Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

IN PREPARATIONS for the dance
and entertainment to be given
| tomorrow night by the LIST Bat
Il terry. Field Artillery, and the
Signal Corps company as a kind
of housewarming for their new quarters
at 473 Missouri avenue, are about COM
pleted. The finishing touches Of the
decorations Of the drill hall and different
assembly rooms will be completed today
by the joint committee on arrangements.
The large drill hall has been draped with
the Stars and Stripes, intermingled with
the flags of the Signal Corps company
and the red guidon of the LIST Battery.
A temporary stand has been erected at
one end of the drill hall for the must
clans and those who are on the program
Of entertainment. THE Battery March,
composed by Bugler Casper Orange. will
be the feature of the musical program.
The assembly. company and officers
rooms OF both organizations have been
fitted up for the reception of the friends
| of the battery and Signal Corps COM
pany. who are expected to attend the en-
tertainment in large numbers
| Members Of both commands have been
working enthusiastically for several
weeks to make their first entertainment
in the new armory success, and there
is at present every indication that they
viii accomplish their purpose: First
of the Center Market armory, has as
sisted both organizations in the prepara-
ton for the entertainment by lending
| them chairs, flags and other things neces-
sary to turn the drill hall into recep-
ton room.
| The insignia earned by members Of the
National Guard for qualification in small
arms practice during the season Of 1909
and the prizes won in the recent COM
petitions will be presented by Secretary
of War Dickinson in the drill hall OF
the National Guard Amory on Thursday,
April %.
| Successful teams and Individual winners
Of insignia and prizes will report to Lieut.
Col. Glendie B. Young. list Infantry, at
the drill hall not later than S:1o O'Clock
until the conclusion Of the ceremonies
Dress uniform, uniform white standing
collar, white gloves, polished black shoes
and side arms will be worn.
| Company G. I'd Infantry, is detailed as
guard for the ceremonies and the band,
list Infantry, will parade twenty men,
decorations have been earned as follows:
| Twenty-year bar-Maj. Edward F.
Riggs, retired, and Color Sargt. Charles
w. Moore, list Infantry.
Fifteen-year bar-Maj. Clarence A.
Weaver, Medical Corps. and Chief Mu-
stefan Donald B. Macleod, LIST Infantry
Band.
| Ten-year medal-Maj. George L. TAFT.
Naval Battalion; Capt. John w. Oehmann,
1st Infantry: Capt Adolphus B. Bennett
! jr, Medical Corps; First Lieut.. Lucien
&. Ernest, I'd Infantry; First Lieut. Clar-
ence c. H. Davis, LIST Separate Battalion;
Chief Master-at-Arms William c. Her
furth. Naval Battalion: Quartermaster
Sergt Walter s. Hall. LIST Infantry: First
sergt Robert H. Cheeks. Company D,
list Separate Battalion; Quartermaster
Sergt George L. Dietz, Company M. I'd
| Infantry: sergt. Charles E. Castle, Com
pany c. I'd Infantry; Sergt. Jed West,
Company d, LIST Separate Battalion, and
| Private Henry Ridgeley. Company A, 1st
Separate Battalion.
Woodin, 1st Infantry Band; Master-at-
Arms, first class, Harry J. Gorbutt. I'd
Division. Naval Battalion: Sergt Joseph
Giachetti, 1st Infantry Band; Corp.
Henry c. Nails. LIST Infantry Band; Yeo,
man third class Claude b. Cooksey, Sd
Division, Naval Battalion, and Private
Walter Gains. Company D, 1st Separate
Battalion.
six-year medal-Capt. Charles J. Fox,
list Battery, Field Artillery, Capt. John
e. Brooks, I'd infantry. First Lieut..
James B. Clark, ordnance department
First Lieut. John Doyle Carmody. ord
nance department. Second Lieut.. Gauge
Burlingame, I'd Infantry. George M.
Battery. Field Artillery, Color serst.
AIfTsd l.. Giovannoni. I'd Infantry, First
SergN George G. Wilson. LIST Battery,
Field Artillery, Quartermaster Sergt.
tiiIe1S. First sergt. Ira NJ Payne, Com Com,
pant A, LIST Separate Battalion. FIRST
Serkt. George NJ Rowzee. Company b,
Cd Infantry, Sergt. Cadwallader Z: Dyer,
Corh pany F. LIST Infantry. sergI: sam not
Gibson. Company TH,ts A. Isl wh Snpaf compsny
| r, I'd Infantry; Corp: Herbert e
| George. Company I, LIST Infantry. Corp.
Monroe slaughter, Company Company c, 81; 1 !.
Separate Battalion, priva.e s.;,, n,a.r pri.
yate John Lewis. Company A. 1st Sepa-
rate Battalion, and Private Richard n.
shorts, Company D, LIST Separate Bat
TALON.
In future the applications for decora-
i tions of class B and class A. and Tor
suitably inscribed bars showing length
| of service, will be made on prescribed
| blanks to District militia headquarters on
or before December IS each year.
| Officers and enlisted men to whom the
| ten-year medal (class Al Is awarded will,
wher receiving this medal, turn in their
decoration of class B. Present holders of
decoration of class A who also have
decoration of class B will turn IT in with
out delay.
Government employees receiving insignia
for qualification In sn1all-arms practice
or prizes or service medals or bars on
| April %. will be furnished certificates of
service from o'clock pm. until midnight
| that date.
The following decorations were received
at the list Infantry parade January Is by
the officers and enlisted men entitled
| thereto:
Twerty-year bar-Maj Charles R. Luce.
Medical Corps.
Fifteen-year bar-Second Lieut. W..
Laurence Hazard.
| Ten-year medal-Capt. j. Harry Bean,
Capt. Duncan l.. Richmond and Color
Sergt. Joseph L. Durnbaugh.
| Nine-year bar-First Lieut. Robert e.
Meyer.
Six-year medal-Capt. Charles L. Brock
way, First Lieut.. Alfred r. McGonegal
First Sergt. Jacob 8. Meyer, Company
H: Quartermaster Sergt David Gregory,
Company H; Sergt James s. Dinnis