Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-30
GUARD
TO MAKE MARCH
SIGNAL CORPS WILL TAKE
PRACTICE RIDE
THIRTY.ElGHT MEN AND OFF,
GERS TO GO TO MOUNTAINS
Company AS Aeronautical Squad COM
pletes Charts and Map and Plans
Another Ascension for
November ID

Company A of the signal corps will
take a practice ride tonight and to-
morrow, leaving the armory about
o'clock and going to the mountains
Capt. Slotterbeck will take thirty-elght
men with First Lieuts. Bathey and
Brown Col. w. G. Schreiber will ac-
company the company. Lieut.. Bathey
passed the greater part of yesterday at
Pasadena and up the canyon, making
arrangements for the march.
The signal corps will follow this with
considerable field work in visual signal
ing. The aeronautical squad has COM
pleted charts and maps recording the
data obtained in the last two ascen-
slons and is planning another ascen-
sion for November IA. A meeting OF
the squad will be held at the armory
Tuesday of next week to take up in
struction in aviation and the military
uses of aeroplanes.
Capt. Bert T. Demmitt of company A
of the Seventh infantry will also take
his company on the march tonight,
leaving the armory early to march to
the rifle range, where the company will
camp overnight to be ready for early
rifle practice Capt. Demmitt's compa-
ny will be accompanied by Sergeant
Robert Miesse of the Fifth infantry of
the regulars.
Sergeant Miesse is one of three regu-
lar On-COHllDlSSlOlleQ OIlC6lS WHO nave
been assigned to California to instruct
the national guard, and have just come
to the state from Fort LeaVenworth.
The others and Sergenats Roy Elston
and Jesse A. Cummings, who will have
work in the north. Their place here
probably will be permanent, and Ser
geant Miesse will visit all the compa-
nies of the Seventh regiment under in
structions from Col. Schreiber.
Company B is planning to celebrate
| the inception of regular work and the
arrival of the new equipment with a
dance and banquet some time next
month, and Capt. Light hopes to have
the preliminary arrangements ready by
Monday night, when the "blues," the
last of the equipment to come, will be
on hand.
The new company has found it nee
essary to pass resolutions relative to
the restrictions deemed desirable for
recruits, owing to the number of ap-
plications. Nearly every member Is a
seasoned man, and the enthusiasm and
attendance are proving very encour-
aging to the officers.
Maj. Paul A Adams of the medical
corps and surgeon of the Seventh in
! fantry has been appointed a first lieu
tenant in the medical reserve corps
and will be stationed at Schofield bar
racks, Honolulu, Hawaii. He will for
ward his national guard resignation,
| the acceptance, of which will make
First Lieut.. Charles w. Decker rank
ing officer of the medical corps in Los
Angeles.
| Maj. Adams has many friends in the
National Guard of California and in
the San Francisco and Los Angeles
branches of the American National
Red Cross. He was instrumental in
the organization of the Red Cross in
Los Angeles and will relinquish i'm
| portant work In that organization as
well as in the national guard.
Medals comprising the decorations
for small arms practice in 1908 are
being received by the officers and men
in Southern California in accordance
with G.. o. No. 20 from the adjutant
| generals office.
The state has shipped to Troop D
and to Company A, signal corps, new
lots of fair leather horse equipment.
and on it's receipt the old block leather
equipment will be returned.