Evening star., 1932-04-24
District National Guard

Md, May 20; Company A, 372d Infan
try, which also will go to Cascade, May
20; Special Troops, goth Division, which
will go to Virginia Beach. Va, June 3;
260th Coast Artillery, location OF camp
undetermined, June 3.
The order says that the active CO.
operation Of commanding officers is alb
solutely essential in conforming to the
above dates in order that the brigade
headquarters may have eprograms studied,
corrected If necessary, and submitted to
the corps area headquarters at Balti-
more by the time prescribed in orders
from that place.
The following promotions have been
ordered in Battery E, 260th Coast Artil-
lery: Pvt. (FirSt Glass; Louis A. Barr
and Pvts. Norval B. Smith and John j.
Whaley to be corporals.
The following new strength allot-
ments for the 260th Coast Artillery were
announced by brigade headquarters:
Headquarters Detachment and Com
hat Train SO men; Battery A, GA; Bat
terry B, "a; Battery c. 81; Battery E, 64;
Medical Department Detachment, 10-a
total of 298 men.
It was announced that 10 gas masks
have been furnished the 260th Coast
Artillery for instructional purposes in
chemical warfare training.
The following promotions have been
ordered in the Headquarters and Service
be sergeant and Pvt. First Glass; Frank
l.. Campbell to be corporal. The
changes were ordered upon the recon-
mendation Of the company commander
Corpl. William F. Sampselle, Com
pany F, 121st Engineers, has been
ordered transferred to the Medical De-
partment Detachment, same regiment,
in the grade Of private.
Upon recommendation of the COM
pany commander, Pvt. Joseph E. Hobbs
has been ordered promoted to the rank
Of sergeant.
Sergts Robert E. Shanahan and
Charles Y. Turner have been ordered
reduced to the grade of privates in
Company d, l2lst Engineers, upon their
own requests.
Pvts Charles J. DuIin, National Guard
TO the active list Of Company D, 12lSt
Engineers.
The following named enlisted men
have been ordered transferred from the
Reserve to the active lists Of their re-
spective commands:
Pvt. James A. Hogan, 29th Division
Military Police Company; Pvts. Charles
r. CasaSsa, Paul w. Christensen and
John H. Rankin, jr., all of the Head
quarters and Service Company, 12lst
Engineers.
The following have been ordered
honorably discharged on account Of re-
moval from the District Of Columbia
Pvt. (First Glass; Charles w. Toppin,
2sth Division Military Police Company,
and Pvt Edward M. Gordon. Battery z,
2e0th Coast Artillery.
The National Guard Register for 1881
has recently been completed, 1t was
announced last week by the Militia
Bureau, and now is being distributed
to National Guard units. This is the
last annual register of the National
Guard, as in the future it will be pub
lished on biennial basis.
The Militia Bureau says that from
year to year the register has been i'm
proved until today it includes COM
plete statement of the organization Of
the Militia Bureau and the National
Guard of the several corps areas, States
and Territories of the Union. The gen.
eral arrangement embraces the organ
ization Of the Militia Bureau, showing
the several divisions and the officers
ON duty in the bureau assigned to each
Of them. Then follows the geographical
set-up Of the corps areas and de-
partments, with the States contained in
each of them, together with the numeri-
cal designation Of the National Guard
divisions allotted to them.
A complete station list Of the moro
than 5000 Federally recognized units
of the National Guard arranged by
divisions and organizations, together
with the States to which they are allo-
Gated, occupies the next section of the
document.
The main body of the register is de-
voted to the officer personnel of the
National Guard. The text Is arranged
by States in alphabetical order and
headed for each with the Governor as
commander in chief of the State forces,
the adjutant general and the United
States property and dishursing officer.
There also is included brief descrip-
ton Of the military crest of the State.
Preparation for the holding Of the
national rife matches at Camp Perry,
Ohio, is proceeding at normal pace
on the assumption that the annual ap-
preparations will receive congressional
approval. Lieut.. Col. Francis c. Endi-
colt, Infantry, the administrative officer
of the Militia Bureau, has been assigned
by the War Department as the execu-
tive officer of the national matches for
the years 1882 and 1888.
Supporters for the national match