Evening star., 1923-04-01

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Corps and the c. VI. 7. C. News for all
branches Of the citizen army oil the lnl'eo
States.l
Air Service reserve officers viii
meet tomorrow evening at the local
headquarters of the Organized Re
serves third floor OF the Graham
building. Fourteenth and Z streets
northwest. This is just across the
hall from the police traffic bureau.
On Wednesday evening the head
quarters will be open from to 10
O'Clock for the benefit of any one de-
string information on any part o.
the army. Maj. John Scott, execu-
tive officer, will be on duty, assisted
by L,euts. James W. Davis and
Stephen f. Tiliman.
The following changes of reserve
Army officers within the 3d corps
Area have been authorized FIRST
Lieut.. Paul i. Sanborne, A. $, 0. X.
c., 35l7 Quebec street. assigned TO
409th Attack Squadron of the 4th
Army. Second Lieut.. William +. Ap-
puhn, jr, c. A., o. T. c.. No. Loretta
apartments. attached to I66th com
pany of Coast Artillery. Maj. David
s. Gaillard Ord. Q. r. g. 1000 18TH
street assigned to the manufactur-
ing service ammunition division. with
station at Washington In time OIL
emergency.
Lieut.. Lewis Assigned.
First Lieut.. Reuben A. Lewis. jr..
+ A, o. r. c.. l4l9 -. stree. haS
been assigned to the 3l3th Field Ar
tillery. Lieut.. Lewis is a Washing
ton newspaper man.
second Lieut. Max A. Bradshaw.
=. A. O. r. G., has been assigned to
headquarters of the 155th Field Ar
tillery Brigade. Second Lieut.. Meyer
H. Berry, f. A. Q. +. C.: assigned 70
III" $o3th Ammunition Train. 1apt;
Joachim Thodc. Inf, .. +. G., 2lOl L
rect, having removed outside of
divisional area. is relieved from as
S%nment to Headquarters. l60th In
tartry Brigade. Capt: Jonathan (.
tiibson. Inf. .. r. c.. Edgemoor, Be
thesda. Md, now attached, is assign
ed TO headquarters of the l60th In
ttmtry Brigade. First Lieut.. Henry
L. Cox, Inf. o. f. c., promoted from
date of March Il and assigned to the
S0th Military Police Company. His
home is 1922 n street northwest.
Announcement is expected this
of the Second Battalion of the S2Oth
Infantry will give. 1t is expected
that it will be held this month.
Limitation Puzzles Army.
The limitation of 100000 placed in
the Army appropriation bill by CON
nance of divisional and regimental
Headquarters for the Organized Re-
serves is puzzling the War Depart
Ipent. The question, 1T is understood,
has been referred to the judge advo-
cate general for an opinion.
IF the limitation refers only TO the
payment of rent for these headquar-
ters It will not seriously interfere
with the maintenance of the reserves
II was insisted by certain members of
Congress that this would be sufficient
for the headquarters, because the
statement had been made in the tes-
timony that the rent for headQuar-
ters did not exceed 100000. However,
since the amendment is not clear on
the point. it is proving very em-
barrassing to the department in the
advocate general has rendered an
opinion on the question 1t must go
TO the controller for decision
The infantry board OF the Army
has Just completed an exhaustive
test of experimental type of machine
gun harness, and it has been found
vastly superior to what is now being
used. The old harness was very un--
satisfactory and was the. cause of
sores on animals The board has
been directed to make test Of sew
are used The board has recon-
mended the adoption of special type
nf equipment tag for webb equip
ment.
The War Department has issued
chart showing the tentative distrtbu-
tfon of commits STONED personnel for
the fiscal year of 1923. The dis
triburion involves sixty eight general
officers, 3,745 infantry, 1027 cavalry:
1.26S field artillery, 99t coast artillery,
1124 air service, 4S0 engineer, 217
Signal Corps, 90 of the adjutant gem
eral department.. SO Judge advocate
general department. SS7 of the Quar-
termaster Corps. 112 of the finance
department, 252 of the ordnance de-
partment 76 chemical warfare serv-
ice, 1926 medical department, 125
chaplains. professors and 1 military
StOrekeeper.
During the past year the Signal
Corps of the Army put into opera
tion an extensive radio net extending
from coast to coast of the country
for official communication traffic of
the military establishment. This net
includes twelve primary stations,
located at the administrative head
quarters and other important points,
supplemented by some sixty sec
ondary stations at posts, camps and
stations. The net was established
primarily as a guarantee against In
terruption TO wire traffic IN time of
war. The system is being operated
not only to take care of. military
communication to commercial
value said to be about $4,000 d month,
but It is also of Importance on ac-
count of the training II affords the
military personnel. Since the sys-
TEN was initiated many difficulties
have been encountered, both with ma
terial and personnel, but these have
been overcome and the service now
compares favorably with the speed
and accuracy obtained with wire sys-
tens of communication. The opera
ton of such a net approaches more
closely the conditions of radio opera
tions OF a field army in time of war
than could be obtained in any other
way. It's value alone in training
radio personnel is considered to be
sufficient justification for it's con-
tinued operation.
Russell LIS Relieved.
Second Lieut.. Edgar T.. Russell, in
fantry, Officers Reserve Corps, for
merly residing at 1921 Riggs street, is
relieved from attachment to 320th In
fantry, by reason of removal to 9Th
Corps Area.
Second Lieut.. John y. Fields. infan-
try, Officers Reserve Corps, IS now at
tached to the 320th Infantry. /
Capt Lester D. Johnson infantry,
Officers Reserve Corps, having removed
from Vienna. Va. to 1909 C street, is
relieved from attachment to the 318th
Infantry and Company NJ thereof, and
is now, attached to the 320th Infantry.
Maj. John Scott, executive officer, To-
cal headquarters, has just received from
headquarters, 62d Cavalry Division, a
list of sixty-SeVen names of reserve
officers who have volunteered their
services in connection with CMTC
camps this summer These officers
roy W. Heron.
Suggestions are requested.
With a view to the preparation of
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