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Show STUDENTS' CORPS IS v TO DISBAND TODAY Body at Utah Agricultural College Will Demobilize on Getting Pay. Special to The Tribune. LOGAN, Dec. 20. As fast as their pay can be counted and their discharge papers pa-pers signed, the men of the students' army training corps at the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college will tomorrow be mustered mus-tered out of the service of Uncle Sam. The final step in demobilization will begin be-gin tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock and beford night every one of the 643 men m the corps again will be a civilian. Military work has been carried on in the organization intensively and continuously con-tinuously every day since the installation installa-tion of the corps on September 3d and, with the exception of an enforced stop- ; 1 ign of two weeks, due to influenza, ;u'.ndemic work also has continued. 1 Physical examinations conducted Thursday and Friday showed "not a trace of influenza in the battalion, no venereal j Lf disease and but eight men in any way ! ' incapacitated. In practically every case j r the men are being returned to civil life in improved physical condition, with : gains in weight from three to twenty j pounds. The students' armv training corps was ! established at the Utah Agricultural col- lege September SO.'Svhen similar organ- : izat Vns were installed in several hun- ! dred institutions. At that time tie 463 ! members of the national army training j detachment, who were being trained at . thp college, became the vocational sec- i lion of the R. A. T. C. During the time the S. A. T. C. was in operation at the inatttut ion, 253 men were inducted Into the collegiate section. 467 into the telephone-electrician work, and 361 into the vocational section. Of this number fifty-n fifty-n ne were sent to officers' training camps to prepare fur commissions. Tiie collegiate men received, aside from military training, academic instruction in war issues, military law, personal work, ! military hygiene, military French, bacteriology, bac-teriology, mapping and, for those in the ! quartermaster's course, training in com- ; merce and business. The vocational men were trained as machinists, blacksmiths, I wagoners, chauffeurs, auto mechanics, , i-H.dio operators or topographicl draughts- i men. All received a course in war aims. The college was able, through the , most complete co-operation of military and school officials, to provide adequate i barracks and mess accommodations for : the men. The new livestock building was turned over to the battalion to serve for barracks, and other companies were placed in the Thomas Smart gymnasium and in the college chapel. The south wing of the main building, which was to have been used for barracks, was used as a hospital during the influenza epidemic. epi-demic. Influenza made its appearance at the college about. October 16. A large and completely equipped hospital was organized organ-ized at once and was in operation by Oc-iober Oc-iober 18 under the direction of Dr. D. C Budge. The hospital was in use four weeks, by which time the influenza was completely stamped out. During the four weeks 241 case3 of influenza or Biispect-ed Biispect-ed influenza were cared for. Of this number, six died, making a death rate of one-fourth of 1 per cent. Five physicians physi-cians were in constant attendance, with two graduate nurses and ten attendants. Three physicians were employed to care for the men in the barracks outside of the hospital. Cooking for the ailing men yras done under direction of the School of Home Keonomics by former students of the Institution. In-stitution. 1 Of the 613 at the college at the time of demobilization, all but seventeen had taken government insurance. Insurance was written to the amount of $5. 890,500 for the men and $210,000 for the officers. At the time of demobilization the S. A. T. C. was organized and officered as follows: Captain Stephen Abbot, U. S. A., re-tiriid, re-tiriid, commandant; Captain Henry Mnyle. 21st infantry, U. S. A., executive officer; First. Lieutenant H. C. Force, adjutant; First Lieutenant W. E. Pinch, chief tactical officer; First Lieutenant T. II. Holcombe, in command of A company; com-pany; and Second Lieutenants Thomas 10. Leavey, in command of D company; George 15. "Waring, in command of B company; Gleu L. Miller, post exchange officer; Clyde Romney, attached to D company; Fred A. Finch, in command of C company; James M. Chrlstenson, mo- rale officer; Gethin T. Fowler, attached I to C company; George B. Hendricks, per- ' annuel officer; M. L. Harris, assistant personnel officer: L. M. Chipman, attached at-tached to A company; James K. Wat- i kins, assistant adjutant; George C. Big- j gar, attached to D company, and James N. Pulliam. attached to C company. |
