Evening star., 1925-05-03
District National Guard

Company e, 121st Engineers, 64.28;
Company B, 260th Artillery, 61.S1;
Company d, 121st Engineers, 61.1O;
Headquarters and Service Company,
less band section. 60.87; Company A,
/ st Separate Battalion Infantry, 1898;
Battery A, 260th Artillery, 57.83.
A number of officers of the Army
Reserve Corps have applied for and
received permission to go to Virginia
Beach, Va, with the guard at the
time of the annual training encamp-
ment in August. A number OF those
who have made applications were
members of the local guard before the
World War, and went into active serv-
ice with It, Among those who will
go are: Capt. Claude Burlingame, In
fantry Reserve; Capt. Victor ii. Dent,
Infantry Reserve; Maj. j. B. Jones,
12Oth Infantry; Maj. Frederick A. Liv-
ingstone, Capt. Joseph A. Giovannoni.
Infantry Reserve; First Lieut.. c. NJ.
Reich. Infantry Reserve; Capt. j. c..
Sweeney, Infantry Reserve.
The following colored Reserve Of
ficers have received permission to go
to camp with the list Separate Bat
TALON, which will be held at Saunders
Range. Md. this summer: Capt.
Howard d. Queen, 4257 Dix street
northwest: First Lieut.. P. Men.
Thompson and. Second Lieut.. P. j.
| Chesson, both of Norfolk, Va.
Drill pay checks for Companies B
and D, 121st Engineers, and a and B.
Coast Artillery, have been received
from the 3rd Corps Area at Balti-
more. Nd. and distributed. Those
for the Headquarters and Service
| Company of the 121st Engineers are
expected this week. When these ar
rive it will complete the payment of
the members of the guard for the
quarter ending March 80 last.
Applications for distinguished
marksmen medals, by virtue Of hav-
ing been on a winning rifle team
competing with teams of the Army
of the United States, have been filed
| with National Guard headquarters.
Staff Sergt. John A. Shricker, Com
pany C. 121st Engineers. was a prin-
cipal on the National Guard rifle
team in 1920, 1922 and 1923. Tech
nical Sergt. Frank B. Kaye claims
| the medal by virtue of having been a
principal on the local guard team in
1923. Sergt. Thaddeus A. Riley, Com
pany L, 121st Engineers, claims a
| medal by reason of having been a
principal on the team of 1924. Pri-
121st Engineers, claims one as a
principal on the team of the 10th
Engineers, National Guard of Mis-
souri,, in 1924. He was then SER
geant in Company c of that organi-
| zation.
Owing to the crowded conditions
| in the armory, the 1st Separate
Battalion has received instructions
to seek a new armory by July 1.
| Funds have been provided, and Capt.
| Arthur G. Newman, commanding, has
| been instructed to submit recon-
mendations for an armory for his
i organization. The letter suggests that
| one Of the gymnasiums or assembly
halls in one Of the colored high schools
might be obtained for drill purposes,
for assemblies and the storage OF
equipment.
| Lawrence F. Hardy, 1920 Harvard
street, enlisted in Company Z, 121st
Regiment OF Engineers.
| Plans are being made by the 260th
| Coast Artillery to establish a war
| museum at its armory, at Water and
o streets southwest. Mai. Walter w
Burns, commanding. in making appli
cation for a number of the German
| trophies ALLOTTED TO the District OIL
Columbia. informed headquarters that
the organization planned to have a
| single museum. He filed application
for IS articles from the list. including
one 71-mm. gun and carriage and one
150-mm. howitzer and carriage.
In order to get the equipment here
he said. 1t was proposed to borrow a
lotion trailer from the motor trans
port camp at Camp Holabird, Md, and
tow it by truck TO Newark, where the
| equipment would be loaded and
brought over the road to Washington
| Excellent reports were received by
the units of the National Guard of the
District Of Columbia during the re
cent inspections conducted by Capt
w. A. Crosson, who came here from
Philadelphia for the purpose oi
making inspections.
The Guard rife team went TO the
Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md.
yesterday for it's annual rife matches
with the Midshipman team. Read Ad
miral Mutton, commanding the acad
emy, accepted the offer of the loca
guard to compete with the midship
men.
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