Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-19

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~ EXCELLENT scores were made by
National Guardsmen of the Dis
trict of Columbia at the annual
rifle matches on the National
Guard range at Congress Heights
last week. The matches were run off in
fine shape. although the first day was a
little crowded. But that crowding served
to exhibit that the National Guardsman
can use his weapons at night as well as
in the day. The light of the moon fur
nished illumination while the various
contestants picked off good marks on the
targets, contrasted against the woods in
the far distances from the firing lines.
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Brig. Gen. George H Harries, COM
manding the District of Columbia MI.
litia, arrived in the city Friday and Will
remain several days. Much of his time
was spent at National Guard headquar-
ters going over various matters relating
TO the local National Guard. He also
held a number of conferences with va
vious staff and regimental officers of the
local militia.
Col. A. l.. Parmerter, adjutant general
of the District of Columbia Militia, took
his ninety-mile test ride last week.
X x x x
Weather permitting it is expected
that a number of field officers or the
National Guard of the District OF CO.
lumbia will assemble at the guard ar
mory this morning at 8 o'clock for the
purpose of taking tactical walk some
where outside OF the city. While these
walks are optional, it is expected that
many officers will avail themselves of
the opportunity of getting practical ex-
perience in tactics and reconnaissance
sketching These walks are in lieu of
IL lie
out in the company or field officers
schools, and are to be given the third
Sunday in each month.
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The District of Columbia Rife Asso-
citation will hold meeting at IL
o'clock this morning at the LIST Infan-
try headorarters for the purpose of
discussing plans of the association for
the ensuing year. 1t is contemplated to
enter teams in the National Rifle Asso-
citation and Short Range League series
beginning about December 1. The gal
lery at the National Guard armory will
be reserved Saturday nights, and, in
addition to the practice with % cali
bers, members also may have revolver
practice that night in utilization with
the Officers Revolver Association of
the National Guard Of the District Of
Columbia.
! a notice issued by the association
says that lit is not desired to confine
our membership to military men, but
| to include all persons in this city in
tcrested in shooting. The Importance of
| this indoor shooting game can best be
| illustrated when it is considered that
every man who shot in the association, ,
| gallery matches last winter made good
at Camp Perry and Seagirt this sum-
| mer, especially in slow fire work.
The officers of the association are Cant.
Edwin W. Fullam, 1st Infantry presi-
dent; First Lieut. Thomas Brown, LIST
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Ralph Fehr 1st Infantry. secretary.
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The following appointment in the Hos
pital Corps was ordered yesterday at
National Guard headquarters: Private
James E. Sanford to be sergeant He was
assigned to the sanitary detachment of
the list Separate Battalion.
| Private Louis NJ. Robson Company NJ,
| 1st Infantry, has been transferred to
Company F. I'd Infantry
j. x x x
| The following men have been ordered
honorably discharged from the National
Guard of the District of Columbia:
| On own application-Private William
Baird, Company c. LIST Infantry.
| On account of removal from the District
lof Columbia-Corp. Fred C. Keith, Com
rany F. I'd Infantry: Corp. Henry NJ.
Gray, jr., Company f. I'd Infantry; Pri-
vate LIST class, Abraham e. Ehrlick, Hos
pital Corps, and Private Edward J. JEFF
fers, Hospital Corps.
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Organizations receiving Signal Corps
radio pack sets should exercise the ut
most care in .unpacking them. making
military affairs, of any defects noted, ac-
cording to a bulletin just issued by the
division.
All parts of the sets except the spark
gaps and receiving sets are in plain view
, and it can be readily noticed if they have
been injured in any way.
No repairs should be attempted in
volving the disassembling of any of the
important parts such as the transform
ers receiving sets, generator gearing,
etc. This applies particularly to the
spark gaps and the receiving SETS The
spark gap used is of the quenched spark
style, made up of certain number of
copper disks. so fashioned that the CEN
ter of the plate is the sparkling surface.
Each plate is separated from the others
by a mica ring. TO perform its function
properly the space between the plates
must be air-tight. and the plates and
mica rings in perfect alignment, and
the sparkling surfaces free from any
foreign matter. For these reasons this
gap must never be dismounted. except
by an expert.
In regard to the receiving sets, any
attempt to remove the hard rubber top
would certainly disarrange the numerous
connections inside. causing the short
circuiting of some of the connections
and the disabling of the set.
The radio equipment should be kept
under the personal control of the most
expert electricians IN the organization.
and these men only should be allowed
to handle it,
In case the sets do not work properly
or in case of injury to any of the parts,
| immediate report should be made to the
chief. division of militia affairs
Reforms in numbers are being made at
| the Headquarters of the 1st Battery, Field
Artillery, n. G. D. c., this fall. They
are all characterized to give the officers
and men the best training and obtain the
best results with the material at hand
Capt Louis T. Boiseau L. s. A. the
regular army instructor assigned to the
| local field artillery. has ordered set up
large blackboard in the assembly room
of the field artillery armory, on Missouri
out problems for the guard officers to
work out while the men look on
Heretofore, the practice has been to let
| the men stay with the field pieces and
| learn their mechanical parts while the
| officers were in another room working
out problems. Under this procedure the
| men learned nothing about the problems
of fire. But all is to be different now
| under the plans outlined by Capt. Boiseau
| With view to improving the signal
work of the local battery a school of
| semaphore, telephone and special detail
work has been established at the armory
Here the men of the organization will be
/ taken in hand and taught to signal with