Evening star., 1930-04-06

enlisted personnel will be formed into
a new battery of Coast Artillery. The
present enlisted strength Of the Guard
Is 921, while the increase calls for 46
more men, making q total of 967, which,
With the commissioned personnel will
give the local militia q total strength
OF 1,064. This includes rs officers and
one warrant offlcer.
The new battery will be machine
gun outfit, and will be known as Bat
terry E. 1t will complete the formation
OF this unit which is mobile anti
aircraft outfit including searchlights
Tor picking out enemy planes in the
night. This organization, during va
riouS public ceremonies here, has given
demonstrations Of its ability to focus
the powerful searchlight beams to
planes high in the air.
Although efforts have been under
way for several months to recruit the
present three batteries to top strength,
so that they could be drawn upon to
furnish men for the new organization,
the recruiting campaign will start In
earnest this week, when the organiza-
the park at the north end Of the
Key Bridge in Georgetown. Efforts
will be made to interest capable young
men in an enlistment In the organiZa-
ton, which, in g few months, will &C
to Fort Monroe, Va, for its annual en-
campment. The organization also
plans to give a big demonstration in
the Woodbridge section Of the north
east on the evening of April IL, at
which time 1t Is expected that the 12lst
Engineers Band, Meyer Goldman, lead
er. will give a concert.
Maj. Walter w. Burns, commanding
6n AytjI t,afA 4
last week of the action of the Militia
Bureau in authorizing the increase OF
strength of his organization, and was
directed to take immediate steps to re-
cruit 1t to a minimum strength Of sc
men. Upon completion of this, he will
inform the brigadee headquarters which
IN turn will communicate the fact tC
the Headquarters, Sd Corps Area, al
Baltimore, Md, SO that an officer OF
the Regular establishment may be de-
tailed here to give Federal recognition
Maj. Burns has designated Capt
Robert T. Daily, now in command oi
the Headquarters Detachment and
Combat Train in the artillery unit. u
take charge Of the recruiting campaign
and 1t was announced that he will bt
designated to assume command wher
recognized. This new assignment oi
Capt Daily will make a vacancy in the
Headquarters Detachment, which vii
permit a promotion, and other promo
tions will be made to fill the vacancies
in the commissioned grades In the new
battery.
Simultaneous with the move into the
new armory quarters, the attendance
of the Guard generally showed an in
crease, six organizations mastering
enough men to be claSsed as superior
three of them with 100 per cent, &C.
cording to figures made public by thu
brigade headquarters. However, only
mustered for drill last week, the other,
having previously completed the limit
of 36 armory drills for the quarter.
Those In the classification of SUI
perior, with attendance and percent
ages, were Quartermaster Corps De-
tachment, 10000; Medical Department
Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery
10000; Headquarters Detachment, 29tf
Division Special Troops, 10000; Head
quarters Detachment, goth Division
97.91; 29th Division Military Polio,
Company, 96.82; Headquarters Detach
ment and Combat Train, 260th Coas
Artillery, 1884. The other units IL
their respective claSsiflcations with per
CeNCdReS, IOIIOWS.
Satisfactory: Battery A, 260th Coas
Artillery, 66.66; Battery B. 260th Coas
Artillery, 66.10; Battery CY 260th Coas
Unsatisfactory: Company A, 372c
Infantry, 50.68.
The figures for the previous weel
which were delayed in PRONUNCIATION b!
the moving of the outfit from one build
ing to another, also show q pick up II
attendance with the following five or.
ganizations in the superior class: Quar-.
termaster Corps Detachment, 10000
29th Division Military Police Company
98.41; Headquarters Detachment, 29tt
Division, 93.75; Headquarters Detach.
ment and Combat Train, 26oth Coas
Artillery, $685. Medical Department
Detachment, 260th Coast Artillery
$3.50. The others in their respective
classif1cations, with percentages fol.
low:
Very satisfactory: Band, 121st Enei.
neers, TIA; Headquarters and ServicC
Company, 121st Engineers, 75.51; Com.
pany A, 121st Engineers, 74.f3.
Satisfactory: Battery C, 260th Coast
Artillery. 1884; Company C, 12lst En-.
gineers, 68.11; Medical Department De.
tachment. 12lst Engineers, 66.66; Bat.
terry B., 260th Coast Artillery, 66.lO
Company F, 12lst Engineers, 6491;
Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery. 63. 70
Company D, 121st Engineers, 6O.65.
Unsatisfactory: Headquarters De.
tachment, 29th Division Special Troops
5714; Company B, 121st Engineers
54.09; Company z, 121st Engineers
52.94; Company A, 372d Infantry
Mat c.o A~to e4.-h
kensington, Nd, yesterday to visit thu
Howitzer Company, of the First Mary.
land Infantry, which went through It.
annual armory inspection before q
Regular ohlcer detailed from the Sd
Corps Area Headquarters at Baltimore
He was the guest of Capt. Clearance
v. Sayre, who. prior to the World War
commanded one Of the Infantry bat.
tal1ons In the local Guard.
The dates for the annual encamp.
ment Of Company A, 372d Infantry
nave been changed it was announced
Originally 1t was planned to send this
unit to Camp Albert G. Ritchie at Cas-.
cade, Md, from August 10 to "a. The
revised plans call for the unit to &c
into Camp August II, and to break ur
on August 81.
The Guard had as its guests IN th.
National Hotel armory last week Z
number of Boy Scouts from New York
Pvt. Gilbert L. johnson has beer
promoted to sergeant in Company e
121st Engineers.
Pvt. Lloyd r. Brown, 29th Division
Military. Police Company, has beer
honorably discharged on account of re.
moval from the District.
Pvt: John g. Apperson has beer
transferred from the active to the re.
serve list OF the 29th Division Military
Police Company, on account of busi.
ness interference with the performances
of duty.
Pvt. John K. Erly has been trans.
ferred from the goth Division Military
Police Company to Company r, 121Si
Engineers, in the same grade.
Corpl. Arthur j. Pagan has been re.