Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 85

AMUS EMENTS. District National Guard Nine members of the enlisted branch ©f the National Guard of the District of Columbia have taken a step nearer the commissioned rank when the brigade headquarters announced that their names had been placed on the eli- gible list for promotion as a result of Tecent examinations which were taken by the men. The men will remain on the list for a period of one year and vacancies will be filled from this list ‘Whenever they occur. It is probable that some of the men will be promoted before the regiment goes into its an- nual encampment ‘The suc ‘With the m: candidates, together s made on the examina- tion, follow: Sergt. Cooper B. Rhod Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers, 89.78 per cent: Sergt. Albert J. Kubeldzis, Company C, 121st Engineers, 89.52 per cent; Corpl. Sam- uel W. Marsh, Headquarters and Serv- ice Company, 121st Engineers, 83.45 per | cent: Pvt. John H. Anderson, Company C. 1215t Engineers. 82.22 per cent; Pvt David W. Milne, Company E, 121st En- ginecrs, 78.83 per cent; Sergt. Jack Mursell, Company F, 121st Engineers, {76.59 per cent; Second Lieut. Willlam A. Gormley, 29th Division, Military Police Company, 7645 per cent: Staff Sergt Luther B. Hall, per cent, and Corpl. George | y Company, 121st eent The men will be appointed to vacan- cies in the order of standing in which they finished the examinations, it was | said. | Pvt. Walter S. Sonntag, jr., Head- | guarters and Service Company, 121st | Engineers, has been honorably dis- charged on account of removal from the District. Engineers, 75.68 per The following have been ordered | wransferred from the active to the re- | serve lists of their respective organiza- tions for the reasons noted: Business interference with drill at- ndance: Pvt. (first class) Donald A. alk, Headquarters and Service Com- pany, 121st Engineers; Pvt. (first class) Albert B. Smith, Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers, and Pvt. Warren N. Steffen, Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers. Educational interference: Pvt. (first | class) Howard I. Pier, Company F,| 21st Engineers. Pvt. (first class) Eugene A. Ross has | been transferred from Company C, 121st Engineers, to the Ordnance De- partment of the State staff, in the #ame grade. He will assist Capt. Just | C. Jensen, head of the Ordnance De- partment and captain of the rifie team, in his work of training the remainder of the Guard in rifle shooting. Pvt. Aquilla H. Smith, 29th Division Military Police Company, has been ordered dropped as a_deserter as of June 19, 1928, because he has failed to report for drill on or after that date, all efforts to locate him having failed. | The following have been transferred | from the active to the Reserve list of their respective organizations on ac- count of business interference with their attendance at drill: Pvt. Virgil E. Clary, Headquarters Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, and Pvt. Arthur L. Brightley, Company D, 121st Engineers. For the first time in several months one organization of the local Guard has succeeded in getting enough men to at- tend the regular weekly drill to get into the superior classification in attendance. This organization, the Headquarters Detachment, 29th Division Special ‘Troops, reported last week with 100 per cent of its men in attendance, and it was the only unit in this division. Three organizations were given ratings ‘of excellent, with percentages in the 80s. They are: The Quartermas- ter Corps Detachment, 83.33 per cent; Headquarters Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 81.81, and Company E, 121st Engineers, 80.59. Those classed as very satisfactory are: Headquarters and «Service -Company, 121st Engineers, 75; Headquarters De- tachment, 20th DiviSion, 72.41, and the Medical Department Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 71.43. Two organizations came in satisfac- tory, being Company B, 121st Engineers, with a rating of 66.66 per cent, and the band, 121st Engineers, with a percent- age of 65.71. The unsatisfactory organizations were the 29th Division Military Police Com- pany, with a percentage of 56.14;:Bat- tery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 54.90; Battery C, 260th Coast Artillery, 50.98; Company D, 121st Engineers, 50.70; Company A, 372d Infantry, 50.00. The low-mark organizations, classed #s very unsatisfactory, were Company A, 121st Engineers, with a rating of 46.78; Company C, 121st Engineers, 4529; Company F, 121st Engineers, 46.16; Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 46.00, and the Medical Department De- techment, 121st Enginers, 30.00. All unit commanders in the Guard have been instructed to submit to bri- gade headquarters a statement as to whether or not the present personnel accounting methods are satisfactory, and if not. what, in their opinion, should be changed, perticularly with a view to cutting down the amount of ad- ministrative work now required. It was said that the Militia Bureau of the War Department is contemplating a change in the methods and desires suggestions Trom the service. The following small arms qualifica- tions in Battery C, 260th Coast Artil- Jery, were announced: istol marksman—Capt. Robert T. Daily, score, 71 per cent. Robert T. Francis W. Rifle marksman—Capt. Daly, score, 210; Corpl. Minor, 210; Corpl. John E. Tegeler, 194: Corpl. Ralph E. Ramsey, 210; Pvt. (first class) Nelson W. Curtis, 180; Pvt. Dominick Colaissi, 196, and Pvt. John ‘W. Vernon, 197. The following enlisted in the Guard during the past week, it was announced at brigade headquarters: Thomas C. Gates, assigned to Company F, 121st Engineers, and Max Esberger, band, 121st Engineers. Sergt. John T. Polley has been or- dered by Maj. E. H. Grove reduced to the grade of private in the Headquar- ters Detachment, 29th Division, while Pvt. David Ross has been ordered pro- | moted to the grade of sergeant | The following have been promoted | %o the grade of private, first class, in | the Headguarters Detachment, 29th | Division: Pvts. John H. Anderson, Guy | T. Bolton, John W. Burke, Paul Fako, Louis Gertler, Ernest V. Gonzales, James F. Hutchinson, Leon A. Knight, Langdon P. McAninch and Leslie Rob- gertson. In the same command the following thave been reduced to private: Pvts. ‘first class) Shirley R. Lowman and Edwin K. Mitchell. Corpl. Henry C. Dixon has been re- duced to the grade of private in Com- pany B, 121st Engineers, upon recom- mendation of his company commander. Sergt. Herman Silver and Corpl. Louis | 1. Watkins have been reduced to the | grade of privates in Company A, 121st | Engineers, upon recommendation of the | unit commander, and the following have been ordered promoted to cor- porals in the same command: Pvts. :aandolph H. Brown and Joseph R. Hil- eary. The War Department having au- thorized certain organizations of the National Guard to wear distinctive cap devices' on the campaign hats, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the 29th National Guard Division, has ap- pointed a committee to study the mat- ter and Work up a design to be adopted for the headquarters staff and troops of that division. This committee is to be composed of Lieut. Col. Richard M. Bidgood of Richmond, Va. assistant chief of staff; Lieut. Col. Herbert L. Grimes, 29th Division signal officer, of ‘Baltimore, Md., and Lieut. Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, 29th Division adjutant No specific time has been given the committee in which to make a report, but Lieut. Col. Nevitt, ber, said that the members would get together as soon as possible to work out the design, which will be submitted to the headquarters officials for ap- Proval. The design, when adopted, will B Company D, 121st Engi- | Headquarters and Service | be authorized for use by all of the divi- sion headquarters troops as well as the general staff of the division, which comprises the militia of this city and of the States of Maryland and Vir- ginia. In view of the fact that the annual inventories taken of Federal property in the possession of the local Guard show large shortages as well as over- ages, regimental and separate battalion commanders have been instructed to make necessary adjustments between | having excesses, with a view to a re- |inventory by field officers. The work , | must be completed before January 20. Plans are being formulated by local Guard officials to convince the com- mittees and members of Congress that the time has arrived when they should make some provision for an armory for the local militia and give it opportunity to receive its training under conditions that will benefit the country in the event they are ever again called into the field. The conferences so far have been confined to officials in the Guard who have been working out plans, but it is probable that conferences will be sought in the near future with officials of the War Department and the mem- bers of Congress having charge of such islation. It is known that efforts will be cen- tered on having Congress pass the bills which are before each house which would transfer to the Guard for its use the Pension Office Building, in Judiciary Square, as soon as it is vacated by the general accounting office, a building for which is to be erected in the Avenue triangle. This building, it was pointed out, not only will house the present units of the |local Guard, but will take care of a large number of other units which have been allotted to the Capital City, but which have not been organized because there is no available armory space in which they can be quartered and train- ed and no place in which to store the expensive War Department equipment which is issued to such organizations for use in the field. ‘The local Guard officials this year will have the united support of the executive committee and the legislative commit- tee of the National Guard Association of the United States, which, at its re- cent annual convention, passed a reso- lution directing these two committees to actively work for the acquisition of an armory for the local militia, because it is at the seat of government. It was pointed out that as the Federal Gov- ernment expects the States to provide adequate armories for its militia it should at least set some sort of an ex- ample by furnishing sufficient funds with which to provide modern armory facilities for the Federal militia at the Nation's Capital. It will be pointed out to Congress, if the officials are successful in getting the measures to a hearing, that "lans are being formulated for treating the ground between the Capitol grounds and the Union Station as a large park- way and that in this treatment the old Government Hotel bulldings, which are being used as armories, will have to go. But there will be no place for: the Guard to go, as the officials looked in vain when they moved out of their former armory for a suitable building, and when unable to find one appealed to the Public Buildin; Commmo N which allocated them the Government Hotel buildings which were then idle. CHANGE IS EXPENSIVE. . Revision of Alphabet in Turkey Costs Millions. ANGORA, Turkey (#).—Turkey is finding that new alphabets come high. The government has expended over $3,- 000,000 in the dissemination of propa- ganda for the newly adopted Latin alphabet. This _covers subsidies to publishing houses” &nd newspapers for the pur- chase of new Linotypes and for the Dublication by the government printing house of 1,000,000 books and pamphlets. Additional expense faces the govern- ment in scrapping the entire present issue of stamps and paper money bear- ing the Arabic letters. CLOSER UNION SOUGHT. League Seeks to Bridge Gap Be- tween East and West. GENEVA (#).—One of many at- tempts to bring the East nearer the West and make Geneva's international institutions truly universal in scope has }azaxlxl a deculol::bw uubrmhll-l at Delhl, ndia, 2 branch bureau of international labor office. This organization, which is devotes to the harmonization of capital and labor and to securing the amelioration of the conditions of world workers, is particularly desirous of extending its ?e‘ld of action to Far Eastern coun- ries. The Indian bureau will be a center for the collection and collating of in- formation concerning Eastern labor problems. LANDOWNERS HIT. Large Property Holders Target of Soviet Leaders. SEMIPALATINSK, Kazakstan Re- public (#).—The Soviets have taken. drastic measures in an effort to wipe out the last remnants of large land- ownership in Central Asia. Sixty “beys,” or wezlthy Mosiem nobles, who managed during 11 years of Bolshevik rule to ignore all Com- munist doctrines and keep their vast herds of cattle and property intact, have been driven out of their homes and deported to remote Sir-Darlinsx regions. GOOD TASTE COMMITTEE. Group to Have Supervision Over Church Treasures. MOULINS (#).—Art treasures of the church in this diocese have been placed under the supervision of a group of eminent churchmen and qualified lay rtists. Even the churches themselves e to be controlled, from the point of view of repairs and transformations which affect valuable art pieces, by this committee. The Bishop of Moulins has forbidden priests of his diocese 10 make any mod- ifications or do any new building with- out the approval of the committee. They are also required to make any changes required by the committee in the interest of good taste and sacred art, ' LOUVAIN, Belgium (#).—Monsignor Ladeuze, rector of Louvain University. now being sued by the American artist, Whitney Warren, in econnection with j the Louvain library incident, has re- ceived the title of Bishop of Tiberias, Palestine. It will not interfere with his ties as rector of the university. R. McReynolds & Son | Studebaker | SALES 1423-1425-1427 LSt.N.W. Decatur 686 the local mem- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, |the units having shortages and those ; U. S. ARMY IMPROVES HAWAIIAN AIR FIELD $2,000,000 Expansion Program Is| Outlined for Wheeler Airport, Near Honolulu. HONOLULU (#).—Improvement of Wheeler Field, near Schofield Barracks, on this island, to make it one of the finest milliary airports in the United States, is being planned by the Hawaiian Department of the United States Army. The plans, which contemplate expend- itures exceeding $2,000,000, are being drawn up with a view to starting the actual work at the commencement of the next fiscal year, July 1. Most of the money will be spent for new bulldings, including living quarters for officers and men. The present authorized strength of the fleld is 28 officers and 220 cnlisted men. When the new fleld is completed, with all the new buildings, it is expected the person- nel will be brought to 110 officers and 1,300 enlisted men. The longest runway at Wheeler now is 2,800 feet. The new enlarged field will have a runway 6,000 feet long available. Education of women in Japan is find- | ing such favor that some girls' colleges | have more applicants than capacity to | care for them. AND UPWARDS D. C. Naval Reserve Funds are available for the training of additional officers and men of the| Uhited States Naval Reserve Battalion of the District of Columbia during the current fiscal year, according to infor- mation received at the local Reserve headquarters from the Navy Depart- ment. However, it was said at the lo- cal Naval Reserve armory that it is im- probable that any officers and men of the surface ship organization would be given further training, but it is quite | possible that some of the excess funds will be used for training officers and men of the Aviation Reserve. It also was pointed out that some ad- ditional men may be taken on active duty status for training in the Spring, | when the U. S. destroyer Abel P.| Upshur, training ship of the local or- ganization, goes to Norfolk for its an- nual overhaul prior to beginning the annual training cruises with the scout- ing fleet. It has not been finally de- termined, it was said. that the ship will have to go to Norfolk, but some of the funds will be held in reserve, as the present complement of the ship will have to be increased by calling Re- servists to active duty if it is done. The local Reserve originally allotted funds for the training of 24 officers, of whom 17 were trained. Remaining {and the latter allotment .authorizes {only would the aviation training funds s funds authorize the training of two more. was 175, of whom 135 were trained in the early part of the year; and funds for five more have-been authorized. The funds for the aviation. division authorized 10 officers, of whom three took the training, and the funds allow four more, and of the eight énlisted men author none have been trained, seven 7 It was said fo be quite likely that not be used up, but efforts would be made | to have transferred from the surface; ship training fund money for training there to the training of aviators for the | aviation division. Paul N. Johnson, Mullhall road, Ar. lington_County, enlisted in the lo cal battalion last week as a seaman, | second class, and was assigned to the. 1st Field Division Local ~ Reserve headquarters an-| nounced that it had received the rec- ords of the following men, transferred | to the local Reserve district: Johnson | K. Pollard, yeoman, first-class, 2121 H street, a‘ six-year ex-Regular service nsferred from the recelving | at Philadelphia, Pa.. and ! DECEMBER 16, 1928—PART The allotment. for enlisted men &7 , 3 Phillip J. Wideman, chief torpedo man, 212 Indiana avenue, a 20-year man, from the receiving barracks in this city. It was pointed out by Secretary Cur- | tis D. Wilbur of the Navy Department- that the appropriations made by. Con- éss have been adequate to provide for full quota of officers in the Reserve crews that might be needed on desig- | nated vessels assigned to the several | divisions and battalions. However, per- Jonnel to compose the éntire quota has not._yet been obtained. But the case | of the enlisted men, he adds, is differ- | ent.- Appropriations are suficient to establish quotas for divisions of only about three-quarters of the number | which would be required upon mobili- | zatlon. The allowed divisional quotas | of men ‘are rapidly being reached, and | it 18 ‘heped that in order to carry| | through_the department’s policy addi- | tional appropriations may be provided | so -that existing divicions can be | brought up t» war strength.and ad- vantage can ve taken of opportunities | fo establish additional units as required to fulfill the mission of the Naval Re- serve. R In order to more “effectively develop Naval ReServe aviation divisions and squadrons as operating units, aviation | facilities are being provided at certain localities ,and the divisions and squad- Tons are being required to train anc operate as organizations in a manner similar to that prevailing in the sea- going organizations of the Reserve. He said that Naval Reserve squadrons and separate aviation divisions will be given 15 days' training as organizations at naval air stations and Naval Reserve air bases, and it is belleved beneficial results will accrue | Gradual improvement has been noted throughout the year in the Naval Re- serve, and it Is believed the principles upon which it has been founded will| be the means of providing & Reserve whose value to the Navy cannot be un- | derestimated. gy | Serious consideration and study has been given to the subject of enlisted Reserve personnel, having in mind the standardization of the training units, according to Rear Admiral R. H.| Leigh, chief of the Bureau of Naviga- | tion. To this end steps 'have bgm taken to insure careful selection of | petty officer material, particular stress | being placed on the factors of steady | drill and cruise attendance. A general | toning up of morale and a steady influx | of a desirable type of young manhood | has been accomplished by the develop- | ment of civic interest in local Reserve | affairs. Attention has been focused, he | says, upon making the training routine | of the greatest possible interest to the | men with a ‘view toward lessening | turnover, | it Famine Feared in Albania. TIRANA (#).—A wide area of Albania | menaced by famine, following the | ure of the corn crop. A five-month ught caused the land to be burned | the sun. RHINELAND CITIES LEAD IN NUMBER OF SALOONS Wipperfuerth, in Cologne District. Boasts Bar to Each 100 Inhabitants. COBLENTZ (#).—1t is the Rhineland which in Germany harbors the cities having the greatest percentage of saloons. Heading this list of anti- prohibition towns is the City of Wip- perfuerth, in the Cologne district, which, with a population of 32,000. boasts of having a saloon for every 100 inhabitants. 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