The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 11, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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Sanctioned, Indorsed and Appreciated by Government Officials as a Worthy Army Newspaper
THE RECONNAISSANCE
After you have read this copy of The
Reconnaissance put a two-cent stamp
here and let it be mailed to some sol-
dier in France. No address is needed.
Drop it in the mail box.
Pays No Individual Profits—Every Cent for the Collective Benefit of All Soldiers
(Nach Berlin: 2
der Kaiser
The purpose of this little paper is to
purchase a print shop to take to the
trenches, that the soldiers may pub-
lish a paper of their own after the din
of battle has died away.
First Edition Printed at Camp Blair, Aug. 15, 1917; the last at Potsdam
Published Weekly
VOL. I
CAMP BOWIE, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1918.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
NO. 37.
48 BOWIE ENGINEERS
ARRIVE IN VIRGINIA
(Reconnaissance Special)
Camp Lee, Va., May 9.—The
Fourth Engineer Reserve Officers’
Training Camp opened here Monday
with a total enrollment of about two
thousand cadets from various canton-
ments of the country. Of this num-
ber, at least a hundred are commis-
sioned officers who' will seek higher
rank. About five hundred of the en-
trants will be civilians from a number
of engineering schools in the east.
Colonel V. L. Peterson will be com-
mandant of the camp.
The majority of the candidates will
come from the enlisted personnel of
army organizations all over the coun-
try, on the basis of 2 per cent of the
enlisted personnel of the army engi-
neer corps units; one enlisted man
from each infantry battalion and one
enlisted man from each artillery bat-
talion in the United States.
On this basis, thirty-four of the en-
listed men should come from the
305th Engineer Crops, stationed in
Camp Lee; seven from the 155th
Field Artillery Brigade, and twelve
from the 159th and 160th Infantry
brigades combined. Present orders
New Training Camp
to Open Next Week
NEXT WEDNESDAY MARKS THE
OPENING OF FOURTH OFFI-
CERS’ TRAINING SCHOOL
ABOUT 800 TO ENTER
WELCOME EDITORS
With an enrollment of approxi-
mately eight hundred soldiers and
civilians. Camp Bowie’s second offi-
cers’ training camp will open next
Wednesday morning. Major W. L.
Culberson will be in charge and the
school will be conducted as a separ-
ate unit, all entrants from the enlist-
ed strength of the camp being carried
as on detached service.
Intense interest has been manifest-
ed in the school since the first an-
nouncement of its advent. Thousands
of soldiers have made applications for
entrance. Examinations for artillery
cadets were held at headquarters of
the 61st brigade Thursday. The list
of successful candidates has not been
announced for publication.
Major Arch C. Allen, of Dallas,
will be senior artillery instructor at
the school.
Of the total enrollment about one
third of the entrants are civilians who
Soldiering has taken the silver-lining from our oratory, gentlemen of the
Texas Press. We have retained the sentiment of Americanism, however, and,
w hile we do not purport to eulogize you, the Reconnaissance and all soldiers at
Camp Bowie tender you, in fullest sentiment, a very hearty welcome.
This is our paper that you read. It is edited strictly by soldiers and the
income goes into a fund for purchasing portable printing equipment to take
“over there.” This paper will be published from behind the first-line trenches
after a while.
To you, that factor Which congregately molds the public opinion of our com-
monwealth, we have dedicated this issue of the Reconnaissance.
SERVICE IS THEME
OF CHAPLAIN’S TALK
CHAPLAIN EARLE OF 132ND.
FIELD ARTILLERY SPEAKS
TO SOLDIERS—BAJND
PLAYS.
have been in the service or attended
plS°C^S'meKonl3rthat military schools is announced that
the course of instruction shall cover
a period of three months. The candi-
dates who are awarded commission-
sions will be commissioned of what-
ever rank their work in the training
camp merits.
CvluuSx j. e^erson, "who Wul' direct i
the Fourth Engineer Reserve Offi-
cers’ Training Camp, recently com-
manded the Eighth Mounted Engin-
eers, stationed at El Paso, Texas. He
graduated from the West Point Mili-
tary Academy in 1908.
Forty-eight men from Camp Bowie
(Continued on Page 6).
Newspaper Man
Is First in Battle
CAPT. LOGAN OF DALLAS NEWS-
JOURNAL FIRES FIRST AM-
ERICAN SHOT AGAINST
BOCHES.
The following story reproduced
from the Dallas News upholds the
^ . honored tradition of “When anything
is happening the .newspaper man is
the first one on the scene.”
\Capt. Logan is well known at Camp
Bowie, having soldiered with a large
number of the 36th Divisionites on
the Mexican border. He is the son of
Col. Fred A. Logan, commander of
the 133rd Field Artillery.
The story follows:
In a letter to E. B. Doran of the
Evening Journal, J. W. Pegler, for-
merly manager of the United Press
Bureau at Dallas, states that a form-
er News-Journal employe, now an of-
ficer with the American expedionary
forces in France, was in command of
the first United States troops to take
command of the first United States
troops to take their places on the bat-
tle line in France.
The officer is Capt. Fred Logan.
He is the son of Col. F. A. Logan, an
artillery officer stationed at Camp
Bowie. Young began his career on
the News, later being employed on
the Evening Journal, but when the
United States entered the world war
he lost no time in enlisting, and
shortly was on the way to France.
“Some time ago,” writes Mr. Peg-
ler, “when I was still a correspondent
with the American expedition in
France, I sent across a mail story
about a musical evening of a certain
L Company in rest billets. I would
have liked to mention names in it, but
the regulations at that time were
strictly against it, and of course I
complied. Now that the American au-
thorities are permitting the free use
of names of individuals, I’m allowed
(Continued on Page 6.)
thousands of civilians applied for en-
trance in the school. Only about 225
were admitted, however.
50,000 Soldiers to
Make Home at Bowie
MANY MEN FROM NEXT DRAFT
INCREMENT WILL FILL
BARRACKS HERE.
Camp Bowie is to be the home of
50.000 soldiers, according to official
advices. The cantonment probably
will be made a permanent army train-
ing camp. The full strength of about
50.000 men will arrive as soon as ar-
rangements are completed for hous-
ing them. Announcement was made
some time ago to the effect that bar-
racks were to be builded at Camp
Bowie. Reports indicate that probably
$2,000,000 will be expended by the
government in spreading the camp to
the necessary size. Whether addi-
tional ground will be taken in is not
known.
Increments from the next draft
will fill the new barracks. It is pres-
aged, by this announcement, that the
36th division will move overseas
within the next ninety days. Nothing,
however, is definitely known con-
continued on Page 5.)
At the invitation of the Ministerial
Association of Weatherford, Chaplain
Edward H. Earle, who has been in
camp wfith his regiment, the 132nd
Field Artillery, at the Artillery
Range near there for the past few
weeks, gave an address to the sol-
diers of the camp and the citizens of
Weatherford, at a monster open air
service, held on Sunday, May 5th, in
the court house grounds. The band
of the 132nd Field Artillery, under
the direction of Sergeant Arnot Bou-
ton, furnishing the music for the oc-
casion. Chaplain Earle spoke in part
as follows:
A great philosopher of ancient
days tells us in one of his dialogues
that all human miseries and ills come
from two sources; self-will and ill-
regulated desires, and never was
there a truer or more profound ob-
servation. For what is self-will? It is
the, assertion of self in defiance of the
comfort and good of others. It is the
desire to dominate one’s fellowman,
regardless of the means employed and
the consequences that ensue. Such
for instance, is the record of all the
would be great conquerors of the
world; Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, At-
tila, Charlemagne, Napoleon, and last,
though not least in the lust of cruel-
ty and power, William Hohenzollern,
the instigator of the world’s greatest
war. Self-will, moreover, not only is
a menace and danger to the freedom
of the state, but it is also a cause of
misery and disruption to many a fam-
ily through the desire for dominance
of a single individual. Again let us
consider the miseries to which ill-
regulated desires give rise. For
instance; the common desire to ac-
cumulate money for the education and
upkeep of one’s family, or as a pro-
continued on Page 2.)
LOGAN IS BACK WITH
HOWITZER REGIMENT
AFTER LONG LEAVE COMMAND-
ER OF HOWITZER REGIMENT
IS AGAIN DICTATING
ORDERS.
TRENCH MORTAR EXPLODES,
KILLS ELEVEN SOLDIERS;
LIEUTENANT AMONG DEAD
HUNDRED AND FORTY-SECOND INFANTRY SUSTAINS
HEAVIEST LOSS OF LIVES—GENERAL GREBLE
PRESENT WHEN TRAGEDY OCCURS.
Eleven dead and many seriously wounded was the toll taken at
ihe explosion late Wednesday of a Stokes trench mortar gun on
the target range two miles west of Camp Bowie. The One Hun-
dred and Forty-second Infantry sustained the heaviest loss of life.
General Greble and members of his staff were present when the
tragedy occurred. Both the 71st and 72nd Infantry Brigades
were at the range at the time of the accident. Many civilians also
were witnessing the firing done by the soldiers. Lieutenant Alan
McDavid was the only officer who lost his life.
Communications in
Trenches Important
COL. FRED A. LOGAN, 133RD. F. A.
Actual Service Practice Being Car-
ried Out at Trenches West of
Camp Bowie.
Telephone communication in mod-
ern warfare is one of the most im-
portant features of the fighting ac-
cording to men who have seen ser-
vice in France. Camp Bowie men are
not reticent regarding this work as
will be shown by their report. Inci-
dentally the communication and lais-
on work i,s being taught under the
supervision of French instructors sent
here from the Flanders front for that
purpose. They are expert in their
work and thus far are highly pleased
with progress being made by Texas
and Oklahoma men.
In addition to telephones, messages
“Camp Bowie soldiers look good to , , , ’ . " °
^ _ (are also sent by messengers, pigeons,
me, and men of the lo3rd Field Ar- j wjreless, and visual signaling,
tillery, especially, look good.” j The three regiments of the 61st Ar-
This was the first declaration ut- > tillery brigade have been alternating
in the telephone work. The detail of
the 133rd Field Artillery was under
Sergt. Harlow, an expert telephone
man of many years experience.
The personnel of the detail follows:
Sergt. Haynie O. Harlow, Corpl.
Aberlt S. Taylor (Act. Sgt.), Corpl.
Thomas J. Newkirk, Corpl. Houston
W. Rhea, Corpl. James H. George,
Private Charles H. Roselle, Private
Gilbert Wade, Private E. M. Reeder,
Private J. H. Riley, Private R. K.
Porter, Private P. O’Neal, Private W.
W. Wilson, Private J. R. Lomas, Pri-
vate J. M. Carter, Private C. Kenne-
dy, Private A. J. Vanbibbei*, Private
W. L. Harris, Private A. E. DeShazo,
Private G. H. Cox, Private J. W. Ta-
bor.
tered by Colonel Fred A. Logan, com-
mander of the 133rd Field Artillery
upon his arrival in Camp Bowie, early
this week. He had just returned from
the school of fire at Fort Sill, Okla-
homa, he having been absent from
Camp Bowie since early in January.
Col. Logan was full of pep, as usual
and was as has been said of him as
his natural self—“just simply raring
to go.” .His health is very good with
the exception of an injured foot,
which was severely sprained and
bruised on the eve of his departure
from Fort Sill. While he is compelled
to walk with a cane, he is neverthe-
less at his desk in regimental head-
quarters, once more directing the ac-
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"A BRIEF STUDY OF FACES—TYPE AND OTHERWISE”
-Cartoon by Sgt. A. J. Ellis
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)U)ITH ftPOCOGieS TO TB£ TEXAS PRESS flS-SOCIATIOM
The dead:
FIRST LIEUT. ALAN J. McDAV-
ID, Headquarters Company, One
Hundred and Forty-Second Infantry,
Overton, Texas."
CORPORAL M. J. ELLIS, Head-
quarters Company, One Hundred and
Forty-first Infantry, Abilene, Texas.
CORPORAL WHARTON JONES,
Headquarters Company, One Hundred
and Forty-first Infantry, San Marcos,
Texas.
CORPORAL WILLIAM P. APP-
LENG, Headquarters Company, One
Hundred and Forty-second Infantry,
Elena, Texas.
PRIVATE MORGAN C. SAND-
ERS, Head-quarters Company, One
Hundred and Forty-second Infantry,
Abilene, Texas.
PRIVATE EUCLID SIMMONS,.
Company K, One Hundred and Forty-
second Infantry, Henrietta, Texas.
PRIVATE JOHN WEBBER, Head-
quarters Company, One Hundred and
Forty-first Infantry, Memphis, Tenn.
PRIVATE LACY R. LANGLEY,
(Continued on Page 5)
CAMP STATIC IS IN
REAL WAR ACTIVITY
Correspondent Says Men of 61st Bri-
gade Are Learning Real Battle
Front Communication.
(By Corpl. Edgar H. Dyer.7
Camp Static, Texas, May 7.—The
camp is called Static because of the
nature of work the Radio men of the
61st Artillery Brigade are doing here.
This is not a buzzer or signal detail
as has been reported, but the real
honest-to-water, dyed in the wool
Radio and Wireless Detachment of
the Brigade. Lieut. Thompson, one of
General Blakeley’s aides, who is a
qualified aero observation officer is
in charge of the detachment.
Primarily our mission here is to
gain experience in communicating
with aeroplanes. Our C. O. has ar-
ranged with the C. O. of Hicks Field
to have aeroplanes at our disposal
each day to work with. As he sits
ha«2 by the placid bosom of Lake
Worth, with its broad expanse of
water, and with aeroplanes scurrying
to and fro overhead, with but a slight
taxing of the imagination we are do-
ing real naval radio work.
We have arranged our stations
which are fully equipped with regula-
tion wireless receiving and sending
sets, as they will actually be used
when we get into action on the battle
fields “over there.”
Most of the artillery fire in the
great battle now raging in Europe is
directed from aeroplanes. The radio
detail is the relay station between the
aerial observer and the battery com-
mander, and it can be seen what im-
portant work we are training for
now.
Sergeant Rondeau, 131st F. A. is
acting first sergeant. He is a good
“Old Top,” and very popular with
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Henson, Will S. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 11, 1918, newspaper, May 11, 1918; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846941/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.