Evening star., 1923-06-24

Orders are expected to be issued
this week notifying the officers Of the
Soth Division. Army of the United
camp. The camp will run from Au-
gust IL to 2s and will be at Camp
Meade. Nd. About 135 officers will be
ordered into active duty for the
camp, although 175 were originally
selected e.
Maj. Gen. John l.. Hines, deputy
chief of staff of the Army, spoke be-
fore the meeting of the District of
Columbia Department of the Reserve
Oficers' Association, which was held
Tuesday evening in the auditorium
of the Interior building. Gen. Hines
| selected as his subject Battle Com
mand OF Regiment"
Officers Of the militia bureau will
be sent for short visits to as many
National Guard training camps this
summer as time and funds will allow
1t Is not intended that these visits
partake OF the nature of an inspec-
tion, but the militia bureau desires
! to obtain at first hand any jnforma-
ton which Will assist il in its efforts
to coordinate the supply and train
| ing OF the National Guard. Local
problems and such matters as may re-
Quire the attention of the militia bu
/ GERS with view of having them con-
sidered in the bureau. 1t is the de-
| sire of the chief. militia bureau, to
| render the greatest amount Of aid
\ and assistance possible.
Lieut.. Robert r. Hood 18th Field
| Artillery. of Fort Myer. is due to ar
\ rive back at his station this after
noon from trip to Mount Gretna
| and the field artillery training camps
in Pennsylvania. Lieut.. Hood left
| Fort Myer last Monday morning.
| While on this trip he mapped out the
! route that the troops from Fora Myer
will take on their journey.
Army regulations 3502200 have
been revised and the new edition con-
tains much valuable information con-
corning the citizens military training
camps. The new regulations 60 fully
into the situation in all the details of
training. pay and on.
reserve section of CO of the War
Department general staff has been
| created by approval OF the chief of
staff. Mai f. G. Thompson. 6. s,
and Maj. j. II. Cunningham. c. A. C..
| new section. The section is located
| in room 3s3, S. W. y. building
! The duties of the new section will
be as follows: 1t constitutes CEN
| trail agency for consideration OF GER
! tain phases of the welfare of the or
| ganized reserves. 1t maintains con-
\ tact with organizations and indi-
viduals OF the Officers Reserve Corps
with a view TO advising other proper
| officers OF the War Department Tela-
! tive 70 public opinion with respect to
| questions concerning the organized
reserves. The section serves as gen
| eral information office, TO which may
be sent officers and citizens Interested
| In the organized reserves. IL main
| tains contact with the offices Of the
| Secretary Of War. the chief Of staff,
the deputy chief of staff and the as
sistant chiefs Of staff. for the pur
! pose of keeping informed on the va
rious projects and questions which
are Of immediate interest. and in or
| der 70 know TO whom to conduct any
visitors whose business may merit
| the attention of other officers or Off
cals of the War Department. The
section handles that correspondence
relative to the reserve which does
not pertain specifically to any other
/ division of the general staff
The promotion of Mai. II. l.. Bowen.
| infantry. o. r. c., on duty with the
assistant chief Of staff. G-S. War De-
Dartment. to lieutenant colonel. has
/ been announced The promotion is
/ in the infantry branch of the service
Mais. c. X Marvin and j. T. Norris.
! staff specialist Officers Reserve Corps,
I IL. assistant secretary of war.
| Lieut.. Col Augustine Mcintyre. as
sistant chief to the chief of neld ar
! tillery, has just returned from ma
! ton vide inspection OF field artillery
activities. While on the coast he also
made a short trip to Hawaii. Mai.
| Harry T. Moore, Quartermaster Corps
received the degrees of LII. B., LII: M
and NJ p. L. from the National Uni
| versity of this city
1ao ha n M p
of sending the most men 10 the {.
! NJ. T. camps this year, 2,l4i men nnaily
accepted for the training. according TO
the War Department. Out OF total
of 1880 applicants from the 9Th Corps
| Area. S,014 were finally accepted.
! Engineer activities will be distributed
| Throughout June. July and August and
the first part ~ September, the hrst
OF the series OF the courses began on
! June II. which was an Il. Q. I. camp.
! Plans have been completed for the sum-
mer training OF the engineer COM
! ponents OF the X. .. T. c, o. r. c,
&c. NJ. T. g. and the National Guard.
| In general. the training will follow the
\ same lines OF last summer. except IN
1 the case OF the c. NJ. 7. c. where engi-
neer training will be confined to the ad-
yanced red. white and blue course be-
: ing devoted entirely to fundamental
military training without specialization
by branch of service.
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couraging growth during the school
year that is just drawing to a close.
! The total camp attendance this sum-
mer will be in the neighborhood of six
1 hundred, compared with $40 of last
! summer. 1t has been estimated that
| 2s5 students will be commissioned in
! the Engineer Officers Reserve Corps
/ this year from the twenty-one engineer
units. as against 225 of last year
To supplement the regular engineer
| commissioned personnel about thirty
| engineer officers from the engineer
! school at Fort Humphreys and from civil
/ Institutions will be apportioned to the
! various corps areas. They will be as
sisted by groups of specially selected
! engineer reserve officers for the c. NJ. T.
camps. The reserve officers will be
given refresher course of two weeks
| to qualify them for duty as instructors
The promotion OF Second Lieut.. Ellis
S. Middleton. A. s., o. r. c., to the
grade of first lieutenant is announced.
/ He will retain his present assignment
to the 10th Attack Squadron, 4th
Army.
Examinations for the appointment of
flying cadets will be held July 10 at
fifteen air service. stations scattered
! over the country, one in the Hawaiian
department. one at Manila. p. L.. and
one at Cristobal. Canal Zone
II the applicant can present docu-
mentary evidence that he has pra dua ad