Evening star., 1932-06-26
d. G.. Naval Reserve

officers and men Of the 1st Bat
talon, United States Naval Reserve of
the District of Columbia, have ex-
pressed their enthusiasm over the &C
ton Of the Senate in placing in the
naval appropriation bill provision for
funds which will permit the citizen
sailors to have their annual training
cruises this Summer. The cruises were
ordered Cancelled several months ago
by the Navy Department as a part Of
the governmental economy move.
While the bill has not been finally
acted upon, nevertheless preparations
are being made in a tentative way for
the cruises. Lieut.. Walter F. Hinckley,
U. S. N, inspector instructor of the
local battalion, is working in conjunc-
ton with representative Of the COM
mandant Of the 5th Naval District to
coordinate the plans of the Reservists
of that area with the Washington Re-
serves in making the preparations, as
the vessels assigned to this area will
have to take care Of all the organi-
zations.
If the plans are finally approved, it
was indicated that the local ReServists
would make the fourth cruise, which
is scheduled to begin on August q and
end on September 10 next. Also, it
is planned to have all Of the divisions
go out at the same time. In the past
it has been the practice to send one
division out at time. 1t is tentatively
planned to have the 1st Fleet Divi-
sion go out on the Eagle Boat Sc, now
stationed at Baltimore, and which for
a number Of years was assigned here
as training ship. The two other divi-
sions it is planned to have go on the
United States destroyer Taylor, one Of
the vessels Of the Atlantic Training
Squadron.
1t has not been definitely determined
where the liberty port will be on the
week end in the middle of the cruise,
but 1t was indicated that it might be
New York. However, it was said that
the cruising radius of the training ships
would be limited by the amount of
fuel money available.
The Eagle boat, now assigned to the
Baltimore Reserves, does not have a
naval officer in command, and the
department has not yet determined
whether to assign an officer for COM
mand during the cruises. 1t was In
dicated that II this is not done
Lieut.. Hinckley will assign Lieut..
Harold e. Richardson, commander of
the local battalion, to command the
vessel during the period that she will
be out with the 1st Division.
While elaborate preparations have
been made at the local armory for an
intensive training schedule in the alb
sence Of the cruises, 1t is likely now
that some Of these will be ide-tracked
to make preparations for the cruises.
OF course, the gun work will be kept
up at the dotter device in the armory
so that the Reservists may be we'll
trained for their annual target practice
Plans also are being made by Lieut..
Hinckley for the training of the Re-
serve Aviation Division here. This or
ganization, Lieut.. Hinckley said, will
work out this year at the old Naval
Air Station at Cape May, N. j., which
is now under the Jurisdiction of the
United States Coast Guard. The Or
ganization will go into training on
July g.
Lieut.. Hinckley flew to Cape May
several days ago to make arrangements
with the Coast Guard commander for
the use of the station. He was piloted
by Lieut.. Cloukey, an officer of the
local aviation division.
The local aviation division. Lieut..
Hinckley pointed out, is self-supporting,
and will fly all of its materiel and per-
sonnel to the training post. Lieut..
Hinckley will spend about a week with
the aviation ReserviSts while at Cape