Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 38

‘That officers of the 313th Field Ar- tillery, Col. Leroy W. Herron, com- - manding, are taking a keen interest in the Reserve movement is evidenced by the recent promo- tion of Col. Charles L. ud.so;x to 1the grade of major, which will be short- ly followed by pro- motions of several officers belonging to this regiment. Maj. Laason, a,resident of Baliston, Va. first saw service in Battery B of the District of Colum- bia National Guard in 1915. The follow- ing year, after suc- cessfully complet- ing the competitive examination, he was commissioned a G second lieutenant and he saw eight months of Mexican border service at Dougl battery. ‘With the entry of the United States # the World War in the Spring of 1917, Maj. Ladson was ordered to Camp McClellan, Ala., where he was assigned to Battery A, 110th Field Artillery. He has the distinction of being the only ene of the original District of Columbia efficers who remained with this battery throughout the war. He served overseas with Battery A under Capt. Louis C. Vogt, battery commander, and Maj. Herron (now colonel), who was at that tir > battalion commander. After the armistice was signed Maj. Ladson suc- ceeded to the command of Battery A and he brought his command home, the battery being mustered out at Camp Meade, Md. (now Fort Leonard Wood, Md.) in 1919. Maj. Ladson is a graduate of the Ori- entation School and School of Fire at Meucon, France; the Army Artillery School at Valdehon, France. and_ the school for the care of animals at Bar- sur-Aube, Prance. Last Summer he organized, equipped and started the training of Battery B of the C. M. T. C. regiment at Fort Hoyle, Md., which bat- tery finally won the best battery com- petition. Since the war Maj. Ladson has been active in American Legion circles, having served as post com- mander and department vice com- mander in the District of Columbia. As the result of his promotion Maj. Lad- son has been assigned to command headquarters and headquarters battery of the 2d Battalion, 313th Field Ar- titlery. Every Reserve officer in the District #f Columbia will be interested in the 1930 budget estimates, just submitted by the President to Congress, in which is made for the training of 16,382 Reserve officers for periods of 14 days—a decrease of 3,066 in the number provided for in the current, that is, the 1929 appropriation act. The 1930 estimate for the Organized Re- serves is $5,201,977. This is consider- ably more than the budget estimate for 1920, which was $4,631,927, and is $251,606 less than the amount actually Is Precious We Can’t Capt. C. L. Ladson. las, Ariz, with the above-named appropriated by Congress for 1929, i.e., $5,453,583. The Reserve appropriations for the preceding three years were | follows: 1926, $3,674,800; 1927, $3,721,- 300, and 1928, $4,158,641. As_the appropriation that Congress will finally authorize for the support of the reserve movement for the 1930 fiscal year will affect every member of this aomponent of the Army of the | United States, the individual Reserve officer is particularly interested in the | subdivisions of the 1930 Reserve esti- | mates, which are as follows: Pay and allowances for 14-day trainees, $2,220,- 088; -pay and allowances for more than 15-day trainees, $729.478; mileage for above trainees, $408,424; enlisted Re- serve Corps, $100; establishment and mainteriance of Organized Reserve Headquarters, $90,870; operation of Organized Reserve Headquarters, $111,- 000; establishment and maintenance of camps, $428,608: travel of Regular Army personnel on Reserve duty, $111,- 950; Air Corps, training reimbursement, $1,063,519; correspondence courses, $26,000, and manuals, $11,000. y _ The estimates also provide for 144 | Reserve officers as students at Army schools for periods varying from six weeks to three montns. Provision is also made for ten Reserve officers as additional members of the War Depart- ment general staff for a full year. These two items are the same as in the current act. Instruciors at the Citi- zens' Military Training Camps to the number of 170 are provided, this being a decrease of 50 per cent in the num- ber provided in the current appropria- tions. Funds are further provided for the training of 130 Reserve officers with Air Corps tactical units for a full year, this being a net increase of 20 over that for the current year. In this connection, it should be noted that 45 additional second lientenants in the Air Corps Reserve are to be carried in the Regular Army. The items covering mileage, establishment and mainte- nance of Reserve headquarters and for manuals show slight decreases, while the other items show slight increases, except in the case of the Enlisted Re- serve, which is unchanged. The following changes in the as- signments of Reserve officers residing in Washington were announced last week by local Reserve headquarters: First Lieut. David S. Stanley, Signal Reserve, United States Soldiers’ Home, having moved to the 1st Col;f Area, Is relieved from assignment to the 333d Construc- tion Battalion, Zone of Communica- tion; Second Lieut. Frederick T. Voor- hees, Infantry Reserve, 705 Eighteenth street, having moved to the 9th Corps Area, is relieved from assignment to the 80th Division; Capt. Arthur V. Wort- man, Air Reserve, 1723 G street, having moved to the 7th Corps Area, is re- lieved from assignment to the 403d Pursuit Squadron, 4th Army; Lieut. Frank H. Jerdone, Air Reserve, 3800 Fourteenth street, having been transferred to the branch assignment group, is relieved from assignment to the 409th Attack Squadron, 4th Army; Second Lieut. Milton L. Goff, jr., Field Artillery Reserve, 2430 Tracy place, having moved beyond the divisional Every Minute Promise How Long They’'ll Last 'TWO GREAT SALES MERGED J MANY DIFFERENT MAKES FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE g Grglt Crowds Eager to See the Revolutionary New Styles Are Also |} Daily Participating in the Tremendous Price Reductions Now in|& Force As Evidenced by the Plainly Marked Tags on Every Piano! FACTORY SALE OF DEALER'S RETAIL STOCK GIVES BUYERS TOTALLY NEW VALUES | i The Carefully and Well-Chosen Piano Stocks of One of the Largest and Best-Known Music Houses in This Section, Who Will Shortly Announce Their Retirement from Business, Have Been Taken Over by the W. W. Kimball Co. for the Purpose of Speeding up Their Liquidation in an Orderly Manner. Now Now Now | Full Price Allowed Any me Within Two Years on Any New Kimbull‘ STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 10 P. M. ;W. W. KiMBALL Co. 25 | duty, are relieved from assignment to t “Specifications and War Reserve.” . THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DEUEMBER 16! 1928—PART" 1. area, is relieved from assignment to t.hz’ 80th Division and is assigned to the 79th Division; Second Lieut. Sidney H. Crowell, Coast Artillery Reserve, 1720 Euclid street, is assigned to the 3d Coast Artlllery district. The following Washington Reserve officers, having accepted reappointment in the Officers’ Reserve Corps without the privilege of assignment or active the 80th Division: Capt. Grover E. Moore, Infantry Reserve, 1517 Twenty- third street, and Second Lieuts. Anton Benesch, Infantry Reserve, 1630 Park road; Percy B. Walton, Infantry Re- serve, 508 Colorado Building; Joseph N. Purks, Quartermaster Reserve, 1520 A street southeast, and Hyman M. Gold- stein, Signal Reserve, 700 Otis place. Washington Field Artillery Reserve officers will assemble at the Fort Myer riding hall today at 9:30 am. for in- struction in | quitation under the direc- tion of Maj. W. R. Woodward, Field Artillery. Members of the 428th Infan- try, Lieut. Col. West A. Hamilton, com- manding, will meet at local Reserve headquarters tomorrow evening for their instructional conference, the sub- jeet of which will be “The Rcserve Com pany in Defense and the Counter At- | tack.” Maj. Albert 8. J. Tucker, Infantry, will be instructor. The same subject will be taken up by the 320th Infantry, Col. Winfield Scott, commanding, on Tues- day evening. Maj. Tucker will conduct the meeting. Officers of the 313th Field Artillery, Col. Leroy W. Herron commanding, will weev at headquarters Wednesday eve- ning, at which will be taken up “Visi- buity and Defilade; Dead Space,” under | the direction of Maj. W. R. Woodward. | This same evening the 343d Engineers, Col. John Stewart commanding, will hold their_conference in the board room of th> District Building, the subject of | which will be “Field Fortifications.” This meeting will be conducted by Maj. B. B. Somervell, executive officer of the regi- ment. Eightieth Division staff officers resid- | ing in Washington will meet at local Re- | serve headquarters next Thursday eve- | ning for a discussion of “The Questions ! on Staff Principles and Functions, the General Staff Group and the Special | Staff Group.” | ‘The Signal Corps conference to be | held next Friday at local headquarters will be conducted by Maj. C. M. Sawyer, | 3d Corps Area signal officer. At this meeting there will be taken up oppor- tunities for initiative by Reserve offi- cers and C. M. T. C. training, installa- tion of simplex circuits for buzzer phone and EE-76 and tactical disposi- tions of a division in attack. On this same evening the first of a series of regular meetings for the specialist sec- tion of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the District of Columbia will be held at local Reserve headquarters. Thnese meetings will be held once a meath and will pertain to the war-time duties of specialist officers. The first lecture will be delivered by Maj. H. L. 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