Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 69

Preparation of the new medical cen- fer which is to be established in the National Guard Armory at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue, is bein; srnnd lmv-.r: under the direction o hysical ocula- tion of newly enlisted troops with ty- phoid and para-typhoid serums. While this work now is being per- formed in the medical detachments of th 1 units, it is the desire of ‘Gen. Stephan, he sald, that this work be centered in one place. It will thus relieve the medical officers and men of the detachments from much of the actual medical work and give them more time for drills. Their drills now are interrupted by the necessity of look- ing after physical examinations and the administration of serums, it was said. It is understood that Maj. Allen has submiited a tentative plan for the op- eration of the new medical center, which includes the assignment of only one enlisted man as an assistant. When recruits are enlisted or others re-en- listed, it is the plan to have them sent immediately to the new medical center for examination, and, if they are found qualified, then to immediately admin- ister the required serums. This will obviate the necessity of having large ups of men at intermittent intervals ing relieved from their regular drills for this purpose, or even, as has been until they . It is the plan to have them ified physically in every way within hort time after they are enlisted. A largs room on the mezzanine floor of the armory close to the office of Gen. Anton Stephan, who is fostering the new center, has been selected and it will be equipped under the direction of Dr. Allen. It will be enameled white, equipped with instrument cases, steril- izers, operating tables, etc., in fact prac- tieally everything which will put it on a par ‘with modern operating rooms. It also will serve as a first-aid room for the treatment of any cases developing during drill nights. All officers of the ordnance and quar- termaster dej ents of the State stafl hereafter will be known as members of the State Detachment of the local Guard, in aceordance with orders is- sued by the War Department. A recapitulation has been made of the numerical strength of units of the local Guard, and the organizations have been authorized to maintain active en- listed personnel to the maximum shown below: State Staff, 15; Headquarters De- tachment, 29th Division Special Troops, 8; Headquarters Detachment, 20th Di- vision, 48; 28th Division Military Police Company, 64; Medical Department De- tachment, 121st Engineers, 19; Head- quarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers and band, 82; Company A, 121st Engincers, 61; Company B, i21st Engi s, 60; Company C, 121st Engi- ne 68; Company D, 121st Engineers, 62; Company E, 121st Engineers, 68; Company F, 121st Engineers, 60; Medi- cal Department Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 13; Headquarters De- tachment and Combat ain, 260th Coast Artillery, 32; Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 60; Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 73; Battery C, 260th Coast_ Artillery, 60, and Company A, 872d Infantry, 71. This gives a total enlisted strength to Tova: Guard of 921. As these figures are maximum, organizations which have reached their allowance will only be al- lowed to take new men to fill vacancies caused by separations from the active list. However, unit commanders are en- Jjoined to keep on their rolls only such personnel as is active and ean be pre- vailed upon to maintain regular at- tendance. The number of organizations which could muster enough attendance at drill last week to obtain a classification of superior dropped to three, but gen- erally the attendance was shown, in the | figures compiled and made public by brigade headquarters, to be good. The three organizations which succeeded in maintaming the top classification, with their percentages, were: Headquarters Detachment, 29th Divislon, Special Troons, 100; Medical Detachment, 260th “uase Artillery, 92.30, and the 29th Di- visicn Miliiary Police Company, 92.18. The other organizations in their Tespec- tive classifications, with percentages in attendance, follow: Excellent—Headquarters Detachment, 9th Division, 89.58; Quartermaster Corps Detachment, 83.33; Headquarters ind Bervics Company, 131st Engineers, Very satisfactory—Headquarters De- tachment and Combat Train, 260th Coast _Artillery, 3: Company F, 1215t Engineers, 75: Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 71.23; Band, 12ist Ei gineers, 71.11; Company C, 121st Engi- neers. 70.59; Company E, 121st Engi- neers, 70.58. Satisfactory—Company B, 121st En- gineers, 61.66; Company A, 121st Engi- neers, 70.58. Unsatisfactory — Battery C, Ooast _ Artillery, 59.65; Company D, 1215t Engineers, 58.06; Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 56.89. Very unsatisfactory—Medical Detach- tent, 121st Engineers, 42.10. Company A, 372d Infantry, did not | hold ar assembly during the period tovered by the above report. Dr. Stewart M. jor in the Medical s of the local Guard has been re- peived, it was_announced at brigade headouarters. Maj. Grayson is com- mander of the Medical Detachment of She 260th Coast Artillery. Headquarters also received the com- mission of Second Lieut. William R. Lane as sn officer in the Engineer Corps. He is attached to Company E, 121st Engineers, Capt. G. H. Stough, on duty with the Engineer regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard at Philadelphia, Pa., has been ordered to Washington for trmporary duty in connection with the snnual inspection, by the Army, of the 121st Engineers. He will take the place 3f Capt. S. M. Karrick, on duty at | 34 Corps Area Headquarters at Bal- | tmore,. Md., who had previously been | srdered here for this purpose. | The annual inspection of the local Guard will begin on May 13, and much of the drill and training now taking place is for the purpose of preparing for this annual event, when the officers of the Army make the check-up to deter- mine the readiness of the organization tor field service and to ascertain whether their equipment also is ready. Avthority has been received from the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital for the Installation of five flood lights on the | Mall between Four -and -a - half and Sixth streets, which the local Guard will use as & parade and drill ground Juring the good weather of the Spring and Summer. This is made necessary because of the fact that there are no | juarters in the building now used as an | armory large enough to be used as a 3vill hall. A contract for the installa- Jon of the lights also has been let. Pay rolls for the month of April for the local troops were completed last week and forwarded to the disbursing Jfficer. This is a special pay roll made aecessary by the policy of the War De- partment to have the various Guard or- 3anizations of the country send in their rolls at different intervais. it was the practice to have them sent i for the calendar quarter years, but it was found that with all of the rolls soming in at one time it was impossible 0 handle them with dispatch. Tt is be- leved that by staggering the quarterly intervals the troops may be paid with some degree of promptness. ‘The question of providing a perma- nent armory for the National Guard of this city is to be the subject of a public Heretofore | a special committee composed of Maj. Dlfi’:on, Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner; Municipal Architect Harris and Col. John W. Oehmann, building in- spector, who also is commander of the 1218t eer Regiment of the local Guard. This committee was appointed by the previous Board of Commissioners and represents the first concrete effort on the part of the District government authorities to go into the whole subject which the Guard officials have been pressing for more than a quarter of & century. Maj. Gen, Anton Stephan, commander of the local Guard, it was said, would appear on behalf of the organisation, and tell not only of its needs for a permanent structure, specially built to M meet the needs of modern military training, but probably will give the his- tory of the as yet unsuccessful efforts to bring it aboui. For years the Guard officials have annually appeared before Congress with proposed legislation which would obviate the necessity of moving about to rented buildings, all of which have been most unsatisfactory for training purposes, It also probably will be pointed out that several additional units have been allotted to the local Guard, but that it would be impossible to house them even if they were organized immediately, They are units necessary for the round= ing out of the divisional organization. e Commissioners have been asked to include provision for an armory in & five-year building program which they were studying some time ago, and this actlon was taken on the suggestion of Senator Smoot of Utah, chairrsen of the Public Buildings Commission. Here- tofore, legislation proposed by the Guard has not received favorable consideration by the District officials. However, it is believed that it will be received in better light at this time, especially in view of the fact that Commissioner Reichelderfer for many years was & member of the local Guard, serving as the senior med- ical officer under the regime of Brig. Gen, George H. Harries. chances also are believed increased by the fact that Commissioner Crosby is & retired Army officer and will be able to fully appreciate the neo-ultznol having a proper place for the al troops in which to train. ‘The matter has increased in im- portance by the discussion in Congress during the past Week of beginning work promptly on the construction of, the proposed new center for the municipal government. ‘The local Guard has just moved into the National Hotel, at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue, one of the buildings purchased as a par of the site for the proposed new center, and if Congress should decide that work should start immediately it probably would mean the early razing of this building, with the result that the Guard again would have to move. It has just vacated one of the old Government hotel bulldings on the Union Statien Plaza which is to be razed for the improvement of the Capitol grounds extension between the present grounds and the Union Station. ‘The Guard officials have put forward several plans for a building, but they have not gotten very far. The plan to acquire the Washi n Auditorium, provided for in the Bowman bill, met with objection on the part ef the Natlonal Capital Park and Planning Commission, which also has veluntarily undertaken to study the matter. This building, it was said, could have been altered at a comparatively. small expense to make an ideal building for the train- ing of the troops. The plan to turn the Pension Office Building over to the Guard, also preposed by the Guard offi- cials, met with opposition from the War Department, structure have provided an excellent drill hall, one of the prime needs of the local Guard, because of the fact that under present conditions it has to confine most of its training during the Winter months to class room instruction. This proposal, however, met with the united aj of the veteran organizations, as it was pointed out that it could not have been put to better use as a memorial to the armed forces which have served in previous wars than to have it used for the training of the youth for field service in time of a national emergency. ‘While the medical detachments of the Guard are sald by the Militia Bu- reau to have shown steady improvement in recruiting, morale and training, it does have some criticism to offer. The bureau points out that a recognition of the proper use of the medical regi- ment in divisional tactics is gradually becoming more pronounced not only among medical department officers but also among line officers. There are still many instances, it is sdded, where the sole use of medical units is considered to be that of camp utility detachments, collecting sick, condueting camp hos- pitals, etc. This the bureau says is unfortunate, for though emergency medical service must necessarily be con- ducted by the medical regiment, its main reason for existence is to fulfill its important tactieal mission as & part of a division in eombat. Spanish War Veterans | MEETINGS THIS WEEK. Gen. Henry W. Lawton Camp, orrow night, Pythian Temple, 1. John Jacob Astor Camp, to- morrow night, Stanley Hall, United States Soldiers’ Home. Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, Friday night, Pythian Temple. Admiral George Dewey Naval Camp, Friday night, Northeast Masonic Temple. Admiral George Dewey Naval Auxiliary, tomorrow night, North- east Masonic Temple. Gen. Nelson A. Miles Auxiliary, Fridey night, Pythian Temple. Lineal Society of the Spanish War, Wednesday night, Pythian Temple, Department Comdr. Lorin C. Nelson, in general orders, announced that the thirty-first annual encampment of the District will be held June 14 at Pythian Temple at 2:30 p.m. The following committees have been appointed for the encampment: Credentjals—Past Department Comdr. Albert Michaud, chairman; Charles P, Galpin, William T. Ryan, Edward A. Barstow, Oscar PFeldser, Harry J. Davis and Ivan V. Conklin. Resolutions—Past Department Comdr. Harry F. Patterson, chairman; George V. McAlear, Victor E. Watkins, Samuel AT PRI FIRST-CLASS TOP WORK Have your top renewed or repaired now. We are experts on any make ¢ SEAT COVERS Finest material and work- manship at very onable prices. Made to order for any type car. Q'&JALITY AUTO PAINT- ING AT REASONABLE RATES FENDER AND BODY WORK - — 11,000 Sq. Ft,—Floor Space Rowe Auto Body Co. hearing to be held in the Board room of the District Bullding Tuesday before Decatur4438 57 St. N.W. 7 THE SUNDAY ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 4 sick in hospital, a com- mittee from the camp was given permis- sion to obligate them at the hospital. Daniel 8. Reiff and Jerry Hickey were elected to membership. ‘The Col. James 8. Pettit Auxiliary en- President Louise tertained Department M. Moore and her staff at its last meet- Hubacher, Ernest R. Graves, Archie J.| Colbert bel Jones and Eugene Doleman. N officers will be elected. ew department p- ment should be received by the depart- ment adjutant as early as practicable in order that they may be considered by the resolutions committee, which com- mittee will hold sessions prior to the ent for that purpose and to procedure at the encampment. e books of the department quarter- | master will be closed June 2. Officers and chairmen of committees handling funds will submit their reports to the chairman of the auditing com- mittee, Géorge E. Burdick, Route No. 1, Hysttsville, ., at least 15 days prior to the encampment. ‘The Col. James 8. Pettit Camp mus- tered the following recruits into active nolembershlp at its last meetin; Ibert , the occasion the annual of- gg-l vletluuon. The auxiliary initiated 13 new members, Masonic Temple 7:30 o'elock. A meeting of the ugmnut council of administration of the Ladiés’ Aux- iliaries will be held Wednésday evening at 8 o'clock at 921 Pénnsylvania avenue southeast. A theater will be given by the department May 20 &t the Na- tional Theater. The Presidents’ Club met at the home of Edna R. Summerfield April 33, with Edne Summerfield, Tillle Mae Roth and Carrie E. Nolan acting as hostesses. The time and place of the next club meet- ing will be announced later. The Lineal Society of the Spanish War will meet Wednesday evening in the Pythian Temple, when Mrs. Lawson and Mrs. Willlams will act as hostesses At the last meeting Mrs, Boss, Mrs. Coul- ter, Mrs. Rink, Mrs. Newland and Mrs. Johns were appointed on the Memorial day committee. e society has completed the manu- . Ferguson, Troop D, States Cavalry; Harry Harding, Battery K, 5th United States Artillery; Richard Hatton, Leroy W. Herron, Com-~ pany G, lst Regiment, District of Co- umbia _Volunteer Infantry; William Selby, United States Navy. Members of the Richard J. Harden Camp made the official intercamp visitation. Q. M. Gen. James J. Murphy | made an address. John A. Hall, Oliver C. Terry and William T, Fritzinger were mustered in days, to day. Ma). Gen. R, L. Carmichael, chief of finance, has prove the methods of instruction of the rsonnel of finance Reserve offic e branch called individually finance office for a 14-day od. has been found impracticable to as- len?l;“ndl;noe d give them grouj e an munn. due to tE: fact that officers of the Finance Reserve instances are bankers and accountants, and their individual business interests are such that they cannot accept a cer- tain fixed time as a training period, and their assignment must, therefore, be staggered to meet this condition. This néw instructional system pro- vides for each day, for 10 consecutive & questionnaire containing 30 q pertaining property auditing procedure. questionnaire, the reservist undergoing the active duty training, visits a desig- nated section of the office and studies the work as it is carried on from day Lectures also will from time to time. John M. McDowell, Field Artil- 1930—PART FOUR. Organized Reserves lery, will conduct the class in equita- tion today at 9 o'clock for Field Artil- lery Reserve officers of the District, a Fort Mg:r. Members of the 428th Infantry, Lieut. Col. West A, Hamilton, commanding, will hold their instructional conference tomorrow evening at local Reserve headquarters, at which time will be discussed the rifie company in sttack. This conference will be conducted by Maj. William A. Jones, Infantry. ‘The 320th Infantry conférence that will be held Tuesdsy evening will be divided into two plrts. First, Maj. Jones will conduct a conference on the rifle company in attack, while the sec- ond phase of this conference will be on the command post exercise, to be conducted by Lieut, Col. Moore, Infantry. The conference con- ducted by Lieut. Col. Moore will con- sist of a general discussion of offensive combat, a general discussion of defen- sive combat and a discussion of the tactical principles and decisions. ‘The 313th Field Artillery, Col. Leroy W. Herron, commanding, will hold their conference Wednesday evening, at which “M'Hl] be taken up, under the direction of 8 conduct of fire. ut in effect a plan to im- - e mho( iment group, when to active duty in !: Regerve officers atl 2 n- Corps in most finance and With this to be given facture of 500 carnations and turned them over to Mrs. Victor Woolri T of the sarnsion coeustSe, as active members at the last meeting of the Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp. Re- cruits James B. McLean and Perry D. g;-vl: day. —_— for the Juarm me’t xluin; them on the Finance Reserve officers of the Dis- trict will meet at the finance school, Twenty-first and B ar Veterans on Me~ . n’mmmgfl to be captain, his asignment McDowell, the observation and |in streets, Thursday Corps Reserve, is relieved from asign. f [ ment to the 313th Field Artillery. See- ond Lieut. Ray K. Windham, Field Are tillery Reserve, 234 Emerson street. hav- ing been transferred to the Branch As- signment Group, is relieved from as- signment to the 313th Field Artillery. Second Lieut. John A. Lane, infantry Reserve, 4442 Greenwich Parkway, hav- ing moved beyond the division area, is relieved from assignment to the 320th Infantry. Second Lieut. Perry H. Ja- cob, Infantry Reserve, 3414 Seventeenth ving moved beyond the divi- sion area. is relieved from assignment to_the 320th Infantry. Lieut. Col. Charles M. Sabins, Infan- try Reserve, 914 C street northeast, is to the 1305th Service Unit while the following majors are assigned to du!{n“ indicated: Irving G. Menik- Reim, Infantry Reserve, the Chastleton, to the 1305th Service Unit; Robert A. Williams, Infantry Reserve, 2505 Thir- teenth street, to the 1301st Service Unit, and Roland E. Toms, Medical Reserve, 2123 Eye street. to the 80th Division. First Lieut. Willlam E. Barkman, Field e, s B the judge advocate general section | southeast, is assignes e 1st u- 2 in effect. Second Lieut. Wil- | nition Train. o Skirt Dance May Revive, Possibility of the reappearance of the skirt dance, popular 40 years ago, fis seen in Europe following the lengthen- ing of skirts. Dancing teachers are busy ment to the 320th Infantry remaining skirts in the ball room, and they are effect. Lieut. Berkeley E. Nelson, rmm: such enjoyment in the undula- year, A final will be held. Capt. John Vernon, fina: Reserve, will conduct this conference. Reserve quartermasters of the District will meet at Reserve headquarters on &? same evening, ob.}‘e mvhlc_rhh hwgll“!:e en up & map pre 5 - a\lwwfil:bt wflglgui by Maj. William ‘edical Sieseive’ ofmcers of the Dis- triet meet_at nudg;mn in the Oxford Hotel Building . evening i 0 e I B. Woolley, % 2 Wmh.!n s IM'\'le\fllty"hBL :ae:;- o ashington v - moted to the des indicated: Wn Lieut. Samuel M. Butler, Infantry Re- serve, is promoted to be captain, his as- signment to the 320th Infantry remain- ing in effect. Pirst Lieut. William L. ‘Taggart, judge advocate general reserve, 4511 Walsh street, Chevy Chase, Md,, is remaining liam C. H street, is proi Ml tenant, his assignment to the 305th En- gineers remaining in effect. Second | Lieut. John V. 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