The Camp Hulen Searchlight (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 1941 Page: 5 of 8
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THE CAMP HULEN SEARCHLIGHT
PAGE FIVE
signed
men out of camp last Sunday
on an all-day picnic to Tndianola
Beach. The men thoroughly en-
yed themselves swimming and
“Witf baseball and football.
miirh/ * * «
kno,” 1pp. member of Btry. A
* a prii*ys is Pvt. Weedy Barnes
^lie^for two years has been pro-
girl back home. Being
IflKnnh from her didn’t dampen
his ardor, however, as his con-
tinued wooing was rewarded last
week when she said “Yes!” Ten-
NEWS and NOTES
from the
211th C. A. (AA)
m
The weekly stunt night, held
I.Thursday in the Recreation Hall,
•becomes more popular with each
| passing performance. Under the
direction of the Regtl. Recrea-
tion Officer, Lt. Beyer of Btry.
F, several acts were presented,
Lwith tins of cigarettes being
awarded, to the winners.
The applause of the audience
decided upon Pvt. Paul Rutledge,
\ baritone, whor sang “Night and
i Day” and a sea chanty, Pvt. Vic-
tor Della Grotte, Btry. F, who
sang three songs; and amateur
;'hight's perennial standby, Pvt.
Raymond J. Richards who plays
anything and everything. Pvt.
Harold Kaswell of the Band ac-
companied the artists on the
piano. The band granted several
requests during the evening with
• Ravel’s “Bolero” as the grand
finale.
* * #
The 211th’s body of officers is
being rapidly augmented with
almost daily commissions coming
through from the Adj.-Gen. in
Washington.
2nd. Lt. Raymon S. Pinkham,
Jr., ex-sergeant of Btry. C, is now
assigned to Btry. B. Lt. Hanni-
bal Towle, formerly a private in
Btry. A, is now the Staff Com-
munications Officer for the 2nd.
Bn. 2nd Lt. Louis J. DePass,
erstwhile private from Hq. Btry.
assumes duties as Reconnaissance
Officer for the 1st. Bn. 2nd. Lt.
Robert A. San Souci, onetime
Corporal in Btry. G is now as-
to Btry. F.
* # *
1st. Sgt. Francis J. MacCarthy
Btry. led a group of his
of camp last Sunday
to Tndianola
thoroughly en-
swimming and
and football.
$ tf
of Btry. A
Pvt. Weedy Barnes
has been pro-
however, as his con-
was reward 3d last
she said “Yes!” Ten-
tative plans call for a year’s en-
gagement with the church b3lls
tolling next Easter.
*!« * I
* 1st. Lt. Joseph C. Devine of
Dorchester and his brother 1st.
Sgt. John M. Devine, along with
2nd. Lts. Marshall A. Glazier of
Ncwipa^and Richard M, Twitchell
.of Melrose, the other officers cf
Btry. A, will make up the ad-
ministrative staff of the 211th
contingent to Midland.
Btry. A is pleased to welcome
back into the fold, Pfc. Zygmont
V. Moszke of Dorchester and
Pvt. Bernard J. Dever of Somer-
ville who recently returned from
Cooks and Bakers School at Fort
Sam Houston.
During its absence Btry. A. is
donating its athletic plant con-
sisting of a boxing ring, basket-
ball court and horseshoe pitch-
ing court tp the use of the other
batteries of the regiment.
* * *
Col. Ray Bloom of Cambridge,
an accomplished accordionist, is
expected to provide many even-
ings of pleasure for Btry. A at
their bivouac in the west.
Before embarking on the train-
ing trip, the men were given a
farewell dinner of turkey, ice
cream and all the “fixin’s”.
Each battery going to Midland
maneuvers reqquired about 70
trucks to take care of all the
men, 250 per unit, needed to
handle a searchlight battery’s ex-
tensive and complicated’ equip-
ment. With each battery went
fifteen 800,000,000-candlepower
searchlights; 15 generators re-
quired to operate them, and 15
[fund detectors, each piece* re-
iring a truck of its own.
Each of these trucks also carries
the men necessary for the opera-
tion of the equipment, but extra
trucks are needed to handle the
men required to make efficient
communication and maintenance
sections, and as a searchlight bat-
NEWS’ and NOTES
from the
PILL ROLLERS
NEWS and NOTES
from the
204th C. A. (AA)
By Cpl. At Mailhes.
It’s early-to-bed tonight for
members of the 1st Bn. of the
204th C. A. (AA), for even while
you read your weekly paper, mem-
bers of the organization are ready-
ing for tomorrow’s long trip to
Corpus Christi for a combined
training trek, Army day show, and
good time.
Led by Maj. Claude A. Dance,
Bn. executive officer commanding
in the absence of Lt, Col. Robert
F. Kennon, Btries. A, B, C, D, Hq.
1st Bn. and the' Regtl. band will
move out bright and early Satur-
day, expecting to reach Corpus
within about five hours.
Not the least important feature
of the trip, as far as training is
concerned, will be for the various
cooks, who’ll get their first exper-
ience at preparing meals in a mov-
ing truck. Thanks to the gasoline
stoves, the job won’t be as tough
as it might, but from cooks over
the outfit have come frequent sug-
gestions that box lunches, prepar-
ed in advance, would make the con-
voy more like a picnic, and that
the boys should like it beter.
The' 204th’s recently-arrived, re-
cently - “unquarantined Selectees,”
incidentally, are not to be forgot-
ten. Chances are the new civilian
soldiers won't have learned, by this
time, how to pitch a pup tent, or
the best means and methods of
sleeping comfortable with only a
blanket to the groundward—bht
there’s no better time, nor better
way to learn than the coming trip.
Not all of the 600 selectees who
joined the 204th just two weeks
ago tomorrow will make the trip,
of course. Just those who have
been assigned to batteries within
the 1st Bn. •
Poet of the week, it turns up,
is a lad in whom talents have thus
far been unpolished and for whom
candles—so far as can be ascer-
tained — blazed beneath bushels.
Pfc. Jack “Buttons” Entrican was
inspired to parody Joyce Kilmer
—who received some public recog-
nition through authorship of a dit-
ty about trees and their habits—
by Sgt. John Bowles (Searchlight
cartoonist Bowles, no less), dis-
coverer of a live oyster in the Btry.
G street.
Wrote Pvt. “Buttons”:
I think that I shall never see
A street like that of Btry. G
A, street that, somehow, looks
and smells
Of rocks and reefs and oyster
shells.
A street that may in summer
wear
The soles from shoes that tromp
it there.
Upon whose surface we have
trod
With sperni oil, patches, clean-
ing rod.
Poems are made by fools like me.
Only God could make it in
Btry. G.
There’s talk of some competition
with the Searchlight over in this
regiment, incidentally, but every-
body is so busy with training not
much is likely to come of it. The
regiment’s reporter, Cpl. A1 Mail-
hes, was onetime assistant sports
New Rental Rules
Are Announced
i i
Pursuant to an Executive Or-
der signed recently by the Presi-
dent, enlisted men of the first
three grades with dspendnts, and
not assigned adequate quarters at
their present stations, will be
entitled to a rental allowance of
75 .cents per day. .
Under the old regulations, the
case of each such enlisted man
assigned to duty where no ade-
quate quarters were available
was decided on its merits by
Corps Area Commanders. The
new ruling authorizes this pay-
ment to all enlisted men entitled
to a rental allowance without ref-
erence to higher authority by loc-
al commanders.
Commanding Generals of all
field armies, corp§ areas and de-
partments, and the commanding
officers of othsr organizations and
exempted stations in the Army
of the United States, have been
directed to initiate proper steps
to permit enlisted men concerned
to take advantage of the new
ruling. |
Enlisted men of the first three
grades are: First Grade, Master
Sgts; Second Grade. First Sgts.;
and Tech. Sgts.; and Third Grade
Staff Sgts.
By Gwen N. Wlnningham
Easter Week at the Station Hos-
pital will be celebrated in all
Wards able to have quiet enter-
tainment, climaxing the week
with an Easter Service at 9:30 to
10:30 a. m. Sunday, April 13th,
in the Men’s Mess Hall. Plans
for the Morning Service are near
completion. i
With Lt. Col. Eli E. Brown,
Camp Surgeon, presiding, the
program will consist of Easier
Songs sung by the Palacios Girls’
Glee Club, under direction of Mr.
J. A/ Parks, Herman Stratsniar n,
tenor, is to sing “Ave Maria” with
the Glee Club. He will also sing
a numb?)' lrom one of the favorite
Operas.
Major Titus. 203rd Chaplain,
will deliver the Easter Morning
Sermon. The entire program is
to be broadcast.
Mrs. J. R. Elliot, Chairman -if
Palacios Garden Club, has been
appointed Chairman of the Flow-
er Arrangement Committee aid
will enable the Hospital to have
flowers for the services as well
as furnishing Easter flowers t ir
the Wards.
Each day of Easter Week, be-
ginning April 7th, special enter-
tainment will be provided by the
ladies of Palacios, representing
nine organizations, i
The Wednesday Club is plan-
ning a surprise afternoon program
on Monday for Wards 10, 16, 13,
6 and 4. The Athena Club is
concentrating all efforts for a
special program for Tuesday af-
ternoon for Wards 9, 11, 15, and
17.
A combination party for all
convalescent patients will be held
Wednesday afternoon in the hos-
pital Recreation Room sponsored
by the four Churches of Palacios.
The High School Teachers r.re
cooperating in the Easter Morn—
I ing Services. k "
“pines.”) The thick .perambulat-
ing cypress trees, heavy with Span-
ish moss leaning over the bayou
_________ __ bank are as strange a sight to
editor of The Shreveport (La.) i North Louisiana boys as they are
tery when set up and ready for
operation covers a great deal of
ground, the number of men need-
ed is large.
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A meeting of the 1st. Bn. was
held recently. It came on the
eve of Btry. A’s trek into the
reaches of western Texas, and
it was rather surprising when Lt.-
Col. Russell T. Sharpe, com-
manding officer, pointed out that
this was the first time the whole
battalion had ever been assembled
as a unit.
At the meeting Lt. Forrest L.
Martz explained to the men what
was needed to make a good sol-
dier. At the conclusion of the
session Col. Sharpe extended the
battalion’s best wishes to the men
from A and the best of luck on
their maneuvers. Oddly enough
Blfcry. A has always been the
one missing unit whin the bat-
talion has been otherwise com-
plete. 1
Times. The regiment’s public re
lations officer was onetime city
hall reporter and assistant city
editor of the Shreveport Times.
And coming in among the regi-
ment’s Selectees was one Pvt.
George R. Johnson, onetime parish
county courthouse reporter for The
Shreveport Times.
Not at all unimportant in the
publishing game, incidentally, is
Btry, B’s Pvt. Jay K. Moseley, one-
time printer on The Shreveport
Times. Rumor that there’s also
one of The Times’ circulation men
in the regiment has not been fully
traced as yet. Anybody seen a
pressman ?
Btries. E. G. H and the Med.
Det. moved out of their home areas
when the 204th’s Selectees arrived,
but with two weeks to go, mem-
bers of Btry. G are dreading the
move away from their temporary
shelter in the Btry. B area. Sad
part of the parting will be loss of
the two trees that spring, more or
less unaccountably, at each end of
Btry. B mainstreet. Stunted though
they may be, the trees strike a
passionate cord in the breasts of
North Louisiana boys, reared be-
neath towering pines, and make
Camp Hulen seem like home.
(Yeah, yard bird, the word*was
7f\? Station Hospital Nur.-cs,
I under the leadership of M.'ss
Elsie Rhodes, Chi;f of Nurses, is
organizing a chorus and will par-
, ticipate in the Morning Services.
Junior Red Cress Chapter of
j St. Paul. Minn., gave the Sta-
I tion Hospital 105 Ash Trays made
; of tops of tin cans and painted
I in brilliant colors. Easter Fav-
i ors of bright paper cups were
! received from the Junior Red
i Cross Chapter of Washington
Junior High. Rock Island, 111.
These favors will be used for the
Easter Program during the w ok
within the Wards.
to you. Cypress trees grow only
in the moisture of swampy South
Louisiana, and Spanish moss is
virtually unknown north of Alex-
andria, which—your map will show
you—is about in the middle of the
Pelican state. In North Louisiana
grow pines and oil wells.
And, say, the 204th will be no
small threat on the diamond, eith-
er. Among the regiment’s selec-
tees is Pvt. Joe Valenti, who was
a third baseman for Shreveport’s
Texas League “Sports" in 1939,
and has since played with Tulsa
and Wichita.
Not the least important, being
last, were the following recently-
announced promotions in the
204th: Pfc. William O. Carpenter,
Btry. A, to Cpl.; Pvt. Edgar E.
Szafir, Btry. C, to Cpl.; Pfc. Au-
brey E. McMillian, Band, to Cpl.;
Sgt. Vivian C. Brown, Btry. C, to
staff sgt.; Cpl. Charles W. Thomp-
son, Btry. C, to sgt.; Cpl. Dan N.
Denton, Btry. C, to sgt.; Sgt. James
C. Lockard, Hq. 1st Bn., to Staff
sgt.; Pvts. John C. Gibson and
Frank J. Hawthorne, both Hq. 1st
Bn., both to sgt.; Pvts. Thomas E.
Stuart, Watson G. Hodges and
William H. Warren, all Hq. 1st Bn.,
to cpl.
A huge Bingo set of 30 cards
was initiated in Wards 16.. 18. 11
and 15. Pvt. Taylor holds the
Bingo honor? by winning four
straight within a half hour. Pfc.
W. R. Blanchard won three times
with Pvts. Lyle Wilson Rice. C.
Kisineer, and Pfc. Ross Haddock
one-time winners. The H;gh
Schodl Teachers sponsored the
Gingo game and brought 12 prizes
including candy and military hair
brushes.
A monopoly conies* was h'-M
Thursday in Ward? 16. 18. The
afternoon affair was sponsored by
the ladies of the Palacios Meth-
odist Church represented bv Me«-
dames T. E. Trier. Mable Lewis,
Gidden Lewis and Walter Millon.
A lar*»e home-made angel cake
was the reward to the winners
of mononnlv. S«rt. Norse S. Ram-
son of Ward 18. Pvt. John D.
Higgins, of Ward' 16 also won ai
cake. Without a doubt, the.win-
ners of these fine cakes find they
hoy* mnnv friends on the wards.
However, the winners are g«ner-
ons and everyone in the ward re-
ceived a s'lm'i’.
Chin's" Checkers were pin vert
under the cnnnsorsbiij of Me=-
dame? .T. R. Elliot. C,. S. Conoin
and Miss Mi'dred Cnniyn. Win-
ners were Pvts. Joe Eugene. J- hn
P'-vont. J'hp Higgins and CpTv
LeRoy Williams.
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Witt, William H. The Camp Hulen Searchlight (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, April 4, 1941, newspaper, April 4, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth720342/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.