Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11

Cavalry Reserve officers of Wash
ington will meet at Fort Myer, Va.
today at 10 am. under the direction
of Maj. r. l.. Gaugler, assistant exec
utive officer of the Organized Reserves
in Washington, for instruction in equi-
tation. Reservists of the Ordnance
Department and Chemical Warfare
Service will hold their Institutional
assemblies at Reserve headquarters to-
morrow evening. The ordnance pro-
gram will be the continuing course on
ordnance engineering, the principal
subject of tomorrows meeting being
railway artillery carriages. This con-
ference will be conducted by Maj.
GaugIer. The subject of the Chemical
Warfare Service conference will be
the continuing problem on general
principles of tactics, which will be
given by an officer on duty in the
Office of the chief of Chemical War
fare Service. Reserve officers of the
Adjutant Generals Department will
meet Tuesday evening at headquar-
ters, the subject of this conference
being a discussion of the Reserve diVi-
sion of the Adjutant Generals Depart
ment. This conference will be con-
Quoted by Maj. l. 3. Summers, who is
on duty in the Office of the adjutant
"A
Washington Air Corps Reserve Off
GERS, which was scheduled to be held
next Tuesday, has been postponed until
December 20, due to the retirement of
Maj. Gen. Mason NJ. Patrick, chief of
Air Corps. Local Reserve quarter.
master officers will meet at the Army
Industrial College auditorium, rooms
2512 and 2514 Munitions Building, Nine
teenth and B streets, next Wednesday
at pm, for a lecture on military
courtesy and demonstrations by Capt
Jared l. Wood, commanding officer of
Headquarters Company, District of
Washington. The lecture will pertain
to the relation of officers with enlisted
men, etc, while practical demonstra-
tons will be given in the hand salute.
in the use of the automatic revolver
and drill in the manual of the saber.
1t is desired that all officers turn out
in uniform with sabers. Extra saberS
win be available for those officers who
have not completed this part of their
equipment. Medical Reserve field and
staff officers of the District of Column
bia will meet next Thursday evening
for their conference, at which will be
taken up orientation and map problem
No, 3, under the supervision of Lieut..
Col. Thaddeus S. Troy. The subject of
the company officers conference,
which will be conducted by Maj. Al
bert n. Baggs will be orientation and
map problem No. 2. Officers of the
quarters next Friday evening, at
which time the duties of divisional
staff officers will be taken up. The
feature of the evening will be lecture
by Lieut.. Col. Randolph j.. B. Nc
kenney. Next Sunday at 9 In, under
the direction of Maj. w. X. Wood
ward. Washington Reserve Field Artil-
lery officers will be given instruction
in equation at Fort Myer.
The following changes in the as
signments affecting Washington Re-
serve officers were announced last
week by local Reserve headquarters:
Second Lieut.. George +. Scherer.
Field Artillery Reserve, having moved
to the I'd Corps Area, is relieved
from assignment to the S0th Di-
vision; First Lieut.. Harry Lushbaugh,
Quartermaster Reserve, having been
transferred to the branch assign
ment group by the War Department.
is relieved from assignment to the
414th motor repair section, zone Of
the interior: Second Lieut.. George j.
Wells, Infantry Reserve, is assigned
to the 80th Division; Second Lieut..
John II. Nelson, Air Reserve, having
moved to the LIST Corps Area. is re-
lieved from assignment to the S0th
Division; First Lieut.. Elijah H. AL
len, jr., Medical Reserve, having
moved to the 9TH Corps Area, is re-
lieved from assignment to the 40lst
Service Battalion. zone Of communi-
cation; Second Lieut. Landreth M.
Harrison, Military Intelligence Re
serve. having been transferred from
the territorial assignment group to
the branch assignment group by the
War Department, is relieved from as
signment to the S0th Division.
The following are assigned to the
80th Division: First Lieut.. William
j. Averbuch. Dental Reserve, and
Eugene l.. Vidal, Air Reserve, and
Second Lieuts. Dan NJ. Watt, En-
gineer Reserve; James r. Jarvis,
Field Artillery Reserve; Forest r.
Hall, Infantry Reserve; Thomas j.
Bailey. jr., Field Artillery Reserve
and John d. A. Hogan. Medical Ad-
| ministrative Reserve. Second Lieut..
Ray p. Foote. Field Artillery Re-
| serve, is relieved from assignment
to the S0th Division. Capt. Russell
S. Carter, Quartermaster Reserve,
| having been transferred to the branch
| assignment Group by the War De
partment, is relieved from assignment
to the 305th Motor Repair Battalion,
| 9Th Army. First Lieut.. William D.
! Supplce. Coast Artillery Reserve. is