Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-14

of the War Department to set up q
system which will make possible the
absorbing into the Regular Army of
those Air Corps Reserve pilots who
during tours of active duty show I'M
usual aptitude for military life and
who desire to remain in the service.
There are, for example, two pilots
in the I'd Bombardment Group at
Langley Field, Hampton, Va, now COM
pleting extended tours of active service,
whose loss is going to be keenly felt
by the group. Both have made splen-
did service records, one of them finish
ing first among all the pilots in group
competitive craftsmanship. Both men
want more than anything else to re-
main in the service; officers of the
group say that their departure will
mean real loss to the Air Corps. Yet,
under the present system both men
must go into civilian life as Reserve
pilots, who in the future probably will
not be able to get sufficient time to
keep them in condition for active
service without refresher training.
Veterans Go to School.
1t Is a brilliant group of Army Air
Corps officers which will go to the
Tactical School for its first session at
Maxwell Field. Montgomery, Ala, next
September. The school now is being
moved from Langley Field, Hampton,
Va. Among the officers enrolled for
the course are several who have di-
rected the destinieS Of the Air Corps
before the congressional committees,
two air attaches at foreign embassies,
chiefs of several important Air Corps
divisions and a World War ace.
The course Is to begin September is
and continue q year. It Is designed
for the training of selected Air Corps
officers in the handling of large
tactical units and in the science Of
modern aerial combat.
The group includes six officers now
on duty in the National Capital. They
are Maj. Douglas B. Motherhood,
finance officer of the Air Corps, who
has handled a bulk of the budget work
OF the corps for several years: Maj
Delos C.. Emmons, executive in the
Office of F. Trubee Dawson, Assistant
Secretary Of War for Aeronautics; Maj.
Frank M. Kennedy, chief Of the build
ings and grounds section of the Air
Corps, who has contributed largely to
the program Of permanent construc-
posts; Capt. Elmer z. Adler of the
training and operations division of the
Air Corps; Lieut.. Arthur I. Ennis, the
Graham McNamee Of the Air Corps, E"
who Is known throughout the country
for his broadcasting of aerial events
while on duty in the Air Corps in
formation section, and Lieut.. Howard
A. Craig of the personnel division.
Maj. Adlai H. Gilkeson, chief of the
equipment section of the Air Corps,
leads a distinguished group from Wright
Field, Dayton, Ohio. including Mas.
William H. Crom and Oliver P. Echols,
pAIarf fa,,t I.I,
R. McReynolds.
Two Attaches Included.
Two attaches slated to 60 to the
school are Maj. George E. Lowell, jr.,
assistant military attache for air at
Rome and assistant military attache for
Greece, and Maj. George E. A. Rein
burg. former military attache for air
at Berlin.
Capt. Victor H. Strahm, one Of the
leading World War aces still in the &C
tive service, will go to the school from
Selfridge Field, Mich. Capt. Theodore
j. Koenig, balloon officer at Langley
Field, Hampton, Va, and representative
Of the United States in international
balloon races, also has been assigned.
The list of assignments also includes
Maj. Carlyle H. Wash and Capts. VIII
liam o. Butler and Donald P. Muse Of
Maxwell Field, Maj. Harvey S. Burwell,
former commandant of Boiling Field,
now on duty Mt the University of Cali
fornia; Capt. Walter H. Reid, formerly
here on buildings and grounds duty;
Capt. Lawrence P. Hickey, operations
officer at Post Field, Fort Sill, Okla,
and former director of the School of
Communications, Chanute Field, H.;
Lieut.. Emil c. Kiel, chief instructor of
attack aviation at the Advanced Fly
Brooks Field, Tex; Lieut.. James E.
Adams, operations officer Of the I'd
Bombardment Group, Langley Field,
now leading a fight of three bomberS
to Panama; Lieut.. Morton H. McKin-
non, March Field, Calf; Lieut.. Caleb
v. Haynes, formerly here In the sup
ply section, but now on duty as in