Evening star., 1926-08-22

kAns.. whore h" has heen given an
assignment as chief Of the CORE
Spcndence school section. Prior to his
assignment to the local reserve head
quarters for duty. Maj. Lemly was on
duty with the War Department gen
eral staff.
During tho absence of Maj. Lemly
who will be confined to Waiter Reed
for "A short time Maj. Sam I. Me
tantS, Infantry, who has just com
pleted the field officers course at the
Infantry School. Fort Benning. Ga,
will ho acting senior executive officer.
With the 1926 training camps enter
Ing upon tn" home stretch, although
there will ho q few camps held in
September. tho officers on duty at the
local headquarters are already formu-
liting plans for the inactive training
season. which will begin this Fall and
continue until next My. Great inter
eet was taken in the inStructional
assemblies held last Winter, and eX-
tensive efforts win be made by the
local Reserve headquarters to make
them more attractive and interesting
to the rescrNists for the 1926-2T sea
son.
Mai. Albert s. J. Tucker, Infantry,
assistant executive officer of the Or
eanized Reserves in Washington. and
executive officer of the 320th Infan-
try. "A local Reserve regiment, has
been relieved of these duties. Though
no official announcement has been
made by Sd Corps Area headquarters
on this subject il is believed that
Mai. Lcmlv will he assigned as eXecu-
tive officer of this regiment. Mag.
Tucker. who iS now on leave, Will con-
time in his other duties at headquar-
tors upon the expiration of his leave.
l.; Al I,,t,- hn n = H.
rlcton Reserve headquarters for the
coming year Majs. Lemly, Tucker,
Mct'ants and Gaugler. and Capts.
Golden and Woodward.
In response to tho application of
the authorities of Fordham tnlvcrsi-
ty, lordham, y. Y, the War Depart
n1cnt will establish at that university
a. coast artillery unit Of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps. This Will
he a two year elective course, which
will require minimum OF an aver
age of three hours per week per
academic year during the first two
academic years. and for those select
ed for advanced training five hours
per week during the remainder of the
course.
Tho War department announce
ment of the establishment of a coast
artillery K. q. II. G. unit at Fordham
University brought up the subject
again this week for considerable dis
cuSSiou the probable reduction of the
number Of students permitted to take
the X. q. y. {. training in certain
colleges during the next school year.
In response to communications reCeiv-
cd hy the department expressing con-
Germ ovcr this possibility, Secretary
Of 1,.,t, Tod hat
because of increased costs of main
tanning the r. Q. r. {. it has been
found necessary to limit the number
to he trained to that which can he
maintained with the funds and person
mel available. Each corps area com
mander has becm assigned a certain
quota to he distributed among insti-
tution& i'm his area. After Il thorough
study of conditions at each imStitu-
ton every effort will ho made by
corps area commanders to give the
the maximum number of students the
benefit Of Il. @. +. {. training. 1t is
not expected that the study which
now is being made on this subject
will adversely affect any Of the r. O.
r. &. units in Washington and Nicin-
fly. Al of the local units are in
thriving condition. and the sugges-
tlon has been made that those col
lcGoS whose K. O. II. G. training is
not OVer-popular should be diScon-
tnUed. 50 that those units i'm other
educational institutions in which there
l. surplus enrolment could take
care of the students deSirous of this
trimming. Th" result of this reduc-
ZION study of the l.. Q. r. &. will be
s.atched with extreme interest
- is expected that about 80 Med-
Nt Department Reserve officers will
undergo the field officers course which
VIII be given at Carlisle Barracks Pa
beginning September | and concluding
October IS, 1925. Up to the present
time. orders have been requested for
- medical reSerNiSts. one Dental Re
serve officer and one veterinary re-
ServiSt. the latter two being Lieut..
col. Alfred OWro and Mai. tolenzO
II. lioffmirc. respectively.
The Medical Reserve officers who
Will be ordered to undergo this active
duty training are Lieut.. Cols Eichard
s. Davis. Fred a. IIaGCard. Emmett
NJ. Harrison. John r. .. Howell and
lean Il. oliver: Majs. Henry T. Bag
10y. Paul +. cope. Charles j. IIgin-
h0tham, Ira *. Humphrey Herbert
l.. Johnson, Leo 4. Kuhn. Frank H.
Morrow. William NJ. Pierce and Fred
e-.ick G.. smith
Corps area commanders Will recon-.
nond a dozen or 50 medical rcSerVists
so attend this camp 50 that hv the