Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-08
DISTRICT GUARDS
|. START MOVING TO
CAMP TOMORROW
260th Coast Artillery Leads
Units Going to Annual
Training.
TWO WEEK ENCAMPMENT
TO BE HELD At RICHIE
Anti-aireraft Detachment Will Ma
NEWER En- Route-Police viii
Escort Troops Out Of City,

When the 260th Coast Artillery Regi-
nent run1bles out Of the city early
tomorrow morning it viii mark the first
movement of troops of the National
Guard OF the District Of Columbia to
their annual training camp sites. The
movement Of this mechanical force over
land will be followed a few hours later
by a movement of another detachment,
the 29th National Guard Division
Headquarters troops, the 29th Division
Military Police Company and Company
A, 372d Infantry, BY train These units
O'Clock. In addition to these organized
movements number of ofTicers and
men will go by private automobile.
Mai Gen. Anton Stephan, command
ing the 29th National Guard Division
and the local troops, Will leave by auto
mobile tomorrow, accompanied by Capt.
Just G. Jensen, Ordnance Department.
Maj George J. Allen, chief medical
ofiicer of the local Guard and who viii
act as the division medical ofhcer at
Cascade, Md. will proceed later, as viii
Lieut.. Col. Peyton g. hewitt. division
adjutant
Go 10 Camp Richie.
The troops which will leave wash
ington tomorrow morning will 20 To
Camp Albert G. Richie at Cascade, Nd,
for two weeks. of training. Those going
by train will arrive before noon, but
the overland movement of the Anti
aircraft Coast Artillery, with heavy guns
and Searchlight equipment, viii not
arrive in camp until next Wednesday
afternoon. the organization having been
authorized to take its road march train
ing en- route to camp. During the trip
overnight stops will be made and at
one point the organization viii engage
In an anti-aiTcraft maneuyer with the
29th Division air force, which Is based
at Frederick
Many OF the troops who win 60 on an
active status tomorrow win spend the
night In the two armories from which
the separate organizations viii start for
the camp. The Coast Artillerymen plan
to leave at 6:i5 o'clock. while the other
troops viii leave about 7:30 for the
Union Station.
MAJ Walter w. Burns. commanding
the Coast Artillery Regiment. said that
his unit will travel In three sections
The advance section viii be composed
of the commanding oficer and staff.
the supply. property and advance
officers. The second section win be
composed of vehicles not needed in the
heavy convoy, which viii form the third
section and which will be composed of
the heavy guns, tractors, searehiightS
and dynamos. Trailing the heavy con-
voy viii be a maintenance group, COM
posed Of the commissary and repair
parties
Police Escort Ordered.
Escorted by a police detail, the troops
will move north on Sixth street south
west, west on Pennsylvania avenue to
NJ street, to Wisconsin avenue north
into Maryland
The troops viii camp Sunday night
at the fair grounds at Frederick. Start
ing at 6:15 on Tuesday morning the
convoy win proceed to the Pennsylvania
State Forest Reserve at Caledonia. Pa,
camping there Monday night. The third
night camp win be on the fair grounds
at Hagerstown. Mayor Musey Of Hagers-
town will review the troops on Tuesday
afternoon, and at night the air
maneuver viii be held with the division
air forces. The march ON Wednesday
will carry the troops into camp at
Cascade about noon
It is planned to make camp about
1880 each day, Maj. Burns said, the
speed of the light convoy being set at
the maximum of IS miles an hour,
while that Of the heavy convoy at IL
miles an hour
The movement viii be in charge OF
Capt. Leroy s. Mann, Capt William
Bulls will command the light convoy
and will be in charge of policing the
column, while First Lieut.. Perry o.
Hun win command the heavy convoy
tenance section.