Evening star., 1928-12-16
District National Guard

Nine members of the enlisted branch
OF the National Guard of the District
OF Columbia have taken q step nearer
the commissioned rank when the
brigade headquarters announced that
their names had been placed on the ell
gible list for promotion as a result of
recent examinations which were taken
by the men. The men will remain on
the list for period of one year and
vacancies will be filled from this list
whenever they occur. 1t is probable
that some of the men will be promoted
before the regiment goes into its an
nual encampment
The successful candidates. together
with the marks made on the examina-
ton, follow: Sergt. Cooper B. Rhodes,
Headquarters and Service Company,
12lst Engineers. 1918 per cent; Sergt.
Albert j. kubeldziS, Company G, I2lSt
Engineers 1882 per cent; Corpl. Sam
nel w. Marsh Headquarters and Serv-
Ice Company. 12fst Engineers, 8345 per
cent: Pvt. John H. Anderson, Company
c, l2lst Engineers. 1922 per cent; Pvt.
David w. Milne, Company E. 121st En-
gineers, 1888 per cent; Sergt. Jack
MurSell, Company F, l21st Engineers.
1859 per cent; Second Lieut.. William A.
Gormley, 29th Division, Military Police
Company, 76.45 per cent: staff Sergt.
Luther B. Hall. Company D. 12lst Engi-
neers, 1923 per cent and Corpl George
c. Danforth, Headquarters and Service
Company, l2lst Engineers, 1853 per
cent.
The men will be appointed to vacan-
cies in the order of standing in which
they finished the examinations, it was
said.
Pvt Walter S. Sonntag. jr., Head
VIZ
Engineers, has been honorably dis
charged on account of removal from the
District.
The following have been ordered
transferred from the active to the re-
serve lists of their respective organiza-
tlonS for the reasons noted
Business interference with drill at
tendance: Pvt. first class) Donald A.
Falk, Headquarters and Service Com
pany, l2lst Engineers; Pvt. (f1rst claSs)
Albert B. Smith, Headquarters and
Service Company, l2lSt Engineers, and
Pvt. Warren N Steffen, Headquarters
and Service Company, 12lst Engineers.
Educational interference: Pvt. first
class Howard I. Pier, Company F,
-2lst Engineers.
Pvt. first class Eugene A. Ross has
been transferred from Company c,
12lst Engineers. to the Ordnance De-
partment of the State staff, in the
same grade. He viii assist Capt. Just
c. Jensen, head of the Ordnance De-
partment and captain of the rife team,
IN his work of training the remainder
of the Guard in rifle shooting.
Pvt. Aquilla H. Smith, 29th Division
Military Police Company, has been
ordered dropped as a deserter as of
June l9: 1928: because he has failed to
report for drill on or after that date,
all efforts to locate him having failed.
The following have been transferred
1rom the active to the Reserve list of
their respective organizations on ac-
count of business interference with
their attendance at drill: Pvt. Virgil E.
Clary, Headquarters Detachment. 260th
Coast Artillery and Pvt. Arthur L.
Brightley. Company D, 121st Engineers.
For the first time in several months
one organization of the local Guard has
succeeded in getting enough men to at
tend the regular weekly drill to get into
the superior classification in attendance
This organization, the Headquarters
Detachment, 29th Division Special
Troops reported last week with 100 per
cent of its men in attendance, and it
was the only unit in this division.
Al &C Va SdllAAdl4OllS WCIC HAfCl1
o. excellent, with percentages in the
S0S. They are The Quartermas-
ter Corps Detachment, $3.50 per cent;
Headquarters Detachment 260th Coast
Artillery, 8l.8l, and Company z, 12Ist
Engineers, 80.59
Those classed as very satisfactory are:
Headquarters and Service Company
12lst Engineers, rs. Headquarters De-
tachment, 29th Division, T241, and the
Medical Department Detachment, 260th
Coast Artillery, 71.43
Two organizations came in satisfac-
tory, being Company B, l21st Engineers
with rating Of $685. per cent, and the
band, l21st Engineers, with percent
age of 6571.
The unsatisfactory organizations were
the 29th Division Military Police Com
pany, with a percentage of 56l4; Bat
terry B, 260th Coast Artillery, $3.50;
Battery c, 260th Coast Artillery, 50.9S:
Company D, 121st Engineers, SOTO;
Company A. 372d Infantry, 5000
The low-mark organizations, classed
as very unsatisfactory, were Company
A. 12lSt Engineers, with rating of
4S.9S: 9S Company Company G. l2lst 2lt Engineers,
46.l6; Battery A, 26Oth Coast Artillery,
$500, and the Medical Department De-
tachment, 121St Engineers 5000.
All unit commanders in the Guard
have been instructed to submit to bri-
gade headquarters a statement as to
whether or not the present personnel
accounting methods are satisfactory.
and If not. what, in their opinion,
should be changed, particularly with a
view to cutting down the amount of adj
ministrative work now required, It was
said that the Militia Bureau of the War
Department is contemplating a change
In the methods and desires suggestions
from the service
The following small arms qualifica-
lery, were announced:
Pistol marksman-Capt Robert T.
Daily. score, II per cent.
Rifle marksman-Capt Robert T.
DAILY, score, 2l0; Corpl Francis w.
Minor, 2l0; Corpl. John E. Tegeler, 1874:
Corpl Ralph E. Ramsey, 21O; Pvt first
classl Nelson w. Curtis, 1870; Pvt.
Dominick Colaissi 1876. and Pvt John
w. Vernon, 1877.
The following enlisted in the Guard
during the past week, 1t was announced
at brigade headquarters: Thomas c.
Gates, assigned to Company F, 121st
Engineers, and Max Esberger, band,
12lSt Engineers.
Sergt John T. Policy has been or
dered by Maj. E. H. Grove reduced to
the grade of private in the Headquar-
ters Detachment, 29th Division, while
Pvt. David Ross has been ordered pro-
NOTED to the grade of sergeant
The following have been promoted
20 the grade of private, first class, in
the Headquarters Detachment, 29th
Division: Pvts. John H. Anderson, Guy
Y. Bolton, John w. Burke, Paul Fako,
Louis Gertler, Ernest v. Gonzales,
James F. Hutchinson, Leon A. knight,
Langdon P. McAninch and Leslie Rob-
ertSon.
In the same command the following
have been reduced to private: Pvts
I(firSt claSs) Shirley r IoWman and