Appointees to Fort Snelling Are Named

Johnson County.  -- Minneapolis and Des Moines papers carried a list this morning of the names of 1500 successful applicants who will be admitted to the Fort Snelling training camp for officers, according to announcement of the camp officers. All received the grade of "A". An additional 500 is to be named from the applications and another 500 to be selected from national guard units.

This first lot to be named does not include all "A" men. Announcement was made by officers at the fort yesterday that all "A" men would receive notification and the reason why all were not named in the first list is not known. No notifications were received at Iowa City today even by those named in the list. Further reports indicated that the opening of the camp may be postponed. Lieut. Frank J. Mulkern, a reserve officer from Des Moines, and who is now at the camp in a dispatch to the Des Moines Capital says that a postponement until the middle of the week is likely.
 

Must wait for Card.
 

The upwards of two hundred and seventy-five Iowa City men and students who applied are anxiously waiting word. No one is authorized to report to the camp until official notification is received from the officers at the fort and such will clear matters up. It is believed that all "A" men will finally be admitted. It is probable that some may even then be rejected as another physical examination is likely to be required of applicants on their arrival at camp. Some men, already commissioned in the officers reserve have been rejected.

Following are the Iowa City men, students and alumni in the State University of Iowa, who were on the list of the first 1500 as announced last night. These were nearly all examined by Captain Munrana and number 97. About 275 in all were examined here:

~ Iowa City ~

~ Students. ~

~ Alumni and Former Students ~

~ source: Iowa City Daily Citizen, Iowa City, Johnson co., Iowa, May 10, 1917
~ transcribed for Iowa in the Great War by Sharyl Ferrall  http://iagenweb.org/iowaoldpress/