The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-04-04
CAMP DODGE NEWS NOTES
Continued from page ~
Complaint in Receiving Family
AllOtments.

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Improper addresses given the war
risk insurance bureau are blamed for
the failure Of many families to receive
their allotments. Approximately 49,
900 checks have been returned to the
bureau in Washington because of in
correct addresses. The bureau claims
that payment has been made in all but
approximately 5000 cases in which
claims for exemption have been made.
Enlisted men having knowledge since
the first of the month that dependents
at home have not received a check are
urged to execute a Supplemental"
blank at once and forward it to the
bureau. Separation from his wife
does not permit a soldier to refuse to
make an allotment from his pay to her
is the decision received at Camp
Dodge Saturday from the Judge advo-
cate generals office in Washington.
The only manner in which an enlisted
man can make his allotment to some
other relative, if separated from his
wife, is by pe%titioning the director of
the bureau of war risk insurance and
producing eorroboFative evidence that
will show definitely that the allotment
should not be made.
Taking Out Life Insurance.
The wal department is insistent
that all soldiers take out life insurance
and men who do not take out war
risk policies will be compelled to ex-
plain in writing why they do not do
so. All of the men who thus far lost
their lives in France carried $4,000
insurance which means that the party
named in the policy as the beneficiary
| will draw from the government $52
per month for 20 years. Insurance
takes the place Of pensions. Officers
are making a man to man canvas of
| the new recruits and are writing on
an average of five million dollars a
| day insurance. Up to the close of the
past week the war risk bureau had
written over $250,OOO, 900 insurance
on soldiers of the Eighty eighth di-
vision. e
Campaign Against Flies.
Sanitary rules provide for an elm
nation Of the fly nuisance. With TO-
900 or 10000 horses. at the remount
and at other places upon the outskirts
of the camp it is to be expected that
millions of flies will be on duty as
soon as warm weather sets in, but
this is not the intention of the sani-
tary authorities. A complete sched-
ule has been outlined by the sanitary
regiment.
Four forms of attack will be made
against the fly. First, kitchens, mess
hall, garbage platforms and stables
will be kept clean, in an effort to
starve the fly.
Those who do not starve will meet
a living death and torture for a time
in various size fly traps. There will
be a total of 12,433 traps Of all sorts
used.
Wary flies who happen to escape the
traps will lose their lives of they do
not watch their steps, by sticking to
the SAP rolls of tanglefoot that is to
be distributed throughout the canton
ment.
After all other measures to exter-
inmate the flies have been tried, and
if there are still insects flying about
the camp, trying to ~innoculate men
with disease germs, fly snipers will be
called into action. With 1855 snipers
welding a like number of fly swat
tiers, results should be gained quick
ly.
Over 5000 traps will be placed
around mess halls and kitchens, while
1853 will be used on garbage can
platforms.