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College Station, Texas, October 29, 1918
AUTO MECHANICS
ARE ASSIGNED
- MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TRAIN.
ING HERE SINCE AUGUST
15 ARE TRANSFERRED
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\.. NEW CONTINGENT LATE
Due to Prevalence of Influenza Epi-
“demic All Over the Country There
Will be no Further Movement
Here Until Nov. 15
For further duty at regular army
camps a majority of the training de-
tachment men trained here during the
past three months left College yes-
terday afternoon and last night and
the remainder of them will go as
soon as they have sufficiently re-
covered from their recent (illness,
due to the epidemic here. Prior to
their departure the men had been in-
ducted into Section B of the S.A.T.C.
Among the troops departing yes-
terday were 127 for El Paso where
they will join tke motor transport
corps. They were in charge of Lieut.
Frank B. Dancy Jr. !
"For similar service a total of 302
went to Fort Sam Housto» in charge
‘of Lieut. Albert B. Dewey, while 161
“Went to Kelly Field, San Antonio, to
join the division of military aero-
nautics, in charge of Lieut Ralph M.
Phinney. Twenty-four men left for
Fort Sill, Okla., to join the motor
transport corps, being in charge of
Private Harris Barrett, and one man
was detailed to Camp John Wise for
duty with the air service troops.
No more men will be sent here or
to any other camps for the present
as the war epartment has held up
the calling out of new draft men un-
til the epidemic has cleared up every-
where as it has here.
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Change in Schedule
Students in Sections 101, 103 and
104 will please examine the bulletin
board for changes in schedules.
. F. B. CLARK, :
~. Ch. Schedule Committee.
HUNSFAILTO
HALT ASHBURN
Wichita Falls, Tex., Oct. 28—Major
| Ike S. Ashburn of the 358th Infantry,
who was wounded twice in the St.
Mihiel engagement, in which the
Ninetieth Division took part, cap-
tured some German soldiers with a
hand grenade, wounded though he
was, and compelled them to carry
him to a dressing station. This in-
formation was received in a letter]
from Lieutenant John W. Naylor, a
former newspaper man of Wichita
Falls, who is now an officer in Major
Ashburn’s battalion.
Lieutenant Naylor told of talking
| with Major Ashburn and other of -
ficers of the battalion a few moments
before the time to go into the second
advance, when Major Ashburn re-
ceived his mniost severe wound. A
shell fragment came into the group,
wounding only the Major. Some of
the officers started to use their first
aid packets, but a Red Cross man was
at hand and bound up the Major's
wound temporarily. Then came the
time for the officers to get into ac-
tion, and they were forced to leave
the Major behind. A runner who had
taken a message back came to the
front later, telling of seeing the Ma-
jor, grenade in hand, rounding up his
German captives and forcing. them to
carry him to the dressing station.
There were many other such in-
stances of nerve and pluck on the part
of individuals, officers as well as
men, the Wichita Falls officer stated,
and Major Ashburn had gone back in-
to action after being wounded on the
first day of the St. Mihiel engage-
ment. Other officers and men as well
insisted on going back into action,
even though wounded, according to
the letter from Lieutenant Naylor,
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Rice and Texas Re-Open Classes
After having been closed two
weeks on account of the influenza
epidemie, Rice Institute, Houston, and
the University of Texas re-opened for
work yesterday morning. Work here
has never ceased in spite of the epi-
demic and exaggerated reports of
conditions that were circulated over
the state. ;
DIO MEN ARE
NEEDED BADLY
SHORT-COURSE STUDENTS
WILL BE TRANSFERRED
REWARD GOOD MATERIAL
Prof. Bolton is Advised That All Men
of Promise Will be Accepted for
Officers Training Camps Up-
on His Recommendation
So great is the demand for radio
mechanics for the Signal Corps serv- .
ice that Prof. F. C. Bolton was ad.
vised by the authorities at Washing-
ton while he was there last week,
to transfer a number
C. to this course where the men are
qualified to do the, work. It is nec-
essary that students shall have had
work before they are able to take
up this course. The men when in-
ducted into this branch of the service
will still be members of the training
detachment, unasssigned, but upon
the satisfactory completion of their
courses they will be asssigned to the
Signal Corps.
More Officers Are Needed
More officers as well as men are
needed for the Signal Corps, Mr. Bol-
ton was advised, and he was informed
that all men in training here who
give promise of officer material will |
be sent to an officers training school
upon the recommendation of the
authorities here.
A very satisfactory conference was
had by Mr. Bolton with the Signal
Corps executives and the war de-
partment committee on education and
training activities on a number of
subjects, one of the most pressing be-
ing that of more teachers in radio
mechanics, and the committee has ar-
ranged to send Scie new teachers
right away. Eight additional trucks
and as many more motorlycles were
authorized for use ‘in the radio
| work here.
of qualified
short course students in the SAT.
at least two years of High school