The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-05-07
STATE TROOPS
T0H0LDCAMP
DURING JUNE
North Dakota Guardsmen to
Train on Shores of
Devils Lake


al Guard. representing nineteen
military organizations with total
strength Of between 1900 and 1850
men, will be in camp at Camp Graf
ton, Devils Lake, June Is to p, IN
elusive, Adjutant General G. A. Fra
ser announced today.
Companies A from Bismarck; Il
and Headquarters company of Fargo;
ID from Minot; II of JamcStown; y
Of Grand Forks and the Devils Lake
Howitzer company, with the compan-
les from dozen other towns in the
state that make up the states infan-
try regiment will be cncamped on
the shores Of Devils Lake.
This years camp" General Fra
ser said today, will have for its
major purpose the development of
team work in offensive combat on
the part of the small unit-the squad,
platoon and company. We have
thereby to give greater training to
the minor officers, including cor
porals, sargeants and other petty Of
ticers.'
that more than a thousand young
men who will temporarily take up
military life during the fifteen day
camp will receive not only the mill
itary training. but general man
building work.
A full program Of supervised ath-
letics will be available for the men,
he said. Institutional periods for
the purely military work will be
from a. m. to 1880 a. m. and from
p. m. to $3.50 p. M. From $3.50 un-
til 4.30 each afternoon, a schedule
of track and field events, baseball.
swimming. wrestling and boxing
will be in effect.
This athletic training will be on
competitive basis, according to
present plans, each unit sending rep
resentatives into the various events,
the winners of which will all meet in
finals during Field Day." June 26.
This day has been set aside as a
holiday for the guardsmen, with the
athletic competitions headlining the
days program. Hundreds of parents
are expected to visit the camp on
that day.
Each day will close with some sort
of ceremony. A parade will pre-.
cede Taps" on one day, review on
another day, and some other mill
tary ceremony the next day, accord
ing to the state commander of the
guards.
June 20 will be Governors Day"
ut the camp. On this day Governor
A. G. Sorlie, COMMUNICATIVE chief of
the troops, will sit with his staff in
review of the states military forces.
Members of the legislature have also
been invited to review the troops
with the governor. A full days pro-
gram has been laid out for the visit
of the governor. He will be the
guest Of the officers of the regi-
ment.
Included with the schedule of reg
ulation army drill and parade work
which will be in effect throughout
the encampment, are range practices
and two-day regimental maneuver.
A new forty-target range is now
being put in shape, something over
mile from the camp grounds. 1t
was completed last summer and is
said to be one Of the finest national
guard ranges in the middle west.
On this range each unit will have
three days of firing. Rifle compan-
les will fire during three days of
m ~ NM Ii
panies during another three days,
and the Devils Lake Howitzer COM
pany will use its 81 milimeter guns
and trench mortars on the targets
another three days.
One OF the main events in the
camp life of the thousand young SOL
diers will be the two-day full regi-
mental maneuver. General Fraser
said. On June "a and IS, the guards
men will march with full equipment
to the TT. Totten Indian reservation.
There the regiment will divide and
war" will begin. Half of the Off
GERS and men will show their skill
at finding the enemy" tracking the
Zoe and discriminating" the op-
position forces. while the other half
Is seeking to avoid being found, cap
tured or beseiged and is also trylne
to locate the first division and stake"
it.
Umpires. appointed by the state
officials, will view the war" and
decide which section of the guarus
won the two-day conflict.
The pua ri MON mill =. .-. e
their permanent base for the two
days and through one night. They
Will sleep during the night in shelter
tents and generally observe marching
regime during the maneuvers.