Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1926, Page 41

R ard A. McMahon, formerly a member of Company B, 21st Engineers, of the local Guard K_ been commissioned and has been #ssigned by Col. John W. Oeh- pann, command ng the regiment, o Company hat Jient Second Lient. T nd’high school at anchburg, Va., tered the United tes Army, sery vom 1906 to 1 corporal anies C, K of the 5th M Lieat. E. A. MeMahon, rivate in the Co wiring this period of service, he put wo vears of the time with the out- on Cuban soil, and left the Army accept civil employment i inal Zone. He now 1 National University Law and is in the class of 1926. * is employed as an auditor in the 1 accounting office. Artillery. Arrangements by the Military S district of Columbi; of members and form s of National Guard of the District Celumt for its annual dinner pril 4 at 730 o'clock at the New bitt Hotel, Tenth and H streets. ts of honor will include Maj. n. Anton Stephan, commanding the Distriet Columbia_ Militia and the Dith National Guard Division: Brig Gen. Lloyd M. Bret 1jutant gen the District f Columbi; and Lieut. Col been completed vice Legion of the . made up large- the o1 A Liiitia rm avraignment of the officers of Rhe various units comprisging the local Guard for what is declared to be out Eitanding laxity in the handling of personnel of the units, which is hurt- 1 » the morale and efficiency and the Government, is contained Gen. Liloyd M. tion of Gen Brett, Stephan. it is understood, grows e number of discharges wsons which have been nd also the unusual summary courts-martial »ersonnel for failure to The order seems to inti- been some dis- imination in selecting vi these courts, for it e commanders to fix and policy which will be ap- alik to all. effect of the order, it is believed, to prevent hurried and ill-ad- ruiting of various units just camp time with undersirable who enlist only for this and who then want to get out Avhen the camp is over, and fail or re Juse to attend the regularly prescribed tirills in the armory during the winter. Fome of the companies in the past have taken a large percentage of new pnen to camp, men hurriediy gathered n order to make up the requisite Ftrength which the War Department ¥Yequires in order that organiza nized as a field train order, recently of enlisted mt nhes "y fuch laxity exists Mstment, re-enlistment b enlisted personnel,” *Enlistments are frequently made for # period of one year, where there i %o authority for the one-year enl ment. All matters pertaining to serv duties and responsibilities of en- disted personnel of the National Guard nre not explained to applicants for prior to their actual This results in appli « fiied for discharge and increases | annual turnover of personnel in nization, whereas very fre t would be possible to elimi to enlistment, undesirable ~ unable to attend regularl rwise satisfactorily perform ‘In connection with application for el , National Guard regulations Fhould be tely complied with. Applications from the individuals con 1% should be filed, together with cessary affidgvits or supporting €vi- Where this is not filed full ould be made by the | r noted that t-m ued absence of several months #d in some cases years. This con- divion should not exist and each com. | snanding officer should adopt and trictly adhere to a policy which will tend to increase and regulate attend- ®nce. Action should be taken against exch man aiter a definite period of mbsence or failure to maintain a cer- percentage of attendance, or method should be established all personnel of the unit con- cerned will be treated alike and no ene individual singled out for example. turnover in personnel is one seriously affects the morale, - efficiency of any unit nment invests a certain of money in overhead, ad- ition, training, etc., in enlist- i member of the National Guard, end unless the majority of these in- gividuals remain in the organjzation @nd properly perform their duties for & three-vear enlistment period the Government is not receiving full re- turn on its investment: neither is the norale and efficiency of the organiza- tion concerned receiving proper bene- fit Commanding officers will take the pecessary action to correct the con- ghtions mentioned.” personnel is fre led cour Avhich 1 The smount mini ing Gove! A number of promotions and ad- ns to the staff of the 29th National rd Division, including the assign- t of two ades de camp to replace cancies on the personal staff of Maj. Anton Stephan, have been made. officers are members of the Vir- nia and Maryland National Guards, pud necessary orders for the assign- ments have been issued by the ad- ants general of the two es. Maj. George Henderson, Cumber- fand, Md., Maryland National Guard, bhas been promoted to lieutenant col- el in the ordnance department and ant chief of staff v caused by the si jeut. Col. E. Brooke fee former ecretary 3 S Mal. C . Md., Jst Mary v, has been pro- ynoted to lieutenant colonel and a pigned as division machine gun and howitzer offic tanwood, Maryland ard, has been relieved as 1s and training officer of the 58th antry Brigade and assigned as aide the division commander. Capt. Her National ¢ i Claude W. Hopper, formerly a sec- bnd lleutenant, U. S. Infantry, has een appointed a_captain of infantry n the Virginia National Guard and esigned as aide to the division com- gnander. The new unit af the District Guard 4vhich has been in the course of or- anization for several weeks, it was nnounced, will be inspected and mus- into’ Federal service Tuesday ight at the armory. This orgeniza- tion will be commanded by Capt. John L. Bradford, formerly of the 260th Coast Artillery, and the other officer will be First Lieut. Daniel B. Liloyd, formerly second in command of the 28¢h Military Police Company. The organization’ will be known as the 29th Division Special Troops Head- quarters Detachment, which will have in its personnel certain specialists re- quired by the tables of organization. {Ihe enlisted personnel which will be gnustered in Tuesday night is: John following a | Bardwell, Joseph B. Burroughs, Kenneth J. Bushman, Stafford C. de Lesdernier, John A. Edwards, Giles R. Taggart, all new men, and James M. Lynch, transferred from the Head- quarters and Service Company of the 121st Engineers, and L. J. McCarthy, transferred from Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery. Several improvements in the facili- ties for the use of the local troops on the rifle range at Camp Simms, Con- gress Heights, D. C., have been made during the year, among them in- creased facilities at the swimming pool. These include a larger water main and greater outlets, so that the bathing pool may be more quickly filled and emptied to keep it clean and sanita In connection with the ‘authority given the local High School Cadets to hold their annual encampment on this range and permission given for target practice, Maj. Gen. Stephan has ex- tended to the local school soldiers the privileges of using the recreational facilities at the range, including the use of the swimming poct. The following men enlisted in the local Guard during the week, it was announced: James R. Russell, 1410 HopKins street, band, 121st Engineers; James P. Quigley, 617 Varnum street northwest, Company B, 121st Engl- d Irvin Fillmore Newman, xth street southwest, Company Commissions in_the local. Guard, both promotions, were presented at drill last Tuesday night by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan to Capt. C. Earl Smith- “on, who has been made adjutant of the 121st Engineers, and to Capt. Fletcher M. Bernsdorff, Quartermaster Corps, who has been assigned to the administrative staff. The commis- on of Capt. Bernsdorff dates from - 28 last and that of Capt. | Smithson from February 9 last. Capt. Smithson was promoted from lieutenant, he having been ad- nt of the 2d Battalion of the En- ineer Regiment until his promotion. le is a_veteran of the old Guard and of the World War, having gone first to the Mexican border during the troubles there just prior to the world conflict, and_from that scene of op- erations to those overseas. Capt. Bernsdorft went directly from the ranks, where he was a master sergeant in the Headquarters and Service Company of the Engineers, jumping over the two grades of lieu- tenant. He is in duty in the quar- termaster’s office at Guard headquar- ters. The following reassignments of en- listed personnel of the Engineer Regi ment have been directed in orders issued by Adjt. Smithson: Sergt. James J. Skelly, Headquarters and Service Company, has been promoted to staff sergeant and assigned to duty as sergeant major, 2d Battalion, vice Aull, discharged. He has been or- dered to report to Maj. Julian S. OIff, battalion commander, for duty Corp. Henry J. Krumm, jr., Head- quarters and Service Company, has been appointed sergeant and assigned as sergeant major, 2d Battalion, vice Skelly, promoted, and has been di- rected to report to Col. Oehmann, regimental commander, for duty. The following-named enlisted men, having qualified in competitive ex- amination, have been placed on the eligible list for appointment as second lieutenants of Coast Artlillery in the Natfonal Guard of the District of Co- lumbia as vacancles occur: Sergt. E. S. Thompson, Battery B, who made an average of 90.8 per cent on exami- nation, and Sergt. J. W. Crockett, Bat- tery A, who made an average of 85.5 per cent. benefit _entertainment given at Keith’s for the local Guard netted $241, which will be divided among the various units in proportion to the number of tickets sold, and will he placed in the company funds for recreational and other purposes. The recent * Special legislation is to be sought of the present Congress by the local Guard to enable it to get the first floor of the Pension Office. Building for an armory with the use of the rotunda as a drill hall. Lieut. Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, adju- tant general of the 29th National Guard Division, is drafting a bill which will be submitted to Congress, which would authorize the Public Buildings Commission to assign this pace to the Guard. Thisaction grew | out of the recent letter from Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the | Public Buildings Commission, in which | the latter pointed out that the com- mission as at present constituted did not have authority to grant to the Guard permission to use this space, its duty was confined to that of allo- cating space in the Government build- ings to activities of the Federal Gov- | ernment, and the Guard did not come | 1 | under this head. | It s expected that the proposed measure will be sent to some member of the House and Senate this week for introduction in both houses of Congress, and every effort will be made to have it passed promptly, as the Guard must vacate its present armory at 472 L street on June 30. Its present lease expires at that time, and the owners of the building have refused a renewal of the term lease. While a city-wide search continues on the part of the Guard officers in an effort to find a suitable building within the limits of the appropriation for rental purposes allowed by Congress, so far nothing has been found. While many propositions have appeared, | they are either for greater rent than the Guard is allowed or the buildings are too small and inaccessible. The move to get special legislation for the use of the Pension Office Build- | ing is a last resort, and there is every hope that the effort will be successful | and that the law will be passed in time to permit the Guard to vacate its present quarters by the time the pres- ent lease expires. Althor th Virginia Beach, Va., where the State rifle range and camp grounds of the Virginia National Guard is located, has been selected s the camp site of the 29th Division Staff and the 29th Military Police Com- pany of the local Guard, and theplace and dates in®August have been ap- proved by the 3d Corps headquar- ters of the Army at Baltimore, there is some uncertainty as to whether this camp can be held there, due to certain litigation pending in the Vir- ginia_courts, according to informa- tion from Richmond. Certain interests at Virginia Beach are contesting the right of the State to hold its encampment and rifle prac. tice there, because of the danger to civilians in the vicinity from the fir- ing on the rifle range. The troops when firing shoot in -the direction of | the ocean, and the shots for the long ranges pass over the butts many times, flying across a railroad line running to the camp and also across the beach, which is much used not only by bathers, but by strollers and the Maryland National Guard has planned to encamp there, beginning July 25. The 121st Engineers of the local | National Guard, the 29th Military Po- lice Company and Maj. N ephan and his division staff held their an- nual encampment there last Summer. However, the Engineers this year will o to Fort Humphreys, but, as pointed out before, the 2¢th Division Staff and the military police company al- ready have completed plans to go there, which, however, may be upset by a ruling of the Circuit Court ad- verse to the State. Avcomprehensive drill schedule has been mapped out for the United States Naval Reserve Battallon of the District of Columbia by Lieut. Comdr. Finney Bascom Smith, who has just assumed command of the organiza- tion. Every officer and man in the outfit will be required to take part in the drills and the schedule provide: a place for each, according to officer: of the battalion. Schools of engineering, communica- tion, including signaling, seamanship, navigation, ordnance, have been ordered established by Comdr. Smith, and an orderly course has been map- ped out in each. The courses are so arranged that the men taking them may, by_attending drills and schools regularly, advance themselves to the next higher rating and eventually reach the commissioned grade. ‘The divisional Instructors designated are Lieuts. Richardson, Sullivan and Stinemetz; engineering, Lieut. Lock- hart; communications, Lieuts. Moore and Fewell, Ensign Bimers and Chiet Radio Electriclan Monar. General instruction in the prelimi- narles of naval duties for recruits have been assigned to Ensign Daisley. Comdr. Smith and Lieut. Harry J Nichols, executive officer of the bat- tallon, will alternate in ordnance in- struction for the officers and this feature is being given much stress by these two officers, who hope that they will be able to engage in target practice this year that will amount to something. Heretofore, when the local outfit has gone out on the Eagle boat, formerly assigned here, they have had only subcaliber practice, but now that the United States destroyer Allen has been assigned here and will make her first cruise this Summer ing ship of the local Reserves, it Is ex- pected that the big guns will be used in the target practice. Both Comdr. Smith and Lieut. Nichols are anxious that the local re- servists be so well trained as gun crews before the time for the annual cruises arrive that they will be able to make some telling scores when they engage in_the practice, probably in Gardiners Bay, off Long Island, N. Y. While the officers are being given in- struction in the technicalities of gun- fire, the men are heing organized into gun crews and are receiving instruc- tion in loading, alming and firing. Plans are being formulated for a recruiting campaign for the purpose of increasing the enlisted strength of the Reserve here. The divisions now are not up to full strength, but it is the hope of the officers that enough young men of the city may be at- tracted to the work in order to make each division a fair size. Under the new organization scheme, each division of the Reserve is made up so as to form a skeleton crew of a destroyer. There are men of each rating of the service in each division, or, rather, that is the theory upon which the department is working, but so far it has not been able to carry it out in practice. However, this situation is not peculiar to the local Reserve, but is brought about by condi- tions forced by the Navy Department, which made the Reserve so unattrac- tive to the men by refusing promo- tions, denying pay, and other similiar causes that many of the war-trained enlisted men have been forever lost to this branch of the service. The enlisted personnel at the local Reserve at the present time is so small that it will not be possible to make eniough cruises to take out all the of- ficers this Summer. Oniy two cruises have been provided for, which, it has been figured, is sufficient to take care of the enlisted men, but tHe limited allowance on each cruise for the of- ficers will prevent many of them, even those in the fleet Reserve, from going with their men. 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