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Show i gjSSTO GUARD f v,vjoPERTY AT POST i fta'talion Headquarters of k- ' . , , 23rd Regiment to Be Moved. MAJOR ROSE LEAVES J; Decision From Washington o: on Matter of Command y. Expected Soon. ;,. Battalion headquarters of the TNven-ty TNven-ty tbird battalion, United States guards, and B company of that organization r , which are now at Fort Douglas, are to J; . be moved to other points and the Sev-vh Sev-vh engineers will take over the Vguard duty of the post. Where the guards will go from here ' or when they will depart constitute information in-formation not permitted to be printed under the new censorship) regulations, ; hut it is understood that the battalion headquarters and commandor will be stationed at a different point from the new location of the company. . ' ' Transfer of the guards to other points will take from the post Major James A. Rose, who just recently became post t commander, and Captain M. S. Game, who was post commander previous to 'the arrival of the major. Captain B. II. Miller, Jr., Seventieth engineers, will become post commander, at least ' until tho matter of the status of the post is finally determined and it is fi learned whether the fort is a line post or a special hospital post. Expect Decision. The matter of determining the exact status of the post was taken up recently re-cently by Major General John F. Mor-r Mor-r rison, commanding general of the west-'' west-'' era department, and a decision from Washington on the issue is expected at . most any time. -l. If the post proper is declared to be a special unit post and turned' over to y. the reconstruction hospital, as indica-tions indica-tions point, the hospital commander a will be the post commander. If the engineers remain at the post they will be in a separate section, and the rank-ing rank-ing engineer officer will be in eom- mand of the engineer division of the l! post. Whether the construction engineers ! are permanently located at the post is not known. VVhen they were ordered here it was presumed that they were sent here for the purpose of constructing construct-ing a spur railroad from the Rio Grande ' tracks in augarhouse to the post. '' StillUncertain. . JWwcver, while the estimates relative ani np' cost and such facts have been sub-.' sub-.' tifi.-iitted to the war department, no appro-AMoa.ia.tion appro-AMoa.ia.tion to cover the building or the BK!1,mr has yet been made, and no orders p.cerning it have been received aside .hs.Ki.&t those directing that an estimate . naiorst be prepared and submitted. In '"'' skirt, the condition of uncertainty at the post still maintains. ! Captain Game, who has been at the post since the Twentieth left, in eom- j mand of the guards and of the post un-.! un-.! til the arrival a few days ago of Major ;, Rose, expressed appreciation' of the manner in which the guards have been '" received and treated by the people of J1 ' Salt Lake, and regret at having to leave , ,- Fort Douglas and the city. Officers w and men, he said, have taken a particularly par-ticularly strong liking to the fort and to Salt Lake, and would have liked to remain on duty here, at least until an ' opportunity was given for duty on the fighting lines. Suit Ijike. there is a demand for cverv rommon laborer available for use in war industries. The employment service also reports a shortage In skilled laborers, car-, penters, steel workers, and. in fact. In all ndustries. This national shortage will be Increased by the coming draft. The labor department is wiring the bait like Building Trades council, approving ap-proving your action to slop nonwar construction, con-struction, and the war industries board absolutely concurs." A letter to the state council from O. R. UK-hardson of the priorllies committee of the war Industries board savs the board does not favor granting priorltv "for an-malerlal an-malerlal for such purpose as building a theater at this abnormal and critical time. ' |
