The Shackelford County Leader (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1944 Page: 2 of 4
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THE SHACKELFORD COUNTY LEADER
Thursday, February 24,1944
MORANNEWS...
TEXAS STATE GUARD
MEWS, COMPANY C.
By A. Rookie
Alert is answered by 54 en-
listed men and three officers!
' Okla., January 6,1923, arrived
j at Kelley Field, Texas, Janu-
: ary 10. Assigned to the 40th
j school Squadron (Bombard-
the men, they were dismissed, ;ment) 10th School Group.
One of the highlights of the j. My first 30 days of army
emergency call, was the speed
with which a very loyal pri-
vate arrived at the Armory to
On last Thursday evening, report. He always rides a bi-
February 17, at 3:15 p. m.,
The Texas State Guard alert
came loud and clear. As ac-
cording to instructions, every
man who heard the alert, or
heard of it, responded immed- j cers answered
iately. The Company was J call.
formed outside the Armory by > Tuesday Night, Feb. 22
the first to
cycle, and he was
get there, even uuu i uuumg
several who were headed that
way in their cars. A total of
54 enlisted men and three offi-
this important
life was spent in the Recruit
to duty with my old Squadron
and in the next year I man-
aged to get in enough flying
time to bring my total to 500
hours before I was grounded.
We put in many hours on
cross country trips. One that
detachment, where
trained in the school of a sol-
dier and Close Order drill in
the mornings and attended
out running Aeroplane Mechanics school
in the afternoons. Here we
learned general maintenance
and servicing of planes. From
recruit school we were return-
ed to our Squadrons and I was
assigned to the Line for Duty.
we were we all enjoyed took us to Tul-
the men in their civilian | Company was formed
clothes. They were then given side of Armory and given
"At Ease." Lieutenant Smith ease." At the approach of
gave instructions to all men ; Capt. McCargo, the command,
present to tell others who Company, (all the men went
were not present, to report to Parade Rest), and "Atten-
backtothe Armory at 5:00 p. tion," each man snapped to
m. in full uniform, when furth- attention. The Captain then
at; Since this was peace times
at and we did not have a Cadet
sa, Okla., St. Louis, Chanute
Field, Rantoul, 111., Maxwell
Field, Ala. We made this trip
in eight days, using 18 ships,
Martins N.B.S. 1 bombers with
the famous Liberty engines,
carrying a full crew of four
men.
January 5, 1926, found me
in the hospital at Ft. Sam
Houston. I was returned to
duty January 25, and dis-
class for frying instruction, charged January 30, 1926; re-
things were pretty dull. Rou-; enlisted January 31. In April
tine flying and athletics took 1926,1 transferred to the 8th
up most of our time. Each Squadron 3rd Attack Group,
Squadron had a baseball or which was also at Kelley Field,
basketball team. The 40th ! In June 1926, it was decided to
advance training observation,
attack and light bombing. The
Curtis and Martin N.B.S. 1
bombers.
After an accident that
grounded me for 30 days, I
was never able to pass the
physical and was permanently
grounded. Applied for purch-
ase discharge, which I receiv-
ed August 17, 1927, complet-
ing a little more than four and
a half years service.
S/Sgt. Alexander was
among the first to enlist in
Company C and has served in
all grades from Pvt. to S/Sgt.
And that's the news from
Company C today!
o —
!Monday in March (the sixth)
is the date for the next meet-
ing of the Grange. This will
be another open meeting, so if
you missed the first meeting
and wish to become a Granger,
be at the school house by 8:00
o'clock, March 6.
er instructions would be im-
parted to them. At 5:00
o'clock the men were there,
and each got his pack and full
equipment, and lined up out-
side, where the Company was
again formed.
ical problem.
took over with a "Right Face"
then a "Forward March," and
we were off to the drill field.
The platoons v/ere separated years that
and much time was spent in I Squadron.
forming the guard mount, and
ranks, in prepara-
won three baseball champion-
ships and two basketball
championships in the four
I was in that
I played forward
on the basketball team and in
1923-24 we won the Keliev
expand the Cadet Classes and
run two classes each year, this
meant expanding the School
Group, so the 3rd Group was
transferred to Fort Crocket,
Galveston.
We left Kelley Field June
SCHOOL NOTES
The Junior play, ' "Star
Crazy," was presented
Friday night to a good crowd
Superintendent Northcutt
returned to school Wednesday
after having been absent since
last Thursday because of hav-
ing finally decided he couldn't
get the best of the flu germs
without doing something
about it.
The basketball tournament
will start Friday night at 8:00
o'clock with a basketball game
between Moran and Rising
last Star boy's teams. This game
will be followed by a volley
despite the cold weather. The garne betw een the Moran
cast gave a good performance, j{
and approximately $60.00 will
As a hypothet-! ^ opening , _
the Company tion for inspection. Some 45 Field League and the Army j 29 in trucks, using 1918 model
be cleared
paid.
after expenses are
Six weeks tests
again, and students
was informed that the^Abi- minutes were spent in this im- Y. M. C. A. League, losing only Libertys, l1* ton Whites, and
lene Water Works had been portant phase of the guard one game. Members of this 3/4 ton G.M.C.'s, so you can
seized by saboteurs and fifth training. Capt. McCargo an-!team included three officers: imagine the trip we had. We
columnists, and they had been . nounced that Company C was [Capt. Guidera, now a Colonel spent ^the first night at Se-
captured and jailed, part of the leading Company of the'at the Cadet Replacement'guin, 35 miles
them in Abilene
them in Albany.
The Captain further an-
nounced that a gang of fifth
columnists had formed in Cis-
co, and were headed west, with
the intention of destroying
vital utilities plants, and the
Moran Armory, then on to Al-
bany to release the prisoners
held there, who were captured
in Abilene for sabotage work.
Accordingly, the First Pla-
toon was ordered to the Lone
Star plant, to establish a
guard around that important
utility, while the Second Pla-
toon was detailed to guard the
Armory, to forestall any at-
tempt at molesting or destroy-
ing Government v/eapons or
other property. After approx-
imately 40 minutes of inten-
sive guard duty, the Company
and part of 10th Battalion
' Center;
Cadet
Lt. Keeler
San An-
and Lt. j tonio, the second at Columbus,
ico. We all turned engineers
and built a field. Two months
was recalled, and after a j I volunteered for the Air
hearty thanks from Captain Service at Oklahoma City and
McCargo for the response of was enlisted at Fort Reno,
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Y W A R
BONDS
to report, first,
and also a greater percentage ' Ralph Snavely, now a Colonel1 the third at Houston and Ft.
of men answering the alert and Group Commander of Col. .Crocket on July 2, 1926.
call than any other company , Dyess in California. j At Fort Crocket we had
Thursday evening. j And speaking of officers I good quarters and plenty of
tt annminrprt that served under many of our now other necessary buildings, but
if the weather would permit, famous officers. My first! that flying field was a cow
the company would assemble Squadron Commander was ! pasture four miles from the
at the Armory next Sundav CaP^ Wm- E. Lynd, now Ma- Tort, full of holes and washes
f-vpnincr of i -^fi n m tn or, nut Jor General, commanding the and a part of the Gulf of Mex-
TorS^targetPprTcticeglrk 4th Air Force; Lt. Gen. Frank
in setting up shelter halves or Andrews was C. O. of tne
10th Group, then a Major; later our ships came in from
Gen. Doolittle was then a 1st. j Kelley and we started a new
Lt.; Gen. H. H. George was r, phase of training—Coast Pa-
2nd. Lt.; Gen. Ira C. Ecker trol and Defense. We had sev-
was a Captain. All were at eral D.H.4 B's and one Curtis
Kelley Field. Amphibian. Each pilot had to
In September of '23 the Ca- get in ten hops each month in
'aet Class from Brooks Field the Amphibian, making a total
came to Kelley for advanced of twenty water landings, with
training, then we were really , twenty-five officers and
(on the job. Reveille at 4:45, twelve enlisted pilots; you can
j and we put the ships on the guess which ground crew that
! line for our morning exercise, worked day and night.
Cadets flew all morning and ! Up to this time we were still
I we repaired and serviced the flying World War I equipment
! ships in the afternoons; all and believe me we were really
1 ships had to be ready to fly glad to get some new ships,
! before we left the hangers at under the 5 year expansion
| night. I can say that we were plan. We drew about 20
glad that there was only one Douglas 0 2's, a Ford tri-mo-
class per year. tor transport, and three Cur-
j In 1924 I was detached to tis P 9's. At Kelley Field we
! the Cadet Class at Brooks had such ships as the French
1 Field for flying instructions. Spad, British S E 5, Thomas
We returned to Kelley in Sep- Morris, all pursuit ships and
tember and received our wings American built, the English
in July 1925. I was returned DeHaviland was standard for
pup tents."
"Know your General Or-
ders?" Better learn 'em,
'cause Colonel Long will ask
vou about them the night of
May 30, when he gives us our
Federal inspection.
And now. we present the
previous military experience
of Company C's number four
soldier—
S Sgt. John M. Alexander
are here
are glad
to see them because there will
remain only two more six
weeks periods in this year of '
school. However, there are'
some students who feel that
six weeks tests at any time in-
jand Cisco girls teams.
Beginning Saturday morn-
ing at 10 o'clock, basketball
and volley ball games with
boys, girls and All-Star teams
from Carbon, Ranger, Ranger
Junior CoMege, Moran, Baird,
Rising Star, Scranton, and
Cisco playing throughout the
day with the finals Saturday
night.
There are
be awarded
three trophies to
to the winning
dicate a thoughtless and in-1 boys' team, the winning girls'
considerate attitude on the j team, and the runner-up in the
part of the teachers.
Don't
forget
boys' teams.
R. E. Weber
and Oscar
— the first Powell will call the games.
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of 100-octane gasoline to keep that ship in the
air for an hour. Multiply that by thousands of
planes on thousands of missions and you soon
see why we've got to conserve on gas at home
Says the O. P. A. in a special report on
Civilian gasoline supply:
Mechanized warfare feeds insatiably on petroleum products.
Tanks of one armored division will burn some 25,000 gallons
in traveling 100 miles. On a single six-hour mission, a thousand
Flying Fortresses use at least 1,500,000 gallons of high octane
fuel. During the North African campaign, tankers made up
60 per cent of the tonnage required lot supplying the Allied
forces.
Gasoline Powers the Attack
V • • Don't Waste a Drop.
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Day-old pallets in Leghorn and Minor-
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The Shackelford County Leader (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1944, newspaper, February 24, 1944; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth416981/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.