Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25

| of the service for the District OF Co
lumbia to erect adequate armory Ia
cilities for the National Guard rather
than to authorize the same to be
| leas ed al a rental which Will COM
pletely pay for the building and
ground in period of about 10 years. :
The total increase in the estimates
for naXt year as compared with the
appropriations for this year i3 $l1,9Go,
including the $4,000 armory rental
increase. OF this increase, $3.50 is
| for one increase in salary to each
employee of the Guard. $1,000 for one
new clerk in the Adjutant Generals
office. 1t is explained that the rec
concentration for salary step-up is in
accordance with circular of the bud
get officer, District of Columbia. dated
Nav %, 1926. The additional clerk
is required to care for increased cor
| respondence, ETC., in the headquarters.
| Other. items in the estimates, which
| are the same as in the current ap-
preparations are: For printing, sta
tionery and postage, $3.50; for clean
ing and repairing uniforms. arms
| and equipments and contingent eX-
penses, $1,000: for expenses of target
practice and matches, 81 500: for pay
of troops other than Government en-
ployes. to be disbursed under the
/
handing general, $4,000.
/ The following enlisted in the local
| Guard during the week; Lyle Mills,
/ 3S47 Chesapeake street. headquarters
| detachment, Goth Division Special
| Troops; Lewis G. Phillips, 401 Ken
| lucky avenue southeast, headquarters
detachment, 29th Division Special
Troops; Melvin S. Frazier. III c
! street southeast, goth Division Head
| quarters Detachment; William r.
| Mooney. 1852 Conduit road, head
! quarters detachment, Goth Division
! Special Troops; Reuben A. Nelson,
| headquarters detachment. 10th Di.
vision Special Troops; Paul A. Chal-
| upsky, SIC Mills Building, headquar
| ters detachment, 10Th Division Spe
] cial Troops; Giles r. Takkart, jr.,
| 1444 w street, headquarters detach
/ ment, 18th Division Special Troops:
| Francis w Lee, 334 Maryland av-
! enue northeast, headquarters detach-
ment, 29th Division Special Troops;
Albert j. Sherman, 1143 Seventh
! street, headquarters detachment, 29th
| Division Special Troops; Allan Ward
| 937 l street, Company f, 121st En-
| gineers, and Edward ID. Andrus, 1000
+ street, Company +, 121st Engineers.
Capt. Raymond NJ. Peak, now com-
handing the 29th Military Police
, Company, has been ordered to appear
| July q before an examining board. of
which Maj. Louis c. Brinton, jr.,
| United States Army. is president, to
| determine his fitness for commission
in the Quartermaster Corps to fill the
| vacancy created by the promotion of
Lieut.. Col. Peyton G. hewitt, who
| now is adjutant of the 10Th Division.
| If successful, Capt. Peak will be
| transferred to the new branch in his
! present rank, leaving the military
police in command of Lieut.. Claude
| Burlingame, veteran Guard officer,
and who will be. promoted to captain.
An examining board, headed by Col.
John W. Oehmann, has been detailed,
and the following ordered to appear
before it July q for examination for
promotion TO first lieutenants: Second
Lieuts. Thaddeus A. Riley, Com.
pany Z, 121st Engineers. and Edward
McA1ahon, Company E, 121st
Engineers; for promotion to second
| lieutenant, Sergt. Enrique c. Conova,
Company A, 121st Engineers: for
promotion to captain, First Lieuts.
William E. Buecher. Company A,
121st Engineers, and First Lieut..
George ". Johns, Company F. 121st
Engineers; for promotion TO first
lieuts, Second Lieut.. Alfred L. .Jor-
gensen, Company b. I2Ist Engineers,
and John +. Temple, Company ID,
l21st Engineers.
The following enlisted men of Com.
pany +, l21st Engineers, have been
ordered transferred to the reserve
corps of the same unit: Privates James
M. Boyd, Clay D. Perkins, jr., and
William F.. O'Ready.
Col. Samuel f. Smiley, U. S. A., re.
tired, who was adjutant general of the
District OF Columbia Militia from 1908
to 1912, inspected the local Guard at
the Armory Tuesday night. He is
now professor of military science and
tactics at Rutgers Academy.
The following members of Company
D, 121st Engineers, have been honor
ably discharged by reason of expira-
ton of enlistment: Staff Sergt Bonnie
c. Hays, Sergt. Holland H. Green:
Pvts. John A. Dills, Johannes F. Miller
and Madison r. Smith.
Notice has been received at Guard
headquarters of the assignment of
certain Infantry service officers to
train in camp this year with the 121st
Regiment of Engineers. There is con.
siderable opposition among the Guard
officers not only to the practice of
sending reserve officers to train with
Guard troops, but particularly the send
ing of officers of other branches of the
service to train with them in a. diff
ferent field of instruction.
Instructors assigned to the Guard
at Virginia Beach last year, when
a number of reserve Infantry officers
were sent in training with the local
Engineer regiment, made a specific.
recommendation against this practice,
pointing out that the officers were SO
much ballast, and, in fact, interfered
with the unit training of the local
engineers. Most of the time they
were in the field doing nothing, stand.
ing around under the shade of trees,
with nothing to do, as the units were at
fun complement. In addition to this,
1t was pointed out, it is bad for the
morale of the Guard, and some times
gives bad impression of the Guard
10 visiting inspectors of the Regular
Army, who see these officers standing
around. Immediately assume that
they are Guard officials loafing on
their training job. If the officers are
assigned to companies as supernu-
maries, it results in either of two
things. according to officers, either
they do nothing, or they work and
some officers of the unit loafs, because
there is not enough for four officers
to do. 1t was further pointed out
that they are Infantry officers, and
their efforts should be directed with
some Infantry Reserve unit.
Practically all of the officers as.
signed last year We're former officers of
the local Guard before the war. and
1t was believed they sought assign
ments with it because of the associa-