Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-20
)EARTILLERISTS
Isl WITH GAS MASKS
> Men Don Apparatus in
Less Than Five Seconds
in Test
Bv a stag Correspondent,

4@Ulero regard the herman gas tnenace
k ~ cast to the four winds today when
ii ~ 012th Field Artillery got down to
t<4o1 business with gas masks.
M Actual performances tell the story
e luoh better than a camoufiage OF
>tords from an embryo war correspond
x &nk 90 the EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER re-
IS pofter at Little Penn will tell the major
kft OF the days gas story II figures.
To begin with. the two star performers
%fofe Sergeants Walter Small. of head
1@SArters company, and Leonard Kane.
S:6f Battery d. These gentlemen. and
4: 10th hail from dear old Philly. smashed
the regimental records by adjusting
= their head pieces in a trifle under five
<oeconds. Uncle Sam insists that his sol
dfers must do this stunt in six seconds.
nut Small and Kane were not satisfied
y % rest easy when they performed the
Btunt In that time.
Scotty McCann, sergeant In headduar-
Y terS company. acted as gas instructor,
md, having a keen appreciation Tor the
= %0owardly methods of the boche. made II
& 9plain that the boys would have to speed
up. McCann is a veteran of the British
army and saw service in the Boer war.
Y II learned a thing or two about the
y Kaiser gang in South Africa said
4 Bcofty to the Philly boys. and Just
take the tip from me that we have got to
4 be ready in all ways when we land on
the lighting fronts"
Scotty, in terse and pointed language,
'lstoId the boys that for double-crossing
and 100 Der cent dirty work the Germans
have everybody backed off the map.
sThey did all they could against us In
Z South Africa" he added. "and many a
Tommy was silenced by Germans VINO
manned the Boer guns
some Six-second Men
" The Philadelphians took Scotty at his
word and speeded up. Corporal Joe
O'Connel, Of Battery F.. did the trick
I'm six seconds. Other men who dupli-
& .cated that record were Corporal William
( q. jackson. Headquarters Company
n Sergeant F. E. Swartz Battrey F;
4 Charles Brownstein. Battery r; Cor
z poral William C. Uhler. Headquarters
csmpany John F.. McHenry. Battery
y n; Corporal Bart Connolly. Battery A.
and Top Sergeant william H. Torr, of
Hendquarters Company.
Scores of men did the stunt in seven
seconds, but the batteries. when assem-
bled, failed to complete the work under
seven and half seconds. Give them
two days more" said Scotty, "and every
man in the regiment will make it In
six"
The honor of being known as Fhla-
delphia's own has been lost to the reg-'
n1ent for like the 315th Infantry. scores
of men from outside Philadelphia have
A Seen admitted to the ranks. The new
men took their places in the regiment
to-day. SO Philadelphia. third largest city
& In the country. cannot boast of a simon
*pure Quaker City regiment in the Ma
ttonal Army
Henry W. Bond, senior major of the
regiment. has been promoted and leaves
II the camp to become the lieutenant colo
& mel Of the 316th Field Artillery at Camp
.ssIAckson. Sorry to leave the boys"
said the colonel. but / must obey
8 orders
- To safeguard the military secrets Of
ijfthc division. Major General Joseph f..
kuhn has re-emphasized an old order
4 eoncerning the German spy menace
~ Beware of spies is the heading on
1Acards that have been tackled up in
every barracks. Don't talk about what
you nave done or are going to dc. The
enemy has ears everywhere Is the key
note Of the order. Similar orders have
been issued before. but as the division il
preparing for overseas service General
Aunn deemed 1t necessary to again lay
emphas1s upon the necessity CT remain
ing mum in regard to military OPERA
N tfons.
The war chiefs at Washnineton are
fitting ready to fill vacancies in the com
missioned personnel of the division and
- starter named Lieutenant Colonel
~ c. M Supplee to assist Colonel Curry
IN the command Of the 314th Infantry,
an all-Pennsylvania outfit. Colonel
Suppiee Is due to arrive in a dav or
81 Two. He is regular army officer and
an expert in the ordnance field
Infantrymen Promoted
The following promotions in the 3l4th
IS infantry were announced today To be
eergeants in Company B-Corporals Is
Louis v. GAIA Robert r. Van vechten
ana Robert J. Rowen. To be corporals
n B Company-Privates T. A. BeadIe.
II Lee f, Birmingham, II. A. Powell, George
q. Hazlett. Ellsworth w. Losey, William
Il Oakum. Ralph i. RachaE Alexander
Walker and L. c. Wipf. To be corporal
lin machine-gun company--Prvate John
J. McMenamin
Arthur III. Joel, of Company f, and
] Harrison Fl. Mayhem, of Company X.
both graduates of the third officers
training camp, have been commissioned
second iieutenants and will return to
their regiment. First Lieutenant C.. D.
peSere has been appointed division in
spector of bayonet instruction. The
! sregiment will remain on the rife range
until Saturday.
Lieutenant r. L. V. Lancaster. chap
lAin of the 315th Infantry. in a two
minute address to the men in that COM
naDd today, urged them to keep fresh
ss1n their minds the aims of America and
ID ~ adhere TO Christian principles, After
[,' announcing that In The name of our
r. God We will set up our banners would
serve as the days motto. the chaplain
aaid:
'Gentlemen. you are more than sci
y 4iers of the United States. II We rep
resented the ideals and purposes anc
authority of this great country only, /
would be honor and distinction enough
& hut the eyes of humanity are turne
toward you. The mighty unfolding O
time and history has lifted us to tn
<pDsition of champions of universal rigf
Z and Justice. as those principles are cher
lshed in the breasts of all men every
4 where who are worthy of the name @
- men
This expectancy and hope has lai
upCn US an unqualified obligation an
az m Imperative duty. That duty Is I
bring to unconditional surrender pee
>r1e who have betrayed the honor q
IS Aumanity, made enemies of friends an
81 11rfeited the right to freedom and rt
i. Qppct The sign that we shall use I
mark the stages of our progress in tn
Gntomplishment of our duty is the fla
u ~ our country. From trench to trencl
X1o1n parapet to parapet. we shall carr
11At banner forward until its blood
t6uGht folds shall wave over the soil {
'2{& E1nfmany.
<sBut gentlemen. In all the strugg
nn1 bitterness that lies before us, "
mt not forget whom We serve an
keae is the cause We represent. w
Il Ill not be worthy of victory If "