Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1918 — 7,000 MILES TO JOIN ARMY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

7,000 MILES TO JOIN ARMY

After traveling 7,000 miles to get a chance to join the United States army, Joseph R. Guiteras. a mining engineer, appealed to Draft Inspector Martin Conboy of New York to aid him to realize his ambition. Mr. Conboy gave him a letter of introduction to the commander of the Twenty-spventh Engineering corps stationed at Camp Meade. Guiteras was graduated from the School of Mines at Columbia university with .the class of ’ll. For the last two years he has been working for the Braden Copper company in the Andes mountains. When war broke out between America and Germany the young engineer, he is about thirty years old, went to the United States embassy In Valparaiso, Chile, and asked for permission to join the American forces in his professional capacity. The embassy officials were, unable to makg the arrangements. Then the draft law was passed and his father, Daniel N. Guiteras, formerly a surgeon in the navy, registered/ liim in Denver, Colo. His brother, Julian G. Guiteras, went with the expeditionary forces to France. The mining engineer finally threw up his job and started for the States.