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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1917
Page
6
A fragment describes travel offers and route options, inviting readers to drop in or write for a folder with maps and details. It mentions a general stop over and summer tickets, with a contact at J Berger Passenger Dept in New York City and a Madison Square address and phone.
City drives to enroll 2 600 men for the regular army during Regular Army Week. Ministers bands boy scouts and women’s groups rally workers and 100 plus recruits gather on Union Square docks aboard the land battleship Recruit as Navy officers and Marine Band greet them.
Plans for recruiting all branches of the service were outlined at a rally of college men held last night at the Harvard Club. The event featured speakers urging increased enlistment across military services.
Special dispatch from Washington notes Regular army recruitment spurt at week start with 1451 men enlisted on Monday. Totals by state listed, New York and California among others contributing, nationwide enlistments since April 1 reach 126 400.
Dr. William B. Dunning cites the Preparedness League of American Dentists urging New York employers to allow guardsmen time off for dental treatment ahead of active service. The unit faces 18 000 recruits needing care with about half requiring procedures, yet many are denied workday leave by employers, a stance deemed unpatriotic to keep troops healthy.
A deficiency estimate to the House requests 9 5 million dollars to procure machinery to manufacture rifles for the army. Part of the sum would equip rifle ranges. Secretary Baker stresses urgent need to supply machinery quickly to arm forces contemplated for the European war.
Letters suggest an agreement among smokeless coal operators on trial for Sherman Act violations. A Sept 6, 1916 letter lists Panama contract bids totaling about the amount asked, hinting at bid division to share work. Testimony cites navy supply contracts and fear of market manipulation. Trial to resume amid further letters and warnings.
Special to The New York Times from Plattsburg New York June 26. Captain H J Koehler master of the sword at West Point directs two weeks of physical training and bayonet work for 250 selected students in a stiff gym session. He also teaches intoning commands. Army instructors note improved marching and morale since air reserve officers are now saluted and kept at attention. The camp amphitheatre hosts three performances by Major Reginald Barlow with future shows by the Lambs Club featuring William Collier De Wolf Hopper and others.
Bayonet practice was the key feature at Madison Barracks Madison Harbor N Y. Students received instruction from American army experts using five foot long light sticks and targets later dummies. Battalion parade closed the day. Lt Cary R Wilson West Point graduate and former camp commander suffered serious injuries in a motorcycle crash near the camp. condition improved but remained serious.
Two conscientious objectors, Frank J. Otto Jr and Stephen Stanley, were sentenced in Philadelphia to one year in prison for willfully failing to register for the draft on June 5. Judge Thompson ordered they be registered after serving. The judge stressed no weight to objections and the country’s war duty.
The Federation of American Zionists reelected Dr. Harry Friedenwald of Baltimore to a fourteenth term as President. Louis Lipsky and Louis Robinson were named Vice President and Treasurer, with a large slate for the Executive Committee. The convention debated a peace pledge with anti Zionists and discussed Hadassah events in McCoy Hall and Hadassah plans in Baltimore.
Sixteen Michigan residents from Detroit Lansing Jackson and Port Huron were indicted by a Detroit Grand Jury on charges including conspiracy against the government failure to register and distribution of anti draft literature.
Miss Elizabth Whiting Murphy of Montclair N J is engaged to Whitney Coffin Colby of Montclair The Murphy family notes her father is a lawyer and Rockefeller staff member No wedding date has been set.
Robert P. Skinner, the American Consul General, has issued an appeal to all Americans in the United Kingdom liable to military service under the act recently passed by Congress to register. It is estimated there are 8,500 American males of all ages living in the United Kingdom.
Mrs. Henry G Campbell Jr 44 wife of a New York Stock Exchange member died after shooting herself in the temple at their Gramercy Park Hall apartment. The only other person present was the asleep butler John Horn. An affectionate note to her husband was found.
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