Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1926, Page 7

- THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, 'A,UGUST 12, 1926. D. C. MEN PROVE SKILLFUL IN FIRING 260th Coast Artillery at Fort Monroe, Va., Starts Target Practice. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star FORT MONROE, Va., A £ s Bubcaliber firing w | Artillery, the District National Guard | organization now in training here. Battery Parrott is a 12inch disap Pearing gun battery named in_honor of Capt. Robert P. Parrott, ordnance department, United States Army, in-| ventor of the Parrott gun and pro-| jectlle which was used extensively in| the Civil War. Despite the fact that the guardsmen had only two days’ training previous to firlng, both the gun and ran tions were functioning perfectly, and the shots were falling all around the in| on either side of the liber firing will continue until | Saturday, and then the guardsmen | will put in one more day's training | . Walter W. Burns, commanding 50th, S to e officers of B \ch last night. | to camp with the call of | ut. I 3 © of the local artiller r all of the 4 men in method of wa will receive thir instructions concly { target practice on the 3 sbert T. Herman rum of Batteries A and B, respectively, have been compliment- | ed highly by the senior instructor, Maj. Louis (. Brinton, and Maj. Burns, | nts. Lo Daly and Iiles inding ) ries A and B, on the | y efficient manner in which their | ave been performed. s the battery to schedu of Amer! Field js ern airpl The Di v droy d will i ntinue range statio as in sight will continue to fire. throu instrume i tageous Y azimuth the most advan- which will be conduc of the Chemical Warfare Service of the Army, - | peditionar Mr. Average Citizen Had 70 Cents More In Pocket August 1 The American public had 70 cents per person more cash—or should have had—August 1, this year, than the corresponding date of 1925, according to the money- in-circulation figures issued by the Treasury. This called for everybody to be Jingling $42.01 in hosiery or else- where the first of this month, whiie last year they possessed on| $41.31. July was a profitable month, a 16-cent boost in per capita circula- tion being reported. SRR REGIMENT OF MARINES TO CAMP HERE TONIGHT Motor Batteries, With Aviation and Medical Units, to Have Bivouac in Potomac Park. Potomac Park will be the scene to- night ¢ »uac of the Marine Ar- tillery Re; t of the East Coast ex- orce, en route from Quantico, Va., to Camp Meade, Md. The 10th Regiment of Marines, comprising _several motorized bat- te of 75mm. field guns, to- gether with a unit of the 1st Avia- tion group a medical unit, formed into a truc combat traip, will arrive in \ i vhich are bound to target practice and v will be reviewed i K. Cole and Brig. and. made famous by the rench during the W War, are I mounted with their caissons on will be accompanied the city by a police motor cycle escort tomorrow morning early. 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