Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — CENERAL.AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

CENERAL.AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places.

HERE’S WINAMAC AGAIN Seventeen Members of Guard Coiupany Wish to Come Home. Washington, August 7.—The Winamac company of the Indiana national guard, which has already engrossed the attention at various times cf President Wilson, Senators Taggart and Kern and Representative Rauch, now has a new cause for comp'aint. In a letter to Senator Taggart received yesterday it was said that J 7 members of the Winamac company who have other persons dependent on them for support and wh« are thus eligible for dismissal from the guard, have been unable to obtain their dismissals. No reason was given for the alleged refusal to give these men their dismissals under the recent order of Secretary Baker, but it was evident that there must have been some misunderstanding in the present case, as the men are plainly eligible to dismissal and there is no rule or order under which they could be held in the service. Some time ago a Winamac citizen wrote to Washington that one of the members of the company had ap plied for dismissal under the dependent rule and had immediately been put on fatigue duty by his superior officer.