Evening star., 1924-10-26

At meeting of the officers of the
26oth Artillery. District National
Guard, last Tuesday evening at 7.30
o'clock in Room C. City Club, welfare
plans for the regiment were dis
cussed. Maj. Walter w. Burns, COM
manding, has urged that every officer
be present at the armory Tuesday night
to discuss further plans.
Maj Louis C. Brinton, Maj. w. E.
r. Covell, Lieut.. Herman H. Pohl,
Capt Joseph c. Sutton, Sergt- Charles
f. Coanshock and Sergt. Dewitt NJ
Brandon, Regular Army instructors
ssi6ned to the District National
Guard, have prepared an intensive
training program for the various or
ganizationS for the Winter Mai
Brinton, senior instructor in charge,
has made the following assignments:
Maj. Covell, Lieut.. Pohl and Capt
Sutton, to have active supervision of
he training of the 121st Engineers
and 29th Military Police Company, at
i.2 l. street northwest; Mai. Brinton
and Sergts. Brandon and Coanshock,
to nave charge of the training of the
260th Artillery, Tuesday and Wednes-
day nights, at the Coast Artillery
Armory, Seventh and Water streets
southwest.
Maj. Covell, assigned to the District
National Guard as an instructor has
been ordered to report to Commits
sloner Bell for duty as Assistant En-
Slneer Commissioner Of the District
The officers and men of the l2lst En-
gineers who attended the annual en-
campment at Fort Humphrey last
summer and had the benefit of Mai
Covell's instruction say they are glad
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terfere with his duties as instructor
Company B, commanded by Capt.
Ralph S. Childs, has been presented
with trophy for being the most eff
c1ent company in camp during the re-
cent annual encampment. The trophy
was offered by Col. Oehmann, and was
earned by excellence in military tao
tics and engineering
Maj. Burns, commanding the 26Oth
Artillery, announces that the new
ordnance sheds being erected ada
cent to the Coast Artillery Armory.
loot of Seventh street southwest, will
be completed this month, and the
large guns furnished by the War De-
partment will be placed therein.
where they will be convenient for
instruction purposes during the Win
ter months and available for inspec-
ton by the public. Both guns saw
service in the battle of St. MihieI
and in the Muese-Argonne, and were
manned by District men during the
war. One bears wound stripe, hav-
ing been hit by a German shell. They
ire of the 155 MN. long-range French
,6-inch) type.
The sheds are being constructed
oy Capt. Edward H. Groves. In addi-
tlon TO the big guns, Maj. Burns has
'Dtained full equipment for a regi-
ment of Coast Artillery troops, in
cluding smaller guns, tractors, plot
tlng room equipment and field equip
ment. The artillerymen will be given
practical training instruction in all
phases of Coast Artillery work this
winter, and when the annual field
training period commences next sum.
mer there will be no loss of time or
EFFORT in getting down to work.
The military and naval affairs COM
mlttee of the Washington Board of
Iraoe Will hold a meeting next week
TO determine what cooperation shall
De extended by that body to the Dis
trlct National Guard this Winter. Re-
crultng has been ordered discon-
tinued by the War Department on ac-
count of lack of funds, but efforts
VIII be made to build up a. waiting
list OF young men who desire to en-
list, and as soon as the recruiting han
is removed all units can recruit to
maximum strength.
Several applications have been re-
ceived at headquarters to take the
examination for appointment to West
Point Examinations will be held be-
tween November l and Is, and all
applications must be submitted
throue h military channels to the ad
jutant general of the District Guard.
472 l. street northwest, prior to Octo-
ber 81.
Preparations for a Halloween mask
ball of the 260th Artillery, District
National Guard, to be held at the
Coast Artillery Armory, Sixth and
Water streets southwest, indicate that
it will be one of the largest social
affairs staged by a National Guard
organization in the District in recent
years. Maj. Burns is in active charge
of arrangements. All available space
in the Armory will be utilized for
dancing and entertainment purposes.
An orchestra from the regiment will
furnish music, and the building will
be suitably decorated. A committee
of enlisted men from Batteries A. B
and c have reported that a 100 per
cent attendance Of the enlisted per-
sonnel has been pledged, in addition
Invitations will be extended members