Evening star., 1925-08-02

the work of the Public Utilities Com
mission. The letter to Maj. Coven
follows:
Please accept my sincere thanks
and appreciation for your efforts and
services as instructor for the 121st
Engineers of the National Guard of
the District OF Columbia. Your asso-
citation with the regiment has been
very beneficial to them, l am sure.
and notwithstanding the fact that you
have been on additional duty here in
Washington, you have devoted the re-
quired time to the duties assigned to
you as instructor, and / am confident
that your services have done much to
assist in preparing this regiment for
real engineering duty.
Il wish you success in your future
career in the military service and am
sure that by displaying the same
jealous efforts which characterized
your duty with us, you will be of vast
service to the Army and rise to po-
sitions of honor"
Orders have been issued by Ma.
tional Guard headquarters for the
honorable discharge of the following
enlisted men of Battery A. 260th
Coast Artillery, for the reasons noted:
Removal from the District of Column
bta, Privates Sidney S. Ball, Eugene
t. Chambers, Alexander Kramer, ].
Howard Wilcutts and Francis Pc
trola; business interference, Privates
Kari II. Axline, James H. Bramhall,
Edgar NJ. Rich. Gordon E. Rowzie and
Edwin j. Mccarthy.
Plans for the use of the Army trans
port General Rucker, which plies on
the ferry route between this city and
Fort Washington, Md, for the trans
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District of Columbia to Norfolk, Va,
for its encampment at Virginia
Beach, Va, are about to be aba ndon.
ed- Some objection was found to the
use of this little craft for this duty.
involving a trip down the Chesapeake
Bay with the possibility of running
into bay storms which are most
severe at times. and authority was
requested for the Guard to use com
mercial transportation for this duty.
1t undoubtedly will be gra anted
Whether the troops will proceed by
boat or train is now problem that
the quartermaster officials of the
Guard are wrestling with. 1t will
take II hours by boat, and the rail-
roads have informed the Guard that
they can put the troops right into
camp within hours after they are
embarked in Washington Should
leaving the city one day earlier, IL Is
said, and breaking camp one dav ear.
Her Efforts are being made to as
certain the wishes of the officers of
the regiment, and so far as possable
the kind OF transportation desired by
the troops will be followed. There is
also being discussed a matter of OBJ
tanning from the Army the use of a
number of large trucks, and If these
Il
seno the heavy camp paraphernalia
over the road by a motor caravan.
thus involving only two landings, one
AT the armory and the other at camp.
A vanguard of officers and enlisted
men will proceed to camp to make
this material ready for the troops by
the time they arrive. However. they
Will have to do rush Job, as the Mary
land troops will not leave the camp at
virginia Beach, which is the rendez.
rous point OF the 29th Division, until
the day the District troops arrive But
the District troops will have the ad-
vantage of using camp site already
mapped out
The question of the kind of trans
portaton also has brought up the
discussion at headquarters as to the
time of the departure of the troops.
There was some discussion Tuesday
night of having the troops leave Wash.
1ngton, if by boat. late Friday night.
arriving at Norfolk early Saturday
morning and proceeding Immediately
to the camp by train. This will permit
them TO make camp in the daylight
hours, and give them a chance to get
abe camp squared away for a day of
rest on Sunday, and ready to start
the intensive training schedule which
has been mapped out for them early
Honday morning
There is another element of the
Guard desirous of having the troops
leave here early Saturday morning
and arrive in camp in the afternoon,