Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-02
OVER 1000 CANDIDATES
RECEIVE COMMISSIONS
new Omcers Had Three and a Half
Months Training at Various
Cantonmcnts.
SUPPLY OF INSIGNIA FAILS
No Richmond Men Commissioned.
Over 700 Soldiers Will Be Natural
lied Wednesday-Vctc
Students Begin to Arrive.

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Students Begin to Arrive.
CAMP LEE VA, juno 1-Twenty.
Two hundred and seventy-seven gradu-
ates of the third line officers traininr
school coming principally from schools
conducted OF eleven camps were to-
day commissioned second Iieutenants in
the National ARMY The 900 gradual cs
OF the Camp Lee school, who were
assigned to the One Hundred and Fifty
n''n iepot brigade. were not included
IN the men commissioned. The new
oiicers have been assigned to the re-
placement camp.
Az OF the men commissioned com
p.eted course of three months and
Two weeks from January S to April 10
since that time they have been at
tached or assigned to various com
mands over the United States. Dur
ing the last ten days 2.277 have been
forwarded here. and II was these VIII,
were to-day commissioned. The camps
at which they received their training
and the number from each camp are:
Camp Funston, Kans.. 1913: Camp
Meade. Md. 357: Camp Sheridan. Ala.
6s: Camp Pike. Ark. 24l; Camp Sher-
man. OHIO. 251; Camp Devons. MASS.
276; Camp Travis. Texas. 211: Camp
Lewis Wash 1875: Camp Dix. ~ j..
ITO: Camp Custer. Mich. 231: Camp
"adsworth. S. c.. ca. and G5 from vari-
GUS schools throughout the country.
In addition to the above candidate.
there were commissioned 129 second
lteutenants In the engineers training
school. To handle the details incidenr
10 the commissioning OF these men
Colonel II. l.. I.aubach. commanding
officer OF the replacement camp. ap-
pointed ten summary court officers.
who were busy throughout the day
administering the oath OF ONCE to the
candidates. The men at first had to
be discharged from the service as en-
listed men prior TO receiving the oath
of office.
In Petersburg. at the camp exchange
and in Richmond there were crowds OF
these men who were attempting TO
purchase gold bars. infantry cross-
that their rank required. The supply
did not equal the demand. Some OF
the men must wait several days until
an adequate supply is received.
Richmond and Petersburg ca ndidates
for commissions from the third schools
were members of the Camp Lee school.
and hence were not commissioned to-
day. y
On Wednesday morning at IL o'clock
Judge Edmund Waddill, OF the Circuit
Court OF the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia. will hold court In the open air
on headquarters plaza, in front of d.
vision headquarters. for the purpose
OF naturalizing aliens who MEM
bers OF the army and are now serving
the United States government at this
camp. Already 722 men have signed
applications for citizenship. and II Is
possible that this number will be in
creased TO $50. The men arc principal
ly members of the Thirty-sevcnth d.
vision. but are drawn chiefly from
those of the National Army. who were
recently transferred into the division.
4 number OF nations are represented.
including Italy. Poland. Greece and
England.
Appropriate exercises which are
under the direction OF Lieutenant
Colonel II. ]. Turney. judge advocate
OF the Thirty-seventh Division will
prccede the swearing in OF the men.
These will include selections by one OF
the bands of the division. a talk by
one of the chaplains and it Is probable
that there Will be address by a
prominent speaker.
For more than a week two naturali-
xation officers from Washington have
been at camp arranging the prelimi-
nary details. They are Judge P. c.
Coke and L. l.. Nettleton. Clark Pow
ers, OF the United States District Court
of Richmond. has also been here.
The advance guard of students who
are forwarded here from the various
sections OF the United States 70 attend
the veterinarian school. arrived at Camp
Lee tonight. kilograms from local
boards OF Texas. North and South Da-
kota, Missouri. Oklahoma. Nebraska.
Massachusetts and other States indi-
Gated that the 1900 specially selected
drafted men for this school had en-
trained. These men Will arrive in the
next few days. and actual class work
will imm ediately begin.
40 he If
Lieutenant-Colonel r. A. Sturgis.
Eleven line officers. eight veterinarians
and eight medical officers will direct
the training OF the men. The course
will extend eight weeks. at the end Of
which time the graduates OF the school
will be formed into veterinary base
hospital units for service in France.
All OF the men being forwarded to the
school have had experience IN the ham
ding and In the care OF horses. None
of the men are candidates for commits
sions, though there is n class OF twenty
one first lieutenants. graduate Yeteri-
narians. who are receiving special
courses of instruction,
Private James Tynes. OF the Depot
Brigade. who left his command on
December 10 and was arrested at Dem
dron. Va. on April IL, began to-day 10
serve sentence of six months for alb
senting himself without leave from his
command. The General Court that
tried him. found him guilty OF deser-
tion and sentenced him to ten years
at hard labor. General Farnsworth in
reviewing the case cut the sentence
to six months and found him guilty Of
the lesser offenSc.
The White Rose Minstrels OF Rich
mond presented their performance in
the main auditorium of the knights
OF Columbus last night. The show de-
lighted crowded house. Among the
members OF the company were:
Misses Freda Battige. Nellie Clouds
Florence Kidd, Catherine Battige. Nora
Walsh, Audrey Gill. Garnett Kracke
Minnie GILL Virgie Parker, Helen Gill.
Elizabeth Seay. Ethelyn Phillips. Rosa
Lee Steele and Ruth Houston.
Messrs. Charles Hay, Fred Collins.
r. Dyson. Lynn Bales. c. B. Fowler.
Raymond BEDFORD. Edwin Clarke,
Charles Eacho. Charles w. Phillips, Jr,
william Jackson. Ernest Ragiand.
David Mays. Everett Ragland. r. C.
Snellings, William Ragland, Lewis
Smith and Mr.. Keyser.
Several thousand members Of the
Thirty-seventh division heard a lecture
and witnessed moving pictures on the
new athletic field and the divisional