New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1917, Page 9

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DRAFT WILL GIVE ARNY OF 528,650 ~All New England Troops to Train at Plattsburg, N. Y. “Washthgton, May 5.—The ‘tull strength of the first war army organ- "1, ized under the selective draft bill wili 454 i % ‘be 18,638 officers and 628,669 en- 1 men, making up eighteen war % strength divisions, supplemented by % sixteen regiments of heavy field ar- tillery, equipped with larger-calibre ‘howitzers. = “Virtually every deml of plans for ‘ rafsing, training, equipping, and or- ganizsing this force has been worked 1 out by the war dopartment, and the : selection of the men will begin as sgon as the draft measure becomes law: Conferees of the senate and house hope to agree on disputed fea- tures today, so as to send the bill to the president for 'his signature early next week. “There will be ten single officers’ trflnln‘ camps and three double, all 30f which will open on May 15. A re- vised 1ist of officers’ training camp Cistricts was issued today by the de- " partment.. The divisions and their ¢mp- will be as follows: \ Fivgt—Troops from all New Eng- hnd ‘states, Plattsburgh Barracks, . Y, Second—New York Congressional # Dlstricts 1 to 20, (includng Long Asland, New! York city, and a #trip north ot' ma city,) Plattsburghr Bar- ratks, N. ‘Yhh'd--kununflor of New York state and Penusylvania Congressional Districts 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 21, 26 and ;- Madison Barracks, N Y. < 4« Pourth—Remainder of Pennsyl- vania state - including Philpdelphia and, Pittsburgh, Fort Niagara; N. Y. Fifth — New ' Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and District’ of Columbia, Fort Myer, Va. - Sixth—North and South Carolina and ‘Tennessee, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., near Chattanooge, ‘Tenn- th—Georgia, ‘Albama and Florida, Fort McPhersdn, Ga. near Atlanta. 1 'El‘hthaohlo and West Virginia, ‘Benjamin Harrison, Ind.,” near ‘xnahmo ‘. . “Ninth—Indiana and Kentucky, Fort Harrison. PBenjamin /' Tenth—Illinois, Fort flh.flflfll. near Chicago. Eleventh«—Michigan and WI, Fort Sheridan. /Ewelfth-—Arkansas, Missiedypi ano '« Louisiana, Fort Logan H. Root, Ark., _ ndar Little Rock, . . Thirteenth—Minnesota, Yowa, North'| W and South Dakota'and Nebrasia, Fort Snelling, Minn., near St. Paul, Fourteenth—Missouri, ‘Kansas and Colorado, Fort Riley, Kan. Fitteenth—Oklahoma and Texas, Leon Springs, '.l‘eu.l. near San An- tonio. Sixteenth—Montana, Idaho, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico, Presidio, {San Francisco. Cavalry Dlvl.io-!ndndad In addition there will be two sep- arate cavalry divisions which prob- ably will be situated in the southwest, near the Mexican border. Officers for the, cavalry divisions will be trained at all of the sixteen officers’ training camps, which will open with 40,000 prospective officers under training. Each infantry division will consist of nine full regiments of infantry three regiments of fleld artillery, one. regi. ment of cavalry, one regiment of en- | gineers, one division hospital and four camp infirmaries. The total strength of the sixteen will be 15,022 officers and 439,792 men. The two cavalry divisions combined will have 1,214 officers and 32,062 fighting men, including mounted en- gineers and horse artillery units, and each will have also its divisional hos- pital and camp infirmaries. The proportion of coast artillery troops to be provided out of the first 500,000 will be 666 officers and 20,000 men, with requisite medical troops. Supplementing these tactical units will be: Sixteen regiments of heavy fleld artillery,” strength, 768 officers and 21,104 men; eight aero squadrons, or one new squadron to each two new infantry divisions; eight balloon com- punies, ten fleld hospitals, ten ambu- lance companies, twenty-two fleld bakeries, six telephone battalions, six- n pack companies, six ammunition ns, and six supply trains, .In preparation for the enormous tesk of training this great army, the cxisting regular estdblishment and the National Guard are being raised to full war strength. The regulars, when all five additional increments provide for in the National Defense act have been added, will total 11,283 officers and 293,000 men of all arms. Since April 1, nearly 50,000 recruits have been obtained, bringing the army up to, nearly 180,000. Upon the president’s approval of the army bill, the first increment will bo.added to the rggulars. Details of officers and designations 6f new units already have been arranged. As soon as possible thereafter, the remaining increments wil be created, existing regiments being divided and expanded to form the new units.. A Promotion For Officers. \Already orders summoning officers ©f the regular service for examination for advance in grade ‘e been: pre- pared, Fifteen lieuten colonels of cavalry will become nels, twenty- seven cavalry majors will become Jleutenant colonels, sixty-three cap- tains will become majors, and all ‘Heutenants will become captains. All t NEW BRfl'AlN DAILY HERAID SATURDAY MAY 5, 1917 fleld Rtmow leutenant colonels and the first five majors will be examined to become ‘colonels. The remaining majors and one captain will go up to lleutenant colonels, seventy captains will be examined for majors, and all lleutenants will become captaina. In the coast artillery thirteen lieu- tenant colonels must be promoted to colonels, twenty-two majors become | leutenant colonels, all captains will j become majors, and the first 230 lieu- tenants will be examined for captains. All. second lleutenants become first Heutenants. In the infantry, the first fifty lieu- tenant. colonels will be examined to become colonels majors down to No. 89 go up for lieutenant colonels, th first 20Q~-captains are slated for ma- Jors, and all present first lieutenants and second lieutenidnts, including the first 163, will become captains. ‘The resiilt of this expansion will be to create 5)M61 vacancies in the grades of ‘the first and second lieutenant in the army. More than a thousand Yyouths in clvil life already have.ap. plied for examination for ‘m it tenant, and 4,000 will be sel from the officers’ training camps. To provide general officers to-coms mand the eighteen divisionsl training camps that nuinber of army’colonels may be examined. As there exists al- ready one vacancy in the grade of brigadier general, nineteen new gen- eral officers must be appointed in the near future and the army bill provides that the president may select these men from any source. A uniform grade of major general, senior and junior rank, also has been proposed, doing away with the grade of briga- dier general. In any event, the pres- ent general officers of wide experi- ence probably will be selected, so far as possible, to command the divisional camps, National Guard Musters 329,954, The full strength of ‘the National Guard units now existing will be 9,847 officers and 329,954 men, giving a to- tal regular and National Guard force of 21,080 ‘officers and 622,954 men to ‘be whipped into shape before the new army is called. New units must be created, however, too fill out tactical organizations, and probably the total of this first force will exceed 700,000 active ‘troops backed by about 250,000 more in the regimental recruit bml- fons. From this force will be tomod eighteen ‘divisions corresponding to the organization of the first new army. From it also, early in Septamber, will %e drawn some 200,000 officers and non-commissioned officers who will constitute the framework on which the | new army will be shaped. They will | be, with the 10,000 officers to be se- lected from the training camps, the 4 ctors of the first army, and on eir efficiency rests the whole mili- tary fabric that is to be built up. In general, the plan will be to pro- vide regular army officers to command each new regiment, with an adequate number of regular or National Guard officers of experience to carry on ef- ficlently the administrative duties and to supervise instruction. During the interval 'between: ‘the, registration and the calling out of the new army the regular and National Guard divisions will be at work pre- paring the mobilizsation camps and ‘with their own training. To them also will continue to fall the duty of pro- tecting public. and private property. The commander of each training dis- tric®probably will direct this work un- der the orders of the commander of the military department in which his camp is situated. KIBBE 1S CENSURED Against Town Farm Superintendent ‘Who ‘Had Woman Arrested. The clarity commissioners, at their annudl re-organization meeting . Jast/ night, passed a vote to censure Super- intendent George F. Kibbe of the {Town Farm for what members term his outrageous action in causing the arrest of two women for picking dan- delion greens on Town Farm prop erty. It is claimed that not only did the superintendent have the women arrested, but that he also confiscated" the greens they had already gathered, Frank Riley was again re-elected chairman of the charity and Alonzo J. Hart was re-appointed as.superin- tendent. Dr. George Dunn was re- elected city physician and Burton J. Morey and Miss Antoinette 8mith were re-appointed as investigator and clerk respectively. TRIBUTE TO MRS. STRONG, Resolutions Passed By Y. W. O A. Trustees. The trustees of the Y. W. C. A. have passed the following resolutions ' in regard to the death of Mrs. Sarah A. Strong. | ‘Whereas, by the death of fi- Sarah A. Strong, a staunch friend and generous benefactor of this associa- tion, our hearts are trettly saddened, and Inasmuch as, by her uu of conse- | cration to the welfare of others, she will forever be an inspiration to all who knew her for higher and holflr service, be it Resolved, by the trustees and - dai- rectors of the Young Women's Christ- jan assocfation, that this expression of the estimation In whch she was held by us be placed upon the rec¢- ords of this association. Signed, ‘MRS, J. B. TALCOTT, KATE M. BROOXE NO LET UP NOTED IN REALTY TRADE Thirty-one Property Transiers Recorded This Week . ‘Twelve marriage licenses, thirteen death records and thirty-one reality transfers was the record in city hall this week, the real estate transfers be- ing as follows: John Yuckot to Wateryan and Rosalia Zardiewski, land and, bullding on Alden street; Clarenoe J. Board- man to Samuel L. Kaplan, et al, land 4nd dbuilding on ‘' Winthrop street: Gneou.smmaaumubmna Diemond, land and bullding on Euh street; Augustine F. Wooding to Joseph H. and Louiu Lukowski, lahd and building on ‘Daly street: Au- gustine F. Wooding to Josephine Grzegorowicz, land and building on Daly street; Jennle Steele to Charles ‘W, 8teele, l1and and building on Brad- ley street; M, Saliski to Viola Saliski, land’ and dullding on Lafayette street; Augustine J. iAnderson to Lars J. Anderson, land and building on Millard istreet; Estelle C. Wetmore to Joseph S. Bennett, land on Arch street; Charles L. Barnes to Orrin H. and Burnham A. Goodrich, land on Peu] street; Anthony Jedosimeki to John Talarsky et ux, land and bulld- ing on Farmington avenue; Antoni Karpinski to Stanislaw Greyk, land and bullding on Hayes street; M. H. and H. V. Camp to Walter J. and Anna Hall, land and building on Farmington avenue; A. N. Lewis to Ida C. Fromen, land and buflding on ‘West Main street; Henry P. S8mith to Anthony and Eva Minolga, land and building on' Allen street and McClin- tock street; Regina mbach to Rosalia Mieczkowski, land and bulld- ing on Curtis street; James Prender- gast to Mendel Sicklick, €t ‘al, land and bullding on West etreet; August Mouries to August and iAmelia Linn, land and bdbuilding on Rhodes street; Guisspps Palumbo- to Maria Palum- bo, land and bdullding on South Main street; Eleanor I. J. Kindler t6 the city of New Britain, land on Mill street; Aaron Molander to Raymond W. and M. A. Thompson, land and ‘butlding on Cottage Place; Eleanor I. J. Kinder to city/of New Britain, land and building on Mill street; Johmn J. Higgins to James J. Wi land and building on Milton of Mary Connelly to land and bullding on Park ‘street; tate of Annie Russell to CHftoR. Davenport, land and butlding on len street; estate of Annie R Cornelius J. Scanlon, land and b nelius O'Brien to F. C. and Hocumb, land on Corbin avenue: le D. Welch. to Aaron Paul’ land and building on Blake Gourts ll.’r and Msa. Wlllhm mfl* Griswold street-celebrated their ty-fifth anniversary at their home 4 evening when they ware d reception by friends, some of guests coming from ingfield, couplo received a nu: ofp including a purse of sliver. Mr." hiaber is ‘well known here, bcln( ‘ployed by Henry Schwab. Mr. and Mrs. Firnhaber were rled in Springfleld on May 4, and since that time have made ¢l home in this city. They have c¢hildren: Lopise, Frederick, and Martin. ! 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