Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
District National Guard

and the other officers and soldiers of
your command.
MY feeling of confidence as to tho
manner in which you would handle
your part in the ceremonies enabled
me. without hesitation, to assure the.
general committee that they need not
have any fear for the performance fU
which you would participate and you
sustained this confidence.
THE neat and soldiery appearance
and the accurate formation and
movements Of your command were
| fine and made an impression on the
| spectators that win require your con-
tinued efforts to sustain and extraor-
binary effort 20 improve. I convey to
you my congratulations and thanks"
Seven members of the guard have
made application 20 take the exani-
nation to be held at headquarters
July for the purpose Of providing
an eligible list from which will be Sc.
lected men for promotion by commits.
sion to fill vacancies in the grade OF
second lieutenants OF infantry as they
occur in the infantry units in the 10.
cal Guard. They are:
Private, first class, Arthur A. Tom
eden. Company II. 121st Engineers;
Private John T. Carroll, Medical De-
tachment, 121st Engineers; Sergt.
John j. Mcdonald, Headquarters and
Service Company. 121st Engineers;
Sergt. Carroll G. Yoakum, Battery A,
260th Coast Artillery; First Sergt. Jo-
seph B. Darcy, Battery A, 260th-
| Coast Artillery; Sergt. Edwin F.
Rowles. 29th Military Police Company,
and Sergt. John j. Cournyn, goth Di-
vision, Headquarters Detachment.
The applications of all of these men
have been approved by headquarters,
and they have been directed to appear
before the examining board on the.
date selected.
Material improvement was shown
during the past week in the attend
ance records of the various units Of
the Guard, and only one unit, Com
pany 3, 121st Engineers, now is below
! the strength required by the Militia
| Bureau of the War Department for
continued Federal recognition. Off,.
GERS of the local guard expect that the.
attendance records will continue to
show improvement as the time for
| the annual encampments of the va
rious units approach, and the figures
also will be sent up by the increase
in enlistments which usually precedes
the field training periods.
| Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery,
| headed the attendance list, according
| to the figures compiled at brigade
headquarters, showing a percentage
| Of 1881. The other organizations in
their relative order. follow, together
with the attendance percentages no.
| ted after each:
Battery C, 260th Coast Artillery,
1900; Company C, 121st Engineers.
1927; Headquarters and Service Com
pany, 121st Engineers, 6S.75; Band.
121st Engineers. 64.71; Company A.
372d Infantry, 62.91; Battery B, 26Oth
Coast Artillery, 60.79; Company F,
121st Engineers, 5000; Headquarters
Detachment, 29th Division, So. As;
Company D, 121st Engineers, 5s.O7;
Company A, 121st Engineers, 56.46:
Medical Detachment, 121st Engineers.
o2.39; Company E, 121st Engineers,
52.35; Headquarters Detachment, Spe-
cial Troops. 10th Division, 5000; Com
pany B. 121st Engineers, 41.67, and
18th Military Police Company. $500.
Brigade headquarters announced
that the President of the United
states has accepted the resigna ton
OF Second Lieut.. David W. Milne,
Company ID, 121st Engineers. and IL
became effective on June 10. Lieut..
Milne, it was said, resigned because
of the fact that he has moved 10
Masontown, w. Va.
With the muster in last week of a
headquarters detachment, the local
National Guard now has full bat
talon of coast artillery. The organi-
cation, which has been in process OF
formation for several weeks, was fed.
erahy recognized at the muster which
was held at the armory, Water and
0 streets southwest, last Tuesday
night. The battalion is commanded
by Maj. Walter w. Burns, and in ad-
dition to headquarters, consists of
three batteries of coast artillery, the
third battery only having been or.
ganized several weeks ago.
Private Ire P. Meyer has been or
dered promoted to sergeant in Com,
pany F, 121st Engineers.
Col. John w. Oehmann. command.
ing the .121st Regiment of Engineers.
has ordered the following promotions
IN Company A, on recommendation of
the unit commander: To be sergeants:
Corps. William Earl and Thomas l..
Thorne and Pvt. Harry BrOdsky. To
be corporHls: Pvt. first class Stone.
wall j. Yeatman and Pvt. Warren
Jones.
With the arrival of fair weather. the
troops of the local Guard will be en-
abled to get more training in close
order work, according to officers, who
pointed out that the Guard showed
up particularly we'll on the last pa
rade, when it became known that the
entire Winter has been spent in
armory work, such as schools, and
without drilling of any kind. The
lack OF any drill space makes II inn
possible for the members of the local
Guard to get any but classroom in
struction during the Winter months,
as during the inclement weather they
cannot so out in the street. because
to do so would have neceSsitated. an
issue of overcoats, which would con-
sumo considerable time.
The armory work during the year,
while beneftting the Guard, it was
pointed out, has also pointed to the
great need of adequate armory faciI-
tiles for the local organization. be-
cause of its Federal character and be-
cause of the fact also that the States
look up to it to ascertain just what
the Federal Government expects in
the way Of making adequate provision
for F'ederally owned equipment which
~ lOdllSu 10 TIE 0ldLSS upon Tic con-
dition that adequate and proper stor-
age facilities be provided. 2y
Plans are being formulated here for
making another try before the com
ing Congress for the purpose of hay-
ing ii provide an adequate armory
here, and one in keeping with the fact
that the local organization is a Fed
araI one. The Attorney General OF
The United States has ruled that the
District Guard is such a Federal actiy-
ty as to put it in the same class with
Government departments. for which
he Public Buildings Commission must
provide a home. 1t has not yet been