The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-01-09
200 MEN CHOSEN
FOR TRAINING
Men of the Eighty-Eighth Division Of
National Army at Camp Dodge Sc
lccted for Training Camp.
THE, PICK OF THREE STATES
On Completion Of Course Men viii be
Awarded Commissions As Provis-
. iona Second lieutenants.

~. GAM I DODGT, Jan. D WO HUH
dred and ninety enlisted men selected
for service with the eighty-eighth di-
vision of the national army here have
been relieved from duty temporarily
and assigned to the officers training
camp which opened Saturday.
These men represent the pick OF
the sclective from Iowa, Minnesota
North Dakota and part of Illinois,
those who have shown. the greatest
aptitude for military work and who
are deemed to have the potential quail
tiles necessary in the making OF good
officers.
The school marks the opening of
the third series of student officers
training camps as conducted last
spring and summer under the direc-
.tiOn of the war department.
The school at Camp Dodge is com
nanded by Lieut.. Col. r. B. Parrott, U.
s. Infantry, and detail of fourteen
officers with Lieut.. Col }. DeCamp
Hall at the head as senior instructor,
has been appointed to conduct the
course.
The training will be similar to that
given at the two previous camps eX-
cept that instruction will be given in
the infantry and artillery branches of
the service only.
The men will be divided into COM
panies of about $50 men each. One
company of infantry and one battery
8 of artillery will be assigned to the
school to aid in the instruction work.
This will not take place, however. un-
til the work is well advanced.
The competition. 1t is predicted, will
be even keener among the student
officers in that school than it was in
the schools conducted previously.
Hundreds OF applications were made
by the soldiers and the sitting out pro-
cess resulted in the selection OF only
those best fitted for the wOk.
On completion of the course the
successful students will be given com
missions as provisional second lieuz
tenants and will return to their en-
listed status until called into active
/ service and given assignments: In
tile interim they viii return to their
respective organizations. :
In addition to the men selected from
the eighty.eighth division there are
+ so graduates and undergraduates
from the State University of Iowa,
Ames college. the College of st. Thom-
as at St. Paul. st. Johns Military
academy at Delafield. Wis, and Du-
buquc college, Dubuque, Iowa, and
about fifty enlisted men from the res.
ular army.
Harold Bruber. private in the 352d
infantry regiment was sentenced to
fifteen years in the federal peniten-
tiar, by the verdict of general court
martial following charges of deser-
ton and refusing to obey the COM
mantls of his officers which were
placed against him.
Private Bruber, according to the di.
vision Judge advocate. claimed to be a
member of the International Bible
Students association. AS such he said
it was against his principles and re.
iSiOn to don the uniform of a soldier
or take any part in the war.
His failure to report when summon
cd by his local board resulted in the
descrtion charge being placed against
him.
Private II. c. Walker, attached for
duty to the base hospital here. was
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary after being found guilty on
charges of forgery and passing worth
less checks on local merchants in Des
M0ines and the vicinity of the camp.
Corp. Francis Noonan. Eagle Grove,
and Private J. G. Williams, of Iron
wood. Mich, both members of Co. G,
:'39th machine gun battalion, will pay
for Il joy ride in deputy sheriffs Ford
car by spending six months each in
the division guard house at hard labor.
They also will forfeit two-thirds OF
their pay while confined and Corpor-
al NoOnan will be reduced to the rank
,,,,;,,n ipt Of
charges OF larceny was modified by
the reviewing authority and peniten-
tiary sentence revoked.
The campaign being waged in Des
Moines by civil and state authorities
and at the camp by military authori-
ties to make the conditions as nearly
as possible free from social diseases,
has been extended to include men as
we'll as, women. The preliminary plan |
called for the arrest and confinement
Of women found to be suffering from
social diseases.
Diciplinary measures have been in |
vokett at the camp which deprive SOL
diersS iof their. pay while affected toI
siieh an extent as to make it impos.
siBiB5 fore them to perform their mill
tars duties. Strict regulations have
also been made relative to the treat
lnoilt tn he accorded men who have
haen exposed and trouble is sure to
follow the soldiers who do not abide
by the regulations. The entire com
mand is inspected twice monthly for
evidences OF the disease.
There have been less than 1000
cases of veneral diseases admitted to
the base hospital since it was opened
September 1st.
1t is probable that the men suffer
ing from such causes will not be TAX
en- to France when the time comes for |
the division to move, according to |
Lieut. Col J. r. Shook, division sur
geon.
But twenty-five cases were admitted !
during the month of December, which |
is considered remarkably low in view
Ia the large number Of men in train |
Sg. The conditions here as regards