Evening star., 1931-05-31

Lieut.. w. r. Hinckley. U. s. Navy, for
nlally took over the detail as Inspector
instructor Of the 1St Battalion, United
states Naval Reserves of the District Of
Columbia, during the regular inspection
OF the organization last Monday night.
He relieved Lieut.. B. J. Dayton, who has
been detached from duty IN connection
with the reserves at the Washington
Navy Yard and is to report for duty
aboard the battleship wyoming on
June 4.
Lieut.. Hinckley, prior to coming to
this city, was attached to the destroyer
Bernadou. Lieut. Dayton has been with
the battalion for several years and was
executive officer and later commanding
off1cer of the destroyer Abel P. Upshur,
which was here for several years as
training ship Of the organization.
Authority has been given by the Navy
Department for the cruising of officers
Of the Volunteer Communications Naval
Reserve on vessels Of the scouting force
Limited accommodations for such Of
ncers, 1T was said, will be available from
June to 80 on the Antares, Wright,
vestal, Raleigh. Dobbin. Whitney,
Northampton, Chester, Salt Lake,
Pensacola, Trenton, Marblehead. Mem
ph1s. Omaha, Milwaukee and Cincinnati
Tor 15-day periods
A dispatch from the chief OF naval
operations says that owing to the proba-
bic shortage Of accommodations on de-
Stroyers of the training squadron, rec
concentrations are made that officers
desiring to take advantage of this train
1ng should seek duty with the scouting
meet. 1t was also announced that the
vessels named can accommodate some
Communication Reserve radionen.
A comprehensive plan for the instruc-
ton of enlisted personnel of the Com
municaticH Reserve. has been mapped
put bS Lieut.. c. A. Briggs, commanding
Slle local contingent of this branch The
plan has been SO arranged that men
who do not attend drills regularly may,
nevertheless, keep up by reading the de-
tailed instructions which will be issued
They are to be sent out one week prior
to each drill.
The instructions will cover the sub
5ectS named below at present. Later.
additional subjects may be added as
the need arises. The subjects already
arranged include communications, radio
procedure; general information and
naval terms and definitions.
The drill period will be conducted in
the following manner: at 8 pm. classes
in procedure, using the buzzer table, will
start. This will continue until $50
pm. when recess of 10 minutes will
be taken. Starting at pm. lecture
Will be given covering the subjects
which were discussed in the lesson
paper previously sent out.
A review of the subjects covered will
be held periodically. Advancement, it
was announced, will depend upon the
ability of the enlisted men to gain pro-
f1c1ency in naval procedure.
The Secretary of the Navy, it was an
nounced at the Navy Department. has
commended five members of the Naval
Reserve Of this city and vicinity for
their excellent work in handling radio
communications from Managua, Mica
March 81.
Letters Of commendation have been
sent to the following: Lieut.. C. A.
Briggs, 1911 Spring road; Chief Radio
man B. E. Stahl, 1901 K street; Radio
man f1rSt clasS) w. j. SwenSon, 2O43
Rosemont avenue: Radioman (second
class M. F. Darsey. 1886 Kenyon
street, all of Washington. and Radio
man Second class w. L. May, IL West
klrke street, Chevy Chase, Md.
The department statement saws that
as soon as it was learned that the city
OF Managua had been destroyed the
naval reServists of the District of Co
lumbia tried to make contact with the
city Communication was established
and schedules arranged. w. j. Swenson,
amateur call W3PN, made contact with
the high frequency Station MIMIC at
Managua and handled 130 messages.
Twenty-Five of them were forwarded to
persons in the Cnited States having
relatives in Nicaragua. M. F. Darcy
handled % messages.
On the third day after the earthquake
the operator at MIMIC said that he
had about so messages to send, but ban
dts might interfere any moment Lieut..
Briggs asked that MIMIC transmit
messages in strings of five, and trafic
was handled in triangle. It was copied
by B. E. Stahl, verified by Lieut.. Briggs,
who telephoned instantly to Swenson so
that the latter could transmit acknowl-
edgment to MIMIC. In this manner,
with the aid of uninterrupted telephone
service. Sc messages were handled in
about three hours, clearing all traffic.
w. L. May listened for Nicaraguan
stations on the 20-meter band. He es-
tablished contact with T12FG at San
Jose, Costa Rica, to be used as a relief