Show Now In San Diego The first platoon of the modern modem Mormon Battalion having entrained for tor Ban San Diego on July recruiting has commenced for the second cond of the three platoons to be enlisted Major Con D D. D Shard recruiting director for tor the U U. S. S Marine Corps announces from his office In the Federal Building at Salt Lake City Twenty applicants thronged his once office the day the first 63 Battalion men left lett for California and Major Shard expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the hope that the full battalion of ot men would soon be in uniform Organized to commemorate the service to its country of at the famous Mormon Battalion of 1846 t the e new Mormon Battalion Bat Dat- tallon accepts only men of ot the L L. D D. S. S faith in good standing in the church Major Bilard commenting on the fact that three among the first group of ot re- re crusts were descendants of the original Battalion members noted that Battalion I men labored after their return to Utah to build up almost every colony established established established by the Mormons and observed that recruits from the small towns of ot the intermountain mountain region are especially desired de desired desired de- de sired to reflect in the modern generation I family traditions of the past |