Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

Battery b, 260th Coast Artillerys
$685.; Company G. 12lst Engineers
Sc sc; Company A, l2lst Engineers.
65.l5; Battery A. 260th Coast Artillery.
S2.C6: Company d. 121st Engineers,
61.90; Company A, 121st Engineers,
61.53.
Unsatisfactory = Battery C, 260th
Coast Artillery, 57.63.
A reallotment of numerical strength
of the various units Of the local Militia
brigade has been ordered. Units of the
organization have been authorized in
the latest order to maintain active en-
listed personnel to a strength not ex-
ceeding the following figures.
State Detachment, Is; Headquarters
Detachment, 29th Division, Special
Troops, 8; Headquarters Detachment,
29th Division, 46; 29th Division Military
Police Company, So; Medical DEPART
ment Detachment, 121st Engineers, 20;
Headquarters and Service Company,
121st Engineers, including band, n;
Company A, 12lst. Engineers, u; COM
pany B, 121st Engineers, 65; Company
c, 121st Engineers, "a; Company D,
121st Engineers, 60; Company E, 12lst
Engineers, 65; Company F, 121st Engl-
neers, So; Medical Department Detacn-
ment, 260th Coast Artillery, IT; Head
quarters Detachment and Combat Train,
260th Coast Artillery, 80; Battery A,
26Oth Coast Artillery 81; Battery B,
260th Coast Artillery, 66; Battery Z.
26Oth Coast Artillery, go; Battery z,
26Oth Coast Artillery, Sc; Company A.
372d Infantry, SO.
Commissioned officers are authorized
for each unit in numbers not exceeding
those authorized by Militia Bureau ia
bles of organization. Enlistments to fill
vacancies caused by separation from the
active list, only, will be made in units
which are now at the strength pre-
scribed. Units are directed not to ex-
coed the strength designated in the or
der unlecs prior authority Is secured
from the brigade headquarters.
The order also enjoinS all unit COM
manderS to keep on the rolls only such
personnel as is active, and whose at
I tendance can be secured in order that
| there will not be carried on the rolls
| personnel which should be eliminated.
Lieut.. Col. Peyton c. hewitt last week
sent letter to the contractor engaged
! in razing the old Washington Light In
| fantry Armory en- 18th street, south OF
| the Avenue asking him to inform the
| brigade headquarters when he contem-
plates removing the corner stone of the
building A provision in the razing con-
tract requires that the contents of the
| SIO1lC VI llldS DQAANAAAS NC 0CALf-
! cred to. the commanding general OF the
local Guard.
Col hewitt stated that he desired to
know the date of removal, in order that
delegation from the militia might be
present and that contents might be de-
| livered to representatives of the COM.
manding general unopened.
Brigade headquarters announced the
acceptance by the President of the
United States of the resignation of Maj.
! Joe r. Mickey, National Guard Reserve.
Mai. Mickey is a veterans in the local
Guard and commanded one of the En-
1 gineer battalions prior to his transfer
| to the Reserve on account of his en-
, ployment, under the Federal Govern
ment, in a foreign country.
The following have been ordered
! transferred from the active to the re-
serve list Of their respective organ1za-
| tons for the reasons given:
! Educational interference with the per-
Torrance of military duty: Pvt. Leo
poldo Martelino, Headquarters and Serv-
! ice Company, 121st Engineers, and Pvt.
William L. Harvey. Battery B, 36eth
Coast Artillery.
Business interference with the per-
| Torrance of military duty: Pvt. George
H. Maisch, Headquarters and Service
Company, 121st Engineers.
Corpl John K. Erly has been or
dered reduced to the grade of private in
Company F, 121st Engineers, upon rec
concentration of the company COM
mander.
Sergt. Maurice L. Rodgers has been
ordered reduced to the grade of private
| in Company E, 121st Engineers, upon
| the recommendation of the unit COM
mander, and Pvt Steve M. Brown has
! been promoted to fill the vacancy.
First Lieut.. John C. Wade, 121st En-
gineers, of the local Guard has been
designated by the commanding general
of the Sd Corps Area at Baltimore as
assistant associate chairman of activi-
ties in connection with the 1881 G. M.
T. G. procurement campaign. He will
assist the G. NJ. T. c.. Committee here
in activities for the successful procure
ment of quotas from this city for the
coming Summer training camps.
Lieut.. Quade was advised that Off
GERS of the Regular Army on duty with
the National Guard, Organized Reserve.
r. 0. T. G. units and the Corps Area
Recruiting Service within your G. M.
T. c. district will, in addition to their
regular duties assist you in the G. M.
T. C.. procurement, but with the restric-
tons that members of the Recruiting
Service, personnel on National Guard
or r. o. T. C. duty will not leave their
stations or regular places of duty, nor
be assigned to any work which will In
terfere with their regular duty, and, If
called upon to assist in any way, they
will be advised of the restrictions under
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