Evening star., 1925-07-19


! ed in the 121st En-
Sergt. f.. w. Ireland. gineers in Febru-
ary, 1928.
Sergt. Frank V. Birthright has been
transferred from the headquarters sec
ton to the band section of the Head
quarters and Service Company as a
private.
Privates George A. Walker and
Philip F. Biggins, Medical Detach-
ment, 12lSt Engineers, have been pro-
moted to sergeants in that organiza-
ton
In the Headquarters and Service
Company Private Thomas J. Dawson
has been promoted to sergeant, and
Privates Henry j. Krumm, jr., and
James J. Skelly to be corporals.
The following promotions in Battery
B, 260th Coast Artillery, have been
announced: Privates to be corporals,
William Is. Harmon, T. n. Lynch, +.
Reinmuth and T. S. Wallace; privates
to prlvateS. first class. l.. w. Cooper
r. j. Anderson and Harry Silbert.
The Militia Bureau of the War De
partment in notifying the District
Guard headquarters of the service
schools to which National Guard Off
GERS will be sent this year, announced
that the District of Columbia Guard
had been allotted one student each at
the Coast Artillery School at Fort
Monroe, Va, from September IA to
November 6, and one at the Medical
Officers School at Carlisle Barracks,
Carlisle, Pa, from September l to Oc-
tober 13.
Sergt. Edward D. Andrus. Company
Il, 12lst Engineers, has been awarded
a distinguished marksman medal for
having won a place on the National
tnaY 11rIi iaIo iDtv r@1
national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio.
He was a member of the team in
1922 and 1924.
Guard headquarters has sent to all
unit commanders instructions re-
ceived from the War Department re-
garding the number of armory drills
to be held by the local guard during
the current fiscal year. The order
says that not more than "a drills may
be had during the first half of the
year, and not more than IL drills
each during the third and fourth
quarters. making a total of 4S drills
in all. In order to keep within the
allotment of funds for this purpose
1t is impracticable to give the local
citizen soldiers more than this num-
Der of drills during the current year,
unless they drill without pay.
The honorable discharge of Sergt.
David Ross from the 29th Military
Police Company has been requested
by Lieut. Raymond NJ. Peak, COM
manding. Sergt. Ross has removed
from the District. Lieut.. Peak also
has requested the promotion of Corpl.
Ralph F. BARLEY to sergeant and Pvt.
Wilson C. Wilmot to corporal.
The 29th Military Police Company
now has its full quota of officers and
men, according to Lieut.. Peak, and
is ready for camp. Pvt. Frank j.
BaStable has been promoted to pri-
vate, first class, in this company. The
following men enlisted in this COM
pany Wednesday night: Robert +.
Hemphill. Joseph T. Risdon, William
S. Ennis, William H. Presgrove. Rob-
ert L. Livingston and Ralph NJ. Dean.
Sergt. John F.. Colbert of this COM
pany has been detailed for 10 days
duty at the Reserve officers Training
Camp at Camp Meade, Md.
The 29th Military Police Company
will start on it's first practice march
next Saturday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. Lieut. Peak will assem-
BILE the command at the armory and
It will march out Massachusetts ave
nue. to Wisconsin avenue and the
Rockville pike into Maryland, where
a camp will be established for the
night. They will return Sunday about
6 o'clock in the evening.
Lieut.. Peak and Lieut.. Daniel b.
IJovd will leave Washington today
for Camp Meade, Nd, where Iney
will confer with men in the training
camps there. with a view to getting
some of them to enlist in the 2Sth
Military Police Company.
The 26oth Coast Artillery spent last
Sunday at Fort Washington, Md. They
vent down by motor truck. While
there they manned and drilled at the
12.inch guns, held infantry drill, con
Quoted a battalion review, an manned
All the fire control equipment. 1t was
in command of Capt. Louis NJ. Gosorn.
The same organization left yesterday
afternoon on the Army quartermaster
ferry Gen. Rucker, for another night
and a day at the river post, engag.
ing in various drills. The vessel VIII
leave this morning at IL o'clock from
tho washington Barracks wharf, and
viii carry down members of the fami-
lies and friends of the artllerymen
who will watch them in their drills.
All VII return to Washington tonight.
Cant. James D. Eggleston made a
reconnaissance of the roads between
this city and Fort Monroe last sun
day. preparatory to the departure or
the 26Oth Coast Artillery for camp
This outfit will go by truck and auto
mobile and Capt. Eggleston has
marked out various points where the
orga MIA ton may camp during the
trip, although it is the hope of the
officers that the caravan VIII De aDle
10 make the destination in one day.
Serrt. Cecil w Burden, Coast Ar
tiIlerv. il was announced, has ap-
nlied for an honorable discharge on
account of removal from the District.
The 260th Coast Artillery, Maj.
Walter w. Burns, commanding, ana
Company A, 121st Engineers, Capt.
Row w. Keesee, commanding, have
opened a recruiting station at 1925 r
street northwest, where an intensive
drive will be made for recruits for
the two organizations to bring them
up to full strength by the time they
embark for the annual encampment.
Mai Burns has received permis-
sion from the Traffic Bureau to park
a 15-ton. 155 nm. gun and a To-
ton tractor on F street, near the re-
cruiting station, in an effort to at
tract recruits. The particular gun.
which will be on the street, was used
nv the Goth u. S. Coast Artillery
in France during the World War.
Mai w. E. r. Covell, assistant
engineer commissioner Of the District
of Columbia, in charge OF public
utilities, attended his last drill as