The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-02-10
UTAH'S REGIMENT OF
The big GUM CORPS

In accordance with the plan of the ,
War Department to localize the reg
iments of the regular army the 55th
Artillery Regiment of the coast ar
tillcry corps has been allotted to
Utah and Is sending soldiers to Lo-
gan to tell young men of the oppor-
tunities offered by serving in the
regiment This organization has an
orcelent war record; was formed nj
Boston harboF. went to France by
way Of England early in 1918: was
in action at Chateau Thierry, Saint
Mihiel, near Verdun. and in the drive
through the Argonne forest which
ended the war EARLY in 1919 the
regiment returned to New York
where 1t remained few weeks, tten
went to San Francisco, whre II was
stationed on the south bank Of 'aa
Golden aGte for a fe month";, an
october 1919. the regiment naysl
with the 31st Artillery Bri
a. c.. to Camp lewis. near T4eoua,
Wash, where It is new preparing IA,
the target practice be A.,- -a~
this summer.
The 55th Artillery is motorized
and is equipped with twenty four
155 nm (about six inches) French
Filloux rifles. the aristocra;s Of mo-
bile infantry, which run on rlt ner
tires, are drawn by eaterpil!at tIac-
tors and thow ninety pound hieh
explosive shell ten miles. DeUces
the guns and tractors the regiment
IL equipped with a mobile artillery
repair shop with electrically driven
athes, drills and machine tolls, o\y-
ecetylene welding and blacl smith
outfits mounted on four wheel hive
trucks, 90 five passenger touring
cars, ten reconnaissance or staff OBJ
servation ars. seventy-five motorcg
cles with sidecars, 1875 four wheel
drive ammunition and supply trucks,
four mobile wireless sets, complete
field telephone system with switch
boards and nearly y hundred tele-
phones, ana several complete sets OF
Instruments and eQuipmont FOR SUI
veymg. map making nnd orlcn'aHon
including uanaits aai'nuth matru
ments, piano tables, priamauc com.
passes, chalasnRd. drafting outfits.
rho 55,h' .Reglht Is in The a1s'
artillery brigade e. a. c. which
rampins at Camp Lewis schools fol
trimming men in the handling of all
the equipment mentioned above
These include che motor transport
soohol, which tratas auto, truck and
tractor drivers ana mechanics; th'
signal school. which trains radio
and telephone operators and repair
men and visual stsnalmenY and ta'
orientadon school. which trains meI
for surveying. mapping making as
Economical observations for deter
mination Of meridian etc. A Dart!
OF men who recently graduated iron
the orientation school are now pre-
pairing an accurate map Of the Cam
Lewis Reservation for the large
practice firing 10 be held there thu
summer.
IN addition to. the brigade school
men Of the regiment have access t
HE Camp Lewis schools which trail
men for commercial telegraph ans
radio work auto and motorcycle re
pairing. blacksithing, and give coura
es In all common school branches
such commercial courses as book
keeping. typewriting. shorthand bus
ness English and in spanish AM
French. AS books are furnished b
the schools and the camp library
foung man serving in the regimen
has the opportunity to get, at II
expense to himself. instruction in an
one. or sew Gral. of these suolec'
T.rtVa Ia study. COL