Evening star., 1925-07-26

MEYER GOLDMAN to the band, IN
cluding Harry
Miners, Logan and Wallace.
The quartermaster ferry Gen. Ruck-
er. which plies regularly on the route
between this city and Fort Washing
ton, is to be used in transportation
of the local guard between this city
and Virginia Beach, Va, their camp.
The War Department has just issued
instructions for the use of this boat.
While there is some disappointment
| that the Army did not assign regu-
lar transport for this duty, the en-
listed personnel is somewhat elated
over the fact that it will be able to
go to camp by boat. But this small
craft will only accommodate half of
The outfit, and it will take 1t about
IL hours to make the trip, provided
1t does not meet up with a storm
on the Chesapeake Bay. Just how
the other half of the guard will pro-
ceed to its camp has not been deter
mined. Bids for this transportation
will be asked for, and 1t is the hope
of the guard officials that one of the
steamboat company bids will be lower
than the rail bids, so that both con-
tingents will proceed by boat.
The contingent of troops which goes
down on the Gen. Rucker will come
back by the other boat or rail- and
the section which goes to the beach
by the other boat or rail will return
on the Gen. Rucker, so that all
branches of the guard will at some
time make a trip on this vessel.
The instructions for the guard to
proceed by water to Virginia Beach
increases the number of camp days
by two. as an additional day is al
lowed for travel Instead of the guard
leaving here Sunday. as originally
planned, IL is now proposed that it
will embark at the Washington Bar
racks dock in time to leave Satur-
day at 8 am. Even this will make
it dark by the time the vessel ar
rives in Norfolk, and an hour or so
later by the time the train deposits
them in the camp at Virginia Beach.
However, an advance detail of men
Will proceed to camp in time to map
off the company streets and erect the
tents. Cots will be placed in the tents
and all the troops will have to do
that night will be to roll over on
the cots. They will have Sunday in
which to do this.
The two weeks at Virginia Beach Is
going to be an intensive training one
for the troops, it is observed from the
program Of training, which has been
mapped out by Col. John w. Och
mann, commanding. Copies of the or
der were issued to the units at drill
last Tuesday night.
Before Washington is thoroughly
astir on the morning of August IT
these citizen soldiers will be out polio
ing the camp-in military parlance
this means cleaning UP and tidying
up Of the camp. The rest of that
morning will be taken up in organiza-
ton of various schools, and the in
structions for carrying out the pro-
gram.
August IS. real work will begin. In
the morning Company A will con-
struct trestle bridges, Company B,
field Notifications; Company D, trestle
bridges; Company E, wire entangle-
ments; Companies c and F. mass
games and guard mounting drill; Com
pany c, portable bridges, and Com
pany F. demolitions. In the afternoon
there will be pitching of shelter tents
and making packs, and close-order
drill for all companies and saber drill
for the officers. The day ends at AIS
August 10 will start in with mass
games. followed by close-order drill
and instructions in gas warfare, in
Guiding the use Of the gas mask, and
the afternoon will be given over to
IeCTedIlOn III the form Oh atnletlCS Su-
pervised by Chaplain Smith.
The remaining days of the
camp will be largely a repetition of
the program of the first few days. this
training eliminating on August % in
a field problem, consisting Of defend
ing the coast against a landing at
tack by hostile force from the sea.
Capt Sidney Morgan. commanding
RI q
pany of the 121st Engineers, accom-
panied by Lieut.. William K. Mushake
and Master Sergt. F. F. Bernsdorff,
motored to the rifle range at Virginia
Beach last Sunday to make a survey
of the camp grounds and the camp
facilities.
AS the engineers will move into
camp as regimental unit, the Head
quarters and Service Company will
be required to have facilities available
for the combat troops. Capt. Morgan
and his staff went to ascertain what
facilities are there and what equip
ment will have to be taken by the
advance guard to prepare the camp
for the reception of the main body of
troops.
Authority has been given the adult
citizens of Congress Heights to use
the swimming pool at Camp Simms
on Tuesday and Thursday evenings of
each week from o'clock until dark
Two rooms in one of the camp build
ingS close to the pools have been
assigned as dressing rooms for the
public who make use Of the pool.
Six reserve officers have been au-
thorized by the War Department to
proceed to Virginia Beach, Va, with
the 121st Regiment of Engineers,
local Guard, and take their annual
training with this organization. These
officers were members Of the local
Guard prior to the World War, being
officers in the old 3rd Infantry. They
are: Maj. w. Laurence Hazard, 2715
Fourteenth street northwest; Maj.
James Bennett Jones. $500 Brookville
road, Chevy Chase, Md; Maj. Fred
erick Aff1eck Livingstone, 1910 Cor
coran street northwest; Capt Joseph
Archimede Giocannoni, 1880 Randolph
street northwest; Capt. Jesse Conrad
Sweeney, % Sixteenth street south
east, and First Lieut.. Chester Merrill
Reich, 332 Maryland avenue northeast.
The War Department strength re-
port of the National Guard units of
the country shows total of 679 off,
GERS and men in the National Guard
of the District of Columbia. There
are 1889 officers and men in the
Maryland National Guard and 3,013 in
the Virginia National Guard, making
a total of the 29th Division, which
comprises these three geographical
divisions, of 1881 officers and men.
For the first time in many weeks a
unit of the local Guard showed 100
per cent attendance at drills. The
attendance report for last week shows