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Show STRONG 15 FIGHTING Commander Says Serving to Enlisted Men Is Unpatriotic. GUN DRILL CONTINUES Lieutenant Wayne Successfully Success-fully Experiments With Radio Appliance. By FLOYD A. TIMMERMAN, Staff Correspondent. CAMP KBARXV. Feb. 20. To furnish a soldier with intoxicating liquor under any circumstances v.ill be considered an unpatriotic act on the part of citizens in the vicinity of Camp Kearny, in the opir. ion of Major-General Frederick S. Sti-; who today discussed the proposed rnodi.v cation of the military liquor regulaUon recently contained in Washington pre. dispatches after this conference with camp correspondents. The dispatches have contained ir.for-mation ir.for-mation that liquor may be sei-ved to service ser-vice men in the homes of their frieriih; providing the .soldiers are bona ti quests. General Jrtron asserted, in opening bis talk, that no ofheial ordT had been received from Washington in regard to the liquor modification and h-knew h-knew nothing about it wi-Ji the exception of what has been contained in the news-papers. news-papers. The military police, he says, are still enforcing the law which makes it an offense for any person to furnish ofrhen or enlisted men in private homes or under un-der any circumstances, and this regulation regula-tion would be strictly enforce! until o;. rieial orders for its canceilation were received. It is believed that hundreds of pero:.? in, the vicinity of Camp Kearny aiii in many cases tiie soldiers themselves hae taken the press dispatches as official ar have been guided by it. or will be. and a.; a result many of them may come to grie:. Will Appeal to Officials. Should the modification come, General Strons &aid he may later make &n apo-ea. to the citizens of San Diego arid vici ni: and ask them as a matter of patriotism not to furnish any of the men with intoxicating in-toxicating drink. lie explained tha: through tiie enforcement of the presr.: regulations by U:e military police a:. civil authorities drunkenness has ljer. practically eliminated among the men c the commanJ. The modification, in r.:? j mind, will make it an easy matter for j the men to obtain liquor and the e:f:-I e:f:-I cieney of the division will suffer as a I result, ! Gun drill "and foot forma" ions on t!;-I t!;-I parade sjrounds whs continued today ::. ! the LTtah camp. Tho grounds where I mounted drill i he!d was v.oi eniireT 1 dried and the mounted instruction f- i j Second bT.ttalioif was not bsun. lieutenant Byron H. Wayne, who is i;. charge of the wirelos inetruvtion. tod;y installed a permanent rr.dio outfit in the I res? i m e r t and this a f t e i r, oon 1 1 e v. a s t catching messaees from steamers at ) and sevora! wireless' points on the Jjf rific coast. The Ttah wireless h"-. greater receiving and sendinar ranee thar any in t he cantonment. The peniiaii?:.: aerial was constructed by -Sergeant W-liam W-liam Wiseman of A battery, who had years of experience in radio work. Private Is Discharged. Discharge from the service, due ;o physical defects, was irranted today :o 1-Yivote Leonard Vaughn of F battery. He was sriven a certificate of honora'.Va ; discharge and will leave tomorrow for !vs home in l'tah. Private Benjamin F. W-?-del of D battery was today transferred to tiie medical detachment at the Ixis hospital for permanent duty. 0rpor:-.l Wayne C. Booth of A battery will leave tomorrow on a furlough for American Fork, l'tah. whore Ids mother is ill. He lias been granted a twelve-day leave. Officers of the regiment will in turn r culled upon t o a Mend the school o f a r -tillerv rire at Fort SiU. Ok'.a. CapLu:; UeWiit Foster is now on his way to thr school. Captain A. A. Meyers, commander com-mander of A battery, will leave nex: week, and Lieutenant Roy V. Woods ha? been selected to leave the week following. follow-ing. Tiie course covers a three months' period. Payrolls for the regiment wer completed today and turned in to :h? ennip paymaster. G:"!b:-crs at rosrhnents. headquarters said today that the l":.h. men would bp paid promptly on the rirst of next month. CAM P I.KWIS. Tacoma. Feb. lieutenant lieu-tenant 1. lv. Smith of the medical cons was today raised in rank from first lieutenant lieu-tenant to captain and given an ass;.c:i-mont ass;.c:i-mont with the SL'nd field" signal batta!:o;;. Before coming to Camp Low is. v".tpra:". Smith served at Fort IVmslas, T'fah. t' e internment camp near Salt Lake. lit wa Tormerlv a physician at Focatcl-1. Idaho. |