Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01
District National Guard

Although the estimates covering the
cost of sending the National Guard Of
the District of Columbia into camp have
not yet been approved by the Sd
Corps Area headquarters, at Baltimore.
Md. officials of the local organization,
realizing that the time is fast growing
short when plans must be made for the
movement of troops, have sent out pub
lie proposals for bids for the transporta-
ton of officers and men to Cascade. Nd
where is located Camp Albert c. Ritchie
which is to be the field training ground
of the local militia this Summer.
Both railroad and bus companies have
been asked to bid on the transportation,
but it is the hope of the National Guard
officials that the bus transportation will
be the lower. because of the fact that 1t
avoids transfers. With the use of buses
the troops and their packs may be
loaded right at the arnory and may be
delivered to their company streets at
the camp However with railroad
transportation they must be marched to
the train from the arnlory and from the
train to their camp, although there is
a railroad spur running into the camp
at Cascade, which is near the Summer
resort Pen Mar. on the Maryland-Penn-
sylvania line.
The bids ask for an estimate on a per
capita basis per man, each way, but CIV
ing the information that it is expected
that $40 officers and men will have to
be provided for OF course, some of the
officers and men will travel to and from
camp on the truck trains, conveying the
heavy camp impedimenta. while others
viii be given permission to drive in
their private cars. However, the low
bids on the part of the railroads may
preclude many of the troops from taking
their private cars, as they are then ex-
pected to travel with their units. II
they went with the bus trains they could
travel with 1t and be In camp stimuli
| taneously with the arrival Of the BUSES.
| The bids provide that seat must be
/ provided for each man. with sufficient
additional space to provide for the
carrying of the packs during the long
| trip. A special provision is asked of the
bus companies that they indicate what
! steps they have taken TO guarantee the
payment of any liability for injuries due
TO an accident while en- route with the
troops
The 29th Division staff, headed by
Mai. Gen Anton Stephan; the 2sth
Division headquarters units, the State
STAFF Corps, the i21st Regiment of En-
gineers, the 29th Military Police Com
pany have all been ordered to Cascade
for training, while the 250th Coast
Artillery viii take its course of training
at its regular place, Fort Monroe, Va.
With a view to increasing the picture
taking facilities of the Engineer Regi-
ment, public bids have been asked for
the furnishing Of special portrait cam
era and q printing machine
Ofiicers and men of Company A, 372d
Infantry. the colored contingent of the
local Guard, will be presented with tro-
pf1ies. prizes and medals which were
won by them in the rife matches con-
! Quoted last Fall. Mai. Gen. Anton Ste
phan. commanding the local Guard will
make the presentations at the units
| armory, at Twelfth and y streets. to-
morrow night. This organization held
separate matches last year.
For the purpose of aiding the various
companies to keep their military text
books, including regulations, in an or
! DERBY fashion, provision has been made
| to furnish each unit with a sectional
| bookcase, 1t was announced at brigade
| headquarters
| First Lieut. George L. Evans. l2lst
| Regiment Of Engineers, the senior first
| lieutenant of the regiment. 1t was an
| nounced, will be promoted to captain
| and assigned TO command Company A
| of the regiment prior TO the unit pro-
/ ceeding to its annual training camp.
/ Lieut.. Evans appeared before an exam
/ ming board Tuesday night and success
fully passed the qualifying examina-
| tons.
| He will succeed Capt. William E.
| Buechler, who is going TO Atlanta, Ga.
| The latter will be transferred to the UNI
assigned officers list Of the Guard.
4 contract was awarded by the Guard
/ last week 10 the BlaW-Knox Co. OF
| Pittsburgh, Pa, for the construction OF
an all-metal storage building on the
/ rife range at Camp Sinms, Congress
] Heights, D. c., for the preservation OF
| property used on the rife range The
/ contract price was S4,753 The building
will be so by 100 feet and IL feet In
/ height.
| Lieut. Col. Peyton q. hewitt, presi-
/ dent Of the board Of ef1ciency appoint
/ ed TO examine the records Of certain
/ officers TO determine their fitness to re-
( tain their commissions In the local
Guard said that the board had made ex-
aminations, but was not yet ready TO re-
| port. II was indicated that the board
! has not determined whether the facts
| submitted will warrant 1t in making
recommendations for separation Of the
officers brought before the board. He
also declined TO make public at this
| time the names of the officers who were
/ under investigation.
The following enlisted In the Guard
and we're assigned 10 the units after
their names John W. Jackson 2S0l
Adams Mill road Headquarters De-
tachment, goth Division; James J
/ Walling, 1909 Wisconsin avenue. 29th
Military Police Company: Robert w
Chambers, lat North Carolina avenue
southeast Battery B, 2G0th Coast Ar
tillery, Aleck D. Holt. 2B0S Fifth street
northeast, Battery b, 260th Coast Ar
| tillery; Joseph II. Affre, 2032 p street
Medical Department Detachment, 260th
Coast Artillery; Thomas A. Leatners
3737 Thirtieth street northeast, Medi-
cal Department Detachment, 260til
/ Coast Artillery. Robert Nelson Carter
/ 100 r street northeast, Medical De-
| partment Detachment, 260th Coast Ar
tillery; Harold w Souill, 2023 r street
Medical Department Detachment, 260th
Coast Artillery, and Perry w. Mtchaels
| GA q street northeast, Medical De-
partment Detachment. 260th Coast Ar
tillery.
First Lieut.. Rex p. Mulligan ana