Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

Prvt. FIRST class Stephen T. Risler,
goth Military Police Company, has been
ordered honorably discharged on ac-
count of removal from the District Of
| Columbia.
Prvt. (first class John r. Mckenzie,
| IT.. has been ordered transferred from
! the active to the retired list Of the 10Th
! Military Police Company on account Of
| business interference with his military
duties.
Six of the 10 organizations Of the
local Guard we're grouped in the unSatis-
factory class or below in the matter OF
attendance at drill last week. according
to the weekly tabulation made by the
brigade headquarters from the u"tt
drill reports. This shows a falling OIL
in some of the units, although there
was an increase in the number which
reached 90 per cent or above in at
classification of superior in attendance.
Two of the five organizations in this
group reported their men present 100
per cent They were the Medical De-
partment Detachment of the 260th Coast
Artillery, and the Headquarters Detach-
ment, goth Division Special Troops. The
other units in this group, with their
percentages, were the 29th Division, Mil
itary Police Company, 95.74: Headquar-
tiers Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery,
92.31; Quartermaster Corps Detach-
ment, e166.
Of the top notchers last week, two
of them, the Coast Artillery Medical
Unit and the Division Headquarters
Detachment. have each climbed into
this group II times since the beginning
of tie present drill year.
The other organizations. in their re-
spective Classifications, with the per-
centages reported at the last weeks
drill. follow:
Very satisfactory: Headquarters De-
tachment, goth Division. 1856; Head
quarters and Service Company. 12lst
Engineers, 1884; Battery c. 260th Coast
Artillery. lila; Band, 121st Engineers,
I'LL: Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery,
7O.37
Satisfactory Company D. 121st Engi-
neers. 6S.75; Company A. 372d Infantry
$3.50; Company F, 12lst Engineers,
6035.
Unsatisfactory: Company C 121st
Engineers, $685. Company B. l21st
Engineers. $685. Company E. 121st En-
gineers, 5484: Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery, 5275.
NCly SOIIIRdily "A, AGASt
Engineers. 4S44: Medical Department
Detachment, 121st Engineers, 1000.
Officers of the National Guard of the
District of Columbia who are interested
in attending one Of the citizens mill
tary trainings camps this year as in
structors in addition to attending ths
regular field encampment of the local
Guard, have been instructed to file
their applications with the brigade
headquarters.
A letter has been received from Maj.
Gen. c. H. Bridges, adjutant general of
the Army, saying that during the fiscal
year beginning July l next each corps
area commander may order to the
citizens camps as instructors not to
exceed two National Guard officers who
also hold commissions in the Officers'
Reserve Corps. 1t is specified, however.
that these officers will not be ordered to
active duty unless some direct benefit to
the c. NJ. T. c. project will accrue.
The letter also says that members of
the Ofncers Reserve Corps who are
also members of the National Guard
will not be ordered to active duty, and
paid out of Organized Reserve funds by
corps area commanders except in the
above case. Corps area commanders