Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

Walter 5. Welsh, nVe leSSOnS' r ISl
Lieut.. John f. Temple, five lessons;
First Lieut.. John r. Quade, five les
sons; Capt. Samuel r. Turner, four
lessons; Second Lieut.. Joseph F.
Fitzgerald, four lessons; First Lieut..
James NJ. Magruder. four lessons, and
First Lieut.. Walter A. knight, four
lessons.
The report shows that the follow
ing additional officers have met the
requirements of one lesson a month:
First Lieut.. William A. Mushake, two
lessons; Capt. Clarence S. Shields, two
lessons; Capt. William +. Jorgensen,
two lessons; Second Lieut.. David W.
Milne, two lessons; Second Lieut.. En-
rique c. Canova, two lessons; Capt.
George w. Johns, two lessons, and
Sergt. Albert Silver, two lessons.
The following officers submitted one
lesson during the year: Capt. Ralph
S. Childs, Capt William +. Buechler,
Capt. Charles E. Smithson, Second
Lieut.. Afford l.. Jorgensen and Sergt.
Kenneth ]. Zoeller.
Maj. Kenneth Sinclair Purdie.
Coast Artillery Reserve, has been
commissioned a lieutenant colonel in
the Quartermaster Corps and assigned
to duty on the staff of Maj. Gen. An
ton Stephan. commanding the 18th
National Guard Division. He sue
ceeds Lieut.. Col Robert Baldwin
Myers, transferred to the National
Guard Reserve
Preparations are being made by the
Engineer regiment for an intercom-
mnnicating telephone system in the
, National Guard armory to hook up
all offices and headquarters.
The local Guard has received in
structions from the War Department
| to submit as soon as practicable a
consolidated report on craftsmanship
| qualifications for all units, pointing
out that these reports are needed by
the Militia Bureau for the purpose of
| determining the annual results of
craftsmanship training.
1t has not been practicable hereto
| fore to prepare this report because of
the failure of National Guard organi-
cations to send the required papers to
| the War Department. All unit COM
manders now are directed to prepare
these reports Immediately following
| the target season, and these are to be
consolidated by the adjutant general
and forwarded to the department.
The Militia Bureau has informed
the National Guard that in order to
intelligently present the needs of the
| National Guard to the War Depart
ment and Congress it is necessary for
the bureau to compile accurate stats.
teal data with regard to strength,
| drill attendance, animals, caretakers,
ETC. Reports conveying this informa-
| ton should be sent to the Militia Blu
reau each month. The Guard organi-
cations are reminded that 1000 of
these reports are due monthly and
they have to be consolidated by a
small clerical force, and any delay
from any organization seriously com
plicates the situation.
Officials of the local Guard have
about come to the conclusion that they
| will concentrate before the present
session of Congress on getting the
legislative BODY to pass a law pruvid-
ing for a federally owned building
and to make little or no attempt to
put through a proposition to have the
authority given for the Guard to en-
ter into a long-term lease with some
/ private persons for the erection of a.
| building suitable for Guard purposes.
1t was pointed out that for the past
20 years the Guard has been working
| for place in which it could rest
secure and get its training, but after
this long period it finds itself in quar-
tiers worse than ever before and where
practically no training worthy of the
name can be obtained. The time is
ripe now, it was added, to push for an
armory, and particularly in view of
the fact that the officials of the Public
Buildings Commission have suggested
that the best way to obtain a building
is to get Congress to authorize one
specifically.
There is pending in Congress now
bills providing for the construction of
a building for the Guard on some Fed
eral property, and every effort is to
be made by the officials to push this
through. The Public Buildings Com
mission is opposed to the Guard hav-
ing it's armory in the area which Con-
gress is to purchase for the buildings
for the civil departments Of the Gov
eminent, and as little help may be OBJ
tanned there the Guard will present
| it's case frankly to the members Of
Congress. 1t is proposed not to even
have the bill just provide for an ap'
preparation to prepare plans and speci-
| fications, but to make provision In 1t
for the erection Of the building and to
authorize the full appropriation.