Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-11
DISCHARGES AT MEADE
FOR nth DIVISION MEN
Half OF Command to be Released
From Service as Speedily
As Possible

As Possible
Orders have been sent out that viii
mean the discharge of fifty per cent
of the men in the 18th Division as
indicated by the rolls of November 3d.
and about 10000 men will have $3.50
chance of getting out of the army
Those who will go first will be those
who have dependents. This will not
be such a large number, as most of
the men in the division had that mat
ter disposed of by draft boards before
they entered the service. Men needed
in industries will be next TO go.
Applications must be made by the
men themselves to their company COM
manders. The requests will be han
died upon their merits and discharges
will begin at once, but the process will
not be fast at first Time will be re-
quired to consider the merits of the
applications, as practically all the men
wish TO get out. Vacancies caused by
this so per cent discharge plan may
be filled by transfer from other units
of regular army men and of men who
wish to continue in the service.
1t was made very clear that this
plan of discharging men is by no
means a rehabilitation. The dis
charges will be made in such a way
that no single unit will be eliminated.
Thus with the skeleton OF the divis-
ion intact it will be possible by trans
fer to bring it up to any required
strength.
Lieutenant Earl Hepburn, who has
been judge advocate of several courts
and has had much success in organic
ing the trade tests and other features
of the personnel department, has been
discharged to return to his law prac-
tice in Philadelphia
The U. S. Emergency Fleet Corpor-
alton and other government agencies
will begin at once to recruit labor
among the men who will be discharged.
The trade test building will serve as
trade choice center Frank p. Camp
bell, the labor bureau agent has
take chance at some work other than
what they were doing before the war.
Men who want to see another part of
the country while doing the same old
work have opportunities before them,
too. The shipbuilding and merchant
marine service are being featured be-
cause these two big undertakings need
labor most
President Wilson's eloquent tribute
| to Theodore Roosevelt was read to
every company in camp. A parade
was held in honor of the former pres
was fired. After the hour set for the
/ funeral the flags, that had been half
masted since the death was an
nounced were again raised to full
staff. The blowing of taps was an i'm
pressive feature of the ceremony.
Private William A. Filler, of Shame
kin, here convalescing, was member
of a one-pounder gun crew of the
148th infantry that won out in duel
with German 71-millimeter gun at
Sergy, near Mount Faucon. The gun
ners had used up all their own am
munition, and without delay manned
the German gun, bigger than the
French rs, and in position that made
it easy to do terrific damage to the
German defenses. Filler an dhtose with
him fired twenty-five shells before a
barrage was put over by the Germans
that finally put out of commission the
old German gun. The gun crew was
left behind in a dugout when the 14Sth
infantry found it necessary to retreat.
On the next day the 14Sth came back,
and the one-pound gunners were pro-
vided with plenty of their own ammu-
milton for further use in the great bat
American hands and at close range,
killed many German machine gunners.