Evening star., 1926-06-13
tachment. 121st Engineers. 80, ana
Company G, 121st Engineers, 1884.

the minimum required strength before
the time for the organizations to go
to camp. In addition to trying to op'
tain recruits, every application Iof
discharge on account of business IN
reference or removal from the DIS
trict Is being closely scrutinized' at
headquarters to make certain that the
men are not using these reasons as
ruses to separate themselves from
the service.
In an effort to get desirable men.
Gen. Stephan has sent to unit com
manders list of applicants for the
citizens military training camps for
last year, and suggesting that the
commanders get in touch with these
men. AS the Army has not sufficient
funds with which to accommodate all
applicants for these camps this year,
it is believed that a number of those
In this area may be interested in
taking their training with the local
National Guard.
The Militia Bureau of the War De-
partment is compiling q list of copies
of all the military laws of the several
States, and Maj. Gen. Greed c. Ham
mond. chief of the bureau. has re-
queSted the adjutants general Of all
States and the District of Columbia
to forward to the bureau copies OF all
Of the military laws of the States
which are now in effect.
Naval Reserve.
Reports have been received at the
Navy Department that certain vessels
assigned to the Naval Reserve for
training purposes have failed to keep
adequate radio and communication
! logs. This has caused the director
of navsl communications to delay set
tlement with foreign administrations,
| in some cases over year, due to
the fact that the vessels concerned
| failed to submit the required reports
and the communication logs of these
vessels were either incomplete or not
existing. In these cases it was neces-
sary. to request the foreign admins
tration concerned to be good enough
to furnish substantiating message
copies.
In order that there will not be a
repetition of this failure during the
1926 cruises, now about to begin, the
chief of the Bureau Of Navigation is
| sending out a cautionary notice to
the commandants of all naval districts
| that before making cruises commune
cation officers and radiomen of the
| fleet divisions familiariZe themselves
with the duties Of their several posi-.
tions, and especially with commercial
traffic instructions. The suggestion
also has been made by the bureau
that where practicable these officers
be given periods of equivalent duty in
the office of the district communica-
tion service.
! Preparations are being made by
the Naval Reservists Of the District
| of Columbia for their annual cruises.
which begin next month. The drill
periods now are being used, according
to Lieut.. Harry j. Nichols, executive
officer, in instructing the men in the
care of and marking of their clothes
in accordance with naval practice.
This duty becomes all the more I'M
portant this year because of the fact
that with the District Reserves will
be the Maryland Reserves from Bal
| timore and in case uniforms. become
| careleSSly strewn around 1t VIII De
possible to easily identify them by the
regulation markings.
The drills of the local battalion are
Just getting back to their normal
stage with full attendance. During
the past few weeks the men have
been required to take their anti
typhoid injections, and the sore arms
and slight fevers resulting has mate
rally depleted the ranks of the reserv-
lists, it was said. Those who did come
to drill had arms so sore that they
could perform few Of the naval duties
required of them.
| Every effort is being made by the
local officers to recruit the local bat
talon up to the allowed strength
before the annual cruises start, 1t was
pointed out, and 1t is believed that this
| ho a
large number of men appear and make
application, but only small number
are permitted to take the oath of en-
| listment. The physical requirements
are stringent in the Naval Reserve,
as in the Navy, and despite the fact
that they want men the officers are
not willing to lower the physical
standard to the point where they will
take any one who applies. They are
getting applications in such numbers
that they can make selections, and
the young men who successfully pass
the surgeons at their physical exami
nation can consider themselves as
physically fit In every detail.
The U. S. destroyer Allen, training
| ship of the local reserves, which will
carry them on their annual sea cruise
this year, Is now at Norfolk, where, at
|
annual examination of her under
water hull, which also is being
painted. The vessel Is expected to be
back at her berth at the Washington
navy yard this week, when the drills
| of the local reservists will be held
aboard her to fully acQuaint them
with the equipment which they will
be required to handle during the COM
ing cruises, which will be with the
scouting fleet of destroyers in the At
lantic off Newport, r. l., and New
York.
Invitations are being sent out by
the local Naval Reserve Officers AS
sociation to all reserve officers and
former reserve officers inviting them
to attend the annual dinner and frolic
of the reserves to be held at Ward
man Park Hotel next Wednesday.
1t was announced at the local re-
serve headquarters that it would be
impossible to take any of the volun-
teer reserve officers on the U. s. s..
Allen this Summer, as all of the off,
GERS billets there will be filled by the
fleet reserve officers from this district
and Baltimore. However, there have
been received at the local headquar-
ters several applications from volun-
teer reservists, and it was said that
the bureau would make efforts to
cruise them aboard other ships of
the Navy. The first of these officers
will be sent this week. He is Lieut..
lC. Howard Lambdin, Chaplain's
Corps, who has been ordered to the
U. 8. S. Camden, submarine tender,
at New London, Conn.,, for a 15-day
, cruising period.
Efforts now are being made to re-