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Show Marine Station Record High! 6SJ J3 2 4S Farmers Lead in Enlistments! MAJOR "ALFRED M'CALLUM ROBBINS, U. S. marine corps, in charge of the Salt Lake district recruiting statement for the marines ma-rines since tho outbreak of war. I - f i -4 i'J 1 1 si - ; ? Jh vV pi - sy'-dS j j Major A. McCallum Rob-bins Rob-bins of Service Has Gathered Gath-ered High-class Men. A TOTAL of i:,77 men of high call-t-r have enlisted in tho United States marine corps, L'tah district, dis-trict, commanded by Major A. I ifrOal!um Uubhins. since the declaration of war on Germany, of those men, 78f have lje-n frrmi l'tah, 5iU from bbibn, 47 from W'voining and J 7-1 from other ti'rritory. i The marine recruiting office in this city I has bein ordered to re-cst ablish Itself on I a pre-war basi.s and t b(:in an cner-I cner-I fcctic campaign for men. All standards ! will bo of the same as before the. war I started until the present quota of 20,'JUU at leat is filled. Officers hi rdiare here slate that men from IS to .IS years of ape are wanted. Ihey niusl liavc specin! physical fiualifi- catifms. Exceptional opportunity for for- eiRii service :i now offered in th!s branch. The staff comprises: Major Alfred iEt:C. Robbins. Iirst Serp-eant Frank It. KijHch, Serjeant K. I). Cnmomilc. Cnr-; Cnr-; poial Patrick Barrett. Private tieneva , Curtis, female reservist; i'rivate Cleora , Murdock. female reservist, i Pho female reserviKts have been at- tached to tho station since November 13. Their enlistment is for four years. They I ;ire taking the place of men who have i been sent back to the barracks to line duty. This is the first time in the his-I his-I ti ry of the marine corps that women were actually enlisted. The record established by Major Rob-bins Rob-bins in this recruiting district is due lo the untiring aggressiveness which is necessary nec-essary to accomplish the results which have been attained. The district of Utah is comprised of the states of Utah. Idaho, and a part of Wyoming. The population of the district is approximately (520.000. On the first day of each month all , hoadquarters receive the number of men necessary to fill their quota lor that particular par-ticular month, and Utah has always gone "over the top," as it has in all things. The district of Utah has about cno-half cno-half the population of the Uos Angeles district, yet the quota for the Utah district dis-trict has been more men than for this district, and Utah has produced on the average of 100 per cent more men for the marine corps since the war began than this district. The Denver district, with S20,00i"i population, has fallen 5 per cent behind the Utah district in the number of men sent to the marine training camp at Mare Island. Cal. This district has a complete record of all men sent out, ' which includes the man's age, religion, occupation, birthplace birth-place and his residence flf the time of his enlistment. This record is showing the appearance of citations which inclurl t the man's record in France, and, it nu be said, there are a large number of men who have notations after their names. Major Tiobblns says, in regards to the men enlisted in the marine corps from this station since the war began: "Since assuming command of this distriof. a most pleasurable opportunity has been mine, that of knowing and conversing with nearly lfiOO young men from this locality who have entered the marine corps. "The prominent characteristics of the average recruit are splendid phvslque. with the fire and strength of youth, the age seldom running over 25 : character and learning, the great majority of our men being high school or university students; stu-dents; and the spirit of co-operation and the desire to acquire a knowledge of their new duties, usually manifest by their conscientious and- unquestioning acceptance accept-ance of what few regulations we have here, even though nearly ail are ignorant of military discipline. I could anticipate antici-pate no greater pleasure than to be associated as-sociated with the forces composed of the men secured from this district." Among those who are particularly mentioned men-tioned are Lieutenant Harold J. Read, ivho enlisted here li' December, JJ"17. as a private and was assigned the dutv of organizing a miners' and sappers' divi sion, which is the newest branch of the marine corps. Lieutenant Read came back from Quantico. Va as a sergeant, and as a result of his hard work in gel-ting gel-ting the 100 men to make up the division that upon his arrival back at Quantico again he was promoted to a second lieutenant. lieu-tenant. His miners and sappers ha e seen service in France and have been mentioned several times in the official reports. James K. Lane, who enlisted in the miners' division, refused a commission as lieutenant so that he could be the first , sergeant of the miners. Mr. Lana is from Park City, Utah. "Warren W. Stratton is another of the Utah boys who has made his niche m the records of the marine corps. He enlisted en-listed in Salt Lake in June of this vear as an Interpreter and was sent to Quantico Quan-tico also to take up his studies, lie had been with Herbert Hoover in Belgium at the beginning of the war and helped the Belgium relief society during 1!4 and 1915. After but two weeks in the service he was promoted to the rank of sergeant and placed on the staff of Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, and went 'through Italy, France and England En-gland on a tour of inspection. He is now at the officers' training school at Lyons, France. Carl K. Johnson ia still another of the boys to be mentioned. Johnson went tu ' trance m November, 1917, with the f.th regiment of marines, and was in the hottest hot-test of the fighting at Chateau Thierrv and was later wounded at Bedeau Wood. I He was sent to the Marine hospital in Brooklyn. N. Y.. and later given a furlough. fur-lough. He visited his parents in this cUv and told of the fight in which he was wounded. T-loscoe Ashworth, Rhodes scholar and Tribune staff man, is another prominent member. R-iymond F. Crow enlisted in Ma-JS'17. Ma-JS'17. just after war was declared, and was the first Utah boy to fall in France. Hugh Fackrell. Lowell F. Richardson, josepn w lines, urant H. Lyman Charles K. Peterson, William Stonebreaker, William Wil-liam W. Ipson, Thomas John, John M. Stone. Wilford R. Wanburg and Osmund W. Rarrur- have given their lives, to date, in France. Carl 10. Johnson, Alden Whftheck. Vem McCarroII, Leslie Pratt. Richard Inch and Vernon Guymon have oil been wounded. Guymon has received the distinguished dis-tinguished service cross for bravery in aclion. Ambrose McGarry, another Tribune Trib-une staff member, is in the marine offices of-fices in Washington. D. C. Of the men who went from Salt Lake as privates since April. 1917. the following follow-ing have been commissioned: Harold H. Head, Francis Porter, Harold E. .Cellogc. Walter J. Fitzmauricc, Solon B. Clark and F. W. Calloway. The 7th of May, 1917. Is i memorable day. Inasmuch as eleven men went from this district and or the eleven four have J been kilU-d in fiction. j |