Evening star., 1924-06-08
District National Guard

Garlick. Sergts. John A. Schricker,
Joseph NJ. Owens. William F. Dawson
and an Lear hearner oT.nR T. Rhea' Corps rps Edwin
Caltabiano, Lincoln S. Jones, J. f.
Goetz and ]. L. Voegler, Privates.
first class, John P. Burleigh, Daniel
H. Cave, Albert T. King. Saul G.
Lichtenberg. P. A. Mitchell. George
J. H. Beatley, Joseph p; Bradley,
James G. Hollingsworth. A. G. Law
ender, C. A. Smithdeal. Charles w.
Wilhelm and N. ]. Trezise.
camp commander and Capt. Herman
H. Phol, regular Army instructor in
charge. had active charge of all in
struction work. Capt. Joseph G.
Sutton and Staff Sergt. Charles F.
camp. Maj. George J. Allen was in
charge of the Medical Corps detach-
ment, assisted by Capt. Sidney {.
Cousins.
The following QUALIFICATIONS were
made at the first camp: Master Sergt
Fletcher F. Bernsdorff, headquarters
and service company expert rlne-
man; Regimental Sergt. Maj: Henry
E. Meares, First Sergt. Whiting r;
Lightfoot. headquarters company, ana
sharpshooters, and Sergt. Lloyd L
Gibson, Company B: Corp. John z.
Farrell, Company A; Corp. M. l.
Hewitt, Company A, and Private Don
Garrettson, Company B, marksmen.
Qualifications for the past week have
not been announced.
Can't Thomas A. Lane, Company F,
and Capt. Clarence 5. Shleids, Com-
companies next week. No camp Is
held this week on account or the
school for officers at Virginia beach'
Th. annual field training encamp-
ment will be held at Fort Humphreys.
Va August 10 to "a. With the in
tensive recruiting campaign soon TO
be inaugurated by the regiment, IL rs
expected that the local guard VIII VIII
have more men in the. held at tnls
years annual encampment than our
ing any time since the wan
The following drill schedule will be
followed next Tuesday night: S:15 to
9 o'clock, close order school OF the
squad; reference training regulations
No 420-50, section i; to $40, close
order. school of platoon, section z.
paragraphs IL to 16, same regula-
tions.
The recruiting office of the 260th
Artillery has been moved from l2a4
F street to the Tivoli Theater, 14th
and Park road northwest, the use of
quarters at the latter place being do
mated to the National Guard by Harry
NJ. Crandall.
Battery A, 26Oth Artillery. will be
formally mustered in next Friday
9Th and Water streets southwest.
This will make the first battery of
artillery to be federally recognized
in the District since the war. and
takes a place corresponding to the
old 60th Coast Artillery. Fifty men
and three officers are included in the
muster. Capt. Herman H. Pohl. Reg
ular Army instructor, assigned to the
District National Guard, is expected
to be the mastering officer.
The examining board designated by
the War Department to examine and
determine the educational and physi-
cal fitness of the new officers to he
appointed for the regiment met last
Tuesday night at the armory, Az l.
street northwest.
The board consists Of Col. John w.
Oehman. commanding the 121st Engi-
neers: Lieut.. Col. c. Fred Cook. ad
jutant general of the Goth Division.
and Maj. George J. Allen. Medical
Corps, District National Guard. Maj.
walter w. Burns, formerly com
will be commissioned a captain and
placed in command of the new battery:
Louis M. Goshorn will be first lieu
tenant and James D. Eggleston, sec
ond lieutenant. AS soon as another
battery, to be known as Battery A,
is completed Capt. Burns will be
promoted to his former rank of ma jor
and placed in command of the bat
talon.
Recruiting for the new battery has
progressed rapidly during the last
few weeks and it is expected that
the next battery will be ready for
muster within two weeks. Efforts
will be made to organize five bat
teries this summer.
Sergt instructor Brandon, for
merly with the 51st Regiment. Coast
Artillery Corps, Fort Eustis, Va, has
been detailed by the War Depart
ment to assist as instructor and in
recruiting.
The officers and men Of the new
battery will leave the Washington
Barracks dock this morning at IL
O'Clock for Fort Washington. where
they go to study artillery fortifica:
tions there. Free transportation will
be provided on the steamer General
Rucker. They will return at $3.50
o'clock. Maj. Burns has invited any
friends of the guardsmen to accom-
pany the party, as well as any one
interested in the new organization.
Mess accommodations will be fur
nished at the fort.