Palisadian., 1923-03-09
SERVICE NOTES
BY NORMAN ROGERS

In Bergen county the following re-
serve officers of the United States
Army are cooperating in civilian mill
tary training camps recruiting. Their
advice and assistance may be freely
sought by prospective candidates for
any branch of service: Major H. G..
Macdonald, Med. r. c., 134 State
street, Hackensack; Captain Lloyd
Charters, Inf. r. c., 431 Grand avenue,
Leonia; Captain Seth Malby Ord. R.
c., Edgewater, N. j.; Lieut. S. Lynch,
Engr. R. c., 317 Undercliff avenue,
Edgewater. Our nearest air service
consultant is Lieut.. F Bennett, who
may be reached by mail at 159 Nesbit
street, Weehawken, Hudson county. A
memo from. the corps area commander
announces that no c. M. r. Air Service
camps will be held this year.
At River Edge-on-the eHackensack,
Lieut.. F, Kraissl has a basketball
team which represents the earliest
organized activity OF the local c. M.
T. c. clubs.
An evening demonstration of COM
bined c. NJ T. C. methods and re-
suits will be given on April 20, under
direction of the Second Corps Area
officers.
"Alerte"
Last week contained the anniver-
sary of the first protector gas attack
on the American Expeditionary
Forces.
| 1t was early on February 26, 1918,
that the heinies sent over a shower
of projectiles from their lines in the
BoiS de Remieres, near Ausanville.
The minenwerfers used gas-shell (con-
tanning phosgene and chlorpicrin ap-
proximately three feet in length and
weighing about IS pounds each.
| A dose of two hundred of these, de-
livered at Is yard intervals, is guaran-
teed to cure any prancing advocates
of militarism in the vicinity and to
make them as earnestly anxious for
the arrival of the preservation of
peace as any quartermaster in the
S. o. S.
The French Universities Post sent
Messrs B. Crasner and N. c. Preston
to the American Legion rally of Bronx
county. The members of this special
committee reported that John Reidy,
i chairman of Bronx County activities,
"did 'em proud" by resewing places
alongside the national commander.
Leonia Post No. has invited the
finance officer of the French Universi-
ties Post to speak at it's regular meet
ing scheduled for Thursday, March 8.
The War Department under date of
January "a, 1928, announces that no
C. M. T. Air Service camps will be
held this year.
| Our neighbor, Ridgefield Park, ex-
poets to provide 100 men for a COM
pany of the 4S9th Engineer Battalion
to assist in the railway operations of
the Seventy eighth Division. The
whole of Bergen county is designated
/ as a recruiting area for Battery A of
the 4S0th Field Artillery, unit which
will be armed in combat with the
extremely mobile rs MN. guns.
Captain Butler, Inf. U. S. A, lee
tured to the Reserve Quartermaster
officers of this area on March l at
| Governors Island. He was adjutant
at Camp Dix after the return of the
First Division from overseas. Captain
Buffers subject was Supply During
Combat" and he should know the de.
! tails, for he was wounded at Cantigny
and afterward led battalion in the
Argonne mess.
The Chemical Warfare Service,
which promises to make things so
! unpleasant for the enemy in the next
war, has an excellent nucleus in the
New Jersey Reserve officers. Those
listed include Lieut.. Col. Joe Sears,
former state commander of the Ameri-
can Legion; Lieut. Col. William ST.
bert, son of the commander of the
First Division, A. E. F., and Major
Ellery Files, of Orange. Captain C. D..
Kerr, of Dana place, Englewood, with
Lieut.. Ralph Heidingsfeld, of New
Brunswick, are assigned to the Second
Corps Area contingent. Major Pearce,
of Palmer place, Leonia, is attached to
the Office of the chief c. w. c. 1t
will be seen that Bergen county will
provide active agents rather than side
line SDacfatOrc in 1Q-9