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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1919)
VOL. I College Station, Texas, Sunday, Api 6, 1919 ~~ 127 SERGRANT KENNY SUCCUMBS 0 ILLNESS POPULAR MEMBER OF COM- | MANDANT’S STAFF PASSES AWAY AT BASE HOSPITAL, Ft. SAM HOUSTON News of the death of Sergeant J. 'M. Kenny, U.S.A. retired, at the hase hospital at Fort Sam Houston Friday afternoon, occasioned general and gen- aine sorrow at College where he had been stationed for the past eleven years and where he was universally popular. He had been in 111 health for several months but reports from San Antonio were to the effect that he was improving and not until his family was summoned to San Antonio Friday at noon was it realized that his con- dition was critical. He passed away while the family was enroute to his bedside. The College flag was at half mash yester day ‘as a tribute to his memory and prior to the public speak- ing at the Airdome Friday night Pres- ident Bizzell took occasion to publicly express his appreciation of the effi- cient and loyal service which Sergeant Kenny rendered the College generally and the cadets individually. Sergenat, Kenny was born at Kin- sale; Ireland, 65 years ago and came to this country when a child, In 1883 he enlisted in the army and served with the 18th and 23rd | Infantry regi- ments. He was a very efficient office man and for four years was chief clerk to the Provost Marshal General in the Philippines in the first occupation of the islands by the United States. He received an honorable discharge from the service a number of years ago on account of his health. At the time of his discharge he was a member of the regular 23rd Infantry, the unit which won fame last year in France 2% the battle of Chateau Thierry. It is interesting to note, too, that a per- manent memorial will be erected at Sergeant Kenny's old home in Ireland to the men, women and children who lost their lives when a German sub- marine sank the Lusitania. No man who, has ever been identi- fied with the Military department of : gi( Contd on Page 4) HARDY LAMBASTS LEAGUES CRITICS CHEAP POLITICS IS AT BASIS OF OPPOSITION OF ORGANIZA- TION FOR PEACE, HE DECLARES \ COVENANT IS ANALYZED ‘Working Basis of New Body is De- fined as to Purpose, Machinery . and Operations by Congressman From This District ELECTRIC SMOKE BOMBING Wl - START SOON INTERESTING. PHASE OF FIELD ARTILLERY WORK WILL SOON 7i BE UNDER WAY AT COLLEGE Instruction in electrical smoke bombing for members of the field ar- tillery battery of the College will begin as soon as the necessary elec- trical equipment can be installed, Lieut. Col. Louis R. Dougherty an- | nounced yesterday. This instruction Members of the U. S. Senate who | are opposing the ratification of the peace treaty, in the event it contains | a provision for a League of Nations, are playing a very despicable bit of |: polities in the opinion of Hon. Rufus Hardy of Corsicana, representative in Congress from the Sixth district, in an interesting address at the Airdome Friday night in which he analyzed the covenant of that organization and an- swered many of its critics. : at the invitation of Preident Bizzell, who, in introducing the speaker, ack- nowledged the ing look after the interests of the Col- lege with the War Department during the war. Mr. Hardy, in turn, bespoke his pleasure in being of some service | to the College, which, he said, was the pride not only of the Sixth district but of the state as a whole. Pointing’ out what the League - -of Nations hopes to accomplish and the means by which it proposes to accomp- lish them, Mr. Hardy read from the preamble of the League which sets |© forth its purposes as that of promot- ing international co- operation and securing international peace and security, while the means to be em- ployed in the accomplishment of this end are the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, the prescription of open, just and honorable relations by the firm establishment of the un- derstandings of international law as the actual rule among governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty (Continued on Page 4) He spoke great service Mr. Hardy had been to the College in help- | | will be given on the roof of the C. E. building where officers will be trained in the location of hidden targets from 2000 to 3000 feet distant and the elec- [trical firing of smoke bombs on the range will represent the hitting of the targets. The cost of these operations will be from one fo two cents each, whereas if the battery were fired with real ammunition the cost would be $20 per round. j The instruction will be the same, however, as if the men were actually firing the battery and no cadet will be | allowed to fire one of the guns until he has first completed the course of instruction in electrical smoke bomb- ing. In this preliminary work he will be given a definite sector as his firing ‘problem and will be required to locate | the hidden targets and make a. dia- gram ‘showing the location of these. Telephone lines will connect the bat- tery commander’s station on the top of the C. BE. building with the field in which the targets are located for ‘the purpose of communication be- tween the battery commander and the officer in charge on the range, and other electric wires for the firing of the smoke bombs will be installed. The work of the installation of these wires and the erection of the other electrical equipment will be done by the E. E. department under the di- rection of Capt. W. W. Leach. pe ATTENTION CAMPUS CATHOLICS Mass will be celebrated this morn- ing in Room 23, Civil Engineering building, at 9:30, for Campus resi- dents, students and soldiers.
