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Show mm m if ISIIE FDR ttw Captain Roberts, Field Hospital Command, er, Seriously 111. ARRANGE BIG REVIEW Several Promotions Are At. nounced at Camp Kearny; Grant Some Furloughs, By FLOYD A. TIMMEEMAN, Staff Correspondent. CAMP KE.vr.NT, Cal. Feb. ll.-.3 taking a hottle containing blchlorifc f ;rcury tablets for a bottle contain. aspirii. Captain George F. Robertt, " mano 1 of the L'lah field hospital, i;". lowed two of the poisonous tablets, m now lies in the camp base hospital f- s serious condition. The latest-, from his attending physician?, loJ wero to the effect that Captain faix-"' will recover from the poisoniii?, prmv.. f he does not suffer a relapse, whiih it: doctors are now trying to warrj off. In the semidarkness of the field pital buildiner. he made the almo?t v: mistake. Two bottles, both of the ss size and style, were together up t;. hospital shelf. Picking up the first r. taiuer. Captain Roberts held It clow his eyes, the bottle containing the poi:-.-was labelf-d "antiseptic" and in the . most darkened buildlnir. the officer tt ... took the lettering for aspirin. He rr lowed two of the tablets, and was : aware of his error until twentv ir.;r, - later, when he was taken with cob,-: sions. 0 severe was the pain L:at was later removed to the base los.:-. where he now lies in a serious ua:i. tion. Arrange Divisional Review. Things popped at Camp Kf-arny to:; Major-General Frederick S. Slrone. d:r. sional commander, announced tat i big divisional review, with ail men : the command tinder full arms, will t. held on the afternoon of Washingu: birthday. The Utah men will be notified to po3 up their new four-point sevens a-"cuff a-"cuff the heavy arliliery animals for tb hugh parade. Governors of all the r-i represented here Utah, California, 0:.-:-rado. New Mexico and Arizona WE u urged to be present during the re-;; through invitations issued by Gen;-Strong. Gen;-Strong. The Utah artillerymen Till ti-out ti-out over eitrht of their new mode'.? ; the "Grizzlies." wiio are now :ti.:r. guns, in order that every regiment of : brigade mav parade with equi7iHT" Kvery soidier of the division will be cal;; in the new olive drab clothing which m been issued . throughout the organiza;:c"-. Utah artillerymen today each re -: one wool sweater from the AmtVr.-: Cross, who are now issuing the ..- goods' to every member of the divislot The sweaters are sleeveless, of the st'' that can be worn under the shirt, anc formations where uniformity of dresser, demanded. Soldiers have a name everything, and the new warmjV; known to them as the "hug-mt.j -.' They came in mighty handy and welcomed with joy by the Utahns. Promotions Are Announced. Now for the promotions. In B batter Corporal Leiand B. Allison has been supply sei-geant and Private Cyrus ... White has been made a corporal. D battery promoted Corporal tVilhir Armour to sergeant and Privates Mr-rice Mr-rice Siddoway and Carl "Tillie" 0'i the latter of football fame, to be e::-porals. e::-porals. An order issued this afterc?;-enntained afterc?;-enntained the promotions of Serse:' Herbert B. Yerrington of B battery :. first sergeant. Private Vivian B. G.:-son G.:-son wa promoted to wagoner and F-vate F-vate George Brown to bugler, h headouarters company. Privates wrh-C. wrh-C. Dun ford. Richard TV. Burton and K-win K-win S. standing were promoted to ;: porals. William Crawford of F battery returned re-turned to the regiment this momir.f married man. lie was married to X:? Mvrtle Loveridge of Prove. Saturday -San Diego. His bride will remain until the command moves to Prance. A gas instruction school was opened day in the regiment and the men graduate will be known as "Gas N. O.'s," or gas non-commissioned officers with sergeant's stripes. Captain L-" the English officer in chai-ge of g.ts c;-tense c;-tense in the division, is tutoring the trer and the course will last several vees.; When tiie study is completed Ore will take charge of the gas rrasks c their respective batteries and will tei: the art of gds defense to the late recrrr arrivals. In Europe they will be the rr?r who will give the warning signals i1-approaching i1-approaching gas clouds. The men se-lected se-lected for training arer A battery. Sergeants Ser-geants William D. Core and Geo-ge 5 Bowers: B batten-. Pri-ates Newtoc T'ills and Alma E. Wright; C batter; Privates Jack O'Pennell and Garland 5 Woodward: r batten-. Private Crf-i-i, rxiolittle, Edgar Larsen and Ps Dixon. Coming Home on Furlougru,- Pri-ate CaJWn Dalton of B bat y todav gi en a ftirloivgh to visit Salt L- Lleuienaut Carter, regimental exrtir-f officer, today was chosen as quarte..--" ter survey officer of the Utah re.r.ir.Ki and Lieutenant Frank C. Bird ''' " lectcd as stirvev officer in charge ordnance. Private Uarrv P. Wric'-it of batten- was transferred to the 15?th W-hosr;tal W-hosr;tal (Utah for permanent duty- Major W. K. Knenss has been cfosf-supervisor cfosf-supervisor of schedules for the bomb practice, which will be held i"1-im i"1-im til the actu.il firing begins durins I-' last dav s of the month. , . Mounted drill work, which was tiled to begin today, has been postpo-t; due to the shortage of small n-.tr The eiiuipmeut arri rd tcviay and wi.l . unpacked and distributed tomorrow,' the maneuvers. Captain Curtis Y. C-. son will have charge of the mounted work. Burned by Exploding Bomb. Kenneth Hamilton and Hush privates of K Iwttery. were Pr,,-J,:. burned about the hands an.! NMy a smoke boirl exploded. Th.eir c-Ct..-4 was ncMilv Imrncd from their ho.ucs . fore the fliiincs could he sniottieiv-i- . tlic licaxv woolen goods protected t-i from serious iniurv. WV.'.ic tire .tl,I-'i are exceedingly painful, the condition ' the men is not serious, according to ports from tho hosnital plnsicians. James O. Stevenson, formerly a ir- ber of P battciv and now on te'.iu-or dutv with ti e iniht.irv vUee. is ev" Iv 'morrv todav. This mottling " , , reived his promotion as soigeant few iiiluutos later a telephone ftom San piogo notllicd him that " , " tiie father of tin eight-pound ba'oy The mot hot- and baby a' e lvportw bo doing ni.-elv. :1iid tlto world is '.; for Sieve." He refuses to I'-'SS the chi.its to a whole lvitiir.enl-ai1 do not blame hint. |