Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1925, Page 22

222 4 [ Master Sergt. Sidney G. Hunt has been placed in charge of the carpen- school of the 121st Regiment of gineers. Sergt. Hunt has been in the Guard for number of years, and is training the youths of this reg. iment in the fine art of wielding hatchets and saws in a way that they would have to do in battle, and in a manner that ought to make them useful on odd jobs around the home. A movie labora- tory is beingz set up the Coast Artillery Armor Water and O streets southwes! to handle the taking of movies and their projection. Some of the activi- ties of the unit at camp this vear, it is expected, will be filmed, so they may see themselves as others see them. The work is in charge of Sergt. John B. De Spears. S. G. Hunt. Maj. John H. Cochran has been as. gned to the local guard for tempo- ary duty as inspector-instructor. He also is on duty with the Chief of Coast Artillery at the War Depart- ment. Capt. Cochran has been duty at Fort Monroe, Va., and is to remain here until the opening of the schools at Fort Leavenworth, when he will proceed ther Capt. Jorg Company C, 121st Regiment of Engineers, lectured to his command at drill Tuesday on field fortifications, iving his men details for rapidly throwing them into posi tion for the combat troops who would use them for cover. First Lieut. Plerce McNeil Thomp. son, Infantry reserve, rfolk, Va., has been ordered to duty with Com pany A, 1st Separate Battalion of In- fantry, District Guard, at_the annual encampment at Saunders Range, M beginning July 12 Suggestions have been made to Maj n ephan, commanding the local Guard, for an armory for the militia, which also could be used as a riding hall and for other civic cele- having in it removable seats. Delano suggested a low-walled building with just a balloon roof and tan bark floor. But it was pointed out by Gen. Stephan that such a build- ing would not be suitable for the Guard. In a letter to Mr. Delano, rejecting the idea and asking for sup- port for an armory building such as has been advocated for years here, Gen. Stephan says “I fear that the building which vou suggest as a nasium, armory, riding school, etc., would not meet the needs of our organization except in a general way. The armory must include locker rooms, assembly rooms, storage rooms, etc., for the individual com- panies along with the necessary class rooms and the special features which are necessary for the training of the National Guard. The armory which has been pro- posed for the National Guard of the District of Columbia was designed a number of years ago and in accord- ance with the ideas of the Fine Arts Commission. Because of the location in the City of Washington, Congress provided that this commission should approve the plans. This was along in about 1908. The matter has been before Congress practically since that time and on various occasions has either passed the Senate or the House and one occasion was included in an omnibus building bill which passed both houses but failed to become a law. “Practically every civic, commer- cial and patriotic organization in the District of Columbia has gone on record as favoring the project and I trust that with this united support and the continued effort of the Com- missioners, the proposed armory shall be used by the District of Columbia and National Government in such ways as are possible and there will be no objection to its use for other purposes. “T will deeply appreciate it if you will support the proposal which has been advanced and use your very best efforts in securing the incorpora- tion of this item in the 1927 appropri- atlon bill for the District of Colum- bia.” There was a_general shifting of the units of the Guard last week in the matter of drill attendance. Company C, 121st Engineers, which held the top place for a long time, dropped to eighth place, and Company A stepped to the top of the list, with the 29th Military Police Company second. The standing and _percentages follow: Company A, 121st Engineers, 74.41; 25th Military Police Company, 67 on | combination gym- | District National Guard | edical Detachment, 121st Engineers, 66.66; band, 12ist Engineers, 62.0 Company B, 121st Engineers, 60.01 Company F, 121st Engineers, 56.60; Headquarters and_Service Company, 7.14; Company C, 121st Engineers, Company E, 121st Enginee 13; Battery B, 260th Coast Artil- .13; Battery A, 260th Coast Ar- 52.80; Company A, 1st Separate ; Company D, 121st En- Rineers, 38.18. The following enlisted men of Bat- tery A, 260th Coast Artillery, have been ordered honorably discharged, for the reasons given: Educational in- terference, Corpl. Roy F. Stahlberg; removal from the District of Colum- bia, Corpl. John C. Stevens. Seashore drills have been inaugu- ratec v the band section of the Head- quarters ond Service Company of the 121st Regiment of Engineers, Dis- trict Guard. Capt. Sidney Morgan, commanding this unit, announced that the band will hold its regular weekly drill at Chesapeake Beach, Md., today. A motor caravan .has been formed and the organization will leave the armory thls morning for the drill to the Beach, where in the afternoon the one and one-half-hours of drill required will be performed by glving a concert on the beach at North Beach. While at the resort the bandsmen will be the guests of the Artisans' Club of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Sergt. John F. Rockett and a de- tachment from the Headquarters and Service Company left last night to make preparations for the main body’s arrival today. Many of the men who will go today expect to take their families along. Capt. Morgan said that If the plan Was Su sful the scheme of hav- ing the regular drills at the beach might be carried throughout the Sum- mer, or up until the time of the an- nual encampment at Virginia Beach, Va., in August Col. Lloyd M. Brett, adjutant gen- eral of the District of Columbla Mi- litia, this week presented to the French Ambassador, M. Emile Daesch- er, a gold badge of honorary mem- bership in the Department of Ken- tucky of the Veterans of Forelgn Wars, M. Daescher was made an honorary member while in Kentucky recently, but the gold badge has just been made, and"the duty of presenting it here was imposed on Col. Brett, who is a past commander-in-chief of the national erganization. John William Jackson, 131 L street northwest, has enlisted in Company A, 1st Separate Battalion of Infantry. Preparations are being made by the Guard for participation in the defense test July 4. There will be no parade of unit musters, but instructions are oeing prepared for each man to report and sign a pledge card on that day, and they are to be urged to take part in the three patriotic celebrations to he held. Consideration i3 being given by the Militia Bureau of the War Depart- ment to dispatch the National Guard of the District of Columbla to fits wmp at Virginia Beach, Va., on the ransport Gen. Rucker, which plys on the regular run on the Potomac River between Washington Barracks and Fort Washington. If this cannot be done, there seems to be a proba- bility now that they will go by train. There is much doubt as to whether the Gen. Rucker, which is a small conérete boat, can take the full com- plement of the Guard and also the large amount of paraphernalia_which must be taken to the camp. It is a good day or night run down the Po- tomac River and-Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, and it is not belleved to be a wise move to send this vessel in these waters loaded with troops, which nec. arfly would have to be packed uncomfortably. It had been hoped that one of the larger trans would be assigned here for this duty, but at this time this does not seem probable. At any rate, the local Guard officers have been asked for figures on the cubical measurements of the _equipment which will be taken to camp. Prospective officers in the local guard are to be made to realize that they are to serve in a military unit |- as a whole, and not have the choice of going to a particular part of it, according to orders just issued by the National Guard headquarters. One of the first duties of a military officer is willingness to serve wherever assigned. Recently, however, after commissions had been issued to two officers, they refused them unless they were sent to particular commands. They were refused these assignments, as their commissions were as officers in the regiments and not to particular companies. To avoid the issuance of such commissions in the future, Gen® THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 21, ARMY POLO TEAM WHICH DEFEATED BRITISH Army Polo Tean E. McGiuley, Capt. C Stephan has issued the following order: “All applicants to take an examina- tion for an eligible list for commission as second lieutenant will subscribe to the following certificate before being admitted to engage in the examina- tion: ““The undersigned hereby agrees to accept commission in the branch of the service for which qualified and agrees to accept assignment to any company or other unit as may be ordered by proper authority and rees to render willing and gener- ous support to the commanding officer of any company or organization to which assigned.”” Naval Reserve. The U. S. S. Ragle, No. 56, with the second detachment of Naval Reserves of the District of Columbia on board, left for a training cruise yesterday for Cuba, Halti and the Virgin Is- lands. The vessel will be gone for 30 days and will return to the Chesa- peake Bay for target practice. Comdr. John A. Schofield, command- ing the local reserves, will be in com- mand of the vessel, and during his absence the reserve activities will be under the command of Lieut. Comdr. J. B. Blood. Plans have been made for putting into effect the naval reserve reorgani- zation act. The local unit will be organized into two destroyer crews, and the officers will be assigned about July 1. There will be 23 officers and 160 men in the local unit, which will be the limit of its size in the future ‘While these units will train as skele- ton crews for destroyers, should there be a war necessitating the plac- ing in commission of a number of destroyers, the officers will not go with the men, but will be sent to other dutles, another part of the make. shift arrangements under which the Navy Department is forcing the re- serve organizations to operate. The recent reserve organization act authorizes the appointment of 25 mid- shipmen annually to the Naval Acad- emy from the enlisted personnel of the naval reserve. Only enlisted men of the naval reserve who meet the following requirements will be selected as a result of competitive examina- tion for appointment as midshipmen: Must be citizens of the United States who are not more than 20 years of age on April 1 of the year in which appointed. Must have been in the naval reserve at least one year by July 1 of the vear in which appointed. In this com- putation service in the Marine Corps and Navy will be credited. Must have maintained efficiency by attending drills while in the naval reserve. Must have @ good record. Must submit application prior to January 15 of the year in which ap- pointed. Must be recommended by their com- manding officers. No other recom- mendations are necessary. Must take competitive examination, SEE ANNOUNCEMENT TUESDAY'S AND SATURDAY'S STAR. Why pay excessive coal bills for uncertain hot water only half the year? MANY think it costs nothing to heat’ water in the winter with a fur- nace. But a furnace coil usually takes away one-fifth of the heat of the coal burned! rmy team. Maj. which is held on the third Wednesday in April of each year and is the regu- lar_examination given to candidates nominated for appointment as mid- shipmen. Candidates wishing to enroll in the naval reserve must be at least 18 years of age. Attention is invited by the department to the fact that only those who enroll by July 1, 1925, wiil be eligible to compete in the examina- tion for admission to the Naval Acad- emy during the year 1926. Applica- tion for enrollment should be made direct to the commandants of any of the varlous naval districts. For further information tandidates m: apply at the nearest recruiting office. Memory Plays Queer Pranks. William Allen, a Civil War soldier, lost his memory at the battle of Get- tysburg. For years his mind was a blank from that time on, though keen on events up to the battle. After 40 ears he fell from a horse, in 1903, nd his memory was completely re- stored, according to records recently reviewed. Teft to right: Maj. J. L. A. Beard, captain of the team; Lieut. J. Smith. Photograph by Central Press, London. Hasty Marriages Fought. Preachers at Jeffersonville, Ind., have started a campaign to discourage hasty marglages of couples coming over the State line from Kentucky for the express purpose of being hurriedly married. The City of Jeffersonville has become known as the “Gretna Green of Southern Indlana.” Rev. Eu- gene M. Bushong has pointed out to his ministerial associates that the law requires that a woman applicant for a marriage license must live 30 days in the county In which she seeks to be married. 1,593 New Bus Lines Run. During 1924 there were 1,593 new auto bus lines started in operation. The cost of the 5,400 cars necessary to operate the lines over $30,000,- 000. Electric raflways bought 1,000 busses to operate in connection with trolley service. The greatest bus ex- pansion is recorded in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. 1925—PART 1. With the break of dawn tomorrow morning 150 Boy Scouts of Washing- i ton will be up getting ready for their annual trip to Camp Roosevelt, which is the Summer camp of the Wash- ington Boy Scouts at Calvert Cliffs, on Chesapeake Bay. This is ideally situated on a plateau overlooking the bay, with a fine, safe, sandy bathing beach, away from the city and yet within two hours’ run. The camp again will be conducted under the direction of Linn C. Drake, the associate executive of the Wash- ington Boy Scout headquarters. This is the seventh consecutive year that Mr. Drake has been in charge of the camp. He will be assisted by a capable staff, each of whom is experienced in some branch of the Scout program. The following Scouts are booked to leave for camp tomorrow: Elmer Pooley, Troop 2; Howard Trout, 76; Leonard Smith,” 2; Minor Hudson, Louls Paulin, Willlam G. Gordon, John H. Gassaway, Robert Ellsworth and William Coneby, 64; Richard Spire, 29; George W. Bowdey, 90; Norris Ruck- man, 43; Fred Marshall, 100; Enlow Carter, 2; Ernest Stout, 64; Francis Wayland, 100; L. Robertson, 44; Jim Boswell and Bill Boswell, 1; Raymond Smith, 64; John Firmin, 42; Irvin Brown, 2; Marlow Perry, 2; Ned Weedon, 100; Robert Weintraub, 2; William™ Memler, 43; R. Lincoln, 42; Robert Gordon, 64; Charles Isbell, George Cole, John Cole and Hilton Smith, 49; Richard Tedrow, 64; Kelly Chadwick, 1; Willlam Hoover, 2; R. Mickey, 100; Burdge Caton, 126; Paul Main, 64; Tom Roth, 15; Henry Sena- sack and Raymond Senasack, 2; Henry Backenstoss, 64; Buell Wilcox, Chester Wilcox, Everett Lank, Willlam Wall, Ashley Handy, Jack Evans, John An: drews and Morton Silverberg, 49; Ed- win Watson, 54; Page Worthington and Charles Armes, 42; T. Sawtelle, 100; Edwin Seidel, 33; R. Shure and Ray Greenfield, 33; Ray Meiners, 49 Joseph H. Goldberger, ford and Pelham Glassford, McDonnell, 64; Donald Cralg, 2 “ranklin Armiger, | Stimson and Jesse Stimson, 3! an d’Espard and William d'Espard, 8; Potter, 70; Thaddeus Jones, Donald Richard, 35; James Free. man, 20; Charles Tompkins, 42; Fred McCleary, 47; Frank Welgand, Frank Parkes, 6; Wilson Taylor, 2; William Rittenhouse, 20; Jack Thompson, 42 John Dye, 54; Thomas Wilson, 35: James Orme, John Randolph, Gregor Kramm, Daniel Boughton, James Wil- son, Stephen Kowalski, Father Hanne- mann, Bender Giller, Leonard Creecy BOY SCOUTS and Paul Kelly, 96; Walter Miller, 35; Charles_Eaton, 35; Jack Seitz, 96 Ardhie L. Hutfon, 49; Benjamin Mor- &an, 42; Russell Farnsworth, 76; Louis A. 'Beer, Fred Schaeffer, George Turner, Edwin Neff, Oscar D. Weed, Bdgar Huber, Edmund Lawson, Harry Snyder, Oren Blandford, Edwin Mc- Devitt and Harry W. Scott, 82; Daniel Mulrey, Vernon Bateman and H. E. Nichols, 35; George Rantz, 64; E. An- gelico, Robert Bourke and Loehl O'Brien, 42; Ernest Parsons; Chaile Stms, 20; Willlam Sudworth, 93; Oscar Seigel, 47; Ralph Berry, 55; Edwin Duvali, 1. The Woodrow Wilson Scout Reser- vation, at Burnt Mills, Md., is rapldly being put into condition for the sea- son under the able leadership of its genial camp director, Mr. Bosarge. Ten tents, equipped with platforms and cots, are now being erected. Water is being piped from the Wash- ington Suburban Sanitary Commis- sion filter station at Burnt Mills, to insure good drinking water. ~All scouts planning to attend this camp should first advise scout head- quarters, and then register with Camp Director Bosarge on arrival. Besldes the WLS radio tribe, Lone Scoutdom now has news broadcast from KDKA. Also every second and fourth Monday of each month, at 5 p.m. WDAF, Kansas City, Mo, broadcasts for the Lone Scouts. During the Boys' Achlevement Ex- position the Chicago Lone Scout League conducted a booth in which Mayor Dever of Chicago displayed much Interest and shook hands with all the scouts present. Chief Kruelle of Counctl 1V is now LSC-B-D, GCC. Leroy F. Greer and G. Kenneth Greer are now Supreme Scouts. Carey Moore of Berwyn, Md., is almost an S. E. ' J. Hugh Taylor of the District of Columbla, will soon win his first medal, the bronze. Ansel Talbert will have a story in “Youth,” the amateur officlal organ of the LSA some time soon. Remember the rally, fellows, to take place in Baltimore, Md., July 4 and 5. Mr. Perry will attend July 5. England Replanting Trees. In an effort to replace English for. ests depleted during the war, the for- estry commission of Great Britain in the last vear has planted 380,000,000 trees, which cover 16,000 acres. 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