The loss will probably reach B O0O
 Benjamin Franklin Maxson, s2 wa stricken with apopIexy Saturday af ternoon. and was taken to the home o his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Barber where he died without regaining con sciousness. He is survived by Mrs a4axson, daughter, Mrs. Barber. ant a son, John Maxson of the Post road Burial will be in Ashaway.
 By direction of Governor Beeckmar Adiutant General Abbott issued an or der establishing a tentative organiza tton for the new state guard authorize by the general assembly The com mands of independent chartered mill tary organizations are recognized a tentative units of the guard As ar also the constabulary commands 2 Westerly, South Kingston, Woonsocke and East Providence. Col Alvin Barker. Rhode Island militia. is assign ca to command the state guard. I addition to the companies of infantr, there will be machine gun detach ment. a tanitary department. head quarters and supply companies. Fc all this the state has made an apprc priation of s5o,O00.
 United States Marshal Richards
 planning for the registration of a female German alien enemies in Rhod Island. along the same line as u registration of male aliens son
 months since. The marshal estimat, the number of unnaturalized Germa
 women in the state as approximate
 500. He has prepared an unofficial ii
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