Evening star., 1928-04-15
District National Guard

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The rife range at Camp Simms
Congress Heights, d. c.. will open to-
cay. thus establishing the 1928 target
practice season for the local troops
during which team will be trained
for participation in the national rife
matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. and in
other corps area matches in this
vicinity. including the competition with
the United States Naval Academy.
The competition to obtain Is men
from whom Il will be selected for the
national rife team will be held both
r.siS Sunday and next Sunday, and fol
:s:.s 52tv the following have been APP
pointed range officers;
Can't. Walter s. WEIGH, Headquarters
and Service Company. l2lSt Engineers.
mess officer; Second Lieut.. John d
Powers. l2lSt Engineers; Second Lieut..
Lincoln S. Jones, l2lst Engineers;
Second Lieut. John L, Atkins. 26oth
Coast Artillery; Second Lieut.. John c.
Nav, l2Ist Engineers, Second Lieut.
Willard l.. Hammer. Headquarters De-
tachment, 2oth Division. Special
Troops, and Second Lieut. William A,
Gorrnley. l2lSt Engineers.
Six OF the members of the team
which win compete at Camp Perry must
be men who have before fired on ma
tional team, either as principals or
alternateS,
In addition TO the competition for
the team, a platoon from each Of Com
ipanies A. h and c Of the lSt Battal-
ion OF the l2lSt Regiment Of Engineers
will proceed to the rife range to paT-
tlcipate i'll their regular practice cfd
record firing This work must now be
done on Sundays. instead Of the here
tofore method Of ordering out the whole
Guard at one time. making TIL. men take
time from their civilian employment.
Trucks will leave the armory at North
Capitol and d streets this morning al
8 o'clock. and the firing will begin at
10 O'Clock and continue until ! o'clock
in the afternoon, when meal Will be
served to the men.
The following Sunday platoonS from
other units will be ordered out. and this
alternating will be continued until the
years target work is completed, some
time prior to the annual encampment.
Those men who go out on Sunday
will be excused from the regular drill
on the following Tuesday night and
will receive drill pay for the time they
were at the rife range,
Battery c. 260th Coast Artillery. also
is scheduled TO go on the range Sunday
for its practice and record firing
The annual rife match between the
National Guard team and the midShip-
men of the United States Naval
Academy will be held on the Academy
range at Annapolis. May 5.
The drill pay checks for the quarter
ending March 81 last are beginning
to come in. The first to arrive were
To- H. -F yaaN
terry A. 260th Coast Artillery. and they
have been distributed. The others are
expected during the week.
There is considerable uneasiness
among some of the lieutenants of the
local Guard over the recent appoint
~ment of a board of efficiency which
is required TO examine into the fitness of
such officers whose names are referred
10 il for consideration. The board has
rot yet held a meeting, first. for the
reason that one Of Its members YES
serving with the general court-martial
on the Krunim case, and other that no
names have yet been certified TO il.
AS one Of the members Of the board
is the Junior captain in the Guard. II
is known that the ofilcers who will be
certified before Ii are lieutenants, as
the members of the board must be Su-
perior in rank TO any one whose efh-
cheney they are i1quiring into.
The younger officers are getting very
anxious. as several Of them have pointed
out that the board would not have
been appointed unless it was 10 receive
the names Of officers 10 be investigated,
and until the names become public
these of the rank of lieutenant are
inclined TO be somewhat uneasy.
Offcers of the local Guard are watch
ing with interest the orders that viii
be issued by the regular services this
year as to the number of men who
viii be sent to the national rife
matches at Camp Perry. Ohio. The
methods used by the regular services.
il was pointed out at brigade head
quarters. seriously handicap the Ma
tional Guard units, because OF the
number Of men which the former can
send
II has been the practice heretofore, IL
was pointed out. for the regular units
20 dispatch 10 or 30 men each 10 Camp
Perry. Ohio. These would practice daily
on the range and would be under close
observation. The team 10 represent
each service would not be picked and
certifed until the day before the
record matches were 10 begin. The
result has been that the regular serT-
ices could pick the very best men as
indicated by the showing while at CaE:p
Perry. On the other hand the National
Guard units can send only enough
men 10 make UP the team, With tho
result that IL any Of their men faH
down in their shooting it Is impossible
10 replace them. Men have fallen
down. even the best shots, al the last
minute. with the result that whst
would have been winning team has
been turned into a loser
The matter vas the subject OF much
discussion and ot resolution objecting
10 such methods at the recent annual
convention Of the National Guard AsSo-
ctafton Of the United States, and IT Is
the hope this year that the regular
services viii appear al Camp Perry only
with the men selected for the team
some time prior 10 being dispatched 10
the firing grounds. Lieut.. Col. Peyton
O. keyiti of the local Guard was one
of those who assisted In passing the
resolution complaining Of the practice.
Sergt. Thomas r. Hudson. 29th Mill
tsry Police Company. has been reduced
20 the rank Of private. COrpl George
Z. Garland has been promoted % ser
9eant ard Pvt. Edgar H. MacCoy 70
corporal
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