Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

| Battery A reached 90 per cent in it's
attendance record, and the other or.
CARNATIONS in their relative order,
with percentages, follow: Battery 9,
260th Coast Artillery. 1908: Band.
121st Engineers, 1853: Headquarters
and Service Company, 121st Enei-
neers. 65.91; Battery s. 260th Coast
Artillery. $3.50; Headquarters Detach-
ment. Special Troops, Goth Division.
| $3.50; Company c, 121 Engineers,
| 59.03; Company A. 121st Engineers,
57.3s; Company A, 372d Infantry.
| 57.3S; Company Z, 121st Engineers,
| 1926; Company D, 121st Engineers,
F, 1891; Headquarters Detachment, 29th
| Division, 44.45; Company F. 121st En-
gineers, 1913; Company B. 121st Engi-
neers, 1894; Medical Detachment,
12lst Engineers, $500; and 10Th Mill
| tary Police Company.
Company A, 121st Engineers. and
the Goth Military Police Company, are
still below the maintenance strength
required by the War Department for
continued Federal recognition.
: The following members of the
Guard qualified on the. rife range at
Camp Simms. Congress Heights, D. C.,
during the past week. according to a
report made to brigade headquarters
by Capt Just c. Jensen. Ordnance
Department, in charge of rifle prac-
tice:
Expert ri1emen-Pvt., c. w. Roy
ston, Battery A, o60th Coast Artillery,
score 225: Sergt. F. Lee. Headquarters
Detachment. Goth Division, score.
227.
Marksmen-First Sergt. J. B. Darcy
Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, score
1870; Corpl. Bradshaw, Company +,
121st Engineers. score. 1879; Pvt. A.
Silver, Company A, 121st Engineers,
score. 1879; Capt. r. T. DAILY. Battery
c, 260th Coast Artillery, score, 1873;
Second Lieut.. c. NJ. Cook. Battery c,
260th Coast Artillery. score. 1875; and
First Lieut.. l.. E. Morris. Battery A,
260th Coast Artillery, score, 1874.
Company commanders have been
instructed to submit Immediately to
headquarters pay rolls covering pay
due for rifle qualifications of non
Government employees between the en-
campment period and December 81,
1926, in accordance with orders issued
some time ago. These orders provide
that any enlisted man other than a
Government employe qualifying as
expert. sharpshooter. or marksman,
with the weapon with which his or
ganization Is armed, during the calen-
dar year 1925 shall receive from Dis
trict of Columbia funds $500. $500
and S1.00, respectively. according to
his classification. in addition to any
other pay which he may receive.
Those qualifying between the close
of the annual field training encamp-
ment and the close of the calendar
year 1925 will be paid on one pay roll
to be prepared and submitted by COM
pany and separate unit commanders
Immediately following the close of the
calendar year.
Private jeremiah Van Landingham
has been ordered transferred from the
reserve list to the active unit of Com
pany E, 121st Engineers.
Figures compiled by Capt. J. c.
Jensen, Ordnance Officer. shows that
223 members of the Regular Army. 1sS
members of the local National Guard
and 1Ss civilians made use. during
the month of May, of the shooting
facilities on the National Guard
rifle range at Camp Simms, Congress
Heights, D. C.. The Regular Army
units were from the regular establish.
ment at Fort Myer, Va.
The figures also show that during
the month there were Al targets in
use on the range, that 60 different
units participated i'm the firing, and
that the range was open for 80
days. During this period only % men
actually completed authorized prac-
tee firing, and IA only COM
pleted the authorized record firing.
The honor roll in the military cor
respondence course for the local
Guard, prepared by Capt. Clay Ander-
son. instructor, shows the name ofonly
officers of the local Guard during the
month of May. They are First Lieut..
Hugh Everett, who completed rs les
sons and 10 examinations; First Lieut..
Homer IS. Willard, As lessons and
examinations; First Lieut.. George f.
Hardin, 43 lessons and examinations:
Corpl. John G. May. 80 lessons and
examinations First Lieut. John r.
Quade, 80 lessons and 8 examinations;
First Lieut.. Walter A. knight. 90
lessons and examinations; First
Lieut.. George L. Evans. IA lessons
and 1 examination, and Second Lieut..
Joseph F. Fitzgerald. 10 lessons and /