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Show .TROOP ALLOTMENT BELOW EXPECTATIONS JORGENSON DECLARES 1 Major Fred Jorgenson, adjutant general of Utah, last night expresed surprise at the allotment of troops made Utah, when it had been expected that there would he organized here an entire regiment of cavalry. The units proposed, he said, will mean that the state will be allowed a national na-tional guard of 1030 men. Of this number there will be 420 in the squadron of cavalry, 640 in the battalion of field art:llery and about seventy in the field hospital company. In addition, this number of men will require thirty-six 1 officers. The' squadron of cavalry will consist of four' troops of 105 men max- ! imum in each. The allowance for the four ', batteries of artillery will be 135 men each. Major Jorgenson said last night it is optional with the governor to accept or rejecttfthe allotment offered. He stated Kentucky declined to accept the designation designa-tion of state troops there and went ahead to form their jnilitia along the prewar plan of organization. The difficulty shout such a move is the probable withdrawal of government funds from the state organizations. or-ganizations. No steps will be taken by the local guard authorities until Governor Bamberger Bamber-ger and Lieutenant Colonel William W. Gordon, the recently arrived inspector-Instructor, have been consulted. The news came to Ma.ior Jorgenson as a complete surprise, as he had been given no inkling of what the federal plans would be. The state guard, as now recognized by the federal authoities, consists of two troops of cavalry, one in Salt Lake and one in Ogden. The strength is 166 men. In commenting on the mixed character of the units assigned to Utah, Major Jorgenson Jor-genson said the scattered 'population of the state makes difficult to handle the diversity of branches. He said that, in His belief, a straight regiment of either cavalry or infantry would be better adapted to the conditions of the state than the arrangement suggested by Washington. Wash-ington. Lieutenant Colonel Gordon, veteran of overseas service in France and a graduate of West Point, arrived yesterday to take up his work as inspector-instructor of the National Guard of Utah cavalry regiment. regi-ment. Much of Colonel Gordon's experience in a long military career has been in command com-mand of cavalry. Colonel Gordon has just returned from France, . where he served in the 320th regiment, Eightieth division, the men of which were drawn largely from western Pennsylvania. |