THE KENTUCKY KERNEL
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
VOL XI
DEATH

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CLAIMS TWO

MEMBERSQFS. A. T. C.

BILLY M'ADAMS

WINTER BREEZES CAN'T
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CHILL

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The students

of the University

Government

HUNS
IS COMMISSIONED CAPT.

of

K. Smith, 20 year old Kentucky

at the University died in the hospital made several days ago by Lieutenant
Sunday night of influenza. He was
transferred November 17, from the En
gineers Reserve Corps to the Univer
sity of Kentucky to take up Mechanical
Engineering course and became 111
Thursday morning.

William M. Scurry, Camp Quartermas
ter to the Kernal camp representative.

The clothing was1 requisitioned over
two weeks ago andxtwo telegrams have
since been sent, asking that the ship
ment be forwarded immediately. Five
Private Smith was matriculated In hundred woolen uniforms have been
the sophomore class and last year requisitioned and four hundred and fif
while a freshman was active in orator- ty overcoats should be Included In the
ical and debating events and was chos- same shipment.
en one of the two students at large of
When the S. A. T. C. was first orthe freshman class as a member of ganized, instructions from the CommitKeys, the honorary society of the tee on Education and Special Trainfreshman class. He was a member ing, at Washington, issued a memoran
of the Union Literary Society and was dum showing just what clothing would
a writer of unusual ability. '1"'
be issued to the students of the va
The body was accompanied to Louis- rious corps thruout the different sec
ville by Privates Robert Ralble and E. tions of the country and this memor
E. Rice and by Mr. and Mrs. Smith, andum called only for cotton clothing,
who were with their son when he died. with woolen overcoats. Later, howPrivate G. Lloyd Haydon, 18 years ever, the commanding officer, Captain
old, died at the S. A. T. C. hospital of H. N. Royden received telegraphic
pneumonia, following an attack of in- authority to requisition woolen cloth
alfluenza. Young Haydon, who was a ing and the requisition which had
ready been sent in by the quartermasmember of Company C, lived in Springfield, Kentucky, where his body was ter calling for woolen clothing, was
taken yesterday afternoon for burial. confirmed by wire before the Depot
He was the brother of our former foot- Quartermaster at Chicago, to whom
ball captain, and had recently been the requisition was sent could ship
any other supplies. This telegram was
initiated into Sigma Nu fraternity.
sent on November 9, and as the past
two weeks have brought no reply,
INFLUENZA SITUATION another urging that the shipment be
IMPROVED IN S. A. T. C. forwarded immediately was sent Monday. It is highly probable that the DeMrs. W. H. Thompson, who has been pot Quartermaster Is now preparing
in charge of the nursing of influenza for shipment or has already shipped
patients of S. A. T. C. since the epi- tho supplies requisitioned and it is
demic broke out on. the campus in thought that they will arrive within
October, said Monday that the situatwo weeks at the latest.
tion is brighter than it has been for
Saturday, four boxes were received
'
some time. At the end of last week
by the Quartermaster containing a
sixty-twFifty-thre- e
cases.
there were
were discharged, leaving only largo number of sweaters to be Issued
nine cases and twelve now cases were to the students of Section "A" Inclureceived Sunday and Monday. The sive of tho naval unit, from the Ameritotal number now under treatment is can Rod Cross Depot at Camp Taylor,
twenty-ono- ,
and witth one exception,
Louisville. These supplies will be isthat of W. N. Schmidt, the cases are
sued to tho companies within a few
rather light.
days, it Is thought. With these sweaters, tho men should bo able to keep
NO GAME THURSDAY
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warm until tho woolen clothing and
game! Flu.
overcoats arrive.
years the WildAll the men of Section "B" nro now
For the first tlmo In
cats can eat their turkey in peace, with oqulpped with overcoats, while a numno thots of a coming gridiron strug- ber of tho students have also been
No Thanksgiving

gle, and townspeople with the lure of supplied, but the majority of the
the pigskin removed, can observe the dent body Is ut present garbed in
day with true Puritan tranquility.

ilian overcoats.

stuciv-

HEADS MEN IN BATTLE

University Graduate Does Vivid Description of Attack
Distinguished Chemical
By Rainbow Division
Research Work For
Given by Professor

S. A. T. C. will soon be
son of Robert H. Smith, of .Louisville, warmly clad In woolen uniforms and
a member of Company D, of S. A. T. C. overcoats, according to a statement

Private Harry

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HELPS

UNCLESAjTC FORCES

Privates Smith and Haydon Woolen Uniforms and Overcoats Now on Way Says
Die As Result of SpanLieut. Scurry, Camp
ish Influenza at UniQuartermaster
versity Hospital
AINT IT A GRAND AND
The deaths of two S. A. T. C. men
GLORIOUS FEELING?
saddened the student body In the past
week.

No. 6

LEXINGTON, KY.. NOVEMBER 27, 1916

HENRY CLAY

THOMPSON

FORMER STUDENT MEETS
DEATH

IN ENGLAND

News Reaches Parents of
Death of Lieutenant H. G.
Thompson as Result of
Motor Accident
Lieutenant Henry Clay Thompson,
of Winchester, prominent in University activities in 1914-1was killed in
a motor accident in England. Thomp
son, who was a student in mining engineering, was a member, of Kappa Sig
ma fraternity and of the honorary so
cieties Keys and Mystic Thirteen.
The body wil lbe brought back to
Winchester for reburial, as soon as the
necessary arrangements can be made.
The letter giving full details of the
young officer's death was written by
W. W. Stainthorpe, M. D., at whose
home Lieutenant Thompson died. Mrs.
Stainthorpe wrote the first letter to his
mother telling of his death.
Lieutenant Thompson was returning
to Camp Marake from Guisburg. He
was driving a motorcycle, and was accompanied by a young officer of the
aviation corps, who occupied the sidecar of the machine.
The accident occurred at about 9:30
o'clock in the evening. It is supposed
young Thompson lost his sense of direction, as tho car ran into a pile of
brush at the side if tho road. A passerby a few moments later found tho
machine on fire and the two officers
beneath the wreckage. Tho injured
men were rescued from a death by
fire .however, and young Thompson
was taken to the homo of Dr. Stainthorpe. Ho suffered a hemorrhage of
tho brain and fractured skull, and
never regained consciousness. Tho
r
did not state tho outcome of his
companion's injuries.

Captain W. H. McAdams, who for
some time past has been the assistant
of Col. F. H. Worsey, head of the development division of the Chemical
War Service, arrived in Lexington a
few days ago to spend Thanksgiving
with his porents, Mr. and Mrs. H. K.
McAdams, of 309 North Broadway,
and to recuperate 'from the strain
under which he has been working, as
Colonel Dorsey has been 111 with in
fluenza, leaving the entire charge of
the department to his young assistant
When the United States entered the
war, Mr. McAdams, who is a graduate
of the Chemical Department, Univer
sity of Kentucky offered his services
and for a while was in charge of the
development work at the American
University, Washington. Later he was
transferred to his present position in
i
Cleveland, where he played an impor
tant part in the development of the
American gas mask, which is recog-nize- d
as being four times more efficient than the best masks of foreign
make. Remarkable progress was also
made in the making of poison gases,
particularly mustard gas, which was
first made in a laboratory under his
management.
Colonel Dorsey in a recent interview
said of Captain McAdams, "He is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant
young chemical engineers in this country, and his work has been Invalua
ble. He is at once a remarkable exe
cutive and a fine chemist. His devotion to the task set before him was
wonderful and his contribution to tho
winning of the war has been no Inconsiderable one."

38th AND 84th
DIVISIONS TO RETURN

ARE

WHIPPED

It is thru the Paris, Kentucky Citizen that the Kernel is able to present
the following interesting letter from
Reuben Hutchcraft, a member of the
University's faculty, now seeing active
service In France:
A letter received from Captain Reuben Hutchcraft is of more than ordinary interest, as it tells of the part
taken by the Rainbow Division, which
has been desinated as "one of the
crack units of the American Army,"
in the reduction of the St Mihiel sec
tor.
The letter from Capt. Hutchcraft
dated September 20, followed a brief
note in which he merely referred to
his promotion, but praised the excel
lent work of his men in the engagement.
"The promised long rest about
which I have been writing you," says
the Captain in his letter, 'was rudely
interrupted to put us in the biggest
show we have taken part in yet, and
K company had the front line all the
way. You have read in the newspapers what a complete success the
operation was and how the St. Mihiel
salient was completely wiped out and
my boys covered themselves with
glory.
"The figures that I dare to give tell
a lot. K company captured more than
two hundred prisoners, twenty-sevemachine guns, four cannons, three
towns, over two hundred rifles, fourteen freight cars loaded with engineering tools and material, and large quantities of ammunition and other booty.
We advanced a little over fourteen
kilometers. But figures can't tell you
how splendid my boys were.
n

"The night before going over the
top is always tho tensest time. I had
my officers and sergeants in my P. C.
early In tho night to give them their
final Instructions.
You would think
that the air would be charged with
emotion, but everything was matter-of-faWo went,
and business-like- .
over tho scale map by tho light of
two candles, noted the ground we
wore to take, tho limits of our forest,
the rate of advance, the length of
time wo wero to wait after taking tho
successive objectives.

Announcement by General March
that the 3Sth and 84th Divisions will
ba included in tho American troops
to be returned will bo of interest to
nil Kentuckians.
Tho 38th division is
made up of Kentucky and Indiana
troops formerly National Guard units,
while tho S4th division was mobilized
at Camp Zachary Taylor and Is made
up of Kentucky, Indiana and Southern
Illinois men who went to camp under
tho first draft calls.
"They had to bo told what to exTho writor stated that after LieuMany former students aro with pect
In tho way of
from
tenant Thompson's death, his body lay
theso divisions.
artillery, tho trench mortars, tho maIn state in the homo, and was viowod
chine guns,, tho engineers, tho tanks;
by
of tho Allied forces.
Many flowers decked tho casket,
KERNEL OUT EARLY and they wero reminded of tho Importance and means of letting our
which was draped with an American
aoroplanes know where they wero.
flag, and candles wero kept burning.
Since tho rogular day of publication
"When I reminded them that they
Lieutenant Thompson was the owner
falls on Thanksgiving, tho Kernel
wero tho assault wave and their busiof tho first American flag carried by
u day early this week. Tho staff ness was to go forward, that thoy
(Continued on Pago Pivo.)
must celebruto ouco In awhile.
must not stop to ussist wounded com- let-to-

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