Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1916 — Twenty Per Cent of Militia Fail Tests in 'ndiana. [ARTICLE]

Twenty Per Cent of Militia Fail Tests in 'ndiana.

Physical examination of each of the 4,300 officers and men in camp at Fort Harrison while awaiting orders from the war department to move to the Mexican border was completed Wednesday evening. A corps of medical officers, working in two shifts, had worked on the job for a week. Every man i ncamp has been carefully examined from head to foot. Every man from the commanding officer to the private has submitted to a test ox his lungs, heart, vision and nearing. The number of men who have been rejected is not known as yet, but it is estimated that at least‘2o per cent of them will be rejected. One captain, Jesse T. Johnson, of Co. D, of Indianapolis, was rejected because of defective vision and surplus weight.