Evening star., 1925-06-14

competitive examination" says the
! order, "will be held annually and at
such other times as may be neceS
sary because of the exhaustion of an
eligible list, for the selection of can
didates to be placed upon It. Such
examination shall be open to all en-
listed personnel of the corps or
branch concerned who have com
pleted not less than SIX months con-
tinuous service in the National Guard
Of the District of Columbia immedi-
ately preceding the date on which
the examination is held. The exami-
nation will be similar in scope to the
examination prescribed in the Ma
tional Guard regulations for second
lieutenants of the corps or branch
concerned.
Candidates qualifying with a gen.
eral average of Sc 2-3 per cent and a
grade of not less than so per cent on
each subject will be awarded a certifi-
cate of proficiency and placed on the
eligible list Of the corps or branch
concerned in the order of merit estab-
lished by the examination"
The order further states that the
life of any eligible list shall be for
one year, and that any candidate who
fails to receive commission during
any year on the list will be eligible to
10 take another examination to be
placed on the list of the next year.
If man on the eligible list for one
corps transfers to another corps his
name will be taken from the eligible
list. but he may take an examina-
ton for the eligible list of the other
corps, but will be excused from taking
an examination in such subjects as he
successfully passed in first case.
Further provision Is made that IL
an enlisted mans time expires while
his name is on the list and he does not
enlist within 80 days. his name will
be removed from the list.
Corp. Charles F. Byrne, 29th Mill
tary Police Company, won the medal
of honor as captain of Company C.
st. Johns College Cadets in their re-
cent competitive drill.
Naval Reserve.
Lieut.. Paul V. Thompson, attached
to the Naval Reserve of the District
of Columbia, has been ordered to re.
port to the commanding officer Of the
u. S. S. Cheyenne, training ship of
the Baltimore, Md, Naval Reserve
for his annual cruise with that unit
Lieut.. Thompson is an engineer Off.
Ger.
This officer left Washington Friday
and reported aboard the vessel at her
dock in Baltimore Friday night. This
ship will cruise for two weeks, pro-
ceeding up the coast to Newport
r. l., for liberty, and returning to
Tangier Sound in the Chesapeake
Bay for target practice.
Preparations are being made by the
Naval Reserve of the District of Co.
lumbia for the second cruise of this
Summer aboard the u. S. s. Eagle
No. Sc, which will start from her
dock at the foot of Water and o
streets southwest next Saturday
Commander John A. Schof1eld will
command the vessel on this cruise
which will be for 80 days, and will
touch Havana. Haiti and the Virgin
Islands, returning to the naval target
grounds in the Chesapeake Bay for
target practice.
This is the longest cruise which the
ship has been ordered on, and is the
second foreign cruise of this Summer
1t also will be the last cruise of the
Eagle No. Sc as the training ship OF
the District Reserves, as she is to be
relieved in July by the u. s. Destroy
er Allen. now fitting out at the Phil