Evening star., 1924-05-04

| Maj. Gen. w. II. Hart quartermas-
ter general. was the guest of honor
at the last meeting of the New York
Chapter of the Quartermaster Asso-
citation. recently held at the Army
! and Navy Club. New York City. Af-
| ter a brief business meeting, at which
| Lieut. Col. p. l.. Gerhardt. Q. NJ. G.
=. c.. presided, he introduced Gen.
Hart as the speaker of the evening.
Arrangements are being made by
| the office of the quartermaster gem
I eral to celebrate June 16 the 149th
| anniversary of this branch of the
! supply services in various posts and
stations. This corps came into be-
Pa. June 1G. 1875. when the Con-
tinental Congress enacted leSiSla-
ton which authorized the creation of
the military stores department.
During the coming week Lieut.. Col
William 0. Smith. Quartermaste
Corps, will assume supervision of the
surplus property division, efiice oi
the quartermaster general. He VIII
relieve Lieut.. Col. A. b. Marheld, @
ordered to Fort Benning., Ga, as
quartermaster on the completion OF
his leave.
L.. I
master Corps, Reserve Corps. who re
ported to Lieut.. Col. William r. Glib
son. Quartermaster Corps, for tram
ing in connection with procurement
| activities on April "A, viii remain on
an active duty status until May s.
Much of the success of the Quarter
master Reserve Group in the District
| of Columbia is due to the tlreless
energy of Capt. Emig, who is well
known in reserve affairs in Nashlng-
ton.
Plans for the procurement of the
! service shoe, in the event of an emer-
| genCy which would call for the I'M
mediate expansion of the armed
| forces of the nation, have been COM
p!eted by the Boston quartermaster
! irtermediate depot AS prepared pE
| the office of the quartermaster gen
| eral this consolidated requirement ;
| schedule calls for the production OF
25.000,00o pairs of service shoes uul
| ing twelve-month period: Accord
| ing to the schedule. the New Eng
| land area is allotted 1O,140,O0O pairs
| to produce. In figuring the alloca7
ton for the various shoe factories Nj
| the United States each factory was
given a percentage of the quantity
REQUIRED, based on it's normal ca
pacity.
The first masquerade dance of the
| Entire Nous Social Club. office OF the
chief of infantry, was held at Wash
| ington barracks April 26. the prizes
for the most comic costumes "eIe
awarded to Master Sergt Harry
Burns and Mrs Arthur i. eraltulsl : I
and those for the best fancy costumes
went to Mr.. Oscar T. Mast and Mrs;
| pearl Tyrrell Music was furnished
nv the orchestra of the Army Bano.
The club will hold it's first picnic
May %.
Mai Gen. Charles NICK. Saltzman.
chief signal officer of the army lell
Washington April q for approximate,
lv two-week inspection or sigma
Corps activities at Fort HAYES, onio'
Fort Leavenworth, Kan; Chicago. Ill.,
and Omaha, Neb.
Based on experiments for the past
two wears, during which tune thS
camp attendance of the National
Guard averaged 81 per cent of the
Guards aggregate strength, it is est
mated by the authorities in the mi
litia bureau that approximately 49,
600 National Guardsmen VIII take III 1,ie
training during the summer. me
first. National Guard camp VIII pc
held at Golden. Colo. June 3. whiie
The guard camps will conclude at
Mani Hawaii, in the early part OF
December
annroyal was given by the War
Denartment this week for the manu-
facture of 102 Phillips saddles FOR tne
1st Machine-gun Squadron and radio
equipment of the 1st Cavalry Divl-
sion! 1t is expected that the QUAR-
Ter master Corps will issue this EQUIP
ment the latter part OF the summer
With the approval of the War De
partment, Lieut.. Col Harry y. Cootes,
cavalry, has been appointed py the
American Remount Association s
member of the jury of appeals, eques-
trian games. Eighth Olympiade, which
will be held at Paris, France, during
the month of July. Col. Cootea is
now on duty as American military at
tarne at Vienna, Austria.