Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 38

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. DECEMBER 9, 1978—PART T. District National Guard ©if In recognition of the fact that he " organized and captained one of the best wortéams which ever represented the Na- tional Guard of the District of Columbia at any of the national matches, Capt. % Just C. Jensen, head of th> Ordnance " Department of the local Militia, has again been selected to develope the team of 1929. Lieut. Col. Frederic C. Smith, U. S. A, adjutant general, announced that Capt. Jensen had been appointed feam captain. At the same time, Col. Smith an- %’ nounced, that Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, i Company E, 121st Engineers, a member of the 1928 team, had been ordered as‘ ' team coach, in recognition of his shoot- O ing ability on previous teams. His " sppointment, however, was made at the - cific request of Capt. Jensen. It is e first team for a long time which will have a team coach, it was announced. The team which was headed by Jensen .- this year went to Camp Perry and came Z7back with the Hilton trophy which stamped it as the champion of all rifle teams, National Guard and civilian, out- side of the regular establishments, and the formal presentation of the trophy v ; Was made a gala event, when all of the 7 i militia in the city was paraded in honor of the team. , ‘The successful team this year prob- “ably went through more intensive train- ing than any previous team, as Capt. Jensen kept the candidates constantly on the range at Congress Heights, and in the small range in the Armory, the final selection of the team # membership only from among riflemen who maintained consistently high scores | ‘" during the training period. Members of the 29th National Guard Division Staff, attached to the local Guard, participated in Richmond, Va., v yesterday in one of their periodical war i assemblies, during which a battle or two ‘was fought over maps in the Armory at which all of the details of a division headquarters activity in the field were worked out. 1, 'The party, which left Washington yes- « Sarday, and is expected to return today, included Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the 29th National Guard ;» Division; Col. John W. Oehman, com- .+ manding the 121st Engineer Regiment; -~ Lieut. Col. Frederic H. Smith, adjutant general; Lieut. Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, - 29th National Guard Division adjutant; .. Maj. Edward H. Grove, commanding the 29th Division Headquarters troops, ., and Capt. Sidney Morgan, aide to Gen. Stephan. With the Washington officers in Rich- mond for the problem were also officers from various parts of the States of sion is composed of the militia of this city and of Maryland and Virginia. With the militia officers there also went from this city Maj. Charles P. Elliott, United States Infantry, instructor of headquarters Infantry units here, and instructor of the 26th Division staff. All of the units composing the local guard failed in their efforts to be clas- sified last week as superior in attend- ance by not obtaining more than 90 per cent attendance of the men on the rolls at the weekly drill. The best that any srganization could get was 85.71 per cent attained by the Medical Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, which topped the list, and was classed as excellent. The other organizations in this classification, and their percentages, were: Headquar- ters and Service Company, 121st Engi- neers, 84.61; Band, 121st Engineers, 828¢, and the Headquarters Detach- ment, 28th Division Special Troops. in the very satisfactory class, were the following organizations: Quartermaster Corps Detachment, 75.00; Medical De- partment Detachment, 121st Engineers, 75.00; Headquarters Detachment, 260th Coast_Artillery, 70.84, and Company A, 372d Infantry, 70.42. ‘The Headquarters Detachment, 29th Division, headed the list of those given a satisfactory rating, with a percentage of 63.97. The others were Company D, 121st Engineers, 67.60; Company F, 121st Engineers, 64.29; Battery C, 260th Coast Artillery, 62.74. Unsatisfactory was the rating given the following organizations: Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 54.90; Company B, 121st Engineers, 54.45; Company E, 121st Engineers, 53.03; Company C, 121si Engineers, 52.24. Only two organizations were in the very unsatisfactory group last week, they being the 29th Military Police Company, witih a percentage of 44.64 and Company A, 121st Engineers, with a score of 43.75. Pvt. (first class) Frank M. Hamil- ton, Company D, 121st Engineers, was ordered on* duty at the armory last week for the purpose of assisting in | completing the annual inventory of his organization. Capt. Walter S. Welsh, commander of the Headquarters and Service Com- pany, 121st Engineers, also was crdeved on temporary active duty for the pur- pose of assisting the Regular Army in- structor in taking the annual inventory of his command. Corp. William P. Meeds, jr., Company E, 121st Engineers, has been reduced to the grade of private in his outfit and Pvt. (first class) Howard A. Burd, pro- moted to the rank of corporal. ‘The following reductions in rank were *' Maryland and Virginia who are on the mé’. The 29th National Guard Divi- ordered in Company D, 121st Engineers, on recommenda‘ion of the company commander: Corps. Robert B. Burton and Clarence E. Persons, to be privates. ‘These were accompanied with an order relating to the same command, and di- | recting the following promotions: Corp. | Charles Y. Turner, to be sergeant, and Pvts. (first class) Louis K. Bauer end Frank M. Hamilton, to be corporals. Pvt. James J. Spink, Company D, 1 121st "Engineers, has been dropped as | & deserter from that command, as cf September 13, 1927, he havihg failed to report for drill on or after that date, and all efforts to locate him having failed. Corp. Edward A. Dimler, Company A, 121st Engineers, has been honorably discharged to permit him to enlist in the Regular Army. The following members of the Head- | quarters Detachment, 29th Division, | have been transferred from the active | to the reserve list of that organization, on account of educational interference with their military work: Pvts. Ulysses G. Salter and William H. Morey Pvt. John H. Best, 20th Military Po- lice Company, has been honorably dis- charged to permit him to enlist in the regular establishment. The armory drill training schedule, a detailed outline of the work to b performed by the 121st Engineer Regi- ment, between December 4 last and May 28 next, prepared as directions to the unit commanders in outlining their armory work by Lieut. George F. Har- bin, regimental plans and training offi- cer, has just been made public by bri- gade headquarters. It provides that the “training objec- tive” for all individuals and units of the command is to be “in general effi- ciency in actual field service,” and “in particular the acquirement of habits of discipline, courtesy, correct military bearing and appearance; the attaining | of a reasonable proficiency in methods of constructing simple bridges and the organized methods of constructing float- ing bridges; the application of rigging principles to the handling of heavy loads and the practice in use of the simpler devices, and the study of meth- ods of applying explosives in military demolitions.” In addition to the usual company instruction to be outlined in detail by the company commanders, in corformity with the general scheme as laid down in the schedule just made public, five special schools are provided, each un- der the direction of a commissioned or non-commissioned officer expert. The map reading and sketching school is to be under the guidance of First Lieut. E. A. 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