Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1935, Page 4

- Fas aw ENGINEERS HOLD FELD INPECTON Camp Simms Training Group Prepares for Muster—D.C. Heads Greeted. Engineers of the District National Guard in training at Camp Simms turned out this morning for full fleld inspection in preparation for muster next Friday, when the regiment will recelve its equipment rating for the |. year. Formed in battalions, the troops | 1aid out their equipment under super- | vision of Majs. Ralph 8. Childs and | Clarence Shields, battalion command- ers, who expressed themselves satis- fied with the Tesults of the-survey. Late yesterday the camp echoed to a 17-gun salute welcoming Com- missioners Melvin C. Hazen and Dan I. Sultan as they arrived to review the Guardsmen. The salute, fred from, 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, was given by Maj. Walter W. Burns, com- | mander of the 260th Coast Artillery, and a detail of 10 men. Reviewed by D. C. Heads. All troops in camp passed in review before the District Government heads and Col. John W. Oehmann, camp commander. Lieut. Col. Julian S. Oliff led the 121st Engineers, while First Lieut. Merrill D. Reich com- manded the 29th Division Special “Troops. Last evening the Coast Artillery officers of the District Guard called | on Col. Oehmann, who is senior officer | here, to pay their respects. For the enlisted men there was a vaudeville | entertainment arranged by Capt. Charles E. Smithson, regimental ad- jutant and athletic and recreation officer. This afternoon and tomorrow are holidays. Opened to Visitors. The camp was opened to visitors yesterday afternoon for the remaindet of the training period and Col. Oehmann emphasized that friends and relatives of the men will be wel- come. This is the first time the Guard has encamped in the District and Col. Oehmann is anxious that citizens of the city avail themselves of the op- portunity to become familiar with the work of the District troops. A hitherto familiar figure missing from this year's encampment is that | of Maj. Claude Burlingame, veteran | Guard officer, who has been with the 121st Engineers since organization of the regiment. Maj. Burlingame was retired last Winter and promoted from captain to his present rank. For severa! years, he had functioned as utility and sanitation officer and was | unusually popular with both fellow officers and enlisted men. STROKE PROVES FATAL TO THOMAS M. MASKELL | Spanish-American War Veteran Dies in Mount Alto Hospital. Rites to Be Monday. Thomas M. Maskell, 55, of 1819 G street, died yesierday at Mount Alto | Hospital after a paralytic stroke four weeks ago. He was a Spanish-Amer- ican War veteran and a former stage | employe of several Washington the- | aters. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from the Chambers fu- | neral home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Maskell had been a resident of ‘Washington for 16 years. He was born in New York City. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Zoe Zielie Maskell, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Chandler of Washington. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1935. D. C. Heads Review Troops District National Guard units before the civil heads of the District yesterday afternoon. at Camp Simms passed in review Shown above, left to right, are Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, Col. John W. Oehmann, camp commander, and Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan as they watched the parade. —Star Staft Photo. RED' ARMY DRIVES BLUES' T0 COVER Lines of Latter Broken at Two Points in Strong Advance. By the Associated Press. PINE CAMP, N. Y., August 24— Shrouded by smoke screens, the “Red” New York-New Jersey army today drove two salients deep into the lines |of New England’'s gasping army of “Blue” troops. Renewing the bitter “fighting” that was begun yesterday, Uncle Sam’s cit- izen soldiers found themselves strug- gling through choking smoke that threw a twilight pall over the Army's great war games. At dawn, after 20 minutes of heavy preparatory shelling, the acrid gray pall spread through “Hell Corners” at Sterlingville, over “Hill 300" and along | the depression where the road to Cat- tail Corners cuts through the high- lands. Combined Attack Succeeds. Along this road, the “Red” 1st Divi- sion of the Regular Army, groping through the dimness, wedged its way between “Hill 300" and the ridge to the east. To the west a combined assault of the west flank of the 44th New York and New Jersey and the right flank of the 27th New York drove 1,000 yards into the line of the “blue” 26th Divi- sion, seeking to cut the two Massachu- setts brigades apart. Overcoat-clad forms staggered through the smoke unable to see more than four feet in any direction. Non- commissioned officers in strategic a tack sectors were forced to keep vigilant watch to prevent firing on their men. Smoke Is Effective, On “hill 300” the 1st Battalion of the 172d Infantry from Vermont ringed the brows with machine guns ard sutomatic rifles, but so effective was the smoke that their only part in the early action was to listen to the sharp rattle of the firing to the east Improvised smoke masks of han kerchiefs failed to protect their nos- trils and throats from the bitter bite of the fog. OFFICIALS PROBE BLAZE IN WAREHOUSE INTERIOR Officers of the Railway Terminal ‘Warehouse Co. and insurance agen's are investigating the cause of a blaze which yesterday destroyed the interior of a warehouse at 617 Rhode Island avenue northeast and caused a loss estimated at $5.000. ‘Workers of the American Paint Co. who had been mixing oils over a small fire nearby, stored a quantity of oil within the warehouse about &n hour before the blaze was discovered. 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Bash is the latest high War Department officer to become the tar- get for criticism levelled by the com- mittee at Army procurement activ- ities. Discrimination and favoritism are alleged by the committee in & new report made to the House yesterday by the committee, which has been conducting & long investigation of lobbying conditions at the War De- partment. “Directives” Alleged. “Any jokers found in any of the specifications,” the committee said, “were inserted after ‘directives’ had been received from the office of the quartermaster general of the Army.” ‘The report sald: “Either the quartermaster general of the Army does not know the mean- ing of the word ‘joker’ or else he is not familiar with what is going on in his own department.” Gen. Bash was not in Washington and made no immediate reply to the committee’s criticism. ‘The report hit also at Col. A. O. 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JEALOUSY BLAMED INFATAL SHOOTING Missouri Farmer Accused of Killing Salesman and Wounding Woman. By the Associated Press. MACON, Mo, August 24.—The spurned affection of a slightly bald farmer for a pretty, brunette woman was blamed last night by Sheriff B. | R. Wiliams for the squirrel hunt | slaying of her companion, a married | liquor company salesman. The slaying was followed by a woodland gun battle between the woman and her asserted admirer. Both were wounded. James Hunt, 48, farmer near Gored piped in Macon, surrendered yesterda; posse with bloodhounds lou.yht“htl: for the fatal shooting of Chester Noland, 42, of Savannah, Mo, and the wounding of Miss Blanche Stamp, 37, & neighbor of Hunt, 2 Sheriff Willlams said Hunt as- serted he shot in self-defense, “But I learned otherwise,” the sheriff added. “Hunt met the couple out In the woods and after asking what luck they were having went on 8 iiitle ways, turned and killed Noland with one shot. 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