The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1922-01-12
96TH DIVISION
IS ORGANIZED
Units Allotted to Washington,
Oregon and Alaska for
Present.
FORMED ON PEACE BASIS
ALLEGATION Made by Board Which
Met at Olympia, WASH,
Recently.


OF the ALLEGATION of the units of the
gGth Division. being formed in Wash
ington. Oregon and Alaska at the
IRE .ent time. was made Saturday by
Col Pegram WhitwOrth. acting chief
Of taft of the division, the headquar-
TT OF which are located in Portland.
III division as it will exist in peace
times will be only skeleton organi-
latiOn consisting of officers, a few Sc
lected non-commissioned officers and
enlisted specialists. all of whom will
be- assigned to definite units The as
signment Of officers. now that the
units of the division have been al.
located to the various cities of the
state. will start almost Immediately.
According to the ALLEGATION, in the
gGth Division. Mount Vernon is to
have Company +" in the Second
aBtalion. of the 3S3rd Infantry Bri.
gada and also Hospital Company No
363 in the 321st Medical Regiment,
In addition to the division units to
be formed in this state. there will be
corps and army units organized as
we'll Washington's quota OF troops to
fill up these units in case of national
emergency is fixed at 24,745. Though
the units are assigned to definite
cities the troop quotas are fixed by
counties. King county's quota of 1923
officers and enlisted men is the larg
est. with Pierce county's quota OF
2.645 second. Spokane county is third
with 1888 Skaeit county has 613 and
is combined with Whatcom and San
Juan counties with total of 1907.
This is the first time since the Re-
serve officers accepted their commits
sions following their discharge from
the federal service after the ARMS
tice. that they have been given def
mite part to play in the military de-
Tense of the country. In accordance
with the general STATS scheme for
building up of an adequate military
force for peace and war needs, the
United States has been divided up into
nine corps areas with one regular
army division. two national guard d.
visions. and three reserve divisions as
signed to each corps area. The reserve
divisions in the 9th Corps area. which
includes Washington. Oregon, Califor-
MIA. Idaho, Montana. Wyoming, Utah.
and Nevada. are the 91st. which is be-
ing raised entirely in California; the
Goth. being formed in Oregon. Wash
ington and Alaska and the 104th be-
ing organized in Nevada, Utah. Idaho,
TvyUfnins aud Montana. ... .~.
The organization of the 96th divi-
sion is being carried out by Colonel
Whitworth in accordance with orders
from General Pershing, chief of stan
of the United States army AT the
pre- sent time the only other regular
army officers on duty with the divi-
sion are Mai NJ p Andrus, Coast Ar
tillery Corps. assistant to the chief OF
staff, Mai. Alvin Peake, divisional ad-
jutant: Maj. A. w. Cleary. stationed
at Fort Lawton, and Mai w. X. Or
ton. stationed at Fort George Wright.
1t is expected, according to Colonel
Whitworth that about 20 officers or
the regular service will later be de-
tailed TO OutN Will tic Wv i'io'''
The ALLEGATION of the reserve units
in this state was made by board OF
reserve officers which met at Olympia
about six weeks ago at the request OF
Mai Gen. VIM. NJ Wright, the COM
manding general of the 9Th corps
area. His approval of their ALLEGATIONS
was today received by Col Whitworth
and released by him for publication
Reserve officers desiring a regular
assignment to command in the re-
serve units in this state, and those
former officers of the army desiring
to obtain reserve commissions are re-
ouested to get in touch with the Mill
tary Affairs Department. care OF the
Seattle Times" by letter, setting forth
briefly the nature of the assignment
they would prefer and short ac-
count of their service. this in the case
of the officers seeking reserve COM
missions.