Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire.. MACHINE GUN SCHOOL OPENS Hundreds to Be Instructed at Camp Shelby Beginning Next Monday— Hoosier Officers as Instructors— British Officer to Assist

Hattiesburg, Miss.. April 19.—Hundreds of soldiers at Camp Shelby here will be instructed in the science of machine gun fire, beginning next Monday. The instructors have all -been chosen from among the troops at the local camp, and the greater part of them are from Indiana. The problems have been worked out’ by Maj. William P. Carpenter of Indianapolis. who will command the school, and Maj. A. J. Jackson, machine gun corps, British army, attached to the headquarters of the Seventy-sixth infantry brigade. Sixteen machine gun companies from the different battalions and infantry regiments will take part in this school, which will he conducted in a manner similar to the use of the guns in actual warfare. By order of Brig. Gen. William V. Judson, commanding the Tltlr-ty-eighsh division, Corp. Harry H. Hardin, Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-first infantry, has been assigned to the headquarters detachment. Cook Harry Dawson, ambulance company No. 149, has been assigned to Camp Gordon. Ga.. to attend the school for cooks. Lieut. Herman W. Dupree, Company C, One Hundred and Fiftyfirst infantry, has been assigned as assistant range officer, and ordered to report to Lieut. Col. Howard F. Noble, division range officer.