The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-04
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WELCOME PRESIDENT
AND PARTY TUESDAY
Protective Gordon of 500
Guardsmen to Be Thrown
Around Devils Lake
TO VIEW DIVERSION SITE
40, 900 Expected to Trek to City
For Glimpse Of Nations
Executive

A protective Gordon Of 500 National
Guardsmen will be thrown around
Devils Lake and its vicinity Tuesday
when President Franklin D. Roose-
welt visits there on tour Of the Mis-
souri, river diversion project.
Plans were nearly completed Satur-
day by Captain H. A. Brocopp, assist.
ant adjutant general, for handling o,
National Guardsmen.
Troopers will line highways leading
into Devils Lake. along the route of
President Roosevelt's proposed tour.
They will also act as traffic police.
men within the city, to maintain
smooth movement Of traffic.
10000 to See President
Approximately 10000 persons are
expected to crowd into the city t.
mark the event.
The following companies will b
service for the day:
Howitzer company, Devils Lake;
Company A, Bismarck: Company B,
Fargo; Company G, Grafton; Com
pany D, Minot:: Company F, Caring
ton; Company H, Jamestown: Com
pany I, Wahpeton; Company L, Hills
boro: Company M, Grand Forks;
Headquarters company, First Batta-
lion. Cavalier; Headquarters company,
Second Battalion, Cando; Headquar-
tiers company, third Battalion. Minot;
Service company, Lisbon, Medical de-
tachment, Edgeley, and Headquarters
company, 164th Infantry, Fargo.
The men will report to Camp Grafton
not later than p. m. Monday, and
will remain on duty during the follow
ing day.
Colonel Leroy Baird Of Bismarck
will be in command Of the troops.
Captain George Bier will act rs regi-
mental adjutant, and Captain Fred
Mann will be in command Of distribu-
ton and correlation Of activity.
Fifty secret service men will accom-
pany the president on his proposed
tour Of $50 miles around Devils Lake
to Minnewaukan, to Lallie, thence to
Oberon, Sheyenne and New Rockford
and return, to Fort Totten and Camp
Grafton.
A second, alternative tour, calls foi
the president to travel only around
the lake itself, coming back into Camp
Grafton
The guardsmen will travel to Devils
Lake Monday night by individual au-
tomobiles, or other means arranged by
company commanders. No general
mobilization at any entraining point
has been ordered in the interests OF
economy. Captain Brocopp said.
Guards TO Take Posts At Dawn
The men will encamp at Camp
Grafton, bunking in the mess hall.
Dawn Tuesday will find the men at
their posts. Men will be at each cross
roads to prevent cross tarffic along
the line OF the presidents tour. AL
roads will be cleared Of other traffic.
Guardsmen travelling in pilot cars
will precede the presidential fleet Of
automobiles. The president will be
accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and
three sons, Franklin D., James and
John Roosevelt; Louis M. Howe, the
presidents secretary: Stephen Early,
assistant secretary to the president:
Rudolph Forster, executive clerk;
Captain Wilson Brown, and Lieuten-
ant Commander Ross T. Mcintyre,
naval attaches: Col. E. NJ. Watson.
army aide; Mrs. Malvina T. Schneider,
H. M. Kannes, Dorothy Jones, e. w.
Smithers. George A. Fox, u. s. n, and
Secretary Service Operative I. Nc
Duffie will also be included In the
presidents personal party.
Admiral Cary T. drayson viii Join
the party ct Rochester, MINI.
Sixteen newspaper correspondents
Of all parts Of the country win Be at
tached to the presidential party, to-
gether with. nine newspaper and mo-
ton picture cameramen. three broad
casting representatives. and two tele-
graph representatives.