Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — GUARD NEEDING MORE TROOPS [ARTICLE]

GUARD NEEDING MORE TROOPS

Detachment From Indiana Brigade Coming Home to Boom Enlistments For Uncle Sam. Thousands of recruits are wanted by the United States army for service on the Mexican border. Places are open for at least three thousand Indiana boys. The Hoosier lads who enlist will be assigned to the Indiana organizations already mobilized at Llano Grande, six miles from the Mexican border.

The recruits are needed to bring the various regiments up to full war strength. Each Indiana infantry regiment can use nearly 1,000 men and the artillery battalion wants 100 more. Seven commissioned officers, fourteen non-commissioned officers and seven privates from Indiana regiments and the artillery battalion will compose a recruit detachment which will return to Indiana within a few days to begin an active, quick campaign for recruits. These officers and men will report to Capt. Remington at Fort Benjamin Harrison and will be used both for recruiting duty on the border will send back similar recruits. Each state represented on the border will .send back similar recruits. The men and officers who will return to Indiana from the Third infantry are, Capt. Carl F. Byer, of Warsaw, First Lieut. Lewis B. Hersey, of Angola, Sergt. Boyce Bunnell, of Monticello, Sergeant Grant T. Wynegar, of Rensselaer, Corporal Leroy Likens, of Auburn, Corpoial Charles J. Gibbs, of Valparaiso, Private Patsy Pirchio, of Elkhart, and Harry Burrows, of South Bend. The fact that an active command for recruits is to be conducted within the next few weeks in many states strengthens the belief that Uncle Sam expects intervention in Mexico to come sooner or later and that the government, in preparation for the emergency, proposes to take full advantage of the present lull to whip an army into fighting condition. About $29,000 in brand new money was distributed among the men and officers of the Third Indiana infantry and the Indiana field artillery battalion, and about $43,000 more is to be paid to Indiana soldiers when the First and Second Indiana infantry receive their pay for July service. Many of the men are sending their money home, keeping only small amounts for their own use.