Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1930, Page 60

Of interest to Reserve officers is the age limitation that has been fixed the War Department for initial ap- Borpe, The new Ehangs in age lmita: rps. The new cl age limita- tion for initial Reserve commissions will become effective October 15 for all ap- plications received at corps area head- quarters on or after that date. In time of peace initial :ggomtmenu in the lowest grades of Officers’ Reserve 2 restricted to aj (except those who served as officers of the Army between April 6, 1917, and June 30, 1919), who, on date of appoint- ment, do not exceed the following ages: For appointment in the Infantry, Cavalry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, Air Corps, Corps of Engineers and the Si Corps applicants must not exceed 30 years of age. Applicants for appointment in the Adjutant Gen- eral's Department, Judge Advocate General's Department, Quartermaster Corps, Finance Department, Medical Department (including the Dental, Medical Administrative, Sanitary and Veterinary Corps), Ordnance Depart- ment, Chemical Warfare Service, Chap- lain , Military Intelligence Re- serve and Specfalist Reserve must not exceed 35 years of age. In applying these age limitations, persons who have attained their thirtieth or thirty-fifth birthdays, respectively, not exempted by ason of service as indicated above, will fi r'e'uded as ineligblle for appoint- ment. The War Department announced last week the Army extension courses for 1930-31, the primary mission of which is to provide the Reserve officer an op- portunity to undertake a systematic course of training which will better fit him to perform the active duties of his grade in the arm or service and unit to which assigned, means for ualification for reassignment or active uty training and assistance in pre- aring himself for promotion to the Elgher grades. The extension courses provide also a means of instruction for enlisted men of the Organized Reserves and for civilians who wish to qualify for commissions in the Officers’ Reserve Corps. The scope of extension course instruc- tion will, as far as practicable, be as follows for each arm and service: (1) Basic course—basic subjects required of both second and first lieutenants not previously prepared in those subjects and subjects which the officer requires for promotion to, and duty in, the grade of first lieutenant. (2) Company, troop or battery officers’ course—tactics and technique of subjects embraced in the company, troop and battery offi- cers’ course of the special service school of the arm or service. (3) Advanced course—ad by |of subjects embraced in the vanced tactics and technique advanced course of the special service school of the arm or service. Suboourses covering subjects which are common to two or more arms and Siady destgnated by the War Depare- Y ar - ment and ‘wnh.en published are identified by the title rather than by arm or serve ice, name of course, and subcourse title ts | and number, as is the case with specifie arm or service subcourses, ‘There are five such cubcourses for the 1930-31 school year, as follows: Map reading (or map reading and sketching), military sanitation and first ald (formerly mili- tary hygiene and first aid), military law, mobilization and administration, and the associate arms. For enroliment in the courses which will begin about Oc- tober 1, 1930, reserve officers should fill out adjutant general office form No. 145 and file same through Washington re- serve headquarters in the Walker-John- son Building, located on New York ave- nue between Seventeenth and Eight- eenth streets northwest. Preparations are being made by local reserve headquarters for the conduct of the 1930-31 inactive duty schedule of conferences that will begin the first of October and extend through to the first part of June, 1931. Up to this time, decision has been made as to the days of the month the various arms and services of the reserve units will hold their instructional conferences. These schedules will then be sent to the chiefs of the several branches who, in ‘con- sultation with the Regular Army offi- cers of the respective branches who will act as instructors during the 1930-31 season, will prepare the list of sub- jects which will be taken up during the inactive duty period. With the exception of a few reserve officers who will undergo active duty training between now and the first of the year, the Summer training camps for District reserve officers for 1930 are practically over, A great amount of good was exacted from the training camps this Summer and the camps were highly successful in every respect. Headed by Col. Melville 8. Jarvis, Infantry, senior instructor of the Or- ganized Reserves in the District, the regular officers who will be on duty at local headquarters during the 1930-31 season, will be Lieut. Col. Charles B. Moore, Infantry, and Majs. John M. McDowell, Fleld Artillery; Willlam A. ?'m:r’} Infantry, and Andres Lopez, In- antry. In addition to their other dutles, the following officers will be on. part-time duty during the season. They are Cols. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., . 8.; Douglas B. Netherwood, A. C.;. Wade H. Haislip, Infantry; Vir- gll L. Peterson, C. jami . Brackenbury, G. 8. C. fred H. Erck, Infan row, Infantry; Howard Eager, F. and Joseph D. Arthur, jr, C. E.; Capts. Richmond, J. A. G. Clifford D. Cuny, S. C.; Robert V. Laughlin, J. A. G. D.; Franklin A. Kib- ler, F. A, and Rene E. Fraile, A. G. D. ‘The Regular Army enlisted personnel on duty at local reserve headquarters is composed of Staff Sergts. Alfred S. De- 0, chief clerk; Wyley R. Churchwell, vin Kaskin and George W. McBride. Second Lieut. William D. Mitchell, Pleld Artlilery Reserve, 1401 Columbia road, who has been promoted to first lleutenant, will retain his assignment with the 313th PField Artillery. Second Lieut. Emil W. Kerttu, Infantry Re- serve, 2018 F street, having been trans- ferred to the Cavalry section of the Offi- cers' Reserve Corps, is relieved from as- signment to the 320th Infantry. Sec- ond Lieut. Acors Thompson, Infantry Reserve, 3700 Massachusetts avenue, having moved beyond the division area, is relieved from assignment to the 320th Infantry. . e b it “GHOST” DIRECTS HEROIC RESCUE EFFORT AT SEA Kanaka Sailors Die Trying to Save ‘Widow and Children, “Watched” by Dead Man. CANBERRA (#).—Because they be- lieved tlat the ghost of their master was watching them, the Kanaka crew of the motorship, Vaiviri, made heroic efforts to save his wife and children when the ship foundered in a tempest off the coast of Papua, Australia’s tropi- cal dependency. Lieut. Stewart Ber‘:‘ senjor resident magistrate of New Guinea, with his wife and four children and a Kanaka crew of 26, was traveling down the coast when the storm broke. The ship sank, leaving Kanakas and white persons clinging to pieces of wreckage. “You save missee and the little white fellers,” was Lieut. 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Samuel W. Stinemetz, commanding the organization, are preparing their sched- ules for schools and other activities to be carried through the Winter and Spring months. Until the weather be- comes too bad for such practice, it was indicated that the officers and men of the several divisions will be drilled aboard the United States destroyer Abel P. Upshur, training ship of the local anization, which has n tied up at her berth at the Washington Navy Yard for the season. Before starting any recruiting, it was exvlained, some of the division officers are expected to do a little weeding out of men who have not shown a sufficient interest in the work of the organization to maintain regular drill attendance. It is the practice in such cases to transfer the men from the fleet. branch of the reserve, where they are paid for drills, to the volunteer branch, to which no pay is attached. The members in the fleet divisions are limited and when the units are up to their allowed strength no more enlistments are al- lowed until the number drops. Mem- bers of the fleet branch are required to gut in 15 days of training at sea each year in order to comply with the 3150 Americ 1 Delivers It requirements for maintaining efficiency. O to the fact that Monday was a holiday the regular drill of the or- ganization was postponed until the following night. Malcolm Dulaney has enlisted in the aviation branch of the local Reserve and has been ordered to the Naval Re- serve Aviation Base at Valley Stream, Long Island, for 30 days’ active duty as an aviation cadet. During this pro- bationary period his fitness for the aviation branch will be determined and, it was said, if he successfully passes the tests he then will be sent to the Naval Aviation Base at Pensacola, Fla., for eight months, upon completion of which successfully he will be commis- sioned an ensign in the Naval Reserve Aviation Branch. Dulaney, it was said, is a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, but came here for the Fuw of enlisting. The Navy Department has amended the regulations governing admission of candidates into the nited States Naval Academy as midshipmen 5o as to require candidates from enlisted per- sonnel of the Navy and Naval Reserve to have one year's service in the Navy or Naval Reserve, as required by law, by the first of June of each year, in- stead of the first of July. The department reperty that the Naval Reserve has never filled its quota of 25 midshipmen. Since the law was enacted in 1925 the follbwing number have been appointed: 1926, 2; 1927, 4; 1928, 10; 1929, 13; a total of 29. It is interesting to note, the bureau comments, that only one of the above number has been found deficient in studies, and adds that the obvious diffi- culty in the Naval Reserve filling its SEPTEMBER 7, 1930—PART FOUR.’ would be done away with if en- the Reserve were allowed Pointing out that the District of Co- | gross lumbia unit was among the organiza- tions which maintained better than 60 per cent drill attendance, the Navy Department points out that the regula- tions provide that the bureau will not considet that a fleet or battalion head- quarters division is maintdining effi- clency unless its personnel averages an attendance of at least 36 drills in the fiscal year. This, it was said, amounts to 60 per cent of the total number au- thorized drills and periods of equivalent duty for the year. An analysis of the report of the ac- tivities of the fleet and headquarters divisions for the six months ending in December shows that 12 out of the total of 149 divisions fell below the min- imum requirements of the bureau in re- gard to drill attendance. While the bureau says that this represents an im- provement over past performances, it feels that all divisions should be able to come up to the minimum require- ments, In addition to the local organization, all of the divisions of the 3d, 6th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th and 14th naval districts had better than the required 60 per cent for the period. ‘The department has issued 64 new commissions to officers of the Merchant Marine Naval Reserve. In all, 2517 commissions have been issued, and 2,309 officers have accepted their commissions and executed the oath of office. These officers who have accepted their com- missions are distributed by ranks as follows: Commanders, 10; lieutenant commanders, 466; lieutenants, 592; lieu- tenants (junior grade), 341, and en- 900. A total of 101 vessels are now war- ranted to fly the Naval Reserve flag. There are said to be naimmmy 3,000 sea-going vessels of 100 gross tons or over under United shyb-l m% representing apj s ,000, tons. About 3.3 per cent by num- ber, or 4.5 per cent by tonnage, are flying the merchant marine Naval Re- serve flag, it was said. In connection with the training of the Naval Communication Reserve, it has been announced that once each quarter a national emergency drill will be held to test the speed of mobil- ization of the Reserve master control station in each district. Messages will be relayed from the East to the West Coast to test the speed of transmission. EXPLORER FINDS RICHES AT AUSTRALIA’S DOOR Sir Douglas Mawson's Investiga- tion Reveals Commercial Pos- sibilities of Antarctica. 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