Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1928, Page 43

5 THE SUNDAY ‘STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. OCTOBER 21, 1928—PART 2. e e et = been confined almost entirely to raw What Airships Mean to World not to exceed 5 per cent of them tracer. for each Infantry machine gun com- pany. Cavalry machine company and Air Service observation squadron : 40,000 rounds. with not to exceed 10 per cent of it tracer, for each machine gun bat- | materials and crude or simpler types of | staples—potash. steel rails, glass, chem- | fcals, etc.—rather than in the realm lof more highly fabricated wares in | which our export growth has been most | Civilian Army News ||| District National Guard (Continued from First Page) s equipment can be manufactured and alrports prepared. We are now phase. Larger flying boats are being built. An airline to operate between Key West and Panama has been con- tracted for. An air mail route now ex- ists between New York and Mexico City. Great Britain has announced a route to be _operated 2 thence along the coast to ape Town. Let us complete this second phase of development bofore undertaking the hazards and difficulties of the North Atlantic Position of the Dirigible. ‘The dirigible. like the airplane. is only entering the period of commercial de- Jp to this time, due to the nse of design and construc- tion, it has not besn possible for private organizations to make use of lighter- than-air craft. With the present world intercst in air transportation we can look forward to much faster progress in sirship con- struction and cpcration. paralieling that | which the airplane is experiencinz. Non-explosive gas, new alloys, Diescl engines, better meteorological service and experience geined from regular operation are among the factors which will enter into the future operation of dirigibles. One of the greatest advantages of the lighter-than-air ship is that it does not depend on its engines for sustenta- tion. If desired the motors may be shut off entirely and the entire ship flown as a free ballcon. America First in World Trade __ (Continued from Third Page.) which is enly gradually being made up. entering the second | from London to North | . o conspicuous. In casz a landing field be covered | Attempts to cartelize such industries | with dense fog the djrigible can hover | over it with engines cut off or throttled down until the fog lifts. culty of adjrsting the widely divergent On the other hand, the crulsing speed | d 5 [ | Interests, good-will rights. etc.. of hun- |of the airship is more limited than|dreds of continental manufacturers | that of the airplane. Large airplane |with all of their age-long peculiarities. transports are carrying their passengers | = Similarly, the trade barricr problem. ‘" an average of 120 miles an hour | which has so vexed our exports to Eu- over some of our existing routes, where- | rope, is gradually giving way to sensible, as dirigibles 2t present are limited to | far-sighted negotiation. The conclusion about 85 miles per hour. |of the convention recently signed by The airplane has the advantage of | 27 nations, including the United States. millions of miles of regular operation | will relieve our commerce of much of | over airways in every part of the world, | the embarrassment of arbitrary restric- | while the dirigible has yet to demon- | tions, conflicting customs procedure, strate its commercial practicability and | non-uniform statistical practices and |2 the; of war-time devices. | g e e dale e | VL WSS G WA { velopment, in every way possible, s Romantic Trade History. experience alen> will demonstrate th~| Americans are horn traders. Through- advantages of any nev: means of trans- | "t our history foreign commerce has | portation. | formed a picturesque and even romentic Capabilities Are Demonstrated. | Clement in our nationa! life. Especially |was this true in the thriliing days of Dr. Eckener, carrying on the work of | iy tis true in the 3 | the clipper ships, when the speed and | Count_Zeppelin, has demonstrated the | pa e aft were th | el s e beuty of the American craft were the He' has|igons 2ot it Those were the | brought forcibly to our attention the | g ?g‘,;.fi,,,“_&',‘,f’-z days of murvioas ‘;’2:";""{"’[“ fll another medium of | agventure and superb achicvement in | “wh‘l""*?”"ha e T the newly-cpened theater of commerce g o Caals Nateheq the ploneer- | sround the Pacific. There was the fas- gxa:“c‘ fll;i‘-;ttcr::"t’he ifi;fi‘:: h‘:‘;‘:; cinating China trade, in which our | constructed & gigantic liner of the air. | Se ;o oanter aad eies OveRtal orts | comparable to our largest ships of the the typical products of our new fac- Z‘ri;m’,’; Das, completed the Westwurd | fories and brought back the silks, spices great risk of disaster but with a com- ;’&héa&e v;fi: o paratively high degree of safety. These sturdy traders braved great ang pancome Dr, Bckener, his orew | dangers, loneliness and hardship, the [ do our utmost o aid in the develop- | ichiculable menace of ths vast Pacinc h h T e storm terrors . | ment of this branch of aeronautics. | They were the true heirs of those first (Coporight. 1928.) Phoenician adventurers who brought the tin oars of distant Britain home to Tyre, of the courageous Greeks, the daring Saracens, the merchant princes of Venice and the blond Hanseatic | Leaguers of the North. and the more | modern Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English pathfinders | dustrial machinery moving steadily. It And so today in this new era we find | fills the gaps. If trade is dull here in |ONCe Again a recrudescence of that same | our country an active demand for our | clement of adventure. Perhaps much | s automobiies and motion picture films | have failed because of the obvious diffi- hes been due to the ravagss of war i | goods may be developing abroad. Thus, | Of the picturesqueness has been taken not to “avaricious Yankee traders There are certain striking s of this port-war advance of purs waich ars | werthy of careful anal outstanding features hes been the expansion in ths field of fabricated exports. The propertion of our tfotal overseas sales made up of wholly and partly manufactured goods has risen from 46.7 per cent during 910-1914. to 56.3 per cent last year, If we confine the observation to finishad manufactures, we note that the per- centage of the total made up of thal catcgory rose during these years from 30.7 to 41.6. The advance of some of the more conspicuous been truly spectacular. Our exports of autemobiles, parts and accessories rose in millions of dollars from an average of 2hout 24 in the five pre-war years io 383 Jast year: machinery jumped in that time from 158 to 435; iron and steel mill products from 91 to 160: cotton manufactures from 27 to 76. rubber products from 12 to 69: paper manu- factures from 11 to 27: books and print- ed matter from 9 to 24. and paints and varnish from 6.8 to 21. Clearly this new world of demand which has risen out of the ashes of 1914-18 iz calling for the fruits of America with just such pionsering problems as One of the American specialties has | experiences | throughout the world, the commerciaj | 0Ut by the precision of present-day effects of the extremes offset each other | [2ctual analgsis, but some of it remains. —hot seasons against cold seasons: __ The old idea of irresponsible expioita- wealth against dearth: new styles tion has disappeared and in its stead as indicated 2bove, | against old tastes: ready responsivencss W€ today have the world-wide installa- | | against mgrained conservatism. tion of that fundamental tenet which I thousends of American college iS 50 conspicuous in American trade— | boys suddenly decide to go around barc- | that every transaction must be mutu- | neaded. and the hat trade is adversely | ally advantagoous. Indeed. one of the affected by this fact, millions of Chi- | MOst gratilying aspects of this whole nese, moved by the modern spirit, may | Post-war development has been the be cutting off their queues and devel- | SPread. not simply of American mer- oping a demand for American hats and | chandise, but of American business caps—or ths same result may be brought | Practices and high standards. about by the racent edict in Turkey| OUrs is primarily a quality trade: we banning the fez and the tendency in | CANNot. as a rule, meet the cut-price | Egypt to discard the tarboozh. | rates of European traders with their 4 lower wage scales, except in those great | Alertness Necessary. ‘srandlrmzed lines in which our vast | It would, of course, be manifestly ill- | domestic market supplies a volume of | advised to assume that the trads of the | turnover that permits of drastic cur- | world is at our feet to be picked up | tailments of prices below the levels that | whenever we feel so inclined. Obvious- | are possible for th: smaller industrial | ly. there are innumerable conditions units of the Old World. constantly developing which will require; One important element in the encour- the closest serutiny and most alert agement of this spread of American | watchfulness on our part. | practices and ideas is the increase in | The amazing advance that has been the number of foreign students in our made by our commerce since 1921-22 | technical schools. Today they number | has been due to no little extent to just | more than 2000, and the Department | such keen observation snd aggressive:of Commerce and other agencies are | leadership on the part of our busIness}collnhoruflng with foreign governments, ex=cut; and trade bodies, official and | chambers of commerce and technical otherw With thé growth of our in- ' institutions to attract more of the | Maj. Gen. Fred W. Sladen, who just recently assumed his duties as com- mander of the 3d Corps Area, outlined |last week the training year program | for organized Re- serve units of the District of Colum- | ! bia for the 1929 fiscal year. This training year s subdivided into two periods — first, training on an in- active status, and, secondly, training on an active duty status. The ulti- mate training ob- jective for local Réserve units will be reached at the end of the training cycle, the aim of which will be pro- ficiency in mobili- zation and the ability to accomplish the war mission of each unit. The con- ference and school work of the vear will be conducted with a special view to the active duty tour in case one is scheduled, and corps area headquar ters, Gen. Sladen points out in hts training instructions., will endeavor to assign as many Washington Reserve officers as possible to active duty in the 1929 Summer cemps. Correspondence schools will be conducted under Army regulations 350-3,000, War Department annual announcement of courses, and correspondence school memorandum No. 1, 3d Corps Arca. With this announce- ment by Gen. Sladen of just what will compose the 1929 fiscal year training program_for District of Columbia Re- |serve officers, together with the prepa- | ration by most of the Washington Re- serve units of their instructional as- sembly programs for tho 1929 scason, the Reserve component in Washington has settled down to its Fall, Winter and Spring inactive duty training prepara- tory to their active duty camp training next Summer. The programs have been prepared with great care and the conferences up to the present time have been largely attended Signal Corps Reserve officers of Washington will inaugurate their 192 20 instructional assembly program Tuesday evening at local Reserve head- quarters, under the supervision of Maj. C. N. Sawyer. cight’ conferences in all, one each month, from_October to and_including next Mar During October. November, | Decembar and January. Maj. Sawyer will be assisted by Maj. Harry W. Hart |and_Capts. Willis R. Lansford, George | H. Foster and Guy M. Church, all local | Signal Reserve officers, while from Feb- | ruary to May he will be assisted by Maj. |J. M. Hutchins, Signal Reserve. The objectives of the' 1928-20 inactive Sig- nal Reserve conferences are as follows: | (a) To prepare Siznal Reserve units for Mai. Gen. Sladen. | their 1929 active duty: (h) to place a | portion of the burden of the conduct of these conferences directly on unit com- | | manders during the period in demon- | stration teaching: (c) to provide the | possible opportunity for better selection |of C. M. T. C. candidates. and (d) to insure sufficient variety of instruction |at each conference that there will be | instruction for all. All conferences will | meet, at headquarters at 7:30 pm. and | close at 9:30 p.m. The subjects of the | first _conference, to be held Tuesday evening, are rules for instructors on those now being encountered in thei| terests in all parts of the world it has younger generation to our laboratories |first appearance before a class, demon- newly awakened lands of Latin America and the transpacific. Another gratifving aspect of this com- merce has been that ths participants in it are no longer confined to a few large firms, but are made up of greatly increased numbers of small and me- dium-sized concerns. That “inferiority complex” which in the old days so rsistently frightened the less pre- ntious manufacturer and merchant, who felt that he “did not know how to pack for export, was not equipped to extend excessive cradits to unknown foreigners and did no! know anything about their languages and customs, vhow,” has been replaced by a def- inite assurance and confident courage. | been of the utmost importance that our | and elassrooms. industrial and commercial leaders should | It is, indeed. In every sense a new be fully informed of each development |era in our commerce—that commerce jor bprespect affecting their interest. which was described by a distingu:shed Their appreciation of that fact is in- American statesman of the last century dicated by the increase in the number | as “the chief medium for diffusing of inquiries which they have directed | knowledge and the arts, the great to the Department of Commerce from | civilizer of the human race, which be- about 700 a day in 1921 to the 10.000 | gets mutual benefits bhetween different: daily average mentioned previously. | places and persons, binding together in They are intercsted not only in the sim- | interest not only one people but nations ple problems of the selection of agents, ' on the opposite sides of the earth.” the essessment of duties by foreign tar- (Copyright. 1925.) iffs, credit and packing practices, trans- portation rates and market prospects. They also are becoming increasingly aware of the necessity of far-view an- alyses of such intricate factors as trade This has been built up primarily be- czuse of the fact-finding facilities now at the disposal of the “little fellows" through the expanded service of the Department of Commerce and other agencies which have dispelled the fogs of doubt and fear and have marked out the highways of the world’s com- merce with definite surveys and pre- | eise indicators, which in pre-war times | were available only to the largest cor- porations in the country. A large majority of the 10,000 in-| quiries coming to the Department of | Commerce every day on foreign busi- ness matters originate with these small concerns, and the questions are getting more exact and more exacting as time goes on—an encouragingly healthy in- dicator of the intelligent acumen with which this new movement is permeat- ing our business communities. A small manufacturer in Illinois asks for the precise térms governing the protesting of 2 draft in Mauritius, in the medieval days before 1914 if this query had come in at all, it would have been in the form of a timorous “Is there such a place as Mauritius, or is that simply something that you take for what ails you?" balances in their influence upon ex- | change values. | This awakening interest has resulted in the development of the Department of Commerce annual survey of the “in- visible” factors in our international economic relations—the sale and pur- chase of services abroad (tourists’ ex- | penditures. immigrant remittances, freight charges, insurance premiums. banking services), whose total of | $9,000,000.000 last year equaied the | total of our merchandise transactions | in both directions. The alert, up-to-date American ex-| | porter of today insists upon having all | {of the facts upon such new develop- | | ments as the European cartel (his pre- | war predecessor probably would have | thought it a type of surgical instru- ment). | He is reassured when the results of | painstaking analyses by American com- mercial attaches reveal that the suc- cess of the international cartel has Fear Is Dissipated. A second encouraging element in this new era in our export trade is the in-| creasing evidence that its growth is| based largely upon the consistent, far- | viewed policies of the participants nndi it no longer of the crude, pre-war| touch-and-go opportunism. When it comes to credit terms, for example, there is no longer the child-like fear of the German superiority bugaboo. It is gradually dawning upon our small | exporters in particular that this coun-| try, as the home of installment-plan | selling. has little. if anything, to lnm“ from the Ol4 World in matters of | round credit policy. ‘Then, too, the vast experiences of our soundly established and widely prev- alent, practice of interchange of credit | information in a manner utterly un-| known to the conservative circles across the Atlantic give us a decided ad- vantage. This 1s especially true because of the drastic changes which have heen wrought by the chaotic unheavals in the commercial communities around the world, which have transformed credit_methods and made entirely use- less the old-fashioned credit methods 80 conspicuous in European export oper- ations. One of the best indicators of the| widespread appreciation of this new era of precise credit information is the fact that the Department of Cotmhmercfie:,‘:l‘l)g';‘ plied, on request. no less than 638,000 | * : Rikte ars Ooaiats foreign u;msfl ro§4 ":fl:‘rlf};‘:” ':',“ w;:n]wl Ivvhr ‘wrmr'lv(: American exporters during the fiscal | was om the delic svstem of | vear 1527-23."1* against l%out lm\.nnn; babies and children, which, when | in 1921-22. allowed to remain, keeps them cross, | As indicated above our sales abroad i feverish. hilious, headachy, weak, with | today account for about 10 per eent of jcoated tongue, bad breath, broken- our ‘total commerce—a small Propor- |, ckin. o appetite or energv. lts “Sweetest Baby in Washington” For over fifty years, mothers, like | this well known Washington woman, | have been telling each other about California Fig Syrup, and leading physicians have been indorsing it othing else acts gently and so Splitting a Spider’s Thread. The thread spun by a spider is used in_delicate instruments for fixing the center of lenses such as in microscopes and range finders. The scratch of a diamond, which most nearly approaches the geometrical definition of a line— length without breadth—is ®thick by comparison. Even this thin thread, scarcely visible to the naked eye, is too | | thick for some purposes and must be split into four par 9x12 Axminster Rugs: ... ... ———— o 25x50 Rag Rugs _49c 6x9 Felt- Base Rugs....... Single Blankets 84x72 Inches 98¢ 9x12 Tapestry $ tion. perhaps, but it has been aptly called our ‘“prosperity balance.” the margin that spells the difference be- tween well being for our country and rich, fruity goodness helps to give tone and strength to their little <tomach and bowels so they continue | Double Blankets ! 66x80 inches . | stration teaching. the subject of which | Signal | will be training linemen, and Corps organization for corps and divi- sions. The remaining conferences and the subjects to be taken up thereat are Nevember 27—Gaining the confidence and keeping attention of students, op- crating a tactical net of BD-9 and 11's, and tactical disposition for a division in |a meeting engagement: December 21— | opportunities for initiative by Reserve | officers in C. M. T. C. training, installa- | tion of simplex creuits for buzzer phone | and EE-76 and tactical dispositions for a | division in attack. | January 29—Principles used in or- ganizing C. M. T. C. for second period EE-65 test set, and tactical dispositions | for a division In defense. February 25 —Meeting C. M. T. C. grbups, first day's problem for C. M. T. C. in 1929, and | division signal communications in_at- |tack. March 26—Planning instruction |for a “cutover” in advance, division sig- | nal communications for a defense. April 23—Details of corps signal battalion ignal communic: 2 Rugs . Rugs ...... ‘meflmfl L 9x12 Felt- Bedding Needs at Special Prices Comforts $9.49 tions in an attack. The concluding conference of the season will be held on May 28, at which there will be taken up the functions of umpires at ma- | neuvers and corps signal communica- | tion in a defense. | _Ficld Artillery Reserve officers of ! Washington will meet at the Fort Myer | riding hall, Fort Myer, Va., today at 9 am. for instruction in equitation under the instruction of Maj. W. R. ward, assistart instructor at local Re- serve headquarters. Five instructional assemblies will be held by local Reserve units this week, viz., Ordnance, Judge Advocate General's Department. Signal Corps, Quartermaster Corps and the 343d Engineers. Local Ordnance Re- serve officers will meet 1t headquarters in the Oxford Hotel Building tomorrow evening for their second conference, the subjects of which will be War Depaft- ment organization for procurement and procurement. planning. This conference will be conducted by Capt. Roswell E |Hardy. The same evening Reserve of- ficers of the Judge Advocate General's | Department will meet, the subject of which will be the articles of war and the Manual for Courts-Martial, history {and relation. For reference text see | pages 203-230, inclusive, Manual for ’Army Courts-Martial. Lieut. E. C. Ab- | bott will conduct this meeting. Washington Signal Reserve officers will meet Tuesday evening, the program of which is given above. ‘Washintgon Reserve quartermasters will meet Wednesday evening at head- uarters, the subject of which will be lepots—their organization and general functions; property accountability and responsibility. Maj. J. T. Harris will be |the instructor. The 343d Engineers, |Col. John Stewart commanding, will hold their first meeting of the season |in the boardroom of the District Build- ing. at which will be discussed military | bridges. * This conference will be con- ducted by Maj. B. Somervell, Washington Reserve headquarters an- | nounced last week the following changes Inspections of all small arms and anu- tomatic guns in the possession of the National Guard of the District of Co- lumbia was begun last week, under the | direction of Capt. Arthur H. Luse, Ord- nance Department, assistant to the ordnance officer of the 3d Army Corps ‘Adr:n, with headquarters in Baltimore, Lieut. Col. Frederic H. Smith, ad- jutant general of the local militia, said that this was an annual inspection | which is conducted for the purpose of finding what rifles and automatic guns are in need of repair, and which should be sent to the arsenals for repair and which could be done by the personnel of l(z unit having them in their posses- |sfon. It is expected that following the | inspections and the subsequent repairs the ordnance equipment will be + | tion in the country. The inspections began Thursday with one company of the 121st Engineers, two companies of the same regiment on Friday and two companies on Saturday. Beginnnig tomorrow, two more co panies of the Engineer regiment will be taken up, and then for the next two days two batteries on each day of the 260th Coast Artillery. The 29th Division special troop units will be given atten- tion on Thursday, and the inspection will end with a survey of the equipment in the posession of Company A, 372d Infartry, on Friday. Commanding officers of units were di- rected by Col. Smith to have a rep- resentative of the company present dur- ing the inspections, or, if this could not be done, to give a reason why. In the event that any one from the company could not be present, the officer was re- quired to deliver the keys to the United States property and disbursing officer. Five enlisted men last week took the examinations for selection as a candi- |date from the organization to West Point. The War Departmnet has al- lotted one appointment to the District in | as fine a shape as that of any organiza- | of Columbia. and the man who makes | ine highest marks in the examination ticles of war, 2 hours: marksmanship. 4 hours. and ceremonies, 3 hours. For the first time in many months the band of the 121st Engineers, Meyer Goldman, leader, heads the top of the list in the attendance of organizations of the Guard for the past week. How- ever, no organization had sufficient at- tendance to put it in the classification | of superfor. The band, with a percen- tage of 80, together with the Medical Department Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, with a percentage of 80, were in the excellent classification. The other organizations, in their relative or- der and classificaiions, with the per- centages of men picsent, follow: Very satisfactory—Headquarters and Service Compa Engineers, 56; Quartermaster Corps Detach- Headquarters, Detachment, st Artillery, Headquarters Detachment, 29th Division. 73.01. Satisfactory—Company A. 372d In- fantry. 66.66. Company B, 121st Engi- neers, €0, Unsatisfactory—Company D, 121st | Engineer . Company C. 121st En- {gineers, 56.91: Battery C. 260th Coast Artillery, 56. Company F, 121st En- | gineers, 56.06; Headquarters Detach- | ment, Special Troops, 35.55: Battery B. | 260th _Coast Artillery, 54.72; 20th Mili |tary Police Company. 52.54; Company | A, 121st Engineers. 51.66. and Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 50.98 Very unsatisfactory—Medical Depart- !ment Detachment, 121st Engineers, ;45:1zcumpnny A, 121st Engineers, 44.12. Pvt. Ellis N. White, Company F, 121st Engineers, has been honorably dis- charged on account cf his removal from | the District of Columbia. Private Theodore W. Stevens, jr. 29th Military Police Company, has been ! honorably discharged on account of his removal from the District of Columbia. | “Sergt. Morris A. Miller, Battery C, 260th Coast Artillery, has been ordered to report to Maj. Frank C. Scofield. president of an officers’ examining board. meeting at Water and O streets tery, Coast Artillery anti-aircraft: 1,000 rounds, 10 per cent tracer, for each au- | thorized machine gun anti-aircraft | assigned to Pield Artillery. or Coast Ar- | tillery as a_secondary weapon which | is actually fired; 15,000 rounds. 5 per | cent tracer, for each tank company, and 20 rounds per rifle for all combat | exercises, Blank cartridge distribution for each | plece actually used in maneuvers and | combat exercises requiring the use of | blank ammunition, in . the followina }lmoums: Fifty rcunds per rifle, 390 rounds per automatic rifie and 2u0 | rounds per machine gun. Ammunition for the .45-caliber pistol is allotted in the proportion of 100 rounds for each officer and enlisted man required to fire the dismounted course and 110 rounds for each officer and man of the Cavalry required to fire the mounted course, The circular also contains instruc- tions as to the particular kind of am- munition which may be used in each firing place. and in particular directs that no short cartridges be used in the 22-caliber rifles, as they cause serious corresion, which affects the accuracy of the rifle. ‘The next course at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leav- | enworth, Kans., for National Guard of- | ficers will begin March 18 and end in | June. To this course will be detalled 18 National Guard officers, as equally | distributed among the various States | as_applications from qualified officers | will permit. | Officers for this course' must be as- sigred to a tactical division in the ca- pacity of division or brigade com- mander, chief of staff, G-1, 2, 3 or 4, or as regimental commander. The age limit is fixed at 45 years, except for general officérs, and they must have h.di” least 10 years of commissioned service. | | expressed as the desire of the Militia Bureau to detail one officer from | each division the staff of which has been orgzanized and is functioning. | | in the assignments of local Reserve of- |given by the United States civil service ficers: Pirst Lieut. Lloyd E. Kelly, In- the coveted southwest, for examination to determine | his qualifications for promotion by com- PLIGHT OF ARMENIANS The program includes | | fantry Reserve, 1414 Pennsylvania ave- nue, is assigned to the 320th Infantry: | Second Lieut. Orville F. Sandefur, In- | fantry Reserve, 70 Rhode Island avenue. | is relieved from assignment to the 320th | Infant; Second Lieut. Lester K. | Berg Infantry Reserve (Cherrydale, Va.). is relieved from assignment to the 318th Infantry; First Lieut. John C. Reisinber, Medical Reserve. 1720 Con- necticut avenue, is relieved from as- signment to the 313th Field Artillery; Second Lieut. Elgin H. Blalock, Air Re- serve (Takoma Park, Md.). is_relieved from assignment to the 80th Division: Second Lieut. Joseph L. Cain, Air Re- serve, having moved to the 1st Corps Areg, is relieved from assignment to the 80th Division; Second Lieut. Norwood A. Eaton, jr., Infantry Reserve, having moved to the 2d Corps Area, is relieved from assignment to the 80th Division; Second Lieut. Robert W. Garrett, En- gineer Reserve, having moved to the 4th Corps Area. is relieved from assign- ment to th 80th Diviston. First Licut. Earl D. Mallison, In- fantry Reserve, having moved to the 9th Corps Area. is relieved from assign- ment to the 80th Division, as is also First Lieut. George H. Smith, Medical Reserve, who has moved to the 2d Corps Arca, and Second Lieut. Gerald J. C. Guilfoyle, Infantry Reserve, 5408 Jolorado avenue. The following Wash- ington Reserve officers are assigned to the 80th Division: Lieut. Col. Irving C. Moller, Field Artillery Reserve, Uni- versity Club: Capt. John A. Dugan, Infantry Reserve, 1652 Twenty-ninth street. First Lieuts. Leo C. Faherty, Dental Reserve, 1415 Potomac avenue: ‘Walter Atkinson, Medical Reserve, 4426 New Hampshire avenue: E. Osmun Barr, Medical Reserve, 815 Connecticut avenue: Walter W. Boyd, Medical Re- serve, 1621 Twenty-second street; Cedric C. Carpenter, Medical Reserve, 1420 Hopkins street: Aloysius B. Connolly, | commission wili - receive ! post. The five men who took the exami- | uations are Paul V. Evans, Edgar C. | Doleman, Douglas G. Gilbert, William J jCave and Ralph E. Ramsey. The suc- | cesful candidate, however, will have to take the usual entrance examination, it was said. . The training schedule for the 260th Coast Artillery, prepared by First Lieut William J. Heale, acting plans and training officer of the organization, has been forwarded to brigade headquarters,_ following its approval by Maj. Walter W. Burns, commanding the uni It provides that the training objective for the current drill year is to reach a stage in training where the organiza- tion will be able to function efficiently {as a battalion of Anti-aircraft Coast | Artillery, in which each organization accompanies its mission in an effi- | fleld training period next Summer at Fort Monroe, Va. Each unit of the battalion is re- quired to keep posted a training chart at all times, which will show at a glance the state of training of the or- ganization. To insure the attainment for each organizaion will be devoted or an officer designated by him to make the inspection. Unit commanders wiil ress of their respective commands. cialists and cooks is stressed in the and equipment, so that the men will be are in their use. anti-aircraft artillery, as well as to its mechanical functioning. | cient manner, and to prepare for the of the objective, one drill each quarter | to a training inspection by Maj. Burns | be held accountable for the proper prog- | The training of range sections. spe- | order, and it is required that particular | attention be devoted to the care of arms | as proficient in the care of the arms and equipment issued to them as they Time also will be | devoted to the tactical employment of | mission to the rank of second lieuten- | ant of Coast Artillery. | _Pvt. Charles E. Nally. Battery C. | 260th” Coast Artillery. has been tran: | ferred from the active to the reserve list of that unit. | _Sergt. Pat H. McDuream. Company D. 121st Engineers, has been honorably discharged to permit his enlistment in the United States Army. Sergt. Morris Allen Miller has been assigned to the Headquarters Detach- | ment, 260th Coast Artillery. Pvt. Louis E. Hitt, Company D. 121st | Engineers, has been honorably dis- charged on account of his removal from | the city. | bia was given in orders as the reason |for the honorable discharge of Pvt. | Benjam:n G. Wilkinson, Battery B. 260th Coast Artillery. The Militia Bureau of the War De- partment has sent to the local Na- tional Guard a statement of the allow- ances of ammunition for practice and | drill work for the calendar year 1929. | expenditure will be controlled by com- | manding officers so as to obtain the best results in the most economical menner. and that all persons ai thorized or required by regulation: training programs or other War De- partment instructions to fire, and who actually do fire, the courss or exercise | for which the allowance is prescribed are entitled to the allowances. It is also provided that only one au- thorized allowance will be fired by an individual with the same weapon dur- ing the same target year, and that no individual is authorized to fire in a dual capacity: that is, as an enlisted man of the Guard and as a Reserve of- ficer. The new allowances follow: Caliber .22 cartridge: For each of- Removal from the District of Colum- | ficer, warrant officer and enlisted man | GETS OFFICIAL ACTION | Relief Commission Starts Systs matic Measures Toward Solu- tion of Refugee Problem. BEIRUT. Syria (#).—A relief com- mission, appointed by the International | Labor Bureau, at Geneva. in conjunc- |tion with the French High Commission for Syria, has launched the first sys- | tematic measures toward the solution of the Armenian refugee problem in the | mandated territory. There are about 80.000 Armenians in Syria, a portion of this number | having been exiled there by the Turks during the war and the remainder having fled from Turkey when the | Kemalists came into power. Nine-tenths of them continue to in- habit hovels on the outskirts of Syrian citics, and not more than a half have | been able to establish themselves on a | self-supporting basis. 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