Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
District National Guard

militia have made application to attend
a Citizens Military Training Camp dur
ing the current Summer: Leslie Robert
son. Headquarters Detachment, 29th Dr.
vision. RAYMOND Oliver Watson, Battery
E. 26Oth Coast Artillery; Kenneth r..
I.arigey, William j. Conlyn, Jr., and An
drew c. Conlyn, all Of Company G, 12lst
Engineers: John F. Harrington, Com
panv B, 121st Engineers: Ernest Van
DYKE Murphy. IT.. Company D, 121st
Engineers Harry F. Rohrkemper,
Battery B, 26Oth Coast Artillery.
pvt. Edward H. Hill, Company E.
! 121st Engineers, has been transferred TO
the reserved list of that command on
account of temporary removal from
the District.
Pvt. George E. DeShazo, Headquarters
Detachment, goth Division, has been
transferred in the grade of private to
the Headquarters Detachment, Speclal
Troops, goth Division.
The Sd Army Corps Area, embracing
the District of Columbia and the states
If PENNSYLVANIA, Maryland and Virginia,
will furnish eight officers and 800 en-
listed men for duties in connection With
the firing of the national rifle matches
at Camp Perry, Ohio, this Summer,
under the quotas just announced by
the War Department. Troops VIII De
selected by the corps area commander
from posts within the CORPS area.
Instructions have been issued from
Sd Corps Area headquarters to all posts
within the District authorizing appro-
pirate observance of Army day tomor-
row. Duties other than the necessary
guard and fatigue may be SUSPENDED
during the afternoon. Army day marks
| the anniversary of the entrance OF the
| United States into the World War, and
was first observed in 1927. Sponsored
! by the Military Order of the word
War. its observance was des gned 10
stress patriotism and interest in ma
tional defense.
Work done and aid given by the Ma
tional Guard during the depression pc
riod was referred to in statement
made from the War Department re-
ceived by the local brigade headquarters.
Due to the fact that plans and speclfl-
cations were already ON hand for many
of the projects under the 5! ,OOO,OO0 ap,
propriation by Congress for National
Guard camp construction, the state
ment says, it was possible to immedl-
ately give employment to hundreds OF
workmen throughout the country, In
stead of being obliged to wait for the
preparation of these details.
In many cities National Guard arm
cries, with Army cots, beds, sacks and
blankets, have been made available Tor
housing the unemployed. This in addi-
ton to the normal use Of armorleS by
| civilian population for meetings, etc. In
| New York State alone, recent survey
/ showed. it was said, the use Of armorles
by more than 100000 civilians for
civic, community, social and educa-
| tfonal and recreational activities.
The 103d Cavalry Armory OF the
! PENNSYLVANIA National Guard OF Phila-
! delphia was used recently by the Vet
! Grams Bureau to accommodate thou
/ sands of World War veterans applying
for loans on adjusted compensation GER
/ tiflcateS.
The armory drill pay given militia
men for weekly training, it was said,
helped out in many communities.
| Speaking at the recent graduation
! exercises of National Guard and Re-
serve officers at the QuartermasteI
School at Philadelphia, Maj. Gen. Will
liam G. EverSon, chief of the Militia
Bureau, said that the National Guard
is the largest body of troops, organized!
equipped and trained, at the disposal
| of the Federal Government TO supple
rnent the Regular Army in the early
stages of military emergency. Hence
he said, the importance of constant
! effort that the National Guard be ready
at all times for immediate Federal call
Whatever may be the ambition FOL
/ peace, he added, the readiness of the
Regular Army, the National Guard ano
the Organized Reserves is vital to the
national defense.
! Gen. Everson pointed out that the