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Show 01 MEN !, FOR TIMING CA Twenty-five Artilleryit,en Selected to Take Offi. cers' Course. RIFLE WORK IS ON Formation Problems Under Machine Gun Fire Are Being- Worked Out By FLOYD A. TIMMEEMAN, Staff Correspondent. CAMP KEARNY, Cal., May Twenty-five Utah men were select today for the fourth officers' traininn camp, which opens here tomorrow morn-ing morn-ing for a period of three months. tt though the names of more than sixtv men from the regiment were sent it and examinations followed, flV quota was not to exceed twenty-low and, iu consequence, the remainder v,' ' doomed to disappointment, althouph many of them had successfully passej the examining hoard. The names of the men who will tc port for the school tomorrow arc First Sergeant Albert Baldwin, Pii vat Claude F. Baker, Corporal Chatl B. Carpenter and Sergeant Earl C. Ri of A battery; Sergeant Earl S. Pincrw Corporal Raymond D. Allison, Sergtau' John W. Meuzies of B battery; Sergeant Ser-geant Joseph C. Lillywhite and Sergeant Ser-geant Charles K. McAllister of C bat tery; Corporal Lylo J. Mulhall 0f 1) battery; Corporal Scott A. Dahlquisi Sergeant Frank A. Mulvey, Sergeant Arnold C. Riehins, Sergeant Lawrentj S. Timpson and Corporal Raymond t Taylor of E battery; First Sergeant Richard L. Fleming, Sergeant Ira K. Hinckley of F battery; Sergeant Major Andrew W. Gorey, Corporal Richari W. Burton, Sergeant Major Wil-Ham Wil-Ham A. Bailey, of headquartors com pany; Private Benjamin F. Howells. Regimental Supply Sergeant Stephen i. Love, Regimental Supply Sergeant Floyd S. Leaver, Regimental Supply Sergeant Edwin G. Chamberlain of the 3upply company and Sergeant Jack A. Hansen of the sanitary detachment. Instructors Chosenv Iu addition to the candidates choier, for the school, Captain Irwin Clawsor, and Lieutenant Jennings will leave tat regiment tomorrow and report to the sehooi as instructors iu artillery. The name of Lieutenant Jennings had ben included in a list of officers who were to attend a school of musketry n the east to begin May 25. However, tSa today rescinded the first, and no nrei will be sent from artillery commands Considerable debate has arisen in the regiment as to the disposition of th training school should the divjn move to the battle front durirj lit course. Tt was announced at divisional headquarters today that the school will move with the division should it be ordered away. According to the present pres-ent plans, the men who successful!; complete the course will be returneJ to the regiment as candidate officer! with the rank of sergeants until vacancies va-cancies occur in the commissiond ranks. Slow Firing Done. Rifle firing on the infantry range under the supervision of Major William E. Kneass was on the programme for the Utah men todaj-, and will continu? until every man has qualified. Slow firing, which is the first part of the instruction course, was the only wort today. Details were selected from each battery for the first day 's practice, and tomorrow other men will take their places until the instruction course ii completed. Major Kueass seemed well pleased with the manner in which artillerymen went through their fin: firing. Officers of the division journeyed h the artillery range this afternoon ana witnessed the fire of forty machine guns upon the same targets which wW bombarded by the Utah artillerymei yesterday. The targets were placed is many different marching positions, an-the an-the firing was done to determine whit: formation would suffer the least nun ber of casualties in an advance. Although the machine guns spraye. the target area for fully twenty minute, examination of the targets showed tit fire not nearly as effective as the shrapnel of yesterday. Major General Frederick S. Strong,"Brigadier OcnenJ Richard W. Young and Colonel WiE C. Webb were among those on tb'ob scrvation point. No Browninjfgiu-'l were used in the tests. To Naturalize Soldiers. Men of the Sunshine division WW have not been naturalized will be giVCI an opportunity of becoming citizen' without leaving the cantonment, a? cording to an announcement made t dav bv Maior L. O. Matthews, oivffl" adjutant. AH aliens in the ranks w" become naturalized providing they pre cure satisfactory evidence or their Mr alty. A court will be established W in the near future with Colonel Hi" W. Means of the 57th infantry at it-head. it-head. With but three days remaining which agricultural furloughs will granted to members of tho comma!1'; scores of applications are being rusne . through headquarters each day- W effort is being made to grant the lea" before the closing day, May IS. tiff"; at headquarters are now prep""; leaves which will probably go into e feet tomorrow. j-j.iri With the transfer of the d,ld','. for the officers' training camp W( row, many vacancies will occur in non-commissioned officers' ranks, i places will be filled by promotion a the names of the men will be announc within a few days. |
