Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 65

District National Guard Renewed efforts to obtain adequate armory factlities for the National Guard of the District of Columbia soon will be taken, with a view to convinging Congress that some pro- vision must be made for the local units, in order to properly drill the men, and, what is very imp-rtant, to provide adequate stosige or the expensive equipment which is ms- signed here by the War Department. It will be remembered that efforts were made lust year to obtain a spe- cial bill through Congress to provide for the erection of an armory here, but the project was killed by the President, on the ground of Federal economy. However, there is the belief that the Chief Executive acted under a misapprehension in refusing approval to the armory project in believing that the entire cost was to come from Federal funds. The measure which vas introduced in Congress provided that the armory should be paid for on the same ratio that other appro- priations for the District of Columbia were paid. Efforts will be made to reach the President and acquaint him thoroughly with these facts, with a view to having him.give his approval so that a measure will be put throush the next Congress, and thus end a movement which has been pushed for years to provide an ade- quate ari here. The Dis ational Guard—that the engineers and military police— arill in a rented building at 472 L street northwest, a structure entirely unsuited for the purpo and they have the use of the Convention Hall. at such times as it is not bei for other affairs, for drills. times during the vear the organiza- tion is unable to use it, and instruc- tion must be confined to that in the cramped quarters. unsuitable for the Drotection of Federal property The 260th Coast Artillery i the armory at Water and O streets southwest, built for a naval militia, and in addition has constructed a sheet metal shed for the housing of tractors and other mobile equipment. When this organlzation was organ- ized and placed in this armony it forced out the Naval Reserve, now a Federal force, which was given wholly inadequate quarters in the Washing- ¢ yard. It is the plan to turn ¢ back to the Naval Re- ~crve.as there is a dock there for the mng ship, as soon as adeguate armory faciities for the land forces vided. cestion has been made, and iven some consideration by those examining into the armory project, that the Patent Office be turned over to the guard for an ar- mory. The Patent Office officials are desirous of getting a new building for that important and fast-expanding branch of the Government, and if such is provided, it is pointed out that with an expenditure of a few thousand dollars in roofing over the courtyard for a drill hall, it would be tdeal for an armory. It is centrally located and had excellent plans for company rooms, etc. Of course, that Dpresupposes that the President also will authorize a public buildings bill. The plan to build an armory here is to have the entire support and politi- cal backing of National Guard organ- izations throughout the United States, in accordance with a resolution adopt- ed at the last_convention, in Philadel- phia, of the National Guard Associa- f the United States. The civic riotic bodies of 18 being movement. The rifle team of the National Guard of the District of umbia went to Annapolis, Md., yesterday for its annual rifle competition with the representing the midshipmen. originally planned for last Sat- ay, but was postponed. The mem- bers of the team are First Lieut. Just C. Jensen, Company E, 121st Engi- aptain; Capt. Clarence S. iny E, 121st Engineers; Sergt. F. F. Bernsdorff, Head- and Service Company; Tech- H. H. Robertson, Ord- nance Department; Technical "Sergt. Frank B. aye, Headquarters and Service Company; Staff Sergt. Lloyd T. Meeds, Company E, 121st Engi- neers; Staff Sergt. Alex Thill,s Com- pany A, 121st Engineers; Staff Sergt. John A. Schricker, Company C, 121st Engineers; Sergt. J. W. Crockett, Bat- tery A, Coast Artillery; Sergt. Her- bert Milwit, Company A, 121st Engi- neers; Sergt., Thaddeus A. Riley, Company E st Engineers; Corp. Percy H. Skinner, Company E, 121st FEngineers; Corp. y A, Coast Artillery Riley, Company Pvt. Luther B. 121st Engineer Hall, Company The standing of the units of the ional Guard in drill z follows: Separate Band section, Headquarters an Service Company, 58.61; 29th Military Police Company Headquarters and Service Company, 58.33; Battery . 260th Coast Artillery, 57.9 B, st Engineers, 5 £ Coast_Artillery, Compan 121st Engineers, Company F, 121st Engineers, Medical Detachment, 39.13. h was commissioned in the 2 Police Company last week. a promoted from corporal, after exami- nation, and his commission was pre- sented to him by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the Bistrict of Columbia Militia, at a ceremony in the armory Tuesday night, at which were present Col. Lloyd M. Brett, adjutant general, and Lieut. Raymond Peake, commanding the military police col pany. After this ceremony Lieut. Lloyd was administered the formal oath by Capt. P. G. Nevitt. He is a native of Glenndale, Md., but was edu- cated in the Washington public schools, having graduated from the Western High School, where he was a member of the cadet regiment. He en- listed in the local guard on July 31, 1923, as a private, is an active worker in the company, and has been rapidly promoted as vacancies occurred. The following promotions in the 29th Military Police Company have been announced by Lieut. Raymond Peake commanding: Corp. Hallowell W. Mil ler, promoted to supply sergeant; Pri- vate (first-class) Herbert Kelser, pro- moted to corporal, and Private (first- class) Ashton C. Bonnaffon, promoted to corporal. The following discharges from the 29th Military Police Company were announced by Lieut. Raymond Peake, commanding: Privates John C. Yates, John M. Payne and Leonard Delvec- chio. For the purpose of raising the stand- ard of men in his organization, Lieut. Raymond Peake, commanding tbe military police companv 4unounced that in the future evy=, applicant for eniistment must have had at least two years of high school training, and must be not less than 5 feet 10 inches in height. A tompany has been form- ed, and no enlistment in the organiza- | :on will be allowed in which the ap- plicant has not the approval of the club. Lieut. Col. C. Fred Cook, adjutant general’s department, National Guard of the District of Columbia, 29th Divi- sion adjutant, this week received his commission in the Army Reserve Corps. His previous commission ex- pired, he having been commissioned shortly after he left the Army after the war. = During the was Col. Cook saw serv- ice in various parts.of France, and for many months was base adjutant at Brest, France, which was commanded by Brig. Gen. George H. Harries, who for many vears commanded the Na. tional Guard of the District of Colum- bla. At Brest Col. Cook handled the debarkation of hundreds of thousands of troops from the maval transports and looked after their embarkation after the war. The resignation of Second Lieut. William B. Shanahan, Company- D, 121st Regiment of Engineers, has been accepted. Estimates of funds necessary for the annual encampment of the 121st Regiment of Engineers, 29th Military Police Company, 260th Coast Artil- lery and First Separate Battalion have been prepared at National Guard headquarters and forwarded to the headquarters of the Third Corps Area at Baltimore, Md., whence they will g0 to the Militia Bureau of the War Department. The estimates call for a total e: penditure of $43,953.76, of which $5. 318.72 will bhe for transportation by boat and train, $28,000 for pay and al- lowances for the officers and men for the 15 days of training, $5,569.20 for subsistence, $810 for the hire of ani- mals, $120 for forage, $942 for sani- tation and $1,413.30 for miscellaneous expenses. Payrolls _for the officers and men will be paid prior to the movement of the troops from camp to their home station here, but they will not be paid until after they de- bark from the transport here. The National Guard has accepted the offer of four large motor trucks and two kitchen trailers to be as- signed by the use of the 260th Coas A proval is given for this organization to proceed over the road to their camp at Fort Monroe, it is expected that they will be used at that time. Plans are being made to send a de- tachment of one officer and seven en- listed men to Fort Benjamin, Ind., for the trucks, and to Jeffersonville, ind., for the trailers, and drive them over the road to Washington. Maj. George J. Allen, commanding the medical detachment of the 121st Engineers, announces that there are ancles for two surgeons in his organization, and he is anxious to fill them before the annual.encampment for August. Surgeons desiring. com- missions in the National Guard_are urged to communicate - with Maj. Allen at the armory, 472'L street northwest. Company C, 121st Engineers, Capt. Jorgensen, commanding, is to give a dance exclusively for the members of his command at the Hoffman Studios May 23. Pvt. Henry Tripp _enlisted in Company C, 121st Engineers, and Corp. Pearson C. Conlyn re-enlisted during the week. Capt. Jorgensen announces that there are seven more vacancies and when these are filled no more will be accepted. He says that his organization has 98 per cent re-enlistments. In the recent annual inspections b) ! i | With is all | scouting fleet. If the ap-| THE Regular Army officers, Company C, 121st Regiment of Engineers, lead with a percentage of 61.3 per cen! the medical detachment, Maj. Georse J. Allen, commanding, was second with 57 per cent, and the headquar- ters and service cempany, third, with 55.6 per cent. The entire regiment re- ceived a percentage of 50 and the first battalion, Maj. J. 8. McKey com- manding, lead the second battalion with 47 per cent. rp. Wilbur V. Doyes, Company ¥, 121st Engineers, has been reduced from corporal to private at his own request. First Class Pvt, Lester L. Butler has been promoted to cor- poral in Company F. On recommen- dations of the company commanders, Corp. John E. Goetz, Company C, was reduced to private, and Corps. Harvey E. Bell and Orin M. Lak both of Company F, reduced to pri- vates. 5 Pvt. Lucius S. Benton has been transferred from Company A to the headquarters and service company, 121st Engineers. Naval Reserve. The annual cruises of the Naval Re: serve of the District of Columbia, of which there will be four, were started yesterday when the U. S. 8. Eagle No. 56, the training ship, left her dock at the foot of Water and O streets south- west, for a 15-day voyage to points o the Potomac River ‘and Chesapeak: Bay and to Bermuda. The vessel is, commanded by Lieut. Comdr. F. W. Jones, employed in the offices of the United States Shipping Board here. The first two cruises will be made aboard the Eagle, when she will end her tour of service here as a training ship, and the second two will be aboard the U. Destroyer Toucey of the The Eagle, however, is to be replaced by the U. S. Destroyer Allen, which will come here shortly. after July 1, but will not start the training cruises for the local reserves until next year. The schedule for tHe Eagle on her first trip follows: Proceed from here to Norfolk, where she will remain May 10 and 11 to take aboard fuel oil and ._being at sea May 12, 13 and 14; at Hamilton, Bermuda, May 14, 15. 16 and 17; at sea en route to Norfolk, May 18, 19 and 20: at Norfolk and Tanglér Sound for target practice, May 20, 21 and 22, returning to Washington on May 23. Her next. trip will be a 30-day.cruise to the West Indies, touching Cubaand Haiti, with the Virgin-Islands as her destination.; - The officers attached to the ship on the first cruise, in addition to Comdr. Jones, are:: Lieut. Ralph A. Phil- brook, executive officer; Lietit. (junior B." A.~ Sullivan, navigator; . (junior grade) H. E. Richard- son, Lieut. (junior grade) J. W. Young, Lieut. (junior grade) €. W. Stinemetz, Ensigns G. W. Daisley, B. F. Rey- nolds and F. E. Gordon. The enlisted. personnel _includes: Harold Abbey, chigf radio man; with the following radio assistants, M. L. Beagle, Harold- Yates and Gregory Weeden; Emmett Chapman, _chief pharmacist’s mate; Ottis Ray. pharm- acist’s mate, second class; Willlam 1. Windham, chiéf yeoman . Col- 1ins, mess attendant; Frank L. White, mess attendant; Leslie G. Smith, Ir- win _ Abell, Francis D.; Courtney, Charles K. Warren, E. B. Albaugh, J. B. Roche, Walter Sweikert, Clarence M. Brandenberg, John R. Barry, C. D. cClure, William T jr., fire. SUNDAY o men; and the following seamen: Fran- cis J. Brannon, Willlam P. Flaherty, E. G. Morgan, James A. Brown, Wil- liam J, King, S.'H: Hartung, Arthur V. Simonton, R. L. Conner, Edwin A. Burgess and E. T. Smith. Lieut. Comdr. Jones delivered a brief address to the officers and men who are on the first cruise, during the arill period at 'the armory- Monday night. He told of the plans for the voyage, and gave them general in- structions for the trip. Lieut. Comdr. Finney B.‘ Smith, ordnance 'officer of the local reserve, and instructor in the ordnance school, also addressed the officers on the plans for target practice which are to be held on the first cruise. This will be the first time that the vessel has fired at big gun practice, previous practice having been of the sub calibre type. He urged them to get every bit of training possible at the guns dur- ing* the voyage ,and he prepared to make a fine showing when the vessel goes to the naval target grounds in Tangler Sound, Chesapeake Bay, for | the practice. He told them that the vessel would stop at Norfolk on the return voyage in order to pick up a regular officer who will act as observe at -the practice. He urged them to study thoroughly all of the official pamphlets on _target practice and ordnance furnished by the Navy De- partment in order to be familiar in every detail hy the time the vessel goes on the range. The Naval Reserve Officers’ Asso- cation of the District of Columbia will give a dinner here June 3, accord- ing to Lieut. H. J. Nichols, president. {The organization held a meeting at the armory Monday night and heard a report from its committee on arrange- nts. The committee was instructed to proceed with the preparations of the details, Lieut. Nichols said that it was desirable to have as many former officers of_the reserve as possible at- tend the dinner and renew acquaint- ances with those now actively engaged with it here. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS A Thrilling Novel of International Intrigue (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) CHAPTER XXII 1 Indite an Epilogue. I have not much more to write, for, indeed, the rest of the story is public property, and Has been made the theme of comment dnd report in every newspaper in the world. Of the fuil discovery and publication -gf the com- spiracy of the Seven Sleepdrs and the immedtate fall of the German govern- ment I need not speak, for this is not a chronicle of great events, but merely the personal record of one Who became so_strangely involved in them. There is nothing to relate of the journey to Paris. It remains with me as a passage of deep content, amount- ing almoat to a stupor, in which I was mainly conscious of an insuperable longing for, rest, a profound thankful- ness and. an, exquisite sense of Bea- trice. secure from further harm, and fooking to me for am assurance .that we were really safe at last. My French friends ‘apparently suffered the same reaction.. Even the spirits of the ir- repressible Gaston were for the mo- ment in abeyance. We huddled each of us in a'corner of the earriage, doz- ing in uneasy snatches, till we were roused at- last by the fortunate, dis- covery that we were hungry and that dinner was being served-in the wagon restaurant. . Over dinner we . recovered - slight- ly, and Gaston insisted on “cham- pagne. We drank two toasts, I remem, ber, one to France and her allies, the other to Raoul Duplessy and Henri Lavelle, who had died in her service. Gaston also made a charming speech of congratulation when, in response to his romantic interest in Beatrice and myself, we told him of our approach- ing marriage, When we got back to our compart- ment, Rehmy pulled down all the blinds and summoned the conductor, bidding him lock the door. He then produced Fritz's portfolio and showed us what it contained. At the request of Beatrice, he reconstructed, for our special benefit, the broad lines of the By FRANCIS BEEDING (Copyright, 1825, by Little, Brows & Co.J plot which had been so nearly success- ful. There was enough evidence among Fritz's pap&rs to enable us ito form a fairly clear idea of what had been intended. "Phere was in particular a detalled memorandum containing the entire scheme for the execution of what was described as the “Valentine” attack, 80 called (Rehmy explained) because it was planned to take place on the 1ith of February, or in just under ‘two months’ time. The vital element of the attack was surprise. London and Paris were to be drenched from the air with the Professor's new poison gas. Large forces of airplanes, leaving from various bases on the western frontiers of Germany. (the names of which were in cipher), were to loose this horror from the air over two sleeping and to- tally unsuspecting towns. The last sentence of the plan deserves quota- tion: ¢ “It may be regarded as certain that the effects of the X3 gas, as dis- charged by the new projectors, will be to destroy ‘all forms of vegétable or animal life " within a radius of 400 square. kilometers.” Jt was afterward discovered from the papers of Von Stahl and Herzler, subsequently arrested at Leipzig, that, simultaneously with this attack, an army of 200,000 fully armed and equip- ped German infantry with a proper ac- companiment of artillery, a new and swift type of armored car, airplanes|: of | 3 and all the other paraphernalia modern ‘warfare, was to advance through Alsace-Lorraine and the tes ritory of the Saar Basin. ern force was to move by way of Metz and Verdun, and the northern force was to occupy Lille and push forward to the channel ports. The air fleet would meanwhile be ready to anni- hilate London and Paris, or any town in France or the United Kingdom to which the government of those coun- tries might have succeeded in trans. ferring itself in the most unlikely _event of all or part of the allied min- istries surviving the first surprise at- from the air. The south-{ 1 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 10, 1925—PART 3 It"was clear from the papers that the Seven Sleepers, in financing these deadly operations, were not moved by any , patriotic or honorable motives. They had come to the conclusion -that unlegs something were done to re- store the position of Germany the al- lied - governments would ultimately lay hands on the fortunes which they had amassed during the war and dur- ing the subsequent financial chaos, They were convinced that in the final ssttlement of reparations their vast wealth would be confiscated in order to clear off their country’s debt, and they had accordingly, made up their minds_to stake everything they pos- sessed*in a last desperate effort to re. trieve the position in the bellet that success would leave them masters of the situation. “In fact,” said Rehmy, in conclud- ing his exposition, “the fate of Europe has for the last few days hung upon the fatal document which was so providentially thrust into the hands of Capt. Preston on his arrival in Geneva."” Gaston put his hand into the pocket | of his coat and laid the document be- | fore us. Its appearance had scme- what changed since I had first beheld it in my bedroom at the Pension de la Reine. It was crumpled in places and the marks of Fritz's broad thumb were apparent at the edges, but in the top right corner there was | a more sinister change. The paper | > p essary. on your old piano. . The Hecht Co. Music Store, 618 F St. At right, the new Gulbransen Grand, 8785 At left, the Community Sulbransen Registering Model, $450 An Outstanding Value—Special Purchase and Underprice Oftfering of ' A Quality That Brings $165 Ordinarily Three Massive Pieces— e addition of one or two occasional pieces, this suite ’s.needed in the average size living room. A long dav- enport, fireside chair and cozy club style chair. Chdice of Colors and Patterns— There are several colors, and as many patterns for selection at this special price. ‘There are just 60 suites; and for the particular For solid goodness of construction—and solid comfort—no furniture to ,vbe had at anywhere near $119 can compare with these suites. First, they are handsomely covered with Baker’s cut velour. They are filled with ‘quury-giving tempered steel springs, heavily overpadded. And they are made with loose, reversible gushions, which means, just double service. preference you may have, early selection is advisable. - 1l showed a neat round hole, and .t the back there were two splashes o crimson. 5 We looked at it in silence. “Your aim, my friend, was true, T said at last. Gaston nodded with tight lips, and folding up the document, put it bacl in_ his pocket. 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