Evening star., 1924-09-28

The following District Guardsmen
have recently received commissions in
the Officers Reserve Corps: Walter
A. Knight, 2104 Eye street northwest,
and William A. Gormley, 2413 Eight
eenth street northwest, second lieu
tenants of engineers, and Raymond
M. Peak. 2S39 Twenty-seventh street
northwest, as first lieutenant Of in
fantry. Lieuts. Knight and Gormley
both hold commissions in the 121st
Engineers, being commissioned from
Company G, 1st Battalion, 121st En-
gineers, and both are members of
the c Company Association. Lieut..
Peak is commander of the 29th Mill
tary Police Company. Many Ma
tional Guardsmen hold reserve corps
commissions, and Maj Walter w.
Burns. commanding the 2soth ArtiI
lery, will establish school at the
Coast Artillery armory, foot of Sew
enth street southwest, within the
next few weeks for the purpose of
training commissioned and non-com-
missioned officers for the 260th Ar
tillery and to fit them for commits
sions in the Officers Reserve Corps.
Maj. Louis c.. Brinton, senior Ma
tional Guard instructor for the Dis
trict, will be in charge.
The following training schedule for
Tuesday nights instruction of the
12lst Engineers has been announced
by Col John w. Oehmann. command
ing: Sis to s:45 pm, close order
drill. reference, training regulations
420-50; section 8, s:45 to s:15, guard
mounting. training regulations 1855,
and from 9:15 to 9:45, engine ering,
including rigging and knot making,
reference Engineer Field Manual,
pages ia to 1872.
The recent plans to insure the Dis
trict guardsmen did not meet with
favor by the guardsmen and the 12lst
Engineers, which was the first unit
that the insurance company was to
proposition. 1t is pointed out that in
the States where the group insurance
plan among guardsmen has been fol-
lowed that the State bought the in
surance and furnished, or partly fur
niShed it to the men, but even though
the District guardsmen felt that they
were not being given the same ad-
vantages as guardsmen from the
States.
The Veterans Association of the old
Sd District of Columbia Infantry met
at the armory Friday night. The as
sociation had planned to have a re-
union October 4, but due to the other
public affairs that have been arranged
for that date it was decided to post
pone it until later in the month.
Henry Loveless is commander, +. A.
Berlinsky, secretary, and Sergt. c. o.
Howard, historian. Sergt. Howard is
compiling history of the old Sd Dis
trict of Columbia Infantry and espe
cially of those men who served OF
the Mexican border
Reports from Camp Perry. Ohio.
where the District National Guard
rifle team is competing in the national
rife matches indicate that the Dis
trict guardsmen are giving a good
account of themselves. Capt. H. H.
Leizear has worked hard for many
years to take to Camp Perry each
year a rife team that would do credit
to the District, and after considerable
personal expense and efforts he has
obtained the interest of other National
Guard officers and the enlisted men.
and this year he was able to select
for his team only the best men who
had demonstrated their efficiency and
it is we'll known in National Guard
quarters that the success of this
years team is not due to accident or
circumstances, but to hard intensive
training by the team members.
A foot ball team is being organiz-
ed in Battery A, 260th Artillery.
Capt. Louis F. Gosorn. commanding,
is making efforts to organize teams
in each battery of the 260th in order
that interbattery- games may be
played and regimental team select
ed for outside games this year.
Lack of sufficient space for drill
and instruction has made necessary
a division in the drilling of the men,
bers of the Coast Artillery. Tuesday
nights will be drill times for Bat
terry c, in command of Capt. John