Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

Pennsylvania avenue, have not been
completed, the medical work has been
| started in temporary quarters, under
the direction of Maj. George j. Allen,
! attached to the State staff, who has
been selected by Maj. Gen. Anton
| Stephen to bear the burden OF the
| medical work of the Guard.
Besides being active in the fitting up
of the new quarters which will serve
IS the medical center, Maj. Allen al
ready has undertaken the examination
! OF all recruits and all men for re-enlist-
| ment in the Guard, and to give the
necessary serum injections when they
are due, instead of waiting for certain
periods during the year, when 1t has
been the practice to take large numbers
of recruits and in some respects tying
up the training.
The new quarters which will serve as
| the medical center are being enameled
new operating room lighting system
is being installed, as well as the neceS-
sary water and steam lines. The equip
ment has been ordered and will be in
stalled as soon as 1t is received. 1t will
include an examination table, glass in
strument case, Sterilizers and necessary
| lockers for the storage of bandages and
other equipment needed for the pro-
vision Of a high class medical service to
the members of the local militia.
1t has been the practice in the past
for all of the medical work to be ham
died by the medical attachments OF the
various units, but this has been found
in practice. to be unsatisfactory. The
establishment of the new medical CEN
ter will relieve these units OF this duty,
so that they can devote all OF their time
to training of the officers and men for
duty in the field. Their time will not
be interrupted by the frequent appear
ance of recruits for examination or Tor
the injection of the necessary serums.
Under the system which is to be put
into effect by Maj. Allen, every recruit,
as soon as he Is enlisted, will be given
the typhoid serum, so that when he goes
to his company or the recruit school
for training, his medical preparation
will have been completed. Periodical
medical examinations Of officers will be
conducted also by Maj. Allen ut inter-
vals so that 1t will not be necessary to
examine them all ut once.
The head of the new medical center
is O veteran in the local militia, having
entered It some years prior TO the war
rs q hospital corpsman In one OF the
regimental infantry units, with which
he went to the Mexican border during
the disturbance prior to the World War.
Although the national rife matches
at Camp Perry, Ohio, are still several
months of, Capt. Just C. Jensen, Ord
nance Department, captain OF the rifie
team Of the local Guard, said that he
had tentatively selected the men who
will compose the local team. The as
pirants for the team are being given
workouts every Sunday on the rife
Congress Heights, D. c., and by the
time the team is ready to depart for the
Mid West Capt. Jensen expects to have
an organization that will bring back
many prizes in the competitions, not
only with other National Guard teams,
but with the teams representing the
Regular services.
The team captain has mapped out
quite a stiff program for those desiring
to make the team, and only those who
continuously maintain high scores at
the local targets can hope to make the
team. He indicated that he will not
announce the personnel until q short
time before the matches, when he win
give them o thorough training ut the
targets.
The Headquarters Detachment Goth
Division, announces that there are va
sirable recruits. This organization COM
prises the enlisted assistants to the COM
mander of the 29th National Guard
Division, comprising the militia Of this
city and the States Of Maryland and
Virginia, and 1t Is charged with many
technical and highly interesting duties.
The training program OF the organiZa.
ton requires 48 weekly assemblies and
Is days Of field training. This year
these units will go to Fort George @.
Meade, Md, for divisional command
post exercise, and will have some very
valuable field training, quite different
from the ordinary training camp duty.
It was indicated that high school,
r, O. r. G. and G. M. T. G. students
and graduates are especially desired.
The annual inspections Of the oficers
and men Of the local National Guard
were started Tuesday night by officers
from the Regular Army detailed here
for the purpose. The units which were
inspected last week were the State
STAFF, the Headquarters 29th National
Guard Division. Headquarters, Special
Troops, 29th National Guard Division;
the Headquarters, 121st Regiment OF
Engineers, Headquarters LIST and Id Bat
talions. 121st Engineers; Headquarters
Detachment, goth National Guard
Division: Headquarters Detachment.
Special Troops, 29th National Guard
Company, Company A, 12lst Engineers;
Company B. 121st Engineers, and Com
pany C, 121st Engineers.
The units to be inspected during the
current week are the Medical Depart
ment Detachment, 121st Engineers;
Headquarters and Service Company,
121st Engineers; Company D, 121st En-
gineers; Company e, 121st Engineers:
Company F, 121st Engineers; Head
quarters, LIST Battalion, 260th Coast Ar
tillery; Medical Department Detach-
ment, 260th Coast Artillery; Headquar-
tiers Battery and Combat Train, 260th
Coast Artillery: Batteries A. B and G,
26Oth Coast Artillery; Company A and
the Medical Department Detachment,
372d Infantry
The officers who are conducting the
inspections are Capt. G. II. Slough, de-
tailed with the engineer regiment Of
the Pennsylvania National Guard at
Philadelphia, for the engineer troops;
Capt. Nicholas D. Woodward, infantry,
on duty with the Maryland National
Guard in Baltimore, for the grad In
fantry troops, who also will inspect the
special troops of the 2oth National
Guard Division, and Mai. Manning M.
Kimmel, Coast Artillery Corps, at
tached to the office of the adjutant
general of the Virginia National Guard
at Richmond, Va.
During the inspection OF the 12lst
Engineers regimental headquarters the
inspection officer, 1t was announced,
gave the officers a war problem to work
out as part of the inspection.
Under orders from the Militia Bureau
of the War Department, uniform plan