Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1926, Page 34

Just 16 days remain before the National Guard of the District of Columbia must vacate its present armory at 472 L street and officlals are becoming much concerned, par- ticularly in view of the fact th they have not received any help*or encouragement from either the executive or legislative branch of the Government in getting them out of the difficulties which they face. Many buildings have been examined, but they have been found to be too costly for the guard, the prices asked for rental being many times the amount allowed by Congress for this purpose. The present armory building has been purchased by a ral depart- ment store and will be used fu age purposes, and the owne refused an extension of leasing the Guard. While it was pointed out that the local guard has alwavs been the first to respond in large numbers in all wars, and has shown the value of its training when put In the field, vet there has not been one this force to find a_home where it could continue its training. Aside from the mere space needed t odrill the men, the Guard has hun dreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of Tederal property isued to it by the War Department for training purposes, which must be taken care of, and yet (‘0|WI‘PSN and the execu- tive branches 'of the Government absolutely have failed to aid 1 officlals to find some place in which the guardsmen can drill and store their proper: Commendation to members o Company F, 121st Engineers, whe a firing squad for Memorial . Elizabeth’s Hos been received by Lieut. Johns, comanding, from Maj. Julian . Oliff, chairman of the musi committee of Gen. Camp, No. 1, Spanish Veterans. el War Lieut. George W. Johns is in command of Company | > during the leave nce of Capt. Thomas A. Lane. . Company F, 121st En- been recommended for of that made by Hobart 'T. s Detach- Sergt, Ros gineers. promotion to first sergeant command to fill the vacancy the transfer of Top Sergt. Walker to the Headqua ment, Special Troops. Maj. Creed C. Hammond, chief of the Militia Bureau of the War Depart- ment, was the guest of Maj. Gen. An- ton Stephan, commanding the 29th National Guard Division, at a lunch- eon at the City Club last week, ten- dered by the latter to the members of i aff, which is composed of officers and the States of Maryland and Virginia. The officers were here on their quar terly conference, at which division af- fairs are discussed and war problems are worked out in accordance with the division scheme of organization. GGen. Hammond spoke briefly, telling of some of the things he found on re- cent visits to National Guard organi- gations through the country, and of the se e schools where National Guard officers are assigned for train- ing. Gen. Stephan thanked his divisional aides for coming to Washington for this conference, and spoke particu- larly of and gave thanks to Lieut. Louis C. Brinton, jr., United States Armv Coast Artillery Corps, chief divisional instructor, for his ef- forts in assisting the division to reach its present high state of efficiency. 1t will be impossible for the officers of the 260th Coast Artillery to hold a four-day officers’ camp preliminary to the regular camp of instruction to be held at Fort Monroe, Va. It had been planned for these officers to go to Fort Washington, Md., for a few days, but the fact that the equipment there has been to a large extent dismantled, while other parts are being repaired, made it necessary to abandon this training. However, the Engineers and Military Police officers will hold their four-day camp at Fort Humphreys, Va., as originally planned, it was an- nounced at headquarters. Lieut. Daniel Boone Lloyd, com- manding the Headquarters Detach- ment, Special Troops, 29tk Division, has recelved a commission as first lieutenant in the Army Reserve Corps. A warning has been sent out by Brig. Gen. J. Clifford R. Foster. presi- dent of the National Guard Associa- tion of the United States, that some persons are using the name of the s sociation in an unauthorized manner in soliciting for a National Guard magazine, Gen. Foster brands these agents as imposters and says the Na- tional Guard As tion of the United States has no official publication, nor is it sponsoring the publication of any magazine, Efforts are being made to enlist the interest of local guard officers in the Tennis Association of the Army 3rd Corps Area, with headquarters at Bal- timore, Md. It is the plan, if the local members of the Guard show enough interest, to have them participate in the tournament to determine the mili- tary tennis champlonship of this area. The corps area tennis representative is Capt. R. C. Van Vliet, jr., Fort Howard, Md. The following men enlisted du: the week: Percy H. Skinner, jr. Eighteenth street, Company 21st Engineers; Henry Otis Skinner, 2038 Lighteenth street, Company E, 121st Engineers; George E. Reynolds, 314 Sixth street mnorthwest, medical de- tachment, 121st Engineers; George H. Jerman, 448 Newton place, medical de- tachment, 121st Engineers, and Pat- rick Ambrose Clifford, 2115 Pennsyl- vania avenue, Company E, 121st En- gineers. The following have been ordered honorably discharged from -the local Guard for the reasons stated: Re- moval from the District of Columb! Technical Sergt. Joseph H. Robert- n, Ordnance Department; Pvt. Allen N. Connelly, Batterv A, 260th Coast Artillery, and Pvt. Timothy J. Brod- erick, Battery A, 200th Coast Artil- Je Business interference: Pvt. David G. Dodic, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery. Acting on instructions from the War Department, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the local Guard, has issued the following instruction: as to the number of drills to be held: Armory drills for the first half of the fiscal year 1927 will be limited to 24; units are authorized to hold 12 drills in-the third quarter and in addition to the 12 drills authorized in the third quarter, units are authorized to hold such extra drills as may be neces- sary to bring the total number of drills held during the first three quarters of the fiscal year 1927 to 36. The Headquarters Detachment Spe- cial Troops,- 29th Division, still hold the top of the list in the percentage of personnel in attendance at regular drills, with a score of 81.25, according to figures compiled and made public by headquarters. The other organiza- tions in their relative order, and the percentages of attendance, follow: Band, 121st Engineers, 74.39; Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 67.22; Bat- tery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 60.79; Company E, 121st Engineers, 58.74; Company F, 121st Engineers, 51.43; Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers, 45.95; Company B, 121st Engineers, 38.34; Company D, 121st Engineers, 37.71; Company A, ring 2038 121st Engineers, 36.67; 29th Military 3 s Police Company, the | 1218t Engineers, 35, and tachment, Ingineers, 33.34. Company ¢, With six organizations of the local Guard below strength, special efforts are being made to recruit them up to the minimum required strength before the time for the organizations to g0 to camp. In addition to trying to ob- tain recruits, every application for discharge on account’of business in- terference or removal from the Dis- trict Is being closely scrutinized at headquarters to make certain that the men are not using these reasons as ruses to separate themselves from the service. In an effort to get desirable men, | Gen. Stephan has sent to unit com- | manders a list of applicants for the | military training camps for | vear, and suggesting that the | | commanders get in touch with these men. As the Army has not sufficient | in this area may be interested in | taking their training with the “local | National Guard. | e o | The Militia- Bureau of the War De partment is complling a list of coples of all the military laws of the several States, and Maj. Gen. Creed C. Ham- mond, chief of the bureau, has re- quested the adjutants general of all States and the District of Columbia { | to forward to the bureau copies of all of the military laws of the States which are now in effect. | | Naval Reserve. | Reports ‘have been received at the rtment that certaln vessels to the Naval Reserve for ! | ses have failed to keep dequate - radio and - commmunication This has caused the director | | v:] communications to delay set- foreign administrations, in some over a year, due to the fact that the vessels concerned failed to submit the required reports | and the communication logs of these vessels were either incomplete or not existing. In these cases it was neces- sary-to request the foreign adminis- tration concerned to be good enough to furnish substantiating message | copies. | In order that there will not be « | | repetition of this failure during the | | 1926 cruises, now about to begin, the | | chief of the Bureau of Navigation is | ending out a cautlonary notice to | the commandants of all naval districts that before making cruises communi- | cation_officers dnd_radiomen of the feet divisions familiarize themselve: with the duties of their several posi- tions, and especially with commercial | traffic instructions. The suggestion | also has been made by the bureau t where practicable these officer en periods of equivalent duty in the office of the district communica- tion service. Preparations are being made by the Naval Reservists of the District of Columbia for their annual cruises, which begin next month. The drill perfods now are being used, according to Lieut. Harry J. Nichols, executive | officer, in instructing the men in the care of and marking of their clothes {in accordance with naval practice. | | This duty becomes all the more im- portant this year because of the fact | that with the District Reserves will be the Maryland Reserves from Bal | timore, and in case uniforms.become carelessly strewn around it will be possible to easily identify them by the regulation markings. The drills of the local battalion are just getting back to their normal stage with a full attendance. During the past few weeks the men have been required to take their anti- typhoid injections, and the sore arms and slight fevers resulting has mate- rially depleted the ranks of the reserv- ists, it was said. Those who did come to drill had arms so sore that they could perform few of the naval duties required of them. Every effort is being made by the local officers to recruit the local bat-| talion up to the allowed strength before the annual cruises start, it was pointed out, and it is believed that th will be done. Every drill night a large number of men appear and make application, but only a small number are permitted to take the oath of en-| listment. The physical requirements are stringent in the Naval Reserve, as in the Navy, and despite the fact| that they want men the officers are | not willing to lower the physical standard to the point where they will take any one who applies. They are getting applications in such numbers that they can make selections, and | the young men who successfully pass | the surgeons at their physical exami- nation can consider themselves physically fit in every detail. The U. S. destroyer Allen, tralning | ship of the local reserves, which will carry them on their annual sea cruise this year, is now at Norfolk, where, at- the navy yard, she is receiving her annual examination of her under- water hull, which also is being as back at her berth at the Washington navy yard this week, when the drills of the local reservists will be held aboard her to fully acquaint them pwith the equipment which they will be required to handle during the com- ing cruises, which will be with the scouting fleet of destroyers in the At- lantic off Newport, R. I., and New York. | Invitations are being sent out by the local Naval Reserve Officers’ As- sociation to all reserve officers and former reserve officers inviting them to attend the annual dinner and frolic of the reserves to be held at Ward- man Park Hotel next Wednesday. It was announced at the local re- serve headquarters that it would be impossible to take any of the volun- teer reserve officers on the U. 8. 8. Allen this Summer, as all of the offi- cers' billets there will be filled by the fleet reserve officers from this district and Baitimore. However, there have been received at the local headquai ters several applications from volun- teer reservists, and it was sald that the bureau would make efforts to cruise them aboard other ships of the Nav The first of these officers will be sent this week. He is Lieut. C. Howard Lambdin, Chaplain’s Corps, who has been ordered to the U. 8. S. Camden, submarine tender, at New London, Conn,, for a 15-day cruising period Efforts now are being made to re- cruit to the allowed strength of the new aviation division of the local re- serve. About 10 men are needed, and ‘they will be given opportunities to | fly at the Naval Air Station at Ana- costia, and instructions will lead up |to commissions in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. This division drills on Wednesday nights and those desiring to enter this branch of the Naval Reserve serv- ice are urged to communicate with Lieut. Edward W. Rounds, command- ing the aviation division, at the re- serve armory at the Washington navy yard. -— DROUGHT HITS SAN JUAN. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, June 12 (#)—After many months without adequate rains, a serious water shortage has resulted here. Health and sanitary conditions, as a result, are causing serious alarm. Army trucks have been pressed into service to distribute 1,250,000 gallons of water daily, which is about one-fourth of the city’s normal sup- ply, and the troops of the 65th Infan- try have been placed on a water ra- THE SUNDAY ASSAILS COURT RULING. Miners' Leader Says Judge Is In- terested in Company. MORGANTOWN, W, Va., June 12 (#).—Van A Bittner, international representative n northern West V ginia for the United Mine Workers, in a speech here last night said that the operators might “just s well have presided in court as Judge | Grant Lazzelle” when the court on Wednesday denfed an Injunction to the union to restrain seve coul companies from operating except in EVERY Traded in PLAYER Used Player 165 LEASE XPIRES! ‘| STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, NE 13, 1926—PART 1. ARMY OFFICERS SHIFTED. Maj. U. M. Diller Will Be Quarter- master at Fort Myer. Orders have been isued affecting the following officers: Col. Edwin P. Wolfe, Medical Corps, in the office of the surgeon general, War Department, has been ordered " Bittner sald, vhen 'w York City: Lieut. C('ol. 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