Evening star., 1932-01-10

With the continued fair weather, II
has been decided that the officers and
men Of the lst Battalion, United States
Naval Reserves Of the District OF Co
lumbia, will hold their regular drills
each Monday night on the destroyer
Hamilton, instead Of in the armory'
This practice. 1t was said, will be con-
tinued until the vessel leaves here for
Richmond, which is expected on Feb
ruary 81, or until the annual inspec-
ton, If that important affair is held
prior to that time.
While no information has been re-
ceived from the Naval Inspection
Board, the personnel Of which has just
been changed, as to when it will put
the local citizen sailors through their
annual tests, the local Reservists start
ed in with the new year to make prep
arations. The organization is given six
weeks notice prior to the time OF the
arrival of the board, but this really
only gives the Reservists five drill nights
or 10 hours Of work for the prepara-
ton.
Special training is being given along
lines where the organization was found
deficient by the inspection board which
put the battalion through the tests last
Spring. AS long as the drilling is to be
held on the Hamilton, the hope was eX-
pressed that the inspection would be
held while the vessel is here, as the
men will be thoroughly familiar with
their duties and stations aboard the
ship by the time Of the arrival of the
board. They know the ship well, as
it is the vessel Of the Atlantic Train
ing Fleet which is assigned to take To-
cal ReserVists on their annual cruises.
The Hamilton is scheduled to leave
hnrn EnnY11oru 81 for Alpvn rdrio
Va, where it will participate in the
ceremonies there incident to the inaug-
uration of this years Bicentennial ac-
tivitieS the following day. Upon COM
pletion of its duty there, it is sChed-
uled to leave February % for Rich
mond, Va. where it will remain for a
time in the training Of the Reserves of
that city.
AS a part of the preparation for the
annual inspection Lieut.. John F. Moore,
executive officer of the battalion, an
nounced that the reorganization of the
battalion instruction classes had been
completed and that the classes will
meet on the same evenings that the
drills are held aboard the Hamilton.
1t was reported that members Of the
Communication Reserve will be taken
on the annual cruise this Summer for
the purpose of handling the radio COM
munication work. The regular crew
aboard the Hamilton, it was also pointed
out. will be reduced to about 80 men
so that the operation of the vessel while
at sea will be left almost entirely to the
Reserve complement.
While target practice in the past has
been confined almost entirely to firing
the big guns aboard the destroyer, it
was indicated that the ReserviSts will
advance a step further this year while
IN the annual cruise and will be given
instruction in torpedo firing.
Lieut.. (Junior Grade) ]. E. Sullivan,
athletic officer Of the battalion, it was
pointed out, has developed a very good
basket ball team. The officer has COM
mended the work of the manager, DON
aid Mcpherson, in developing the team
to the point where it is representing the
organization most creditably.
The Reserve team has been beaten in
only one Of six games played, and that
by the Takoma Business Men, when the
score was close.
The team is scheduled to play this
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Boiling
Field gymnasium.
Lieut.. Sullivan has sent letter to the
battalion commander, Lieut.. Harold E.
Richardson, asking for financial sup
port for the team, so that uniforms may
be purchased.
The watch list for tomorrow includes
Ensign Gordon Reed, officer Of the
deck; E. G. Morgan, boatswains mate,
first class, petty officer of the watch;
c. H. Briggs, quartermaster, second
class, quartermaSter; r. S. Benhof,
battalion commanders orderly, and c.
F. Tuen, sentry.
Two more applications have been re-
ceived from enlisted men of the bat
talon who desire to take the eXamina-
ton for appointment from the Naval
Reserve TO the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis. They are James
r. Hutchison, seaman, second class, at
tached to the I'd Fleet Division and re-
siding at 470l Connecticut avenue, and
Saverio Filippone, fireman, third class,
also a member Of the I'd Fleet Division,
who resides at 920 Eighth street south
east.
Charles w. StetZer, seaman, second
class enlisted in the Volunteer Com
munication Reserve last week.
Adolph A. Collus, at his own request,
has been ordered reduced from the rate
OF machiniSt's mate, second class, tc
fireman, first class, so that he might be
transferred from the Volunteer to the
Fleet Reserve. He has been assigned to
the Sd Fleet Division for duty.
1t was explained that there are no
vacancies in the high ratings in the
feet divisions, and that If rated men in
the Volunteers want to transfer to the
Ieet branch they will have to take re-
ducttons in their ratings.
Lieut.. w F. Hinckley, U. S. N, in
Observation-Disclosures Of the local battalion,
visited the Communication Reserve at
drill last week.
Lieut.. c. A. Briggs, commanding the
Communication Reserve, said that the
radio transmitter for the Communica-
ton Reserve, under the active work of
Lieut.. (Junior Grade r. c. Gorderman,
is rapidly nearing completion. The pre-
lninary work has been tested and found
to be all right. The additional mate
rial required to put the station on the
air he says, has since been secured
and when the transmitter is connected
and adjusted to the antenna installed
recently by Chief Radioman B. E. Stahl
the ReServists should be able to use it
as the local control station to partici-
pate in the national radio drills con-
Quoted Thursday nights by the Re-
servlSts, and the call letters will be
transferred to the Armory.
The Communication Reservists will
be divided into groups or units, which
will take turns in operating the trans
mitter on drill nights. The compost
tion Of these groups is to be announced
later
The recent national radio drill was
conducted on December 30, and the
plan Of organizing the groups to operate
the station was put into effect at NED