Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17

! destroyer Hamilton, according to ad-
vices received last week from Rear
| Admiral C. C. Bloch, commander in
chief OF the Atlantic Training Squad
ron, which has the duties Of cruising
the members Of the Naval Reserve on
the East Coast
While the local citizen sailors had
a foreign cruise, having visited the Ber-
| muda Islands last year, they were
| hopeful that this year they would be
! assigned to take a cruise to Southern
coast ports. This recommendation was
made, it was said, in the interest OF
| efficiency and more time for training,
| as it has been found that during the
! trips to the New England ports large
| part Of the time was lost in fogs which
! are prevalent there during the Summer
months.
Another change has been made in the
! cruising schedule this year. Heretofore
| it has been the practice TO cruise the
! three divisions Of the local battalion in
/ succession, with a week layover of the
! vessel between cruises. However, this
! year there will be an interim of nearly
! the entire month of July between the
| training voyages of the lst and I'd Fleet
| Divisions here.
According to the schedule received
! from Admiral Bloch, who formerly was
! chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in the
/ Navy Department, and commandant of
| the Washington Navy Yard, and SUI
| perintendent of the Naval Gun Fac
| tory here, the 1St Division OF the local
| battalion will leave here aboard the
destroyer Hamilton on June l8 and
! will return on July 2.
| The Hamilton, the schedule provides,
upon debarking the citizen sailors here
will go to Hampton Roads, Va, where
on July 9. it will embark the Newport
| News and Norfolk Reserve divisions and
| take them on a voyage 70 Boston for
| training.
The second cruise for the local Re
servistS will begin here on June 30,
when the % Division will leave here
and follow the same schedule, includ-
ing the midcruise liberty at Boston.
This cruise is scheduled to end on Au-
gust 10, and after the ship remains
here for a week, it will, on August 20,
leave for the third and last cruise of
the season for the local ReserviSts, TAX
ing Sd Fleet Division which will COM
plete its duties when the ship returns
here on September 3.
During the various voyages the citi-
zen sailors will be instructed in ship
maneuVering, emergency drills, target
practice, signaling, etc.
The Baltimore Reserve divisions, as
has been the practice in the past, also
will come to this city and make the
voyages with the local Reserve divisions.
The schedule also provides for train
ing of the Naval Reserve officers Train
ing Corps cruises. On June "a the De-
stroyer Tillman will leave Boston with
the Yale classes aboard for Bermuda The
DESTROYER Evans will leave New Haven
with the Yale students while the De-
stroyers Philip and Fairfax will leave
! Hampton Roads with the students from
! Georgia Tech and Northwestern Uni
versity. These three ships will join
with and accompany the Tillman to
Bermuda.
The flagship Arkansas of the Allan
! tic Training Squadron, will leave Bos-
ton on August q to go to Halifax with
! six divisions from the LIST Naval Dis
! trict and one from Boston. This is in
line with the recommendation of the
regular Navy Inspection Board, made
following the annual inspections of last
year, that the feet divisions had
reached the stage now where they
should be given some training aboard
battleships where they would be in
closer contact with the officers and men
OF the regular establishment.
The Wyoming, also of the training
fleet, will leave Hampton Roads with
members of the freshman and sopho-
more classes of the r. o. T. c. aboard
The Miami, Fla, and Galveston, Tex,
Reserve divisions will go to Nassau this
year, leaving on the destroyers Taylor
and Claxton. July 10. while the Charles
ton and New Orleans divisions on the
same ships will go to the same port
A number of cruises will have their
destination in this city during the Sum-
mer with Reserve organizations from the
New England States. The first con-
tingent is expected to arrive here on
July IS, when eight feet divisions from
Boston, New York and New Haven will
come here aboard the destroyers TILL
man, Evans, Philip and Wickes.
On the next cruise these ships will
take three divisions to Annapolis, while
on August rs the same vessels, except
the Wickes, will take divisions from the
lSt and 3rd Naval Districts to Annapo-
lis, and on September 9, the Wickes,
Taylor and Clexton will return here
with divisions from the 3rd Naval Dis
! trict.
James IA Mostyn, fireman, second
class, re-enlisted in the Sd Fleet Divi-
| sion.
The following were enlisted and as
signed to the LIST Fleet Division: Edwin
L. Fenton, fireman, third class; Harry
| c. Babbs, jr., seaman, first class, and
JuSton E. Farrell, seaman, second class.
| These men were enlisted to fill vacan-
| cieS created, according to information
received at the local battalion headquar-
| tiers, by the transfer of three men from
| the feet to the Volunteer branch of the
| Reserve for failure to maintain eff
| cheney. They are: Roy L. Boyd, fire.
man. first class; Samuel z. Cox, fire.
man, third class, and James w Dollar,
| fireman, third class.
The following members Of the I'd
! Fleet Division have been transferred
from the I'd Fleet Division to the Vol
unteer Reserve for failure to mainta l.
! efficiency: Henry H. Shugart, seaman,
second class, and James x. Boxwell,
seaman, second class.
The appointment of Lieut. (Junior
| Grade Eugene G. CaruSi in the Volun-
| teer Reserve for deck and engineering
| duties was announced. He resides at
1855 Eighteenth street.
During the past year the Naval Re-
serve aviation has made the greatest
| improvement anu pIOSIeSS III any Single
year since its reorganization in 1923, &C
cOrdlng to a statement issued by the
Navy Department. Training activities
during the year were conducted at 10
bases and more than 10000 hours were
flown without fatality by members of
the Naval Reserve on inactive duty. In
addition to that number of flight hours,
members Of the Reserve under instruc-
ton at the Naval Air Station, Pensa-
cola, Fla, accumulated more than TO-
600 hours while training for quslifica-
ton and designation as naval aviators
! During the year Marine Corps Re-
serve aviation squadrons have been or
gained at certain of the Naval Reserve
aviation bases and have used the same
equipment as the Naval Reserve avia-
ton SquadrOnS
Sixty members of the Naval Reserve
and 10 members of the Marine Corps