Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-25
GEN. DEAN Is LENIENT
WITH DIX OFFENDERS
Reduces Sentence of Soldier
Who Refused to Obey
Order
Camp Dix, wriEhtstowu. y. j.. April 20.

Camp Dix, WriEhtstowu, y. j.. April %.
Artillerymcn of the 3O7th Regiment,
commanded by Colonel Edward Don
nelly, arc returning today after three
day trip 10 Lakehurst about twenty
miles from camp, where they spent their
time practicing field evolutions with
their three-inch guns and also learning
how TO maintain themselves while on the
march
Accompanied by Brigader General
. G. {. Hearn, commander of the SD Ar
tillery Brigade; Major \. II, Fisher. the
adjutant, and other members of the star,
the artillerymen, all mounted and carry
ing fun equipment, including gas masks,
left piN last Monday.
Next week the 3OSth Light Field Ar
tillery and the 309th Heavy Field Artil-
lery viii go on "A hike to the same place.
and the infantrymen will also begin
overnight trips In the near future.
Leniency exercised by Brigadier Gen
eral j. r. Dean acting commander Of the
Lightning Division. saved Private George
Charney, OF New Brunswick, \. j.. from
being dishonorably discharged from the
service after being tried by Court-martial
and found guilty OF dsobeyinE "A COM
mand from First Lieutenant Robert NJ.
Loring, his superior officer, to wash a
number Of bedsacks. The trial board
| also sentenced him to servo I've years at
hard labor. but General Dean, in review
ing the findings. decided that on account
Of tho short time that tho man has been
in service that he would reduce tho SEM
tence to confinement at hard labor for
,siN months with forfeiture Of $40 a
month for a like period.
Stole Comrades Mileage
/ Recruit Henry p. Sanford, Of Mount
/ Vernon. y. y, did not fare so well when
he was found guilty Of fclonously TAX
ing, stealing and carrying away Penn
sylvania Railroad mileage book, valued
at about Sl5. from Recruit James W
Ables. of the same company. lie was
sentenced to he confined at hard labor at
the station Of the organization for one
year and to forfeit SO of his pay per
month for n like period.
Luck vas certainly with Private
George g. Schwanllc, of Camden, y. j.
of the Twenty-fOurth Engineers, who
volunteered for service, and who was
tried by Court-martial for violating the
nincty-siNth article of war in that he
made SeditiouS remarks to fellow mem
bcrs of his company and stated that
he would never go to Franco To fight
aud that he thought Germany did rght
in invading Belgium. He also is de-
clarcd to have said that Japan wout
ioin tho Germans and that the United
States was foolish to have entered thi:
war He was found guilty and sen
fenced TO twenty years at hard labol
and also be dishouorably discharged
but General Dean, in looking over th'
findings, discovered that the officer wh'
acted AS judge advocate was not le
gally appointed as such and the whol,
proceedings were declared null and void
Wilmington Soldier Dies
Private Newton Zebley, of Compan!
c. Fifty-ninth Regiment of Pioneers
died yesterday at the base hospital o
pneumonia. Zebley, who was a paper
hanger in Wilmington before he enlisted
leaves a widow and one child.
The following promotions have beel
announced in the 3llth Regiment:
To he rcgimcntal sergeant major
Battalion Sergeant Major Edwin {
LaniSau; to hC battalion sergeant ma
jor, Sergeant Robert NJ. Scoon. forme
professor at Princeton University: to b
sergeant in headquarters company, Cor
poral Leroy Brown, of Trenton. TIL
, following mep, who were successful can
didates at the officers training schoo
have been named sergeant and will b
used in drilling the new recruits
Charles T. Murphy, Trenton; James I
Monahan Altoona; Harold Apgar, Hig
Bridge Herbert .. Tilton, EatontowI
n Gerald Swallow. NOrristown, Pa.
/, William T.. Kroll, Philadelphia; Josep
/, NJ. Snyder, Altoona, Pa; Theodore )
Benish, Perth Amboy; Albert $. Hud
son, Harris, Il, J., and Elroy W. Steedl
Rivcrton, y. j,