Evening star., 1929-10-06
Organized Reserves

OF interest to every Reserve oficer re.
siding In the District Of Columbia is tn:
announcement made last week by Maj
Gen. G. H. Bridges, the adjutant gen.
eral OF the Army, governing promotion
In the Of1icers' Reserve Corps. Begin
ming October I, 1880, prom ,tionS in the
OmcerS' Reserve Corps will be based
upon certificates of capacity. or upon
800 hours training credits earned prior
to that date and within five years from
date Of recommendation by the corps
area commander or the chief Of branch
concerned. Military credits earned on
or after october /. 1880, will not be
credited as qualification for promotion
except as contemplated in paragraphs
<7a (O, Army Regulations 1905,
changes No. /, in the cases of Reserve
officers granted certificates of capacity
because of graduation from the Reserve
Onicers' Training Corps.
Sixteen Institutional conferences have
been scheduled for Washington Reserve
officers Of the Ordnance Department
for the 1929-30 inactive duty training
season, the first of which will be held
at local Reserve headquarters tomor-
roy evening. All conferences will be
conducted by Lieut. Edward w. Smith,
o. D. The subject of the conferences
and the date on which they will be held
are as follows: october z, Ordnance
maintenance companies; october %, or
ganiZation and training of the MAIN
tenance company, Infantry division;
November IL, equipment of mainten-
ance company, Infantry division; No
Vember rs, operations of the mainten-
arce company, Infantry division; De-
cember 9, special assignments of the
medium maintenance company, and
December %, the Ordnance company
(heavy maintenance).
The first meeting of the 1880 CAL
endar year will be held on January IS,
at which will be taken up the Ordnance
company Qight maintenance and spe-
cial maintenance facilities. The re-
manning conferences are as follows:
January 81, regulations governing de-
pots: February 10, Ordnance Depart
ment storage establishments and install
lations; February "a, Ordnance COM
panies, depot and ammunition: March
10, organization of an Ordnance depot
in the United States; March "a, opera
United States: April 7. an Ordnance
general supplies depot of the commune
cations zone; April %. an Ordnance
ammunition depot of the communica-
tions zone; May IL, Army Ordnance
general supplies depot. and May 26, the
concluding conference of the season,
Army ammunition depots.
The War Department has determined
that persons who are members of the
Marine Corps Reserve are not eligible
to become members of the Reserve Of
ficers' Training Corps. which is main
tanned at many of the leading schools
and colleges in the United States. In
reaching this decision the War Depart
ment held that members of the Marine
Corps Reserve are subject to the same
disabilities as the Naval Reserve, with
reference to attending Reserve courses
prescribed by the War Department, and
that therefore members Of the Marine
Corps Reserve are not eligible for men,
bership in the Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps. they being obliged to call to
serve in the Navy" The War Depart
ment determines that the student at the
school, having voluntarily enlisted in
the Marine Corps Reserve, has, by such
act, terminated his membership in the
Reserve Ofdcers' Training Corps.
Field Artillery Reserve officers OF
Washington will be given instruction in
equitation today at $50 o'clock under
the supervision of Maj. John M. Nc
Dowell, unit instructor of the 313th
Field Artillery Officers taking this in
struction should be at the Fort Myer
Riding Hall, Fort Myer, Va, not later
than $50.
Six Institutional conferences will be
held this week by as many Reserve
units Of the District of Columbia, all
of whom, with the exception of the
Finance and 364th Medical Regiment
assemblies, will be held at local Reserve
headquarters in the oxford Hotel Build
ing, Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, beginning at 8 o'clock. Re-