Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27

Under a new general mobilization
plan that has been approved by Secre-
tary of War Davis, the requirements in
Reserve officers for combatant units
alone amounts to 116,384. These are
minimum requirements only, and are
based on the assumption that the Regu-
lar Army viii provide 10000 officers
and that the National Guard will pro-
vide $4,000. 1t does not include an
initial replacement pool, nor does it
include any zone of the interior in
stallatinos. The figure of 116,384 Re-
serve officers is only for combatant
units of six field armies under the new
general mobilization plan that Secre-
tary Davis has approved Roughly
speaking, the mobilization requirements
in Reserve officers are 72,500 combat
and AZ $500 of the other branches. These
116,384 Reserve officers are combat
and non-combat officers required for
combatant units. In other words,
chaplain is not combat officer, but
chaplains are needed. Neither are off,
GERS Of the Judge Advocate Generals
Department combat officers, but they
also are part of this figure.
OF the 1864 Reserve officers that
would be required under the new gen.
eral mobilization plan, total of 1880
combat officers would be required. A
survey made of the efficiency of the
present strength Of the Officers Re-
serve Corps indicates that of the lis 900
Reserve officers, about half, or 5000,
are efficient enough to be called out on
active service Immediately, and of this
$4,000 there are about $4,000 or $4,000
who are combat officers. Thus it can
be seen that the present combat per-
sonnet Of the Officers Reserve Corps
could not meet the minimum require
mentS OF the new mobilization plan.
Efforts are being made, however, to
weed out the dead wood in the Reserve.
but 1t will take about five years for
this elimination process to be completed.
Cavalry Reserve officers of Washington
will meet at the Fort Myer Riding Hall
today at $50 am. for instruction in
equitation under the direction of Maj
John A. ConSidine, Cavalry. Four in
structional conferences will be held by
Washington Reserve units this week,
Ordnance Department, Judge Advocate
Generals Department. Signal Corps and
the 3l3th Field Artillery. Local ord
nance reSerVistS will meet at Washington
Reserve headquarters tomorrow evening
at which will be discussed explosives
and propellants by Capt. Roswell E
Hardy. Members of the Judge Advocate
General Reserve will also meet the same
evening, the subject Of which will bt
courts-martial, records, actions and
punishment, by Lieut. Col E. c. Abbott
The subject of the Signal Corps con.
ference to Se held at local Reserve head
quarters tuesday evening will be thu
EGGS teN set, its construction, uses anc
applicatEn to field service lines of com.
municauon. Lieut.. Col. L. M. Evans
Signal SsSserve. assisted by Lieuts
Sanders, Wolan, Kinley and Koenigs
berger, will have charge of the instruc.
ton for the demonstration period, while
Maj. C. N. Sawyer of Harrisburg, Pa.
will talk on Tactical Disposition for {
Division in Defense" The demonstra
ton period will include a laborator,
experiment in cable testing that SHOULD
be particularly interesting to the Citi
Zens' Military Training Camp students
Washington Reserve headquarters an.
rounced last week the following change
in the assignments of local Reserve Off
GERS: The following reservists, having
moved to other corps areas, are relieved
from their local assignments as indi
Gated: First Lieut.. Lester H. Bailey