Evening star., 1931-11-29
District National Guard

Memorial, is greatly appreciated, I"
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant. Sd, wrote to
Gen. Stephan during the week. Capt.
Roy and his men helped materially in
carrying out the seating ARRANGEMENTS, "
the letter concluded.
In forwarding the letter to Capt. Will
liam T. Roy, commanding the unit,
Gen. Stephan added that it gave him
great pleasure to add his personal COM
mendation to that of the public build
lngs director. He asked that express
| sions of his appreciation be extended
TO the officers and men Of the COM
mand.
One unit Of the local Guard. the 29th
Division Military Police Company,
| mustered 100 per cent of it's men at
! the drill last week, according to the
compilation made from the weekly drill
report. With this organization, how
ever, in the classification of superior
in attendance were three other units,
as follows, with their respective per-
centages: Medical Department Detach-
ment, 12lSt Engineers, 9444; Medical
Department Detachment, 260th Coast
Artillery, 91.66; State Detachment, 90.
| Other units, with their respective
classifications and percentages, follow
in their relative order:
Excellent-Headquar Detachment,
29th Division, 1887 Headquarters De-
| tachment. Special Troops, 29th Divi-
sion, 87.50; Company A, 372d Infantry,
1926; Battery E, 260th Coast Artillery,
| 81.66.
Very satisfactory-Battery A, 26oth
| Coast Artillery. 1918; Company E, l21st
Engineers, 77.O4; Company F., l2lst
Engineers. 1856: Headquarters Detach-
ment and Combat Train, 260th Coast
Artillery 76.47; Company A, 121st En-
| gineers, 74l3; Headquarters and Serv-
| ice Company, l2lSt Engineers, 1888:
band, l2lSt Engineers, 1852; Company
D, 12lst Engineers, 72.58.
tisfactory-Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery, 69.09; Company B, 121st En-
gineers. 63 40; Company C, 121st Engi-
neerS, 60.31.
Unsatisfactory = Battery C, 260th
Coast Artillery, SIS.
! Brig. Gen. George E. Leach, Mime
sofa National Guard, and former mayor
of Minneapolis, recently appointed by
| President Hoover as chief of the Militia
Bureau to succeed Maj. Gen. William G.
EverSon, will be a delegate of the State
of Minnesota at New Orleans. where the
National Guard Association will hold its
| annual convention.
OCSplle GllS 1dCG LIldI SIcL. LCACu Is
| planning to be sworn in as chief of the
! Militia Bureau Tuesday. it was an
nounced at the War Department here
he will attend the convention in the
| status of a delegate from Minnesota.
Following the convention he plans to
| return to Washington to assume active
charge OF the Militia Bureau affairs.
Pvt. (First Glass; Arthur N Thomas,
Company E, 121st Engineers. has been
ordered honorably discharged on account
of removal from the city.
Pvt. David A. Norman, Company F,
121st Engineers. has been ordered trans
ferred to Company A, same regiment.
Sergt. Joseph A. Dodge and Corpl.
Earl NJ. Meiners, both members of the
121st Engineers Band, have been ordered
| reduced to the grade of private in that
unit, upon recommendation OF the COM
mander of the Headquarters and Service
Company.
Corpl. Norval D. Guerrior has been
ordered promoted to the grade of ser
geant and Pvt. Norman Goldman to
corporal in the 121st Engineers Band.
The following members of Battery B,
260th Coast Artillery, have been ordered
transferred from the active to the re-
serve list OF that command for the
reasons given:
Educational interference with the per-
formance of military duty: Pvts. David
j. Brown, Howard Crouch, Thomas E.
Grimes. John A. Long and James M.
WimSatt.
Temporary removal from the city:
Corpl Clarence A. Rhoden.
A comprehensive training program
| has been mapped out for the 260th
| Coast Artillery for the current period.
under the direction of Maj. Walter W..
Burns, commanding officer:
The training objective, as announced
in the program, is to maintain every
National Guard unit in condition to
function effectively at existing strength
and, without further training, when
employed in minor emergencies by
State or Federal authorities, and to
provide a sufficiently trained force,
capable of rapid expansion to war
strength, which, with the minimum
delay, can be employed in time of war
as an effective component of the Army
of the United States.
Particularly, the program states that
the objective of the Artillery regiment
here is to train and maintain it to
a state OF efficiency in basic training,
so that 1t may conduct successful
service target practice and so that the
regiment. with a properly trained
staff. may function effectively q O