Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04
District National Guard

Headquarters and Service Company.
l2lst Engineers.
Pvt. Carl w. Himmler. Company T.,
121st Engineers, has been ordered
| dropped from the Guard rolls as de-
serter as of February %, 1926. he haV'
ing failed to report for drill since that
date and all effort 10 locate him hav-
| ing failed.
| 70 enable the members of the rifle
team to get better eye on the tar
gets when participating in matches.
! the Guard has just received new
spotting telescope, which has been
turned over to Capt. j. 6. Jensen,
/ Ordnance Department.
Week end trips of the 260th Coast
Artillery soon will be started by that
organization to Fort Washington, Md,
for training with the coast defense
guns still in place there. Permission
has been given by the Regular Army
officials for this training. The men
will have the use of one of the DA1A
| rack buildings for sleeping accom- 40
dation on Saturday nights and for the
cooking of meals on Saturday night
and Sunday.
Stringent instructions to enable the
Guard to defend itself against cpl.
denies of smallpox, typhoid and para =
typhoid fever while in the field this
Summer for it's annual training exer-
cises have been issued by the Militia
! Bureau of the War Department. A
close check up will be made of officers
and men in the local Guard in accord
ance with the instructions, it was said
In all cases where there is no positive
evidence of successful NEGOTIATIONS.
the orders say, the opera ton for both
purposes will be performed immedi-
ately after the completion of the en-
iistment. The Guard armory inspec-
ton report for 1925 shows that but
approximately 40 per cent of the en-.
listed and so per cent of the commits,
stoned personnel of the National
Guard have been protected against ty-
phoid and paratyphoid fevers.
Naval Reserve.
Report has been filed with the Sec
rotary of the Navy by the board of
naval officers which recently conduct
ed the annual inspections Of the Naval
reserve of the District of Columbia
and several other Reserve units on the
| factory progress toward the develop
| ment of an efficient orga nizatiOn. and
| that generally there was a re.aWak
ened interest in the Naval Reserve
The high morale and enthusiasm of
officers and men, their loyalty and
eagerness to build up their organiZa
ton were praised by the inspecting
officers, who state that the Naval
Reserve eventually will be in the
| same high state of efficiency as during
| the recent war, and will be the same
asset as during that war. II will be
remembered that following the war
| the Regular Navy personnel, for vari.
Gus reasons, buffeted the Reserve
about until thousands who had per.
| formed ValorouS sea service while the
! fleet was bottled up at Yorktown ieft
the service in disgust. The service
clamored for these Reservists then.
and in the rush to keep their rank
| after the war forgot all about the
Reserve
| The board reported that Reserve
tory. There is one aviation division
| in the District Reserve. The board
found that none of the Reserve avia-
ton divisions was completely or
gained. Lack of suitable armories
was given as being, in a large meas
/ ure, responsible for this condition.
officers have been meeting on drill
nights and have been given lectures
in navigation and other subjects. but
the lack of drill equipment, such as
aviation engines, planes. etc, or a
place to house such equipment has
resulted in no attempts being made
to recruit enlisted men 10 fill the dj-
visions to their authorized compile
mentS.
In one naval district, the boards re
port says. the aviation division had
progressed no further than a DaDer
organization, although since the in
spection was made some progress is
reported. With respect to Reserve
night facilities Reserve aviation unit
has been operating in one of the dis.
tricts for three years. The site which
has been available was totally made
| quate for the purpose, making opera
| ton extremely difficult A further
complication existed in that all planes
| had to be turned over to the State
| police reserve for its use over the
week ends. This was declared to be a
| serious handicap to successful opera.
| ton, and the arrangement was not at
all satisfactory. AS a result of the
whole. the inspection board recon-
| mended that the Reserve unit be either
moved to a new location or else
abandoned completely. In the mean
time negotiations were under way to
| obtain a new location, and these ne
| gotiations have since been successfully
accomplished, and real progress is
now being made by this unit.
The suitability of armories and the
equipment available for training the
Naval Reserve varies greatly in diff
ferent localities, the board reported,
| Generally for those organizations
where the dual status of naval militia
and Naval Reserve maintain armory
facilities are provided by the State.
either exclusively for the use of the
naval unit or shared in common with