Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
District National Guard

pany A, 121st Engineers, have been
! CruereG: From corporals to privates
James II. Rogers, Richard a. Stewart
and George e. Thompson. Those pro
NOTED 10 fill these vacancies: From
| privatos, first class. to corporals, Ira
d. Grinnan, Chauncey H. Patterson
and Austin N. Wilkinson.
Sergt. Ira p. Meyer has been or
dered promoted to first sergeant. Com
pany F. 12ist Engineers. and Corpl.
Jack Murgell succeeds him. Pvt War
rem Jones, Company A, 121st En-
sIneers, mas been ordered promoted to
the grade Of corporal.
The preliminary rife competitions
for the selection Of candidates for the
! team which will represent the United
States at the international rifle
matches at Rome, Italy, in May. will
be fired today on the National Guard
range at Congress Heights. The fir
ing, which will be participated ~ by
both members of the local Guard and
civilians will be under the direction
OF capt. :. {. Jensen. Ordnance De
partment. who will certify all the rec
ords to the National Rife Association.
From the high men of today will be
selected those who will participate in
the finals, TO be held next month at
Quantico, Va.
With the withdrawal OF the United
States Marines from the mail guard
ard the consequent giving up of quar-
tors in the TT building of the Coy
eminent hotel group on the Union
Station Capitol Plaza, which they were
occupying, the local National Guard
has taken over the building, and is
hitting it out as StorerOOm3 and com
pany quarters making two buildings
which the Guard now has for armory
purposes, The organization. 1t was
said, was badly in need Of these quar-
tiers, as the companies were so
cramped that all of the men could
not get into the locker rooms at one
time and change their clothes for the
drills. A number Of the rooms in this
building also will be fitted up as class
rooms for the instruction of officers
and men In military subjects, as with
the present armory facilities. lacking
q drill hall. this Is about all the train
ing they receive during the Winter
months.
Owing TO a popularity in the ma
tlonal defense act, all officers of the
National Guard must hold commits
SlOHS III the organized RESERVES. AL
though an active force, being trained
for use in time Of war; it was said
that the act prevents them from exer-
cislng command in the Army of the
United States in time Of war unless
they hold commissions in the reserve,
which Is component of the Army of
the United States. Brigade headquar-
ters has issued instructions to all Off
GERS that they must apply for commits
sions, and they will be issued in the
same rank which these officers hold In
the National Guard.
Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan presented
commissions Tuesday night to Second
Lieuts. Hobert T. Walker, John r.
Colbert and William G. Rose, who re.
Gently passed military examinations
for promotion from the ranks to Off
GERS in the infantry branch Of the
Guard. With the receipt Of their com
missions they were ordered assigned
as follows: Lieut.. Walker to command
the Headquarters Detachment, goth
Division Special Troops Lieut.. Colbert
to the same unit, and Lieut.. Rose to
the 29th Military Police Company as
second in command.