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MANY PROBABLY Will Make Up First Continent ef. Na tional Guarusjnen to Go Abroad From New England Who Will Train Six Weeks at Home. : ? Washington. -^Two army division? Instead ol one, comprising a total <& at least SS.bw men, probably wfll make up tbe first contingent of tbe national gpard to go to France: Although no official confirmation was abtamabZc. there was evidence that the composite forty-second divia Ion whose organisation recently was announced, will be accompanied abroad by the twenty-sixth, made hp of New England guardsmen. t The commander of the twenty sixth is Major General Clarence Ed wards, now acting as commander of the department at the nortfesa^-Jfoj forty-secQQd is commanded by Major General W. A. Mans. A report was current that suffi cient shipping will be -available for forwarding, two divisions within the time fixed for the departure of the forty-second and that the- twenty sixth had been selected to go because .it cow?M from a compact area and if composed largely of regiments of high" troops were left out of the composite | X/ ?? 3 t o A college education, several years experience aa an editor of .women's magazine* and a moat engaging per sonality have fitted Miss Sarah Field Splint to be a valuable member of the food administration. She ja one of the leading members of the publicity do NOMINATIONS FOR ?J ULARS AND looted from the list of more than lOfl new brigadiers. Coincident with this announcement of high command, came the statement from ofce war department that a com posite national guard division, com-, posed of troops from twenty-six states and the District of Columbia, was In process of organization under com mand of. Brigadier General Mann, now chief of the militia bureau" of the de partment, but who heads the Mat ol Rational army major generals. These wfcl be the^flrst national ?pa^ troops to be f^ent' to France No diseustrion to permitted by the censorship regulations, however, ol the timo of thai* mobilisation or de parture for the front. - I the list of genaral officers shows that the seniority rule has been fol lowed cloaoly) except .%hqr? men in ?r ? ' UNIT IS MADE ; TO CON ? ?3 v ' ? ? SEwS ?. -? iffiS* 3 SB WITH EUROPEAlliARW* . tion ojh army to dards as as a reserve to reorganise tne com pany If necewary. Under the new plan each regiment will have three battalions of four companies, making a total of 3,000 men. Supplemented by, the regimental headquartenf, sup ply and* machine gun organizations, the strength Of the new regiments wltf men as against little more than 2.000 Uj|n Aa?m* Mf>f Phann mri ^ypw1 Araw nn unangea. artiltety and -other vice has not beejM salt of reducing - th ments in a divisloi adequate and fair system of market ing for corn, -wheat, t*ats#liay, Deans and otter staple food and feed, stuff It a striking declamUoa 'ln a statement issued by tiie State Fbod Conserva tion Commission to the supply mer much benefit to Beaufort ^d to thU community was started here in a small way some weeks ago. The name oi this concern is the Beaufort Ship building Company and it began .bust ness without any flourish of trumpets, or ine usual bnass band methods of publicity that accompany the launch ing of important ventures. Indeed so own citizens do not know of its pre* C. A, RICHARDS : The move was tixe first of a series to be taken to reduce the price ol bread. Millers already have agreed to pot themselves . under jjoluntarj regulations and lire working out with the itood admlnlstratloa e, differentia? of profits. Distribution at flour bj the wholesalers and the baking ^ In announcing formation" - of the wheat corporation! thi food admiais tration also has wade known the per . sonnet of committee which will fix s price to be paid fOr this year's wheat yield, and the names of thirteen men who will act as purchasing agents for tke corporation it twmtab. . ;J The wheat corporation will be put under the administration's grain di vision. Its chairman wilt be Herbert Hoover and it?& president Julian Barnes, a Deluth exporter now serv ing as a voluntary aide in the fo|^fe 225^ be^ead^'trpfesldenl wheat ob that a second ment oT tte
The Farmville Enterprise (Farmville, N.C.)
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