Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-22
EIGHT HUNDRED OFFICERS
TO GRADUATE MONDAY
War Department Decides to Increase
Attendance ut Central Officers
Training School to 5000.
CUPID CIRCUMvENTs ORDERS
Ten Thousand Soldiers Entertained
ut Open-Air Thcatcr-Thrce Lieu
tenants Promoted to BE Captains
Bnndlcader Commissioned.
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IopcSidl 10 Inc IlfneS- DiSDatcn.I
CAMP LEE. August 2l.-The first
class OF 500 graduates from the Central
Officers Training School will be grad
uated Monday morning at o The mem
this school from the fourth line Off
GERS training school at Camp Custer.
Mich. and Camp Devens, Mass
Ihe embryo officers Will be address
cd by Brigadier-Gencral Charles a.
Hedekin. camp commander, and by Col
oncl Harry Eaton. the commandment of
the school. The exercises will be very
simple and brief in order that the can
didates may at once return to the
training school and make their ar
engagements for departing the same
graduation will he delivered to the
candidates upon their return from the
graduating exercises. a list OF grad
yates vii! not be published until re-
nation in Washington.
The new second licutcnants will be
assigned Ene to ,n Stations at Camp biz. y.
ohio: Camp Dcvens Mass., and Camp
Lee.
There are a number in the class who
VIII not he graduated on Monday. \
part of these Will be held for further
training and The remainder will be sent
to the replacement camp. from which
commissioned officers TO new divisions
The War Department has decided TO
Increase the attendance at the Central
'iccfS iraiiilhS School to approx
rateiy 5000 students at all times. This
VIII involve an intake monthly of about
l.Soo men. 1t is not known just when
This Increase will be effective.
Carloads of material are being un-
loaded every day By John T. Wilson e
60 on the siding near Thirty-seventh
street for the construction of the new
training school over 100000 has
teen appropriated for the work. The
new buildings arc TO be different i'm
construction from the present barracks
used in the cantonment. They will be
platoon barracks instead of company
barracks. With each OF the four pla-
toon buildings there will he one mess
hall and one latrne. Work is to be-
gin immediately and will be completed
- It'll the same speed that characterized
The construction of the entire canton
rncnt.
UNUSUAL CEREMONY
ON CAMP BOUNDARY LINE
II takes more than a camp order
and prohibiting civilians from enter
ing the reservation TO deter Dan Cupid
Yesterday couple had plann to be
married quietly in the knights of
street The groom was on hand, as
we'll as Father NJ. f. Corriean. Knights
Of Columbus CHAPLAIN. The young
woman alighted from the car at
Twenty seventh street. en- route TO the
appointed place for the nup;ials She
was stopped by military policeman
VINO, under orders. was to see that
no civilians entered the camp. The ex-
PLANTATION offered did not justify tn:
guard III disobcyinE orders. But Cupid
found way. With the young woman
standing Just outside the line and with
the soldier just inside the line the
ceremony was performed in the pres
encc OF the guard and the few others
VINO We're ATTRACTED by the unusual
{ asked for the names OF the ncwlyweds
stated that they had their own valid
reasons Tor not wanting their names
CivuIgcd, and hence the participants in
on OF the most unusual ccrCinoni IS
ever performed cannot be given
Ten thousand soldiers were attracted
10 inc open lair theater at Ninth Street
!ast night. where the men from the
replacement camp were entertained.
The performers were drawn from
among the men sta toned at the camp.
ihey included Ford virgins. of New
bern. y. G.; Mr. and Mrs. Coy Hc-n-
don. of Seattle Wash. and Telflir
Washington, of Washington, u. G. The
y-piecc band of the replacement
ten piece orchestra. which was formed
for the first time last night. The pic
iure, To He'll With the Kaiser" was
Three first ieutenants. instructors in
the officers training school. were to-
day advanced 10 captains. They are
captain Bruce p. Greene. Captain Peter
Shoptough
Bandleader MILFORD G. Archam .
bault, of the. infantry replacement
camp was to-day made second lieu
tenant This is in accordance with the
recent War Department order. which
allows bandleadcrs to be commissioned
lieutenants.
The finals in the boxing tournament
O'Clock on the camp athletic field.
Three three-round contests will be