Evening star., 1925-06-21
District National Guard

Medical Detachment, 121st Engineers,
$3.50: band. 121st Engineers, 62.06:
Company B, 121st Engineers. 5000:
Company F., 121st Engineers, $3.50:
Headquarters and Service Company
STA; Company c, 121st Engineers.
56.36; Company f, 12lst Engineers,
56.13; Battery B, 26Oth Coast Artil-
lery, 56.13; Battery A, 260th Coast Ar
tillery, $3.50: Company A. 1st Separate
Battalion. 44.57; Company d, 121st En-
gineers, 3S.1S.
The following enlisted men of Bat
terry A, 260th Coast Artillery, have
been ordered honorably discharged,
for the reasons given: Educational in
terference, Corpl. Roy F. Stahlberg;
removal from the District of Column
bia. Corpl. John c. Stevens.
Seashore drills have been inaugu-
rateG hy the band section of the Head
quarters .Hnd Service Company of the
l21st Regiment of Engineers, Dis
trict Guard. Capt. Sidney Morgan.
comma nding this unit, announced that
the band will hold its regular
weekly drill at Chesapeake Beach.
Md, today. A motor caravan has
been formed and the organization will
IedNe the aTnlOTy t0lS morning IOr
the drill to the Beach, where in the
afternoon the one and one-half hours
of drill required will be performed by
giving a concert on the beach at
North Beach While at the resort
the bandsmen will be the guests of
the Artisans Club of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing.
Sergt. John F. Rocket and a de-
tachment from the Headquarters and
Service Company left last night to
make preparations for the main
body's arrival today. Many of the
men who will go today expect to take
their families along.
Capt. Morgan said that II the plan
was successful the scheme of hav-
ing the regular drills at the beach
might be carried throughout the Sum-
mer, or up until the time of the an
nual encampment at Virginia Beach,
Va. in August.
Col. Lloyd NJ. Brett, adjutant gen.
eral of the District of Columbia Mi
litia, this week presented to the
French Ambassador. M. Emile Daesch-
er, gold badge Of honorary men,
bership in the Department of Ken
lucky of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. NJ. Daescher was made an
honorary member while in Kentucky
recently, but the gold badge has just
been made, and,the duty of presenting
it here was imposed on Col. Brett,
who is a past commander.in-chief of
the national organization.
John William Jackson, 131 L street
northwest, has enlisted In Company
A, 1st Separate Battalion of Infantry.
Preparations are being made by the
Guard for participation in the defense
test July 4. There will be no parade
of unit musters, but instructions are
peing prepared for each man to report
and sign pledge card on that day,
and they are to be urged to take part
in the three patriotic celebrations to
he held.
Consideration is being given by the
Militia Bureau of the War Depart
ment to dispatch the National Guard
OF the District OF Columbia to its
amp at Virginia Beach, Va, on the
transport Gen. Rucker, which phys
on the regular run on the Potomac
River between Washington Barracks
and Fort Washington. If this cannot
be done, there seems to be a proba-
bility now that they will go by train
There is much doubt as to whether
the Gen. Rucker. which is a small
concrete boat. can take the full COM
plement OF the Guard and also the
large amount Of paraphernalia which
must be taken to the camp. 1t is a
good day or night run down the Po-
tomac River and Chesapeake Bay. to
Norfolk, and 1t is not believed to be
wise move to send this vessel in
| these waters loaded with troops,
which nee s.;arily would have to be
packed uncomfortably..
ha6
here for this duty, but at this time
this does not seem probable. At any
rate, the local Guard officers have
been asked for figures on the cubical
measurements of the equipment
which will be taken to camp.
Prospective officers in the local
guard are to be made to realize that
they are to serve in a military unit
as a whole, and not have the choice
of going to a particular part of it,
according to orders just issued by the
National Guard headquarters. One
of the first duties of a military officer
Is willingness to serve wherever
assigned. Recently, however, after
commissions had been issued to two
officers. they refused them unless they
were sent to particular commands.
They were refused these assignments.
as their commissions were as officers
in the regiments and not to particular
companies To avoid the issuance of
such commissions in the future, Gen