Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-29
CRUISER DELAYED
| ON TROOP VOYAGE
CharIeston's Engine Trouble
Reported by Radio to
New York.
MANY ARRIVING SOLDIERS

MANY ARRIVING SOLDIERS
Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 2s.-A radio mes
sage received at the port of embarka-
ton in Hoboken today stated that
the cruiser Charleston. bound here
from Brest with troops. had been de-
layed by engine trouble and was pro-
ceeding slowly. She is expected to
dock here late today or tomorrow.
The Charleston carries l.405 troops.
including the Sd and 4th regiments Of
air service mechanics and casuals.
The transport Julia Luckenbach ar
rived toSay with $3.50 troops from st.
Nazaire. including one officer and 1913
men of the 4th Corps Artillery Park,
part of which had arrived on the
Santa Paula.
The 213th Provisional Battalion on
the Luckenbach comprised detach-
ments of the SD Base Hospital. head
quarters. medical and supply detach-
ments and Companies ID and T. each OF
the 1929, 403d and 414th Telegraph
Battalions: 11th and 18th Companies.
18th Regiment, Air Service Mechanics;
I'D and 222 Aero Squadrons: 112th
camp Hospital. 3sth Sanitary Squad.
250th Service Park Unit and casual
companies organized from troops of
Georgia, Ohio. Indiana. Kentucky,
Nebraska and scattered points.
Others on board were a casual COM
pany from the Stk Signal Corps and
attachments of the 18th. 10Th. s6th
and 103d Companies of the Transport
Corps.
Men From Telephone Companies.
The 4o3u and 4O4th Telegraph Bat
talions. which returned on the trans
ports Julia Luckenbach and Santa
Paula. were recruited from eastern
telephone companies. The 403d was
recruited from upstate divisions of
the New York Telephone Company
and from the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company The 404th
comprises former employees of the
New York Telephone Company, one
company of the unit having been re-
cruited in New York city and the
other in New Jersey.
The telephone men assisted in the
construction and maintenance of lines
Marseille to the bridgeheads Of
Coblenz and Treves. The 4o3d Bat
TALON constructed the lines from Gen.
Pershing's headquarters at Chaumont
to Paris in the spring of 1918, and
later 1t moved into the advance zone.
of the American sector and assisted in
the construction of lines from general
headquarters to the positions occu-
pied by combatant troops.
The troops were sent to Camp Mills.
where they will remain until Monday.
when they will come to New York
and be the guests Of the New York
Telephone Company at q reception ar
ranged In their honor.
Under Ex-Congressman's Son.
On the Santa Paula were two con-
tingents Of the Hist and 17sth Provi-
sional Battalions. Among units reprr-
scented in the Hist were the '335th
Field Remount Squadron. 9th Camp
Hospital and 209th and 252d military
police companies. The 4th Corps
field artillery park. consisting Of
headquarters and medical detach-
ments, motor transport section. mobile
ordnance repair shop and Companies
men, formed the largest unit In the
10th Battalion. Other organizations
reported in the battalions were the
I'd air park unit and the 227th and
64sth Aero Squadrons.
The troops were under command OF
Lieut.. Col. F. A. Prince, son OF former
Representative George H. Prince Of
Illinois. Col Prince was with the 4th
Artillery Corps on the Moselle. and
since the signing Of the armistice had
been with the army Of occupation in
Germany.
East and Middle West.
Detachments of two pioneer infan-
try regiments returned on the Aeolus.
They represented Sd Battalion head
quarters and Companies ] and K Of
the S1lth Regiment. officers and 348
men, and headquarters and medical
detachments, headquarters and supply
companies and Companies B. c and II
of the s06th Regiment, 80 officers and
SIG men. The S1lth Regiment is COM
posed largely OF eastern troops, and
the s0Sth consists of men from the
middle west.
The largest unit on the Aeolus was
the 211th Provisional Battalion, or
ganized from scattered units at the
port OF embarkation. Its personnel
included detachments of the 72d. 2Sth
and 120th companies of the Trans
portation Corps; Company d. 313th
Service Battalion: S5th Camp Hospi
and 325. others on board were casual
companies organized from men living
in Wyoming, California and Illinois
and seventy-nine sick and wounded.
American Boy a Stowaway.
stowaway. who said he was born in
New Haven, Conn. was found aboard
the Aeolus and turned over to the
immigration authorities. Young lie
Marie said he lived with his father.
an architect. on Linden avenue, in
Salt Lake City. until April. 1912.
My parents left Utah when some
of fathers friends in France wrote
him that business was good there"
said the boy. I'VE went to live in
chateau Thierry in May, 1912. In
July. 1918. a shell knocked our house
10 pieces, killing my father and
mother and wounding me in the left
leg. Some friends of my folks took
care of me and sent me to school,
and ! stayed there until last Novem-
her. when went with the SGD United
states Engineers When / found they
were going to sail on the Aeolus I
smuggled myself aboard because 1
wanted to get to the United States"
Accompanied by French Brides.
Fifteen officers and 1924 men of the
333d Service Battalion, Quartermaster
Corps. returned on the Santa Rosa
The other units on board were Com
pany c. 516th Engineers; 339th and
323d Field Remount squadrons: 250th
Military Police Company. 361st Bak-
cry Company. 30Sth Butchery Com
pany, 18th Evacuation Ambulance
Company. 30sth Supply Company.
casual company organized from Iowa
troops and scattered casuals.
Maj. w. NJ. Brumby of Marietta. Ca.
commander of the 333d Service Bat