Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
GUARDSMEN START
FOR CAMPS TODAY
Some 700 Civilians of City to
Spend Two Weeks in
Annual Training.


come part of the Nations great mill
tary machine. for two weeks. going
into training camps in various parts
of the country to learn preparedness
for war, as they viii meet it in the
field.
These civilians, coming from every
walk of life meet shoulder to shoulder
and sleep and live under the same
conditions for the next fortnight, as
a part of the National Guard of the
District of Columbia.
Every member of the local Guard
who can get leave from his civilian
employment has received the call to
arms, under general orders issued i'y
Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan. comman-
dant, and will proceed into the field
to put into practical use the thcoreti-
cal instruction received in the armor-
les during the year.
1t is the first time for many years
that the entire Guard has gone into
camp at the same time, although there
will be three SEPARATE camps, one at
Fortress Monroe. Va, another at Fort
Humphreys. Va. and the third 1t Cas-
cade, Md. the new camp in the noun
tains, near the Pennsylvania ilne. es-
tablished for the use o: the Maryland
National Guard
The majority of the troops will
move out of the city into their camps
by palace buses. There will be loaded
at their armories and will be driven di-
rect TO the camp sites. The Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co. will furnish 10
busses, under contract, for the move
ment OF the 12lst Regiment of Engi.
neers. commanded by Col. John w.
Oehmann. into the Fort Humphrey
camp, while the Blue Ridge Trans
portation Co. was the successful bid
der for the eight busses which will
move the goth Division headquarters
troops and Company A. 372d Infantry.
into camp at Cascade, Md.
The heavy camp equipment Is being
moved by the more conventional
Army truck.
Caravan Takes Equipment.
The vanguard Of the 260th Coast
Artillery. Maj Walter w. Burns, left
early today, when a motor caravan
carrying camp equipment, and In.
GLIDING vehicles which will be used In
camp, departed over the road for
Fortress Monroe. Va. The truck train
was commanded by Lieut.. J. L.
Atkins.
The artillery battalion will leave
Its armory this morning at o'clock.
and headed by its newly organized
drum and bugle corps march from
W alter and o streets southwest. to the
Union Station. where a special train
will take it over the Richmond, Fred.
ericksburg & Potomac Railroad direct
to the camp.
The artillery unit has been trans.
formed from a big-gun outfit to an
anu-alrcraft drSouization, and at this
camp will beslA instruction in this
work.
The first departure under the move.
ment will be that of Mai. Gen.
stephan, visa will leave at s O'Clock
this morning In the 2sth Division
headquarters automobile, accompanied
py Lieut. Col. Peyton. @. hewitt, assist
ant adJueant of the local Guard, and
adJutant OF the 10Th National Guard
Division, and Capt. Sidney Morgan.
aide de camp to the commandins
general. Gen. Stephan, in addition to
heading the local troops, also is com.
mandant OF ali of the Militia of the
18th National Guard Division. com
posed OF the troops Of this city, Mary.
land and Virginia. The remainder OF
the division headquarters staff win
De modified at Cascade from various
parts of Maryland and Virginia.
An hour after the departure of Gen.
stephan there will move out in buses
the 18th Division HEADQUARTERS
troops, commanded by Maj. Edward
ii. Grove, who has been designated
camp commander at Cascade. and the
18th Division Military Police. oDm.
manded by Capt. Claude Burlingame
they will leave from their armory al
North Capitol and d streets and will
De joined on the road by the buses
transporting Company A, 1929 In.
Iantry, Capt. Arthur c. Newman COM
mandlng, which will be loaded at the
IWenfth and L streets armory,
"A motor-truck train, commanded by
Capt. Fletcher F. Bernsdorff. who has
been designated as camp quarternas.
ter at Cascade, left last night. carry.
ing the field equipment Altogether.
tnere will be 245 officers and men in
the movement to the Maryland camp.
Largest Troop Movement.
The largest of the troop movep,en.s
VIII be that of the 121st Regiment of
Engineers, including band, which win
leaVe the North Capitol and D streets
armory at 10 o'clock.
ror Inc last three days a large do.
tan or men, commanded by Cant Wal.
Ter >. WEIGH, has been at the arrnorv
preparing the field equipment for tho
camp OF the engineers, while Cant
oerhsdorf has been looking after the
lnpedlmenta for the Cascade troona
hoer the plan laid down for the
pus movement. it is expected that the
engineer troops will arrive at Fort
humphrey, Va, in time to have a
ins. ui"1 HeId ration served to them.
,rn.ao ,' OF Just sandwiches. as in the
past. They will be shared tho low,
ueliy incident to the transfer from
IRAN TO motor trucks at Accotink
va, In this movement of troons tbara
WILL pe 44o officers and men.
me engineer training schedule no
i idlu uown by Lieut.. George F.. Hardin
iohs program of construction
Moih Tor the engineers, Including
prluge and road building, as we'll "a
.rencn digging. TO say nothing of com.
pat work, Is the local regiment has
been designated as one Of the combat
engineer outfits in the Army's system
under the national defense act. In
addltlon to the construction work.
they also Will be taught the handling
or explosives in demolition work. and
their use in impeding the advance of
an eH~c~.J. Inc engineers VIII con.
struct pontoon bridges.
The work Of the division headuuar.
ters will be confined to working out
the major war problems incident to
divisional operation, and will include
c4-hour problem in the mountains
surrounding the camp, in which there
will be an airplane squadron. Gen.
Stephan will direct this movement,
which will be something new in the
methods OF instruction for the Goth
National Guard Division.
Col. John w. Oehmann, command
ing the engineer regiment, who Is
also the divisional engineer, will pro
coed from Fort Humphrey to Cascade.
Md, for this problem, it was an
nolnced.