Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1925, Page 20

Praise for the work of Maj. W. E. R. Covell, Assistant Engineer Com- missioner of the District of Columbia, for his work in instructing the 121st Regiment of En- gineers, Natlonal Guard of the Dis- trice of Columbia, is contained in & letter to Maj. Covell sent last week by Maj. Gen. Anton ephan, commanding the National Guard of the District of Co- lumbia and the 29th National Guard Division Maj. Covell re- cently was re lieved as instruc or of this unit, so that he might give his entire time to the work of the Public Utilities Com- missic The letter to Maj. Covell follow: “Please accept my sincere thanks and appreciation for your efforts and i services as instructor for the 1 Sngineers of the Natlonal Gu the District of Columbla. Your asso- clation with the regiment has been very beneficial to them, I am sure, and notwithstanding the fact that you have been on additional duty here in Washington, you have devoted the re- quired time to the duties assigned to You as instructor, and I am confident that your services have done much to assist in preparing this regiment for real engineering duty. “I wish you succe: in your future career in the milltary service and am sure that by displaving the same zealous efforts which characterized your duty with us, you will be of vast . Service to the A y and rise to po- sitions of honor.” MAJ. COVELL. Orders ¥ have been issued by -Na tional Guard headquarters for the honorable discharge of the following | enlisted men of Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, for the reasons noted: Removal from the District of Colum- bia, Privates Sidney S. Ball, Eugene T. Chambers, Ale: Howard Wilcutts and Francis Pe- trola; business interference, Privates Karl H. Axline, James H. Bramhall, Edgar M. Rich, Gordon E. Rowzie and Edwin J. McCarthy. Plans for the use of the Army trans- - port General Rucker, which plies on the ferrv route between this city and Fort Washington, Md., for the trans- portation of the National Guard of the District of Columbia to Norfolk, Va., for S encampment at Virginia ’a., are about to be abandon. Some objection was found to the use of this little craft for this duty, involving a trip down the Chesapeake Bay with the possibility of running into bay storms which are most severe at times, and authority was requested for the Guard to use com- mercial transportation for this duty. It undoubtedly will be granted. Whether the troops will proceed by boat or traln is now a problem that the quartermaster officials of the Guard are wrestling with. It will take 12 hours by boat, and the rail- roads have informed the Guard that they can put the troops right into camp within 7 hours after they are embarked in Washington. Should they go by boat, it will involve their leaving the city one day earler, it is sald, and breaking camp one day ear- ler. Lfforts are being made to as. certaln the wishes of the officers of the regiment, and so far as possable the kind o nsportation desired by the troops will be followed. There is also being discussed a matter of ob- taining from the Army the use of a number of large trucks, and if these efforts are successful it is planned to send the heavy camp paraphernalia over the road by a at the armory and the other at camp. A vanguard of officers and enlisted men will proceed to camp to make this material ready for the troops by the time they arrive. However, they - will have to do a rush job, as the Ma: land troops will not leave the camp at Virginia Beach, which is the rendez. vous point of the 28th Division, until the day the District troops arrive. But the District troops will-have the ad- vantage of using a camp site already mapped out ¢ The question of the kind of trans- portation also has brought up the discussion at headq rters as to the time of the departure o . There was some discus * night of having the troop: +.ington, if by boat, late arriving at Norfolk eariy morning and proceedir ia to the camp by train. This will permit them to make camp in the daylight hours, and give them a chance to get &he camp squared away for a day of rest on Sunday, and ready to start “the intensive training schedule which has been mapped out for them ear Honday morning. 5 There is another element of the Guard desirous of having the troops leave here early Saturday morning and arrive in camp in the afternoon, Chevy Chase Lake, to hear of but seldom see. NEARLY % ACRE Ing on Connecticut Avenue GOOD CHURCHES—SC Capital Tracti 1516 H St. N. W. ander Kramer, J. | motor caravan, | thus involving only two handlings, one | THE ROAD TO HOME BUILDING SUCCESS Drive out Connecticut Avenue 1 mile past CHEVY CHASE VIEW (A Connecticut Ave. Sub-Division) The kind of Real Estate Opportunity you often 50 by 200 ft. Lots $700 UP rons This, we believe, will be your last opportunity to purchase a full size building lot in a subdivision front- Adjoining property is now held at prices as high as $2,500 per acre, unimproved and net to owner. ELECTRICITY—WATER—SEWERS 10 Minutes to Ghevy Chase Circle 25 Minutes Downtown by Aute SALESMEN AND OFFICE ON PROPERTY LAWRENCE R. SMOOT & CO. which would necessitaté the use ef Saturday afternoon and evening in making camp, and getting settled down, with a possibility of leaving some of the work over until Sunday. There are many who believe that the troop train would be more desirable than by boat. in the belief that it would be less tiresome and the men would be gotten into camp quicker, and they would remain one more night at home. There is another feature which has come up in connection with the nego- tiations, and that is the possibility that if the troops went down by boat they would be unable to obtain the vessel for a return movement &t & time needed. The Guard officials have been informed by the boat com- pany officials that the particular ves- sel in mind is to be used by the local Shrine for a trip to Norfolk at a time when the troops plan the return movement. This s a complication which had not been figured on and may bring out.a contract for a move- ment both ways by train. Maj. Gen. Stephan has been invited Trig. Gen. Milton A. Reckford, commanding the National Guard of Maryland, to ¢ g ¢ to Virginla Beach and inspect the Lsth Maryland Infan- try Brigade, now in camp there. Thi: {unit Is a part of the 29th Natlonal Guard Divislon, which Gen, Stephan commands. Gen. Stephan has replied that he hoped that it would be pos- | sible for him to be there on Gov- | ernor’s day at the time the Maryland troops will be reviewed by Gov. Al- bert C. Ritchie of Maryland. The following enlistments were re- ported Tuesday night; Frank V. Birthright, 1760 Kenyon street north- | west, headquarters and service com- pany, 121st Engineers; John B. Coff- man, Jr., 1519 Vermont avenue north- west, headquarters and service com- pany, 121st Engineers, 2 son of Regi- mental Sergt. Maj. Coffman, who has been o member of the local National Guard for many years; John J. Wal- ker, 4341 Thirty-second street, Mount Rainier, Md.,, Company F, 121st En- gineers; George A. Ledrich, 1313 East Capitol street, Company F, 121st En- | gineers; Robert E. Ludwig, 2120 H street northwest, Company F, 121at Engineers; Richard T. Jones, Sliver Spring, Md., Company F, 121st En- gineers; Benfamin Harrison Soper, 239 Linworth place, Medical Detach- {ment, 121st Lngineers; Willlam J. Biggins, 2234 Decatur place, Medical Detachment, 121st Engineers; Wil- lfam Clinton Freeman, 217 R street northwest, Medical Detachment, 121st_Engineers; Norman C. Coffin, 1102 L street northwest, Company F, 121st Engineers; Hugh E. B street northeast, Compan Engineers; Howard L. Hultgren, Trenton place southeast, Company F 121st Engineers; Theodore M. Van | Siso, 3501 Nichols avenue southeast, Company F, 1216t Engineers; Learner | T. Rhea, Riverdale, Md., Company C. 171st Engineers; Julius Oklowltz, 433 M sweet northwest, Company C, 121st Engineers; Kenneth C. Buker, 223 Eighth street southeast, Company C, 12ist -~ Engineers; Charles E Iughes, 32 K-street northwest, Com- pany C. 121st Engineers; Charles A | jr. 1119 O street northwest, Company C, 121st Englneers; Henry B. C , headquarters and service com- pany, 121st Engineers; Albert P. Cas- tle, 624 Orleans place northeast, Com- ny C, 121st Engineers; Henry T. otten, 1914 H street northwest, 260th Coast Artillery, and Raymond O. Tip- pett, 1206 Four.and-a-haif street south- west, 260th Coast Artillery. With enlistments on the increase |according to reports of the officers of |the various units, it is probable now [that the engineer regiment will take |its full complement of companies to the anfiual encampment this month. Several of the companies have been under the minimum in strength and speclal inspections have been ordered, but {t is believed now that they will pass these inspections and that the War Department recognition of them will be maintained. Withdrawal of War Department recognition means that these companies cannot go into camp and recelve pay as Federal units, and the officers are striving hard to avold this, and at the same time, in recruiting, retain the high morale now in the organization. Reserve officers who have been or- dered by the War Department to take their annual fleld training with the National Guard of the District of Co- |lumbia at Virginia Beach this month have been given assignments in regi- mental orders just published by Lieut. | jutant, by direction of Col. Oehmann, commanding the organization. Maj. W. Laurence Hazard, 2715 Fourteenth street northwest, has been assigned to regimental headquarters; Maj. James Bennett. Jones, 6500 Brook- ville road, Chevy Chase, Md., to the headquarters of the First Battalion; Maj. Frederick Affleck Livingstone, 1810 Corcoran street, to headquarters of the Second Battalion; Capt. Jesse Conrad Sweeney, 28 Sixteenth street Saul Rd. There .begins at anything like our prices. 2obert G. MacCartee, regimental ad-| * THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0O, AUGUST 2, 1925—PART 1. southeast, to Company ‘A, 12ist Engl- neers; Lieut. Chester Merrill Reich, northeast, to District National Guard I&L:::?’::%fi:.""amm Claude Burlingame, 1350 South Caro- lina avenue, to Company D, 121st Engineers; Capt. Joseph Archimede Glovannoni, 133 Randolph street northwest, to the headquarters and service company of the 121st Engl- neers. Company C, 121st Engineers, has announced the organization of a ten- nis team from its membership, under the leadership of Lieut. George Har- bin. Phe members are DPearson C. Conlyn, Barl C. Deery, Lincoln S. Jones, Willlam _Dawson, Wren.' Lieut. Harbin is seeking matches. for this contingent between it and teams in the Guard and also outside teams. ‘The National Guard now has a print shop for turning out all printed mat- ter for the guard. The necessary equipment was obtained from the Army, and transported over the road by truck, and under direction of Lieut. Land a first-class print shop has been set up and run entirely by mem- bers of the 121st Regiment of Engl. neers. Already this organization has turned out several thousand cardboard posters for varlous units for the pur- pose of stirring up interest in the recruiting of the organization, and a monograph telling of the work of the 121st Engineers has been printed for distribution. The printers and press- men who have been assigned to the office are Pvt. Lance E. Tompkins, Pvt. R. A. Gallatin, Pvt. Alvin A. Strawmyer and Corp. L. L. Rodriquez. Pvt. Robert E. Loftus has been or- dered honorably discharged from the 29th Military Police Company on ac- count of removal from the District. Sergt. James A. Fink, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, has been o dered honorably discharged from Bat- tery A, 260th Coast Artillery, on ac- count of business interference with the proper performance of his duties. One of the members of the 1st Sep- arate Battalion, who was ordered dropped from the rolls of that com- mand as a deserter, reported in at camp at Saunders Range, when he saw the notice of his discharge in the newspapers. In view of this fact the following order removing the stigma was Issued by Gen. Stephan: “Upon the recommendation of the commanding officer, Company A, lst Separate Battalion, special order No. 51, ¢hese headquarters, dated June 22, 1925, in so far as it relates to the dropping of Pvt. Reginald Goodwin as a deserter, i3 revoked and he is here- by restored to duty, and will report to Now in full swing—Greatest Sale | of Traded-In & Never Gregoria | Jajada, Paul C. DeVault and Joseph | the commanding officer, Company A, 1st Separate Battalion, for duty. “Private Goodwin, having been ab- sent without leave since March 9, 1925, will have the perfod of his enlistment extended by a period of 4 months and 11 days and he will not be discharged by reason of expiration of term of service until January 26, 1928." The medical detachment of the 121st Regiment of Engineers still stands at the top of the list of units of the Na- tional Guard of the District of Colum- bia in percentage of attendance, ac- cording to figures at headquarters. This command drilled with 80.95 per cent of its men present. The other units, with percentages in order, fol- low: Band. 12lst Engineers, Company C, 121st Engineers, Company A, 121st Engineers, Company F, 121st Engineers, 29th Military Police Company, Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers, 67.85; Company B, 121st Engineers, 63.15; Company E, 21st Engineers, 62.12; Company D, 121st Engineers, 62.01; Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 40, and Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 38.82. Naval Reserve. Carrying out its training itinerary, the U. §. destroyer Childs, with offi- cers and men of the Naval Reserve of the District of Columbia aboard, left Newport, R. L, Thursday for Bath, Me., where it arrived the following day. The ship will remain there for several days for lfberty, and then will proceed to sea, starting the homeward voyage, during which the men will engage In their annual target practice. Reports from the citizen sallors, who are in charge of Lieut. Comdr. Finney B. Smith, with Lieut. H. J. Nichols, second in command, sy that the trip is a good one, and that Comdr. Goss and the other officers of the ship are doing everything possible to make the cruise interesting and comfortable from a training standpoint. ‘This is the third contingent of re- serves from the local organization to go for training this year, but the first to g0 on a regular fleet destroyer. This ship will return next Saturday, after which the U. S. destroyer Toucey will come here to take out the fourth contingent. The assigning of these two fleet de- stroyers for training duty for the Dis. trict reserves this year was made necessary owing to the plan to relieve the Eagle 56 as training ship. The Eagle is shortly to be relleved per- menently by the destroyer Allen, which now is being fitted out at Phila- | delphia for this service, and will re- main here permanently for training the reserves. It was sald at the Navy Department that the Allen would ar- rive here August 10, but would not make eny of the regular two-week were values so great! cruises this year. The duty aboard the regular destroyer will give the local men an opportunity to familiarize themselves with destroyer operation, | 50 they will be bettsr fitted to take out the Allen alone next year. SPANISH WAR VETERANS Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp. At the regular semi-monthly muster of Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, No. 1, United Spanish War Veterans, held at the Grand Army Hall on Thursday night, July 23, the final arrangements for the excursion to be held on Satur- day, August 15, at Chesapeake Beach | were perfected. The chairman of the excursion committee, Harry J. Stahl, announced that more than 30 prizes had been secured for the athletic events to be held after 2 o'clock and that entrants to the races would be from 6 to 60 years of age. A silver set will also be presented to the win- ner. The muster-in of a class of recruits was put on in masterly form by the officer of the day, Comrade George McAlear, ably supported by officers of the camp. The following recruits, John H. Cook, George J. Neuner, Thomas J. Shannon and Edward L. Buddington, were mustered in in due military form and endowed with all the rights and privileges of actlve membership. Comrade Levi Austin- sen, who saw active service through the Santlago campaign and was twice severely wounded at San Juan, was readmitted to actlve membership In the camp. The commander of the camp fur- nished to the members present a list of the eligible veterans within the District who are not now affiliated with the organization, requesting that each member of the camp con- sider himself a militant recruiting committee and go after these com- rades who are without the fold. Past Department Commander League, Senlor Vice Department Com- mander Nolan and Department In- stalling Officer Willlam I. Jenkins were guests of the camp and briefly spoke on toplcs of Interest to the com- rades and the organization. A resolution was submitted to the department commander for approval whereby Maj. Sherman Miles, son of the late Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, for whom the camp was named, was elected to honorary membership in the camp and a committee appointed to walt upon Maj. Miles and arrange for the date of his muster into the organization. It being found that the camp was entitled to another delegate to the national encampment at St. Peters. burg, Fla., September 27 to October 4, | the commander was instructed to notify the membership that this dele- gaté would be nominated and elected at the meeting of August 13. Much Road Building. New highways under construction and contemplated in the various Stateu this year amount to 24,000 miles, or nearly enough to circle the globe. However, this is about the same as in 1924. 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