Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

representatives VI IIle Ft6SeTNe OI11-
GERS Association of the United States,
the Reserve officers of the Nav, and Of
f1cers of the National Guard assembled
in Washington last week and for the
first time collectively formulated plans
for more adequate national defense. AS
a result of the discussions there will be
introduced during this session of Con-
greSS at least two measures affecting
the Reserve component of>the Army of
the United States. The first is that
pertaining to the creation of a Reserve
Division within the War Department
while the other proposal, in which all
Reserve officers are vitality interested,
will be the measure providing for the
training of not less than $4,000 Reserve
officers during the fiscal year from 1880
to 1881.
Under the limited appropriations that
have been authorized by Congress for
the past several years, approximately
$4,000 or 10000 Reserve officers have
been trained annually during the Sum-
mer camps This means that If the
training of the various Reserve officers
were rotated, each ReServiSt WOULD
receive active duty training about once
in six or seven years. In view OF the
economy survey of the military expendt-
lures that has been instituted, it Is
indeed problematical that there will be
ally IOOSellLlB Vi I1lC JuAoC obt AA6o AOA
Reserve training activities, although"the
three organizations named above will
make strenuous efforts to the contrary.
That there is great need for the train
ing of more Reserve officers at the Sum-
mer camps is admitted, but strong OPP
position will be encountered, it Is
feared, when the Reserve figures, If they
are increased, go under the scrutiny of
the Budget Bureau. Among the officers
oNAn I0n
were: Maj Gen. A. F. Foote, president
of the National Guard Association;
Brig. Gen. Edward Orten, jr.; Brig
Gen. D. ]. Hard, Brig. Gen. Milton A.
Reckord, Brig. Gen. Henry j. Reilly;
Col. Walter c. Cole, president of the
Reserve Officers Association of the
United States; Col. Edward j. Robert
son, Col. F, NJ. Waterborg, Capt. ]. A.
Schofield of the Navy, and Comdr. T. S.
Wilkinson, u. S. N.
Maj. Gen. G. H. Bridges, Adjutant
General of the Army, announced last
week the suspension of appointments
and transfers affecting six branches in
the Officers Reserve Corps. With the
exception of applicants eligible and
qualified for appointment in the Reserve
under Army Regulations 140-10, pertain
ing to the National Guard; 1870, per-
tanning to the Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps, and 350-2200, pertaining tc
the Citizens Military Training Camps,
appointments in all grades in the Sec
lions indicated below are suspended and
no applications for appointment in
those sections will be forwarded to the
War Department These sections are:
Adjutant Generals Department Re-
serve (including appointments for postal
duty), Finance Department Reserve,
: Judge Advocate Generals Department
Reserve, Military Police Corps Reserve,
Quartermaster Corps Reserve and the
Signal Corps Reserve.
Cavalry Reserve officers will gather
at Fort Myer, Va, today at $3.50 O'Clock
to receive instruction in equitation UNI
der the direction of Mai. John A. Con-
will be held this week by as many
local Reserve Units, viz, Ordnance,
Chemical Warfare Service, Air Corps,
Coast Artillery Corps, Finance and
Quartermaster Corps At the Ord
nance meeting, to be held in room 1912
Munitions Building tomorrow evening,
there will be taken up special assign
ments of the medium maintenance COM
pany under the direction of First Lieut..
E. w. Smith. The same evening, at To-
cal Reserve Headquarters, Capt. A. H.
Watt will lecture to the Chemical
Warfare Reserve officers on recent
chemical progress and the Chemical
Warfare Service.
Two conferences will be held at head
quarters Tuesday evening" namely, the
Air Corps and the Coast Artillery
lecture to the Air Corps Reservists on
the new pursuit airplane and the trend
toward biplane pursuit. The subject
to be discussed at the Coast Artillery
meeting will be announced later.
The Finance conference, Thursday
under the direction of Capt John YER
non, will take up property accounting,
transfer of property accountability,
property records, and the preparation of
property accounting vouchers. Reserve
quartermasters of Washington will also
meet next Thursday under Capt. w. r.
Ritter, to discuss company administra-
ton.
The last of the three subcourses at
the Army War College, to which Re-
serve officers are detailed each year, be-
gan last week, with seven Reserve Off
GERS present. This is the Ga, Or mill
tary intelligence course, and it will con-
tinue until December "a, 1929. The
Reserve officers undergoing this course
of instruction in the War Department
are: Col. Albert Pfeiffer, Medical Re-
serve; Lieut.. Coils. Norman MeranuS, IN
fantry Reserve, and Claire /. Weikert,
Military Intelligence Reserve, and Majs.
William G. Wilson, Infantry Reserve;
George A.. Bonnet. Field Artillery Re-
serve; Michael E. Cassidy, Military In
telligence Reserve, and Berge e. Leon
ard, Military Intelligence Reserve.
The following changes in the as
slgnments OF local Reserve officers
were announced by Reserve headquar-
tiers: The following second lieutenants
nave been assigned to the 80th Divi-
sion: Morgan B. Callahan, Finance
Reserve, 2438 Twentieth street; Will.
liam H. Scott, Infantry Reserve, Blu
reau OF Printing and Engraving; Ralph
A Hammar, Signal Reserve, 1906
Twenty-firSt street. and William L. An
derson, Engineer Reserve 1921 Fair
mont street. Cap.. Edward L. Potter,
infantry Reserve, 1901 Connecticut ave-
nue., having been transferred in grade
TO the Coast Artillery Corps Reserve, is
renewed from assignment to the 502nd
A.ak.