PATTEN GIVEN
WRITE-UP BY
CAMP PAPER
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How fast a Cordovari has risen in
the service since the United States
entered the war is best shown in the
following article from Carry On, a
newsy and well edited weekly pub
lished for the officers and enlisted
men of Camp Pike, Arkansas:
The army camp is like a large river
with many tributaries of all sizes, and
like the river, the importance or com
mercial value of the tributary does
not necessarily depend on the size, for
the smaller streams may be deeper
and dams may be built to supply city
after city with electricity, while the
larger stream is so broad that such a
^ project is not practical; therefore the
v smaller is by far the more important.
In Camp Pike there is a camp signal
detachment with one officer and two
sergeants, yet this is one of the most
important organizations in the camp,
as our wrhole system of communication
. depends on it. Every telephone in the
camp is under the supervision of Capt.
R. L. Patton, camp signal officer. All
communication regarding this work
must go through this office for indorse
ment.
The Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company hires all operators in the
camp, makes all installations and re
pairs, but this is under contract. There
must be some government organiza
tion to check their work and see that
all work is carried out according to
contract, also to care for the collec
tions of the military bills for calls and
to properly place the responsibility of
all calls, and the operators of the camp
are under the direct orders of the
camp signal officer, though paid by the
Bell people. This guarantees the best
service possible in the camp, as there
is a military head to look to as respon
sible for any shortcomings. However,
the chief operator and operators at
Camp Pike have always co-operated
with the military authorities in such
a way that suggestions w-ere -all that
have ever been necessary.
There are three classes of tele
phones, according to the reports of
the camp signal officer. They are
Classes A, B and C. Class A has un
limited service. Class B is limited
to camp only, while Class C is limited
to Little Rock calls.
Captain R. L. Patton, our camp sig
nal officer, was born near Cabot, Ark.,
July 30, 1876. His father, Hon. A. J.
Patton, was a prominent farmer of
Lonoke county, Arkansas, and was at
one time a member of the state legis
lature. Captain Patton has many rela
tives residing in Lonoke and Pulaski
counties. William Patton, an uncle
of Captain Patton, was before his
death a wealthy merchant of Cabot,
Ark. His wife, Aunt Bettie Patton,
still resides in Cabot, surrounded by
a large number of descendants of the
Patton family.
Captain Patton enlisted in the First
Texas volunteer infantry as a private
in June, 1898, and served during the
Spanish-American war in Cuba, later
enlisting in the regular army and serv
ing in the Philippine islands with the
Eighteenth infantry. He also served
with the Third United States in Alaska
in 1904 and 1905; was transferred to
the signal corps as a telegraph and
cable operator in 1906, and since then
he has served continuously in the sig
nal corps.
Up to the time the united States
entered the world war he was a mas
ter signal electrician, the highest rank
of non-commissioned officer in the
service, and was in charge of the mili
tary cable and telegraph office at Cor
dova, Alaska.
Captain Patton was commissioned
first lieutenant, signal corps, July 9,
117. On November 2, 1917, he was
promoted to captain and assigned to
the radio company of the ;U5th field
artillery, 90th division, as commander,
at Camp Travis, Texas.
He sailed for France as commander
of this organization in June, 191:1, and
took part in the St. Mihiel drive in
September. 1918. He was recommend
ed for promotion and returned to the
States to organize a new battalion.
He organized and later demobilized
the 428th railroad telegraph battalion
at Franklin cantonment, Camp Meade,
Md. He was then assigned to duty as
camp signal officer, Camp Pike, ^.rk.
Sergeant First Class George C.
Mitchell is Captain Patton's chief
clerk. He was inducted into the serv
ice July 24, 1918, at his home in Sioux
City, Iowa. During his stay in Camp
Pike he has been in Nineteenth casual
company and with the Forty-eightfi
company, Twelfth receiving battalion.
While on the foreign assignment he
was placed on special duty with the
jjj personnel office, and under Lieutenant
Helm, adjutant. Sergeant Mitchell
expects to be discharged in the near
future.
Sergeant Edward W. Able checks
and collects the telephone bills, makes
estimates on installations, and acts in
the general capacity of field assistant
to Captain Patton. He was inducted
July 22, 1918, at Stuttgart, Ark., his
home. While in Camp Pike he acted
as cook in the following organiza
tions: Fourteenth casual detachment,
Thirty-seventh company, Tenth receiv
ing battalion; the Fourth regiment;
Fourth group infantry replacement and
training troops. He wgs transferred
to the signal corps November 18, 1918.
Sergeant Louis Stump, acting top
sergeant of Infirmary 5, has re-enlisted
in the signal corps and will take Sergt.
Mitchell’s place in the near future.
ONLY HOPE OF TURK
IS INTERVENTION BY
’ UNITED STATES
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CONSTANTINOPLE, July 5 (Corre
spondence of Associated Press).—The
religious Turk is very much discour
aged. The mosques are not as well
patronized as formerly, for Mahomet
is blamed for the loss of the war.
Turks whose dogs were taken away
from them and dumped on an island
in the Sea of Marmora to starve with
tens of thousands of other Constanti
nople mongrels some years ago see
in Turkey’s present plight a just judg
ment from Mahomet. Those who
prophesied at the time that the whole
sale massacre of the dogs would bring
bad luck to Turkey are now wagging
their heads sagely and recalling their
prophecies.
The mosque of Ahmed I is deserted.
The Germans, when they left, carried
off all the precious rugs, and the faith
ful refuse to enter the mosque on the
ground that it has been profaned and
is unclean. More than three hundred
deaths from cholera took place in this
mosque during the war.
The howling dervishes in particular
declare that there is no hope for Tur
key unless the ‘great prophet, Wil
son,” intervenes. Recently the Ameri
j can Red Cross mission for Rumania
stopped off at Constantinople, and
while waiting for their boat to coal,
visited the howling dervishes.
With hot coals in his mouth and
with high priests sticking knives
through thoir cheeks in time-honored
fashion, the high priest called down
the blessings of Mahomet upon Amer
ica and maledictions upon all the ene
mies of Turkey. A young Turk trans
lated the head howler’s lamentations
and blessings.
Memet VI, the sultan, has not lost
faith in Mahomet, however. Each Fri*
day morning he visits the Wildez |
mosque to pray. His visit is a cere
mony attended not only by thousands
of Turkish onlookers and guards, but
also by hundreds of allied officers, all
equipped with cameras of every size |
and description.
American army officers and Red
Cross girls now find it easy to visit
the mosques. St. Sophia’s is open to j
all comers, and the American army1
man is not forced even to take off his
shoes. He merely slips them into a
pair of huge slippers and shuffles
about on the precious carpets which
are aligned in the general direction of
Mecca.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that, pur
suant to an act of the territorial leg
islature, there is hereby made, im
posed and levied upon each male per
son, except soldiers, sailors in the
navy or revenue cutter service, volun
teer firemen, paupers, insane persons,
or territorial charges, within the Ter
ritory of Alaska or the waters thereof,
over the age of twenty-pne years and
under the age of fifty years, an annual
tax in the sum of five ($5.00) dollars,
to be paid and collected in the manner
provided by law, and deposited by the
treasurer of the Territory of Alaska
in a separate fund called the “school
I fund,” and used for no other than
school purposes.
Said tax is now due and payable
and becomes delinquent on the first
Monday in the month of August cf
each year.
All persons subject to this tax are
hereby notified to pay said tax to the
school tax collector, and in case cf
failure to do so the penalties provided
in Section 6 of Chapter 29 of the ses
sion laws of Alaska will be imposed. I
K. G. ROBINSON,
School Tax Collect m\
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hei'eby given that I, the
undersigned, have been duly and
regularly appointed by the district
court for the Territory of Alaska for
l the Third Judicial Division, receiver
of all the property of Alaska Anthra
cite Railroad Company in the Terri
tory of Alaska. All persons having
claims against this company are re-!
quested to present the same with
proper vouchers to me at the law
offices of Donohoe & Dimond at Cor
dova, Alaska, within thirty days of
this date.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this first
day of July, 1919.
CHARLES A. SPONBERG,
Receiver of Alaska Anthracite Rail- j
way Company. July 3-20t;
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