The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-03-27
FT. HAucHUcA. ARIZONA.

FT. HAucHUcA, ARIZONA.
Machine Gun Corresponding Club Of
the 18th Cav. station at Garden Can
yon, Ariz., would like to correspond
with some of the nice Missouri girls.
the boys OF the Machine Gun troop of
Famous 10th under command of Capt.
F. S. Snyder, are very lonesome in the
hills of Sunny Arizona. They are at
Garden Canyon taking instruction in
the machine gun course, this will be
their present station for three months
and while there would like very much
to hear from some Pretty Little Mis-
souri, Girls" the boys who are leading
this school in points are: Cpl. Solo
mon Clarke, NJ. G. 18th Cav; Cpl. Fos-
ter, NJ. G. 10th Cav; Harvey NJ. Lee,
NJ. G. 10th Cav; F. Kincaid, NJ. G..
10th Cav; H. A. Higginbotham, NJ. G.
18th Cav. These boys are really doing
good with the 25th infantry, second
and LIST Cavalary, third, 10th infantry,
4th. Pvt. +. Taylor of this school just
came back from the School of Fire at
Fit. Bliss. Texas, with the latest fir
ing quota of the West. Cpl. Lewis
Johnson and Cpl. James Davis are also
back from school passing as two of
the best instructors in the Southern
Department. Capt. HOston, Henly,
Cecil and Butler of the NJ. G.
10th Cav, will Ieturn soon from
FL PasO, Tex, where the have
been for six weeks studying ma.
chine gun tactics, the Machine Gun
Corresponding Club are: Cpl. H. A,
Higginbotham, Cpl. David b. Foster,
Mech. Harvey NJ. Lee, Cpl. Solomon NJ.
Clarke, Cpl. F. Kincaid, Cpl. William
r. Rainier, Cpl. James, F. Rosser, Cpl.
Geo. McDuncan, Pvt. Lewis Reynolds,
Pvt. Thomas S. Gatewood, Pvt. Lee
Wright, LIST Sgt. John H. Pappy, Sgt
Geo. A. Henderson, BulgeT, Henry
Reed, Bulger, Frank Tllis, Cpl. Car.
J. Henley Cpl. c. S. Hoston, Cpl. Z
Butler, Cpl. Jessie D. Cecil, Pvt. An
drew Smith, Pvt. John o. Penson. .
Watch the X. c. Sun for the NJ. G
Corresponding Club picture. Record
Of mounting tripod, Sgt. George A
Henderson mounted it in s seconds;
dismounted it in IL seconds. Cpl
James Davis End, mounted in 10 sec,
onds and discounted in 10 seconds,
Cpl. Lewis johnson 3rd mounted in
II, and dismounted in u seconds; Cpl.
Solomon Clarke 4th mounted in u,
and dismounted it in II seconds; Sgt.
Robert Evans 9TH mounted in Is, and
dismounted in IS seconds.
Now that is poor for a machine gun
man, the record is, from a prone po-
sition to go five yards, mount tripod
in five seconds, to come back to same
position just left dismount tripod, fold
legs in 8 seconds. The Kansas City
sun will keep well posted with the
news of the Machine Gun School, sta,
ton at Garden Canyon, Ariz. By the
NJ. G, C. c., the very latest dope. The
Machine Gun Troop, 18th Cavalry, also
lost one Of the members of their com
mand while stationed at Garden Can
yon, Segt. John A. Ford, who diet
March 4, 1920, at the Post Hospital Of
Ft. Huachua.
The troop marched from Garder
Canyon to Ft. Huahuca horseback t
the burial at $3.50 in charge of fireint
squad. Sgt. William Gillium. Fireini
squad consisted Of six heavy typ
|, Browning machine guns. Sgt. Ford re
ceived more shots that any enlisted
man Of the United States army. Eacl
, gun firing Is rounds each. Gun squad
/ LIST section, Cpl. Johnson, gunner; Pvt
Frye No. q; second section Cpl. RIOS
; ser, gunner, Pvt. Wright, No. q; thirC
t secion, Cpl, McDuncans, gunner, Pvt
/ Jones No. 2; 4th section Cpl. RaspbeI
! ry gunner, Pvt. Reynolds No. 2; fiftl
secion Cpl. Clark, gunner, Mech lie
No. 2; sixth section Mech. Bradley
gunner, Pvt. Lyon, No. 2.