The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-04-16
purchased and will haul it's first load
of soldiers this week.

| sEuSlSu MdTSudll Has DcSlI uCluliSN
as chauffeur. He will take parties OF
men from the camp to the city and
furnish them rest and refreshment al
the Salvation Army club on Fourth
street
MacVicar is Named State Secretary
Complying with telegram from Col
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Maj. Harry
H. Polk named Capt. John MacVica1
Temporary secretary for Iowa of the
proposed organization Of the veterans
of the world war.
Major Polk and Captain MacVical
will have charge of the preliminary
organization work in this state.
Permanent organization is to be ef
,fected at national convention to be
lheld in st. Louis this summer. Al
soldiers, sailors and marines in the
service during the war period will be
eligible to membership.
Can't Collect for "Natura! Deaths
Relatives of soldiers who died of the
flu or came to their death from natur'
al causes are not to receive the $1O,'
900 life insurance under the war risk
insurance act.
This is the stand taken by the war
|
Attorney B. j. Cavanagh who filed a
suit against the government in the
United States district court for sol
der who died of the flu. s.
Lawrence G. O'Brien, father of Vic.
tor O'Brien, farmer, near Altoona,
Iwho died last October of the influenza
two weeks after he was drafted into
the army at Jefferson Barracks, Mo-,
| filed the suit. , ''
OIBrien seeks $4,000 insurance TAX
en- out by his som under the war risk
insurance act.
'O'Brien alleges that the government
has rejected and refused to pay the
claim.
Attorney Cavanagh stated that the
government has refused to pay the
claim on the ground that the O'Brien
claim is death bed" case.
This is the first case filed in the fed
eral court here and will be test case.
Salvation Army Hut
| The new Salvation Army hut in the
convalescent center at Camp Dodge,
into which the staff of workers are
moving their canteen, Tuesday, will be
formally opened Wednesday evening
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in attendance. ,, r. -
A staff Of workers is baking pies,
cakes and doughnuts at the camp, in
preparation for the event.
|. Welcome Yanks in East p
| A reception committee, headed by
Governor w. L. Harding and Adj. Gen.
Louis |Lasher with representative citi.
zens from Des Moines and other Iowa
Icities having units in the 16Sth infan-
try will welcome the Hawkeye fight
ers when they arrive in the east from
France y w. 5't -" ~tT "9la@j je'
Plans for the reception and enter.
tainment of the troops when they ar
rive in Des Moines were also outlined.
1t will be an event of statewide in
terest and no expense or work will be
spared to make it a success: p (
Entertainment for Wounded Men
Colonel Schultz, detachment COM
mander, and local camp welfare work
ers are leaving no stone unturned to
provide entertainment for the wound
ed soldiers at Camp Dodge GONZALES
cent center. Athletic shows, society
nights, the visit of acts from Des
Moines theaters, readers, singers and
other means of entertainment are pro-
vided.
Colonel Schultz, who is a regular
army man and has been in the service
ltwenty-one years, takes an active per-
sonal interest in seeing that the men
have entertainment and has made
himself very popular in his short stay
at the camp. He was assigned to
Dodge following the Rehabilitation OF
the Nineteenth division in which he
commanded the military police. = +
| Welfare Units Pull Together
To avoid duplication and promote ef-
| tieiency, representative of the various
social and civic agencies working in
the hospital area, are holding a week.
| ly conference every Friday afternoon.
Field Director j. r. Steward of the
Red Cross is general chairman.
Among the organizations represent.
ed at the weekly gatherings are the Y.
M. c. A., Red Cross. Y. w. G. A. Sal
vation Army, Jewish Welfare Board,
X. c., War Camp Community Service,
American Library Association. G. v.
A., w. C. T. u, War Mothers, Military
the st. Andrews Brotherhood.
luG OTSdulldLlOuS SuUlAlt d Wcchly
report to Director Steward, who in
turn sends it to the Central Division
of the Red Cross at Chicago. From
Chicago the report is sent to Wash.
ington.
Second Division Famous
The second division which is to be
formed here from units now in that
outfit overseas plus new recruits, will
contain some famous fighting men.
The Second has made itself famous
in the big war. A large part of the
credit is given to the unit for turning
back the huns when they threatened
Paris in June, 1918, and for starting
the victorious allied wave. This was
in the first battle of Chateau Thierry
and at Balleau Wood.
Extra Eats for Dodge Soldiers
Soldiers at Camp Dodge are to have
a big addition to their rations and
"eNtras" previously paid for out OF the
company funds. 1t will be partly pro-
vided for by the permission granted
from the war department headquarters
for mess sergeants to use twenty-five
per cent of the food allowance for re-
freshments desired by the organization
and not furnished by the government
Tho po1r 0rdnr want into lanofff IN