Evening star., 1927-11-06
District National Guard

neers. S2.S6. Very satisfactory. Head
quarters Detachment. 260th Coast Ar
tiilery. 71.43; headquarters Detach
ment. c9th Division. 70.2S. and com
pany A. 372d Infantry. 70.15. Satisfac'
tory. Company A. l21st Engineers
81 .06: Company 3. 121st Engineers
50 60: Headquarters Detachment, Spa
rial Troops. 18th Division, sob Com
pany D. l2lst Engineers, 61.71: Com
pany &. 1o1St Engineers, 61.of Head
quarters and Service COMPANY u ISL
engineers. so; Battery a. 2bOth Coas'
Artillery. TO. Unsatisfactory. toinpa-
ny T.. l2tst Engineers, 5S.9S: BATTERY
G., 26Oth Coast Artillery, 54.72. VERY
unsatisfactory. Battery B. 26oth Coast
Artil ery. 4S. and 9th Military Police
Company. 10. The last TWO nam"d
organizations are below the mamie
nance strength required by the Militia
Bureau of the War Department Tor
the retention of Federal recognition
and support.
.Serg,. Henry i. TrillnS. ir.. has
been reduced to private in the 23th
Military Po!ce Company and pvt
Ashton e.. Bonnotfon has been pro
NOTED tn the grade of sergeant in the
same command.
The following men have heen or
dered dropped as deSerterS from lhe
Guard AS Of the date following lhei'
names. they having tailed To report
for drill since that date and all effort
to locate them having failed Pvt
Melville $. Frazier, Headquarters De
tachment. 10Th Division, Speria
Troops. MAY Il. 1927. and Pvt. Rer
nald q Rosscr. headquarters and
Service Company. 121st Engineers
June is, l4n7.
PVT. Clifford T.. Johnson, Company
f. 121st Engineers. has been honor
ably discharged from the Guard ht
cause of his removal from the District
of columbia.
Sergt. William F. Bulls, Battery
r. 26O,h Coast Artillery, has beer
h0n0rah!v discharged in order to per
NIT him to accept promotion ny com
mission.
Ser-t Ashton e. Ronnoffon. 29tf
Military Police Company, has beer
honorahly discharged because Of his
removal frCm the city.
First Lieut.. Hugh Everett. T.
Company A. 12lst Engineers. has
made formal application in he as
signed to take the course at the En-
yineer School at Fort Humphreys, Va.
beginning in the Spring Of 1929.
Pvt. Il. ID, Remley, Headquarters
Detachment. 99th Division Troops
has been named to attend the Citi
zers Military Training Camp in 1925
The full force Of the National GuarC
Of the country is expected TO bt
thrown behind the efforts of the Off
GERS Of the local Guard in their ef
forts to obtain adequate arm0ry ia
cilities for the troops of the Nationa
Capital. Gen. Stephan and Lieut.
Col. Peyton 6. Neyitt, adiutant Of the
29th Division, have just returned from
the annual convention of the Ma
tional Guard Association of tht
United States 81 Minneapolis. where
according to Col. hewitt, Gen. Stephan
succeeded in having a resolution in
dorSir2 the local armory projec'
passed az one of the first acts of the
convention.
The executive council of the asso
citation directed the associa ton to use
every possible effort to secure the
pa ssa ge of any legisla tion at the neX1
session of Congress designed to give
authority and money for the provision
Of adequate armory facilities here.
The adiutant general of each State
in the Union and every officer of the
Guard throughout the United States
were requested to- use their combined
efforts and influences to bring abou
a correction of the very unsa tiSfa c
tory armoy conditions in the Ma
tional Capital, where the local troop,
are expected to obtain the maximum
Of training.
1t was pointed out to this Guard Off
GERS Of the other States that the loca
Guard is dependent upon the Fedora
Congress for its appropriations ant
that II. il a Federal unit in every re
spect. 1t also was pointed out tha1
favorable pressure could be brough,
on the members of Congress by the
members of the Guard of the various
States who are dcsirous OF seeing tbs
District of Columbia National Guards
men have a model armory. so that il
NAV become the model unit of the
country from which the States Nigh,
pattern.