Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31

Six officers and 16 enlisted men OF
the National Guard Of the District OF
Columbia were selected to form the r11e
team of the organization at the annual
rifie-shooting competition held with
team composed of midshipmen OF the
United States Naval Academy at An
napolis. The team went to the Mary
land capital yesterday for the match
Capt. Just C. Jensen, head OF the
Ordnance Department of the local
Guard and director of target practice,
was selected to head the team, the
other members of which are Capt. q.
S. Shields, Company E, 121st Engineers;
Capt. F. F. Bernsdorf, Quartermaster
Corps; First Lieut.. T. A. Riley 12lst
Engineers; First Lieut.. Walter r.
Stokes, 12lst Engineers; Second Lieut..
William R. Lane, Company Z. 121st
Engineers; STAFF Sergt. Alexander ].
Thill, Ordnance Department; STAFF
Sergt. Franklin r. Brickles, Company
A, 12lst Engineers; Sergt. Harry B.
Parsons, Company E. 12lst Engineers;
Sergt. Theodore L. Harrell, Ordnance
Company E, 121st Engineers; Sergt.
walter E. Jessup, Company A, 12lst
Engineers; Sergt. Colvin Parker, Com
pany A, 121st Engineers; Corpl. Phillip
Geraci, Ordnance Department; Pvts.
Eugene Ross, Ordnance Department;
Louis w. Panneton, Ordnance Depart
ment; Lenwood E. Garrison, 29th d.
vision Military Police Company; Gil
bert L. johnson, Company E, 121st
Engineers; William r. Colbert, 29th
Division Special Troops, and Henry M.
Boudinot, Company E, 121st Engineers.
Sergt. Edwin F. Rowles has been
ordered reduced to the grade Of private
in Company A, 121st Engineers, at his
own request.
Three commands of the local militia
had a sufficient number of men at the
drill last week to be classed as superior
in attendance, according to figures
compiled from the drill reports ana
rnade public by brigade headquarters.
The State Detachment heads the list
in this first group with percentage OF
100. while the other two units and their
percentages follow: 10Th Division Mill
tary Police Company, 1896 and Head
Quartes Detachment, 29th Division,
e318
The other organizations. in their re-
spective classifications, with percent
ages, follow in their relative order
Excellent-Medical Department De-
tachment 121st Engineers, 1888; Head
quarters Detachment, Special Troops;
10th Division, $3.50; Headquarters ana
Service Company, l2lst ENGINEERS gtiise1;s
OBJ
1856; Headquarters Detachment and
Combat Train. 260th Coast Artillery,
8387: Medical Department Detach-
ment 26Oth Coast Artillery 81.81.
Very sfactory-Company A. l2lst
Engineers. 75.41; Company D. 12lst En-
gineers, 1888; band, l2lst Engineers,
1898; Company A, 372d Infantry,
1928; Company c, 12lst Engineers
stisfactorv-Company E. 121st En-
pineers, 1884: Battery A. 2s0th Coast
Artillery, 6557; Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery, 65.07; Battery c. 260th Coast
Artillery, IS; Company B, 12lst Engl-
neers, 61.66.
Engineers, 5344
Mai. Gen. William G. Everson, chief
of the Militia Bureau, has authorized
the expenditure of funds on two camps
which will be used by the District
Guard for their annual training sites
this Summer. The money will be taken
from the 100000 appropriation passed
by Congress in an effort to relieve I'M
employment
For the construction of a magazine
at Cascade Nd, $3.50 was allotted, while
$3.50 is allowed for the repair OF build
ings at the camp site at Virginia Beach.
Va, and 1925 for painting buildings at
IIlc odIllc PIdSC'
The War Department has notified
local Guard headquarters that William
H Clements a private in Company E,
12fst Engineers, has. been appointed a
first lieutenant i'll the Medical Reserve
Corps Lieut.. Clements is student at
the George Washington University Med
ical School.
The Headquarters Detachment and
Combat Train. 260th Coast Artillery,
has been ordered to report at the
Armory at Water and o streets south
west on the evening Of June for duty
in connection with an overnight ma
newer which will be concluded the fol-
lowing day.
The following enlisted men of Bat
terry A, 260th Coast Artillery, have been
ordered hcnorably discharged as of the
dates following their respective names,
they having completed one year of a
three-year re-enlistment period and
having applied for such discharge:
Pvt. Frederick H. Barksdale. May 10,
1881; Pvt. Paul I. Beckey; June 8, 1881
and Pvt. Walter H. Scott, June 6, 1881.
The following have been ordered
transferred from the active to the re-
serve list of their respective organiza-
tons on account of business interior
ence with the performance of military
duty:
Pvt. First Glass; Daniel L. Watkins,
Company A, 372d Infantry, and Pvt.
Benjamin P. Rains Headquarters and
Service Company, 121st Engineers.
The armament foreman of the Bird
Corps Area, M. v. Mclaughlin, has
been directed to inspect the small arms
and fire control instruments in the
hands of the local Guard prior to next
Thursday.
Unit commanders have been re-
quested to make arrangements so that
when the inspection is requested on
short notice an officer or enlisted man
familiar with the location of this ma
terrell will be present at the inspection.
Regimental and separate unit COM
nanders have been instructed to sub
NIT to brigade headquarters, not later
than June 10, a report showing en-
listed men of their commands who hold
commissions in the Officers' Reserve
Corps. The report is to show for each
enlisted man concerned, his name, rank
and branch in the OfficerS' Reserve
Corps, his officers serial number in
the Reserve and his grade and COM
pany in the District Guard.
The report also must include a
recommendation showing whether or