Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
Civilian Army News

and the articles of war classified with
respect to Jurisdiction; December "a.
courts-martial procedure; January %,
courts-martial records. action and pun
ishments; February 25. courts-martial
rules of evidence; March Is. punitive
articles of war; April IL, habeas corpus
and view of cases. A review will be
held at the concluding meeting of the
year, May 81, and at this conference,
the practical application of the subjects
considered will be shown throughout
the course by recent decisions and lead
ing cases. All of the conferences viii
be held at local Reserve headquarteTS
in the oxford Hotel Building. Fifteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
In addition to their regular militaT,
duties in the War Department, the FOL
lowing Regular officers have been as
signed as part-time officers on duty at
WASHINGTON Reserve headquarters. They
are, together with their part-time as
sipnments. as follows: Coils Dennis T.
Ouinlan, unit instructor of the I'd
Squadron, 306th Cavalry, and M1losh
r. Hilgard, unit instructor OF Motor
| Transport Cos. 1877, 1888 and 789; MAYS:
Brehon B. SomerveI, unit instructor OF
the 343d Engineers, and Henry X.
Smalley, unit instructor OF Motor
Transport Co. 1874.
Capts. George A. Horkan, unit in
structor of motor repair sections Nos.
463. 464. 465, 466 and 467; Harry M.
Andrews, assistant unit instructor OF
| Motor Transport Company No. 783:
Jerry v. Matejka, unit instructor OF the
8Oth Signal Company, and Howard F.
K. Cahill, jr., unit instructor OF the
320th Infantry
All of the inactive duty programs
| have not, up to the present time been
| published, due to the fact that they
| have not been completed, but local
Reserve headquarters is hard at work
| in the preparation of these schedules.
Work still remains to be done on the
Institutional schedules of the follow
| ing branches: Field Artillery, Coast
| Artillery, Cavalry, Signal Corps, Ord
nance. Adjutant General and Medical
Department. The work is being pushed
| as rapidly as possible and as soon as
completed will be announced in this
| column.
More than 400 names have been
added during the past II months to the
roster of Reserve officers residing in
| the District of Columbia. A year ago,
local Reserve headquarters records re-
veal. there were a total of approx
mately $500 Reserve officers residing
in Washington, but today this totai
has been increased to more than 5000
When the requirements for commits
sions in the Organized Reserves were
made more rigid some time ago, the
prediction was made by some that there
would be a falling off in the Reserve
enrolment In the District of Column
bia the Inauguration of this new
policy has resulted in an increased en-
rollment, and has separated the wheat
from the chaff; that is. it has been
the means of retaining in the Reserve
Corps those officers who are really in
terested in the military profession and
has separated those officers who, either
we're diSinterested in the Reserve or
could not maintain their Reserve studies
due to their civilian pursuits.
The inactive list is composed Of those
officers who are reappointed without
the privilege of assignment, active duty
training or promotion, while the auxil-
larry list is composed of those Reserve
officers who have reached the age Of
81 years. The majority of those local
Reserve officers whose commissions are
expiring are being reappointed in their
present grades. During the last three
months, however. q considerable num-
Der of officers in the Junior grades have
been promoted, which Is mute evidence
that the inStru ntiNNal assemblies held
during the Fall. Winter and Spring
months and thu two weeks of active
field training in The Summer is pro-
ducing the desired results.