Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
District National Guard


Sims, Congress Heights, d. c., Novem
Der !, and 9 next. The schedule O
matches also was announced. They ar
IS follows:
Company team championship mattel
ITO be fired November /, 1880 am
Open to one team of six shooting mem
Ders and one team captain from eacl
company, battery or separate detach
ment OF the local Militia. Fifty pc
cent OF the shooting members of eacl
team shall be enlisted personnel VIII,
have never fired on any team repre-
senting the local Guard or any part o
the Guard in any rifle competition ans
VINO nave never participated in the ma
tional rife matches. Course of fire
Course ID" and. in addition, slow fir,
as follows: Five shots, sitting, 30t
yards; five shots. kneeling, same dis
lance, and 10 shots, prone, 600 yards
with no sighting shots. Prizes: Win
ming team, bronze trophy to be helt
In the company rooms for one year anS
gold medals; second place. silver med
ais, and third place, bronze medals.
Automatic rife match-To be free
November 1, 1880 am. Open to ont
team OF two enlisted shooting member.
from each company or separate de.
tacnment armed with the automatic
OOOASC VI NyudllIlCaJlOf
course, automatic rife. Prizes: To The
winning team, a bronze trophy to bt
heid IN the company rooms for one veal
and silver medals Victoria Trophy.
Inc following matches will be free
Sunday. November 2, at 7:30 am:
Novice match-Open to those who
nave fired in 1880 their first season OF
target practice under military, naval OF
Marine Corps supervision.
MarkSmanis match-Open to all ex.
cept those who have been officials
shooting members or alternates of any
national match or Sea Grit teams who
have completed their oficial target
practice for the year 1880.
Experts match-Open to all.
For all of the above matches the
course of fire will be ID"
The following matches will be fired
Sunday. November 8, beginning at
1880 am:
300-yard match-Open to all. Course
OF fire: Five shots, sitting, and five
shots, kneeling, with no sighting shots
600-yard match-Open to all who
have qualified as marksman or better.
Course of fire: 10 shots, prone, with
two sighting shots.
Individual championship match
Open to all. The aggregate of the indi-
Vidual scores made in the novice match,
marksman's match or experts match
and the 30o-yard match and the 600
yard match to count The winner will
be designated 1.-THE champion rifle shot
of the District of Columbia National
Guard" Prizes for each individual
match: First place, gold medal; second
place, silver medal, and third place,
bronze medal
The executive officer of the matches
is authorized to eliminate any number
of low-score firers at the close of the
300-yard match and cancel their en-
tries in the 600-yard match and the in
dividual championship match.
The arm to be used will be the rife,
caliber 80, model 1908, as issued, with
trigger pull of not less than 3 pounds.
National match rifles are barred. No
two men will be allowed to fire the
same rife. Ammunition, service. as is
sued at the firing point.
Entries may be made at the opening
OF the matches. However, officials urge
early entries. The target range will be
open for voluntary practice on all days
Der 81.
The time limit on the firing is fixed
at one shot per minute, slow fire.
Capt. j. c. Jensen, Ordnance Depart
ment, and in charge of rifle practice
for the local Guard. has been desig-
mated as executive officer of the match
es. He has been instructed to recon-
mend to the brigade headquarters the
names Of personnel to act as officials at
the matches.
The following enlisted men have been
ordered transferred from the active to
the reserve list of their respective or
CARNATIONS for the reasons given:
Educational interference with the
performance Of military duty-Pyts,
Bernard j. CasSassa, Edward S. Hol-
land, Peter j. LOTUS and Raymond M.
Meiners, all of the Headquarters and
Service Company. 121st Engineers, and
Corp. Kenneth G. Baker, Headquarters
Detachment, 29th Division.
Business interference with the per-
Torrance of military duties-Pvts.
Berkeley T. Hass, Herlie B. Morse and
Albert B. Smith, all of the Headquar-
tiers and Service Company, 121st Engi-
neers, and Pvt. Luther p. Price, Com
pany F, 121st Engineers.
Temporary absence from the District
of Columbia-Pvt. (hrst class) Fausto
r. Ilias. 29th Division Military Police
Company, and Pvts, John @. BARRIERS
and Lewis A. Lakewood. both of the
Headquarters and Service Company,
12lst Engineers.
The following enlisted men Of the
18th Division Military Police Company
have been ordered honorably discharged
on account of removal from the Dis
trict: Pvts. Desmond c. Hampton and
John r. Johnston
Pvt. Oberon Warren, Quartermaster
orably discharged, effective October /,
by reason of having been appointed a
member OF the local Police Department.
Maj. Gen Anton Stephan, command
ing the 29th National Guard Division,
comprising the Militia of this city and
the States of Maryland and Virginia,
as well as the local brigade, accompa-
MED by Lieut.. Col. Peyton c. hewitt,
assistant adtutant general of the local
Militia, will leave here today for Bos-
ton, Mass, where they will attend the
annual convention of the National
Guard Association Of the United States.
The convention is scheduled to convene
there tomorrow and to continue for
three days.
While encouraging the use of the ar
mory as clubhouse, nevertheless the
officials are faced with the necessity of
its use by unauthorized per-
sons. Accordingly, each member Of the
Guard is to be furnished with an iden-
tifcation card. The men have been
instructed to keep them secure so that
they will not fall into the hands of I'M
authorized persons. The cards are to
be signed by the member to whom is
sued and countersigned by his COM
n1anding officer. Hereafter, at the time
0f enlistment aaph rocr1Iff udll ha fifr-
nished an Identification card The
Waterman on duty in the armory has
been authorized to call on individuals
IN the armory for display of this iden-
LITIGATION card at any time and those
unable to so display it are subject to
election from the building, 1t was an
1Uunced.