Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19

Combat Train, 26oth Coast Artillery,
74.19; Medical Department Detach-
ment, 260th Coast Artillery, 71.42; Bat
terry C, 26Oth Coast Artillery, 7o.4S.
Satisfactory-Company D, 12lst En-
gineers, 67.79 Battery A, 260th Coast
Artillery, 1855; Battery B. 260th Coast
Artillery, 63.49; Company A, 121st En-
gineers, 63.07; Headquarters Detach-
ment, Special Troops, Goth Division,
$50; Company F, 121st Engineers,
Unsatisfactory-Company B. 121st
Engineers, 59.01; Company c, 121st
Engineers, STA.
Very unsatisfactory - Company E,
121st Engineers, 44.44.
Organizations not listed above did
not drill during the period covered by
the report.
Pvt. Hans Lehman, Battery B, 260th
Coast Artillery, has been ordered hon
orably discharged to enable him to en-
list in the United States Army.
Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, COM
manding the local Guard, has written
identic letters to officials of three vet
eran posts, expressing appreciation OF
thanks contained in letters from them
in connection with the use of the Sixth
Street Armory for serving meals to the
unemployed The letters were sent to
Lieut.. Col. Frederick Livingstone of
Columbia Post, Comdr. John I. Spreck-
elmyer of Equality Walter Reed Post
and DR.. A. Victor Cercell Of Front
Line Post.
1T wish to assure you," said the let
tiers of Gen. Stephan, that we were
very glad indeed to render assistance
towards making the unemployment
ar on, y,oIIch inonresSed with the rec.
ord of $4,000 meals served from the
kitchen and wish to congratulate all
concerned on this achievement.
Should conditions again require SIM
liar effort on the part of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, want you to know
that we stand ready to render such as
sistance as may be possible"
The pre-camp training schedule of
the Headquarters Detachment, 18th
Division, was started Tuesday night,
with instruction in school of the sec
ton The program for the remainder
of the period is as follows: April IA,
Infantry drill; April 81, military cour-
tesy and school of sections; April %,
school sections; May S, Infantry drill;
May 6, inspection; May IL, 10 and rs
and June 2, map reading; June 2, tar
get practice; June 8, Infantry drill and
articles Of war; June Is and IA, target
practice June Is, school of sections;
June %, Infantry drill and school of
sections, and June 80, examination and
inspection.
Upon recommendation Of the detach-
ment commander, Pvt. George E. De
Shazo, Headquarters Detachment, 29th
Division, has been ordered transferred
in the same grade to the Headquarters
Detachment, Special Troops.
At least 95 combat type National
Guard planes will participate in the
command and staff exercises Of the
Army Air Corps May Is to 81 next-in
all, 672 ships (attack, pursuit, ohserva-
ton, bombing, transport, Photographic
and staff planes), $50 Of combat type,
the National Guard furnishing one
fifth.
Five National Guard planes will fly
from each home station at Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nash
vile, Birmingham, Detroit, Chicago,
Minneapolis. st. Louis, Houston, Cleve-
land, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Spo-
kane, Hartford, Newark, Denver and
Little Rock to Wright Field, Dayton,
Ohio, and form the 3o1st to 306th
Squadrons, inclusive, of the 151st and
1920 Groups Of the 22d Provisional OBJ
Servation Wing.
Under the War Department five-year
program all of the 152 airplanes Of the
National Guard are part Of the 1900
authorized for the Air Corps. Any
demonstration of the tactical strength
of the Air Corps must, therefore, in
clude the National Guard planes.
Every State will be crossed by one or
more units and it is estimated that
$4,000, 900 people will have an opportun-
ity to see the planes as they concen-
trate at Dayton and proceed with
demonstrations and simulated attacks
at Chicago Boston, Washington, Phila-
delphia, New York and other Eastern
points and then return to home sta
tons throughout the United States.
This, the War Department announces,
will be the greatest air maneuver ever
staged in this country and the first
time the National Guard will have par
ticipated in the big maneuvers Of the
Army Air Corps. It also said that this
intensive training experience will be ex-
tremely valuable and the National
Guard proposes to measure up to the
challenge Of this, the Nations greatest
air spectacle.
During the forthcoming air maneu-
verS, it has been decided that during
the period, MAY 20, 80 and 81, the
22d Observation Wing, comprising Ma
tional Guard units from all sections Of
the country. will be based on Bellanca
Field, near Wilmington, Del. This wing
consists of 80 observation planes, 2
transports, los officers and 81 enlisted
men.
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