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

Plans for the field training Of troops
composing the National Guard OF the
District Of Columbia In their annual
encampmentS this Summer were adj
vanced another step last week, when
orders we're issued at the Sd Army
Corps Area Headquarters, at Baltimore
Md, for officers and enlisted men of
the Regular establishment to proceed
to the various training places.
Observation-Disclosures assigned to the
local Guard here are included in the,
list of those to go to the various camps,
and in addition other Regular officers
in the area will proceed at the proper
time.
In addition to the regular instruc-
! ton periods provided in the routine
schedules, the troops this year will be
required to engage in combat exercises
to determine the state OF their pre-
paredness to take the field. Special
boards of Regular officers are to be ap-
the current orders Of the War Depart
ment provide that instructors attached
to the Guard organizations should not
serve on these boards, where other ON
GERS are available.
Maj. Frank G.. Scofeld, Lieut.. Col.
Charles B. Elliott and Technical Sergts.
Charles F. Buck and John Waldron,
serving with the local Guard, have
been ordered to Camp Richie. Capt.
Nicholas D. Woodward and Sergt. Peter
E. McGurn have been ordered there
from Baltimore. Mai. Scofleld also Will
go to Mount Gretna, Pa, during the
period that the 213th Coast Artillery,
Pennsylvania National Guard, IL in
camp.
The field inspection. Of the 26Oth
Coast Artillery Of the local Guard Will
be made by Maj. Charles B. Meyer ana
Maj. Otto G. PITT, both Of whom have
been ordered to Camp Richie from
Allentown, Pa.
Capt. Calvert H. Arnold, U. S. Signal
Corps. also has been ordered to Camp
Richie during the period that the Dis
trict troops will be there, as has Sergt.
Albert Smith, at Norfolk. Stad 6ergt.
william J. Rogers will 60 to Richie
from Baltimore, Md.
Pvt. (First Glass; Stephen J. Devine,
Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, has
been ordered transferred to the Med
teal Department Detachment in that
organization in the grade Of private
The following have been ordered hon
orably discharged, on they own re-
quests, they having completed one year
of a three-year re-enliStment period:
Corp. Richard H. Corcoran and Pvt
Irving H. Mcconnell, both of the 29th
Division Military Police Company.
The following have been ordered
transferred from the active to the re-
serve lists of their respective organiza-
tons, for the reasons given:
Education interference with the per-
Torrance Of military duty-Pvts. EN-
met L. Hunt and Frank A. Wedder-
burn, both Of Battery A, 260th Coast
Artillery, and Pvt. Chester I. Pope,
Headquarters Detachment and Combat
Train, 260th Coast Artillery.
Business interference with the per-
Torrance Of military duty-PvtS. Henry
L. Holt and Ernest G. Saunders, both
Of the HEADQUARTERS Detachment and
Combat Train, 260th Coast Artillery;
Pvts Raymond E. Kramer, Lawrence C.
Robey and Milton j. Tailor, all Of Bat
terry A, 260th Coast Artillery, and Pvt
william T. Fisher, 10Th Division Mill
tary Police Company.
The following have been ordered
transferred from the reserve to the ac-
tive lists Of their respective organiza-
Headquarters and Service Company
121st Engineers; Pvt. John G. Anderson,
Medical Department Detachment, l21st
Engineers: Pvt. Curtis e. Shook, Com
pany C, 121st Engineers; Pvt Adam G.
Mouton. Headquarters and Service
Company, 121st Engineers.
Pvt. (First Glass; John z. Dean, 29th
Division Military Police Company; Pvt.
Lyman Page, Headquarters and Service
Company, 121st Engineers, and Pvt.
Charles N. Chase, Battery A, 260th
Coast Artillery, have been ordered hon
orably discharged on account Of re-
moval from the District.
Pvt. Frank E. Walmsley, Company b,
121st Engineers, has been ordered hon
orably discharged, at his own request.
Pvt william N. Evans, 2sth Division.
Military Police Company, has been
ordered honorably discharged upon ap-
plication Of his parents. because Of
minority.
Corp. Joseph Kayson, Battery C.
260th Coast Artillery, has been ordered
honorably discharged, on his own re-
quest, having completed one year Of a
three-year re-enlistment period.
The appointment Of Second Lieut..