Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-03-04
CAMP PIKE NEWS.
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Little Rock, March 3.-Major-G Gen.
 eral Peter E. Traub, who commanded the 35th division in the Argonne fight
 ing is expected to reach here this week
 to assume command of Camp Pike. An
 nouncement of his appointment was
 made last week. Brig. Gen. Edward
 Anderson, present commandant, will
 remain as commander of the 1G2nd Depot Brigade.
 James w. Cory has been made dir ector of educational work for the Y. M. c. A. in Camp Pike, succeeding
 Fred B. Appleget, who was promoted to a departmental position. MT. Cory is an educator of 19 years experience.
 and came to the Y. M. c. A. from the famed Gary, Indiana School system. For the past year he has been engae- ed in educational work for the 'Y" at Camp Travis, Texas.
 About 1000 men, practically all of
 them from overseas, reached Camp Pike this week for discharge, and the
 majority already have received the
 coveted "pie3e of paper" chronicline faithful service and release from fur
 ther duty. Every train brings in a detachment. Two large attachments came in Thursday, arriving from Camp
 Merritt and Mills. A company of 164 came in Tuesday from Camp Dix, these being from the 41st division Leopold Lane, of the "Y" troop train
 service accompanied the detachment from Dix and declared these Arkan- sas and Oklahoma boys, About as fine men as ever met or travelled with. To facilitate the work of demobiliza-
 tion the battalions thru which the
 men sent here for discharge are han
 dled, are being assembled nearer
 headquarters and the railroad sta- tion. The l1th battalion moved to the P. and Q. streets and North avenue area, and now occupy quarters form erly used for the l. o. C. T. s. 5. American soldiers were so attrac- tive to the girls of England and France that the soldiers of those countries are glad to see the Tanks depart, ac- cording to Frank Fuller of Bradford, Ark, who arrived here for discharge. "Englishmen especially were jealous" said Fuller, "They declare they could put on an American uniform and have a better time with the girls of their country than while wearing the Eng fish uniform. Fuller said the boys who didn't get acrooss ought to consider themselves lucky" tho he is not sorry he saw service abroad. The Americans, ; said Fuller, devoted great deal of their spare time to baseball, foot ball and other sports, containing the necessary equipment from the Y. M. c. A. whose secretaries were instru- mental in inducing participation in wholesome play.
 Camp Pike led all camps in the Southern department in the number of pledges by soldiers to make effort to live according to Christ's teachings.
 turning in TYP pledges. The camp also sent in the largest number of appli- cations for service in the religious field. Twenty-Five soldiers determined during the month to enter the mir- istry, mission field or Y. M. c. A. work.
 Cols, J.'J. Boniface and w. S. Me- Mroom and Lieut.-Col. Wm. M. Cooly have been appointed by Brig.-Gen. E. Anderson members of board to con- sider application for discharge from army service in Camp Pike.
 
 About 50 men have joined the class of agriculture being conducted in the base hospital area by w. o. Hodgson of the army Y. M. c. A. in conjunction with the vocational school of the army. MT. Hodgson was with the federal de- partment ofsagriculture for years. The base hospital farm i sused for demon stration purposes.
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