Evening star., 1921-10-23

training center Will Dc at SdiHp
Meade. Md. In time Of war the work
will consist of preparing and con-
Quoting mobilization and demobiliza-
ton camps; receiving and inducing
into service, classifying and assigning
men obtained from the draft and
from from voluntary enlistment; training
illiterate and physically undeveloped
personnel and furnishing the nuclei
for establishing and conducting re-
placement training camps.
Reserve Corps Items.
In line with the desire of the War
Department to give all possible i'm
pressiveness to the ceremonies attend
ing the burial of the unknown soldier
on Armistice day. the commanding
general Of the district Of Washington
requests that all reserve officers pres
ent in Washington wear their unffrms
In public on November II.
Until the final organization Of re-
serve units can be made, all corps,
Army general headquarters and coast
artillery units in eastern Pennsylvania
have been attached to the 18th Reserve
Division, those in western Pennsylvania
Maryland and the District of Colum-
bia to the 62d Reserve Cavalry Divi-
sion and those in Virginia to the SOtn
Reserve Division.
Formal orders will soon be published
assigning to duty with the National
Guard Of their respective states all
reserve officers who hold National
Guard commissions. these assignments
to continue. SO far as can be foreseen.
In peace and war. 1t will be remem-
bered that under the law all. officers in
the Army of the United States must,
In time of war, hold either a Regular
Army or a reserve commission. and
therefore the passage from a peace
time to a war condition will be facili-
before mobilization. holds reserve
commission corresponding in arm and
grade to his National Guard commits
sion. In order to expedite the forth
reserve officers residing in the Sd
Corps area who hold National Guard
commissions report that fact at once
to their corps area headquarters.
Air Reserve Notes.
All British air expresses in regu-
lar use between London and Paris
are now equipped with wireless tele-
phones. and during their aerial Jour-
ney the machines are in constant COM
munication with the grand stations.
According to report, 1T is no uncom-
mon thing to hear while listening
in" at grand station the pilot of an
incoming air express speaking to the
pilot of an outgoing machine and ad-
vising him of peculiarities of the
weather along the route.
There is a possibility that Homo
lulu may have a municipal flying field
in the near future II arrangements
can be effected whereby Honolulu
area of 500 feet long and about zoo
feet wide. Maj. Gen. William P. Sum-
neral, department commander. who.
with Brig. Gen. Joseph e. Kuhn. re-
Gently made an inspection of possible
landing fields in the vicinity of Hilo.
stated that with the eXtention of
Honolulu Park. as indicated. and the
necessary preparation of the ground.
a hangar would be erected on the field
and a detachment of enlisted men as
signed for duty thereat.
Altitude records made by planes
from the Montgomery air intermedi-
ate depot were broken recently when
q machine of the De Haviland Abb
type, with First Lieut.. Lloyd Bar
nett and James Wilson. civilian mech
anician at that depot. on board
reached the height Of 10000 feet.
nearly four miles above the earth's
surface. Possibly this record may
not be equaled throughout the coun-
try by machines Of similar type and
equal weight to the Montgomery
plane. which was about 5000 pounds.
The air board Of Canada has rec
ognized the aircraft register of the
underwriters laboratories, the head
quarters of which is in Chicago. ILL.,.
and advises that until further notice
it will not be necessary for aircraft
registered by underwriters labora-
tories and seeking permission to fly
into Canada to have the letter &C" as
as the first letter in its registration
marking.