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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
12
The Senate defeated an amendment to extend the draft age to forty years and kept the current 21 to 31 range. Debates centered on quotas, neutral citizens, and a proposed 5,000,000 man army, with officials warning impracticality and ongoing war needs.
Ernest Weichert a 33 year old Port Chester resident with German reservist papers wandered across the United States without registration officer endorsement. His route included Cecile the Kranzprinzess liner tale and visits to Niagara Falls and Pittsburgh stations before Sheriff Nossiter in Westchester County took him into custody.
The 1918 draft class includes 37,000 registrants who received questionnaires. Final mailings went out yesterday, with seven days to return forms. Classification will take two to three weeks after data receipt, aiming to assign men to classes within a month. Married men before January 15 face deferment. later marriages move to II-X if a child is expected, or II-X otherwise. Those who married chiefly to evade the draft go to I-X.
Washington June 28 Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York is named among forty three colonels sent to the Senate by President Wilson for promotion to brigadier general. Also nominated is Colonel Douglas MacArthur son of Arthur MacArthur and chief of staff of the Rainbow Division. Most selections come from regulars with Vanderbilt to command the 102d Engineers in New York National Guard.
CAPE MAY New Jersey June 28 The Bethlehem Steel camp at Petersburg twenty miles north of Cape May saw its barracks burn to the ground while 200 regular army men guarded 5 million dollars worth of shells. The fire spared the storehouses and the loaded shells were for the Russian government prior to the two years. Damage estimated at 50 thousand dollars.
New York sent 1,862 National Army men to Camp Upton marking the last of the June quota. About half came from Uivalog, Oneida, and St. Lawrence counties. Local Bogard 17 in The Bronx supplied Italian men who were naturalized. The city’s June quota totaled 7,343.
Late night incident in Stapleton Staten Island saw lighted matches dropped into a mail box destroying a large batch of draft questionnaires sent by the Stapleton local board. Police say three young men will be arrested and charged with attempting to destroy official army records to avoid service.
Washington June 28 Members of the House Military Committee were told at a War Department conference that American expeditionary forces are freer from disease than any other troops in Europe, with proportionately fewer cases than among troops training at home.
American officers and soldiers cited for heroism at Cantigny are listed with home addresses, including Colonel Lucius K. Holbrook of Boise Idaho Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr of New York and numerous captains lieutenants sergeants and privates from states such as California Colorado Georgia Kentucky Illinois Ohio and Texas. Dispatches from General Pershing identify many more names and their hometowns as records are checked.
Louis M. Josephthal a banker of 120 Broadway is named naval pay inspector with the rank of commander. He has served on Governor Whitman’s staff and led the New York State Naval Militia bureau. A veteran of the regular navy he is connected to multiple stock exchanges and has helped recruit for the naval reserves.
Special Dispatch reports War Department issued reserve corps and National Army commissions to New York residents. Named officers include Tasker Howard of 26 Sidney Place Brooklyn and George Watkins Abi of 636 West Tilth Street as captains, plus several first and second lieutenants across Medical, Quartermaster, Sanitary, and Air Service branches.
Cadet John Arthur Byrnes of the Royal Air Force died in an airplane accident at Camp Borden while on a solo flight. His mother is Mrs. H Byrnes of New York City. Also in Pensacola today John Zelle machinist at the local aviation field drowned when his aircraft fell into Pensacola Bay.
Floyd Dell once editor of The Masses, now in khaki at Camp Wadsworth, faces a second federal trial over alleged conspiracies to obstruct recruiting. Dell, who registered June 6 1917 as a conscientious objector, is among defendants in the government’s case against The Masses figures Eastman Reed Young and Glintenkamp. A juror dispute stalled the first trial, and Dell’s uniformed appearance may affect the government’s position.
Captain Eugene C. Rowan of the 162d Depot Brigade was dismissed after a War Department telegram. Lieutenant Robert H. Hall also dismissed and sentenced to twenty five years hard labor at Leavenworth for desertion and fund shortages. Rowan is from Georgia and Hall from Brooklyn.
Engineers and men with technical training seeking commissions in the Engineer Reserve Corps will be examined by a board in New York City July 3 through 6. The 29 West Thirty-ninth Street venue hosts the board led by Major E. H. Williams. Eligible ages are 32 to 36 for first lieutenants and 36 to 42 for captains, with extensions possible in special cases. Applicants must be citizens, actively practicing engineering, and in good physical condition. The Chief of Engineers aims to commission all passing officers within ten days to two weeks, targeting 2,000 new officers by mid August.
Lieutenant Raymond Templeton of Pendleton Oregon and Private Edgar Sawyer of Hartford Connecticut of the 5th Aero Squadron were killed this afternoon when their aircraft went into a tail spin and crashed about 160 feet to the ground. The machine caught fire and both bodies burned.
Chicago June 28 Edward N Hurley chairman of the United States Shipping Board urged manufacturers to think in world market terms and to support an unlimited shipbuilding program He said ships will be built to win the war and later to develop global trade He compared shipbuilding to Roman roads and urged cooperation to turn tonnage into lasting national wealth and foreign investment
Pacific Coast yards swept first honors from the Emergency Fleet Corporation for May output. Blue flags go to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Union plant in San Francisco for steel ships and to Grant-Smith-Porter of St. Johns Ore for wooden vessels. Second and third honors for steel ships go to Skinner & Eddy of Seattle and Moore Shipbuilding of Oakland, while wooden-ship honors go to Aberdeen Washington’s Grant-Smith-Porter yard and Seattle’s Allen Shipbuilding. Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher heads the awards board.
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