Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-02-08
LAST OF DRAFT
MEN MOVE FEB. g
CroWder Sets Date for Marshal
ing of Last increment.
74,5oo TO GO INTO CAMPS
National Army Will Be Brought Up
to 685, DETERMINATION of Ac-
countants Ordered - 100000
Needed TO Build Ships.

Needed to Build Ships.
Washington, Feb. 5.-PrOvost Mar
shall General CroWder announced that
the movement of the last increments
of the men selected in the first draft
will begin on February % and continue
for period of five days. This will
complete the operation of the first
draft, as all states will have furnished
their full quotas.
The movement will bring the
strength of the National army up to
the 6S5,000 men contemplated in the
first draft.
The numbers of men which will be
started to the environments on Febru-
airy % are:
Camp Devens, Mass, 6,575; Upton,
n. Y, 1900; Dix, N. j., 1000; Meade,
Nd, 5000; Lee, Va. 5000; Jackson,
S. c., 1888 (negroes) Gordon, Ca,
$500 (negroes) !; Grant, ILL.,, 5000; Tay-
Tor, Ky, 6,2S4; Dodge, Ia, 1884;
Funston, Kan 2,332; Travis, Tex,
1858; Pix Ark, 1000 negroes).
Besides the regular portion cOntribu-
tory to Camps Deyens and Upton, New
York will send to the former 2,521 men
and to the latter 1927 men which were
to have gone to Camp Dix. The reason
given for the change is that there is
more room for them at Camps Deyens
and Upton.
West Virginia will send 1920 men
to Camp Meade instead of to Camp
Lee.
Army orders published announce the
honorable discharge of Brig. Gen. AL
bert j. Logan, on duty with the Tween
ty-eighth National army division at
Camp Hancock, Ga, and of the resigna-
ton of Brig Gen. Frederick w. Still
we'll of the same division. Physical
condition or other circumstances max
ing it impossible for the officers to
perform their duties were responsible.
Will Mobilize Certified Accountants.
Mobilization of all certified account
ants Who come within the draft law
has been ordered so as to supply va
cancies in the army business organiZa
ton.
Henry E. Wise. attorney for paper
manufacturers, appearing at hearing
before the federal trade commission,
told the commission he had received,
as chairman of a draft board in New
York, orders from the adjutant gen
eral to call in at once all registered ac-
cOuntants, pat them through physical
examination and mobilize them. They
were to be sent this week to army
depots He said inability to get ac-
cOuntants had delayed the assembling
of information he desired to present
to the commission.
100000 Workers Needed.
General Manager Piez Of the emer
gency fleet corporation asked governors
of all states to help enroll 100000
workers in the ship yards by issuing
proclamations calling mechanics to en-
roll in the United States public re-
! serve.
without this great industrial army,
ready to take its place as the need
| for labor ever grows more urgent, we
cannot carry out the shipbuilding pro-
gram on which hangs the fate of our
army in France and of our allies the
world over" said the appeal to the
| governors.
ITO win the war our first need is
| ships and to build ships our first need
| is earnest. skilled labor
Illinois Contributes $1,000.
Springfield, H., Feb. 5.-Approxi-
mately $4,000 men will move to can
| tonments from Illinois as a result of
| the call of the war department for
| filling up the first draft, according to
Adjutant General Dickson. This rep
| resents 30 per cent of the full Illinois
| first draft quota.
Calls Out $500 Iowa Men.
| Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 5.-MObiIza-
ton at Camp Dodge of the remainder
of Iowas quota of the first National
army was ordered by the war depart
ment in the five-day period beginning
February % Approximately $500 men
are affected.
1t was understood at the office of Adj
| iutant General Logan, where the order
! was received, that similar instructions
had been sent to Minnesota, Illinois
and North Dakota, as these states have
not sent their final increments to Camp
| Dodge.
5000 Going From Minnesota.
St. Paul. Mimi. Feb. 5.-Approxi-
mately $500 Minnesota men remain
| ing in the first draft quota will be sent
| to Camp Dodge during the five-day
period beginning February 23. under
| orders from Provost Marshal General
| Crowder. received here. The call may
| be filled, if necessary, under the old
| draft regulations, the message said.
)nly white men are included in the
| rider.