Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1932, Page 54

District National Guard Support from various national and local organizations for his proposal to have the Pension Bureau Building, in Judiciary Square, retained as a memo- rial to the veterans of all wars has been received by Maj. Gen. Anton Ste- phan, commander of the militia brigade of this city and the 29th National Guard Division, which comprises the citizen troops of this city and the States of Maryland and Virginia. 1t is also a part of Gen. Stephan's proposal that, if the building is retained as a memorial; it be.used to house the various local and national military and veterans' organizations. National Comdr. Henry L. Stevens, | jr. of the American Legion has written Gen. Stephan a letter in support of the plan. The building now is occupied by the General Accounting Office, provision for which is to be made in one of the new buildings planned for the Government area in the Pennsylvania avenue tri- angle. The structure has been sought by the local National Guard officials for some time for use as an armory for the training of the local citizen soldiers. The local militia organizations for some vears have been shifted from one build- ing to another, and each time the con- | ditions have been improved but very little, if at all. The main body of local troops now is housed in the old National Hotel build- ing at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue, where some remodeling of the rooms was done to provide for the vari- ous arganizations. However, there is no room in the structure large enough for a drill hall. This makes it necessary for the units to take their company and battalion drills in a nearby park. This can only be dome in fair weather. he weather is bad it is necessary afine the instruction almost en- ely to class-room work. aring practically every annual in- gpection the Regular Army inspection military duty; Pvts. Thomas O. Alli- son and Lester T, Carlson, on account of temporary removal from the city. Pvt. Lawrence R. Beamer has been ordered transferred from the reserve to the active list of the 29th Division Mili- | tary Police Compan: Staff Sergt. Donald A. Falk, Head- | quarters Detachment, 29th Division, has been ordered to report to Col. John | W. Oehmann, president of an officers’ examining _board, for examination to determine his qualifications for promo- tion by commission to second lieuten- ant of engineers. | The following have been ordered | transferred from the active to the re- serve lists of their respective organiza- tlons on_account of business interfer- ence with the performance of military duty: Pvt. James A. Logan, 29th Di- vislon Military Police Company, and Pvt. Donald H. Miller, Company D, 121st Engineers, Pvt. Nicholas Torregrossa, 39th Di- | vislon Military Police - Company, has | been ordered honorably discharged on account of removal from the city. Pvt. (First Class) Dennis K. Lane has been ordered promoted to corporal |in Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery. ‘The following changes in personnel in Battery A, 260th Coast Artiller; have ordered: Sergt. Harry L. Stebbin to be private; Pvt. (First Class) Willlam G. Lanham, jr., to be sergeant, and Pvts. George Scordas and Carroll G. Yoakum to be corporals, Corp. Philllp C. Geraci, State De- tachment, has been ordered transferred to the reserve list of that organization on account of business interference with the performance of military duty, while Pvt. Lawrence R. Erhardt, Bat- tery B, 260th Coast Artillery, has been ordered to the reserve on account of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY PART FOUR. Our Great Annual Sale of SPRING COATS G M R B We can’t remember when we have been able to offer such fine quality Coats for officers in their Teports to the Militia | temporary physical disability, and the Fureau have commented on the un-|following on account of temporary ab- favorable armory conditions here, and |sence from the city: Pvts. Irving F. have urged that steps be taken to cor- | Burton and John L. Havenner, both of Tect the deficiencies. The matter has| repeatedly been called to the attention | of Congress, but that body has done nothing so far. | The quarters now occupied by the main body of troops were acquired &s & part of the site for the proposed Munici- Pal Center development, and when the | time arrives to raze the building Ior‘ this work, then the Guard will have to find another place for its training. Maj. Walter W. Burns, commanding the 260th Coast Artillery, has just re- | ceived an autographed photograph from | former President Calvin Coolidge as & | memento of his presentation of the | oot of the 260th unit on the White | House l]awn on January 18, 1929, | The photograph is inscribed: “To the | 260th Coast Artillery. With best wishes. | Calvin Coolidge.” Capt. John H. Church, U. S. Army | instructor, on duty with the Maryland | National Guard at Frederick, has been | ordered to this city for temporary duty | in connection with the annual inspec- | tion of Infantry units of the local militia brigade. The units which he will inspect and | the dates follow: March 8, Headquar- | ters, 20th Division; Headquarters De- tachment, 29th Division; State Staff and Detachment; March 9, Headquarters, ‘Special Troops, 29th Division; Headquar- ters Detachment, Special Troops, 29th Division; March 10, 20th Division Mili- tary Police Company; March 14, Com- any A and Medical Dept. Detachment, | 72d Infantry. An increase In the number of units of the local Guard which mustered suf- ficient personnel at drill to be placed in the classification of superior in at- tendance last week is shown by the report issued by brigade headquarters. Six units were in_ this group. With their percentages, they follow: Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 100; 29th Division Military Police Company, 96.30; Headquarters and Service Cor pany, 121st Engineers, 92.59; Battery B, 26€0th Coast Artillery, 91.66; Headquar- ters Detachment, 29th Division, 90.70; Medical Department Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery, 90. The other organizations, in their re- spective classifications, follow, with their rcentage: pel’:‘.xcellegn!i Band, 121st Engineers, | 89.28: Company D, 121st Engineers, | 82,54 Company A, 372d Infantry, 82.08; | State Detachment, 81.81; Medical De- partment Detachment, 121st Engi- neers, 80. Very satisfactory: Company A, 121st Engineers, 78.33; Company F, 121st En- gineers, 78.12; Company E, 121st Engi- neers, 11.17; Headquarters Detachment and Combat Train, 260th Coast Artil- lery, 75; Company B, 121st Engineers, 7258; Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, | 71.42; Battery C, 260th Coast Artillery, | n1.42. | Satisfactory: Company C, 121st En- gineers, 66.66; Headquarters Detach- ‘Spectal Troops, 20th Division, | The Militia Bureau of the War De- partment, in_a circular letter received by the local National Guard headquar- | ters, says that from a study of the fleld | inspection reports for the year 1931, it Was noted that there was an aggregate 20,820 enlisted men of the National Guard with less than two months serv- | ice present in camps. This figure, it was stated, represents 12.69 per cent of the total attendance of 164,059. The above | percentage of attendance is declared tol be a considerable improvement over the percentage of 1930, which was 15.83 | per cent. The total attendance then was 160,257, | The 1931 percentage of recruits, the‘ bureau says, is considered too high for | effective training. It called attention to the fact that the local militia had & | percentage of 13.97. The statement further said that the Militia Bureau is of the opinion the ideal recruiting plan is one in which Tecruits are obtained over a period of nine months, with no men being dis- charged or enlisted for the period two Battery E, 260th Coast Artillery. Spanish War Veterans Meetings This Week: Camps: ‘Thursday—Richard J. Pythian Temple. e Aucxiliaries: = Mlondag —Miles Drum ugle Corps, armory, m_grx; Sdchoc]. z esday — Col. John Jacob Astor, 921 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. and Central Owing to illness of Comdr. Senlor Vice Comdr. Wimn?n g}m(lg!}:ry; presided at the last meeting of Richard J. Harden Camp. Frank W. Sheive, Troop B, 1st Cavalry, was mustered in. L. M. Hardle, a former member, was reinstated. The death of Charles C. Estes, February 16, was announced General order No. 4, national head- quarters, and general order, No. 3, and special order No. 6, department of the District of Columbia, were read. Past Department Comdr. Samuel G. Maw- son addressed a letter to the camp ex- pressing appreciation for the honor in designating the meeting of February 4 Mawson night. Comrade Harry S Hegy spoke of the work being done for veterans by the Veterans' Shelter Home, 2626 Pennsylvania avenue, and the camp appropriated $10. Department Comdr. Samue]l J. Mc- Willjams addressed the meeting. ‘The department commander and staff made an official visit to Gen. M. Emmett Urell Camp February 17. Comdr. William I. Jenkins welcomed the officers. A donation of $10 was voted to the Veterans' Shelter Home. Department Comdr. McWillians spoke and told of the reception to be held on March 5 at the Mayflower Hotel for the commander in chief. Comdr. George T. Talbert of Dewey Camp invited the comrades to attend a dance by his camp at the Elks’ home April 28. Comrade Andrew J. Watts of the department of Alabama, a pa- tient at Walter Reed Hospital, also spoke. Past Department Comdr. Jere A. Costello, chairman of the committee in charge of the banquet to be given March 5 at the Mayflower Hotel in honor of Commander in Chief George R. Lunn, requests tbat all who expect to attend make their reservations at the earliest possible date. A grand “crawl” will be given under the auspices of the lair of the Military Order of the Serpent at Pythian Tem- ple March 7. All comrades who desire to be formally initiated should report at 7:45 pm. The meetings of Miles Drum and Bugle Corps being held in the Armory at Central High School on Thursday evenings have been changed to Mon- day evenings, and all members should report on the latter evening for future rehearsals. A meeting was held February 17 at Pythian Temple, President Conklin pre- siding. It was decided to hold a card party March 2 at 816 H street north- east. President Cordelia Pollard was the presiding officer at the meeting of Gen. Henry W. Lawton Auxiliary last Tues- day in Pythian Temple. A pilgrimage to Wakefield, Va., was decided upon, the date to be announced later. The regular meeting was dispensed and an entertainment and dance was held in Col. James S. Pettitt Auxiliary's Naval Lodge Hall. Department Comdr. ¢ | McWilliams and members of his staff were among the many guests. President’s Club met at the home of Ways of Paying for Your Coat 1—You may charge it. 2—You may pay cash for it. 3—10% Deposit Will Hold Your Coat. 20 ’ we could never have trimmed these $25 If fuT'S wefe‘n t loweT, coats with such fine furs as kolinsky, blue fox (dyed), silver fox tails and American broadtail, as well as leopard paw, wolf and Summer squirrel. i we could never have made these $25 coats of such fine woolen cloth in the new diago- nal and crepey weaves. If wool wasn’t lower, for our tremendous buying power, vou wouldn’t be of o ) But lf lt werent getting a $25 coat so exactingly tailored. You wouldn’t be choosing from a group of coats that are uniformly stunning. Corsair blue (dark), murillo blue (bright), black, beige, brown, green and grey. The Colors are complete! Misses, 12 to 20, 12145-20%5. 36-44. Larger women, 46-52. women, 3315-45V5. ‘Women, Little The Sizes are complete! Third Floor—The Hecht Co. It's easy to see why we've featured this Tonths previous to field training and | past Department President Bertha R. during that period. The bureau points | cook, who was assisted in entertaining out field training is the culmination of | by Past Presidents Annie Bertheaume the year's instruction. Armory train-|ang Maude Dudley. Several members ing has been preparatory thereto, and | ywere initiated. Officers were nominated model in our an Spring Coat Sale! spite of the fact that its collar sports a 2- When an organization goes to camp with a considerable number of men who heave not had preliminary instruction, the training of the entire organization is retarded and hindered. The bureau expresses the belief that by careful planning on the part of the National Guard, the number of recruits with less than the amount of instruction men- tioned, brought to the camps, can be xeduced to 10 per cent or less of the It was added this was accom- | plished by several States in 1931, and Bmong those was New York, with the | greatest number of men in the National | Guard, The active co-operation of the | djutant general of the States and the | E&smct of Columbia commanding gen- al is requested. The bureau says for the 1930_camps the foregoing percentage for District | of Columbia troops was 20.84. The marked improvement shown for 1931 camps is very gratifying, the command- | ng general of the local guard com- me However, he said he desired particularly to effect a decided im- provement for 1932 camps, and to com- ply, as far as humanly possible, with the desires of the Militia Bureau to re- duce this untrained attendance to 10 per_cent or less Organization commanders of the lo- cal guard have been ordered to co- operate fully with the spirit of the ebove Militia Bureau letter. Inasmuch es this question already has been taken | up with commanding officers of regi- ments and separate units, with a view to reaching a percentage of 10 in the| 1932 camps, and they have already sub- | mitted their plans, or orders, on the subject to the local brigade headquar- | ters, no further detailed instructions or | Yimitations are deemed necessary, Gen. Btephan’s letter says. The following of Company E, 121st| Engineers, have been ordered trans- ferred from the active to the reserve list of that command: Pvt. Stanley A , on account of business snterfrence with the performapce of and will be elected at a future date. BECOMES PILOT AT 17 Youth Studied on $750 Reward for Finding Plane Wreckage. When John Johnson of Amston, Conn., was 15 he received a reward of $750 for finding the wreckage of a plane. He used the money to study fiying and is now the youngest pilot in Con- necticut at 17. ARRESTED IN JAIL Visitor Searched—Liquor Is Found. Gets Thirty-Day Sentence. Harry Davidson entered the Fair- mont, W. Va., County Jail as a visitor. It was just too bad. When guards searched him they ported finding a half pint of whisky. He was fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days. GETS NAME FROM PRISON Kate Blackwell Begins 133d Term in Workhouse. Kate Blackwell of New York City got her name from spending & great deal of time in the work house on Welfare Island, formerly Blackwell Island. Now she is in again, to begin her 133d work house term’ for drunken- | ness. Benzine Sells Gas. Motorists stopping for gas at Rio, Wis., get it from a man named A. M. Benzine. headed Canadian wolf, the coat is priced 25 Smart Coats for Little Youthful Coats for Women Women, $25 $25 Dashing Coats for Misses $25 Visit Our Bicentennial Exhibit on the Main Floor . . . Featuring Tony Sarg’s Animated Marionettes, in ten scenes from the life of George Washington THE HECHT CO. F Street at Seventh Free Parking While You Shop Here NAtional 5100