Evening star., 1933-08-13
TROOPS INSPECTED
+ AT CAMP R|TCH|E
ReqimentaI Tactical Exercise
of 121st Engineers
Starts Thursday.
~ a STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

Nv a STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
CAMP ALBERT c. RITCHIE, CAS-
CADE. Md, August 12.-The 12lst En-
gineers, District National Guard, to-
0ay rounded out the first week OF It's
two weeks training period here with an
inspection which brought expressions
Of satisfaction from Capt. D. Lee
Hooper, Regular Army instructor.
Next week the Engineers Will con-
duct their annual regimental tactical
exercise, which neceSsitates the spend
ing of a night under shelter tents away
from the permanent camp. The ma
neuver will begin Thursday afternoon
and continue through Friday morning.
A competitive drill Saturday afternoon
and a parade by the non-commlSsloneo
officers will end the two weeks en-
campment The troops Will entraln 1or
home Sunday.
Tomorrow Is Visitors Day.
Tomorrow is visitors day here ana
many friends and relatives OF the
puardsnen came to Camp Ritchie to-
day A formal parade and guard
mount will be staged for them late
tomorrow afternoon.
Church erviceS, both Protestant ana
Catholic, will be held in camp tomor-
row morning. AT 10 o'clock. Lieut.. Col
Churchill j. Gibson, 29th Division stan
chaplain, will preach at service Tor
officers and men in the open-alr the
ater; earlier, at 8 am, mass Will be
said in one of the buildings by priest
from the Jesuit House OF Studies at
Woodstock. Md.
The officers of the 121st held their
annual camp dance tonight IN tne oi-
vision headquarters building. Through
ha ct uppk the rPOlmental OanQ
has given concerts every evening, be-
sides playing at reveille and at all for
NAL formations.
Preceding a critique today on the
field maneuvers of the 29th Dlvl-
sion staff Thursday and Friday
Brig. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, COM
manding the Maryland National Guard
lectured on the provisions OF the new
National Guard act passed by the last
Congress.
Placed on Federal Basis.
The new law. he said places the
guard on a Federal basis it has not
hitherto enjoyed. making it regular
part of the United States Army ana
subject to call from the President with
out the formality of obtaining the con-
sent of the Governor of the particular
State.
Because of defects in the old law,
Gen. Reckord said. it was necessary
to draft the National Guard as indl-
viduals at the outset of the World
War, thereby destroying their State or
ganization Now. he explained, If such
q contingency arose. the organization
of the guard as State troops with
Federal status would be preserved.
The act also provides for an inactive
list of officers. who Will be called into
service in case of emergency Tnese
inactive officers would be former OIL
GERS in the guard and enlisted men
who had qualified as officers. but VINO
could not be promoted because OF lack
of vacancies in their organization.
Name of Bureau Changed.
The law also changes the name Of the
Militia Bureau to the National Guard
Bureau. Gen. Reckord said. and provides
that it must be headed by an ofhcer
with the rank Of colonel or higher A
major might have been chief of the
old Militia Bureau.
At the critique en- the war game
problem. those who spoke included
Lieut. Robert w. Rogers, Lieut.. Joel
D. Griffin. Lieut.. Arthur A. Callahan.
Capt. Samuel B. Riggs. Mai. S. Rolfe
Millar Jr.; Lieut.. Col. Thomas G. Nc
Nicholas, Mai Henry c, StanWood.
Lieut.. Col Mills F. Neal, Lieut.. Col,
James G. Knight, Gen. Reckord, Lieut..
Col Herbert L. GrymeS, Lieut.. Col.
Sidney T. Moore. Lieut.. Col Peyton
G. hewitt, Maj Henry T. Duer, 1 ont.
Col Ralph Hutch'""
meth S. Purdie, Col. John w. Och
mann. Lieut. Col. g.
Brig Gen. J. Craig McLana.lan and
Brig Gen. S. Gardner Walter.