RECRUITING NEWS ON EXCHANGE LIST:
Hie Recruiting News, published at Governors Island to exchange in
formation and idea3 among those on recruiting service, discovered last
montlj through reading The Infantry School News, that there was such a
paper as The Chilkoot Post* Captain 13*3* llcliahon, the editor of the
News, has requested being placed on our exchange list, and this we are
most glad to do, for we have already gotten ahold of several copies of
Tlie Recruiting News and gleaned therefrom several items which you have
read in these pages, nut scissors, aut nullus, as Life would say*
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CREDIT DUE FOR PREPARING DANCE HALL: .. .. .
Pvt. Lavine of the Q.m.C. and Pvt. Giles Greenwood, of Company F,
are responsible for the decorations for the dance to be given tomorrow
night. Hie E u R service, knowing that Shooting is more important than
dancing, did not request a detail to fix up the dance hall, but depended
on volunteers. The above two men were the only ones volunteering to date
but there is a chance still, for considerable work cah still be done to
night. Ihe EAR officer will be at the hall to direct operations at
about 5:30 p.m.
ANOTHER. CORPORAL COMING:
Replacement for Grporal Tcftiy Luben (Company E) has bean ordered by
Ninth Corps Area, to arrive not later than May 30th* Who the new two
striper will be has not yet been revealed* One thing is quite certain,
he won’t have as good "understanding” as the outgoing Co* 2 corporal*
AMIGO RECAPTURED 3Y ”POP” GOODE:
Amigo Rodgers, the tootin' little Spaniard who blew the b&gle and
cut the hair for the Ez those many months, tried to sneak through San
Francisco on his way to West Point, according to a letter from Pop (Lt*
P.R*)Goode* "Pop" says he captured Rodgers by main force, locking him
in the barber shop till he'd agree to stay in S.F.; but we know better.
When Amigo saw Pop's smiling countenance, heard him cuss a few times,
and saw the classy barber shop to be expected of any company commanded
by P.R.G., he just changed his mind about going east, put in for trans
fer, and is now blowing his magnificent calls through the foggy zephrs
that float around San FPancisco Bay*
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RANGE IN FINE SHAPES
The opening of the 1924 range reason finds the range in better shape
than it has been for several years* The screen behind the targets has
been covered with sacks, so that no longer does one have to fire against
the sky line, with consequent detriment to one’s eye-sight# The firing
points have been raised, in some cases as much as a foot, and leveled off.
One of the greatest improvements is placing a telephone at each range in
a box, so that the phones do not need to be disconnected and carried
from firing point to firing point* This should eliminate a good deal of
the ^trouble had with the phones late last season.
' ^ Yesterday afternoon and this morning, Company F continued firing at
200 and 300 yards, prone with sandbag, It is required that each man make
45 or better before leaving this position at these ranges*