Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1919 — FOUR BATTERIES AT INDIANAPOLIS [ARTICLE]

FOUR BATTERIES AT INDIANAPOLIS

MEN ASSIGNED TO FORT HARRISON BARRACKS — DE- * MOBILIZATION EXPECTED. . i . , ThSTieadquarfers company batteries A, B, D and E of the 137th Field Artillery reached Fort Harrison early Monday morning from Camp Merritt, N. J. The first section bearing the headquarters company batteries B and D, arrived about midnight and a few hours later the second.section carrying batteries A and E pulled in at fKejpost siding. The men slept in their cars until morn-' mg, when they~were derainejjand were assigned to barracks. The headquarters company is commanded by Capt. Clarence C. Bassett of Goodland, Ind, and is composed of eight, officers and 138 men recruiting from South Bend. The other officers are First Lieutenants Houston F. Merriam, Owen K. Appleman and Cary A. Davis; Second Lieutenants Thomas W. Befiham, Edward J. Meehan, Earle F. Ross, Robert O. McCray and Charles E McConenll. Battery A is commanded by Capt. Clark R. Carson of South Bend. There are-170 enlisted men and five other officers in the outfit. The other officers are First Lieutenants John O. Pfeiffer and Horace B. Williams and Second Lieutenants Mi Ibourne O. Wilson, James F. Chapman and Merrill T. B. Spaulding. The unit was recruite dat Angola. First Lieutenant Elmer A. Gird of Indianapolis commands Batery B. He has been in command,of the battery since June, 1918. Second Lieutenants Howard M. Oviatt, Creal S. Lindsen, Robert S. Lawrence and Edward J. Dunne, are officers of the unit. There are 170 enlisted men in the batery. The battery is composed of enlisted men from Albion and Kendallville.

Battery D has five officers and 141 enlisted men. First Lieutenant Fred F. Longfellow of Warsaw has been commanding officer of the battery since June, 1918. The other officers are First Lieutenant Donald M. Parkin, Second Lieutenants William E. Sayre, Edwin D. Orser and Charles H. Martin. Men from Warsaw, Rensselaer and Portland are included in the enlisted men in the battery. First Lieutenant Ernes t R. Schuelke. of Elkhart commands battery E, which was recruited in Elkhart. First lieutenants Lloyd H. Morris and Brisco B. Brown, Second' Lieutenants Harold C. Pond, Georgd a Jaderquist and Walter G. Wallace are the commissioned officers of the battery. There are 157 enlisted men in the battery. Maj. Jesse T. Me Da vis heads the medical detachment. There are six other men in the detachment, which traveled with the two sections. Batteries C and F are the supply, ordnance and medical detachment and will leave Camp Merritt Wednesday for the post to be demobilized. When the outfits detrained during the early morning they were marched to their barracks in the west cantonment and immediately prepared for their first breakfast on Hoosier soil in seventeen -months. - • '—■ - = Few of the soldiers-who. had relatives in Indianapolis were visited during the day. A of the soldiers were passes for the night and visited Indianapolis.'' It is expected demobilization of the meq of the outfit will be started within a few days. Maj. H. G. Smith of the engineers, who is in charge of demobilization, said that the men would be mustered out as quickly as possible. The officers, however, must wait until their applications for discharge arrive from the War Department at Washington.