Evening star., 1924-06-15


70 pursue course of training with CO
OF the War Department general staff.
Meetings for the week are: Reserve
QuartermaSters. Tuesday night. Gra-
ham Building; 3lSth Field Artillery
Ihursday night. at the same place. and
the officers of the 306th Cavalry Friday
night
First Lieuts. H. P. Long. Field Artil
lery Reserve, and II. H. Rudolph. In
lantry Reserve, and Second Lieut.
stephen r. Tillman. Adjutant Generals
department Reserve. have been ordered
20 acuVe duty in connection with the
!Faufng at the citizens military train
ing camp which will be held at Camp
Meade, Maryland, for the month of
July These three officers were the only
ones ordered to active duty from the
piStrict of Columbia. They will report
al camp Meade to the commanding
general tomorrow
The military authorities are gratified
over the results that attend the Gre
ation OF a force for the civilian mill
tary training camps this summer. Re-
Porus OF progress received at the War
department continue to show an un-
equaled numerical strength in the mat
yer OF applicants in all parts of the
TantageS of this instruction and expert
ence- The War Department plans to
provide Tor $4,000. with possibly a mar
gin to accommodate others The 4th
i'nd oth Corps Areas have already COM
pleted their respective quotas.
Lieut.. Col. John B. Shuman, adjutant
generals department, U. s. A., who has
been IN charge of the oid-records divi-
SION OF the adtutant generals office
has been appointed executive officer. re-
lieving Maj. Harry Coope. adiutant
generals department, L. s. A, who
VIII perform duty with the newly Gre
ated adjusted-compensation branch.
Col Shuman was formerly on duty in
the personnel branch of the adjutant
generals office. and later was attached
. 10 the headquarters of the I'd Corps
Area being returned to Washington
some months ago. where his experience
IN and familiarity with the affairs of
the adJutant generals department made
him exceedingly valuable, especially in
the important detail as executive
officer.
Maj. Coope previously to becoming
executive officer, had charge of one of
the divisions of the adjutant generals
Office, and in the past has had large
and varied experience in adjutant gem
erafS work. His record az" executive
officer has been perfect. Maj. Coope
for many years was associated with
the local National Guard work A
Washingt oman, he has many friends in
the city.
Compensation may not be paid a
Reserve officer concurrently with the
receipt of active service pay, accord
ing to Brig. Gen. Frank 7. Hines. Or
ganized Reserve Corps, director of the
Unietd States Veterans Bureau. All
such claimants. as their cases come
to the attention of the examiners in
the bureau. will be advised of this
provision of the law and will be in
structed 10 notify the central or dis
N-trs
temporary military training AS Reserve
officers, giving the commencement and
closing dates thereof. Upon receipt Of
such information the running award
will be amended accordingly and the
adjutant generals office requested to
furnish the necessary record as
check against the information submit
ted by the claimant The adjutant
generals record will be final.
Everything is set for the opening of
the citizens military training camps
a Camp Meade, Md, and Fort Monroe.
Va. July !. These camps will last for
thirty days. More than 5000 young
men from the District of Columbia and
the states of Maryland. Varginia
and Pennsylvania will attend Camp
Meade, and approximately $50 will
attend the camp at Fort Monroe.
Other camps for the Sd Corps Area
are Regular Army units of the 9Th
fantry. which will train at Camp
Meade from June IA to August Is.
Company l. of the 18th Engineers
will train from June II TO August
u. The goth Tank Company. Vir
ginia National Guard, from June II to
2s Reserve officers assigned to the
citizens military training camp as in
structors will take a rcfresher course
of two weeks from June 16 To so. The
reserve officers training camp Gn
fantry, cavalry, field artillery and engi-
neers of the Sd Corps Area, and the
engineers of the 4th Corps Area, will
open from June 10 tc July 80.
One regiment of infantry and. one of
field artillery of the Reserve Corps will
train from July to IL. The 43d Tank
Company, Connecticut National Guard,
will be in camp from July to 19.
from July 16 to so there will be two
regiments of infantry and one of field
artillery in camp, of the Reserve Corps.
August / to 10, the 320th Infantry and
the S13th Field Artillery, from Wash
ington, and the 319th Infantry, one
regiment of cavalry from the 62d Cav
airy Division. and one battalion of en-
gfneers from the non-divisional group
will be in camp.
The 18th Division (National Guari).
Air Service, will go to camp from July