Evening star., 1934-11-11
INJURED RESERVES
WILL RECEIVE PAY
Navy Provides for Naval
Personnel Hurt on Week
End Cruises.

Members OF the United States Ma
val Reserve who are injured or killed
while participating in week end cruises
aboard vessels Of the Navy will be en-
titled to compensation, according to .
change in the Bureau of Navigation
manual just announced. The amount
OF compensation will be governed by
the same law which governs such
payments to civilian employees of the
Government injured in line of duty.
Prior TO the issuance Of this order
the compensation laws had been ex-
tended to men serving aboard ships
on their regular annual training
cruises. However, 1t was pointed out
that for q long time men injured on
the weekly cruises, and who were un-
fortunate enough to be hurt, lost time
from their civilian employment, and
due entirely to their volunteer efforts
to train themselves for service in
the Navy In time of q national
emergency.
The weekly cruises are purely vol
untary on the part of the personnel.
They do not receive any compensa-
ton, but are allowed subsistence.
Neither are they ordered to take the
cruises. 1t was said that there have
been instances where men were Sc
riously injured and laid up for long
periods, and, until the change was
made, they were without any COM
pensation from the Government. This
has long been considered a hardship
and the Naval Reserve personnel made
strong hight to have some provision
made for such cases. 1t was pointed
out that 1t was manifestly unfair for
the Government to expect these men
to give their time for training, and
thus suffer an injury which might
main them for life and then not pay
them anything for it.
In recent announcement the Navy
Department said that it is apparent
that some commanding officers of
Naval Reserve organizations are not
familiar with the new order and that
reports Of injuries sustained by men,
bers of the Naval Reserve on week
end cruises should be submitted. The
department added that officers of YES
sells on which Naval Reservists per-
form week end cruises or regular
training cruises should be familiar
with the new decision and should
promptly comply with the instructions
which have haap issued
The vacancy created in the Reserve
Medical Corps due to the retirement
Of Capt. Thomas B. Leland is to be
filled by a special board ordered con-
vened for that purpose. However, the
promotion of a commander of the
Medical Corps to be a captain in that
branch of the Reserve will not be filled
from the Medical Corps, but the
vacancy has been allotted to the Sup
ply Corps.
An announcement Of the depart
ment says that the Naval Reserve reg
ulations provide that the total num-
Der of staff officers in grades above
lieutenent commander shall be equally
divided in each grade as nearly as may
be between the Medical Corps and the
Supply Corps. In view of this pro-
vision and since there are eight COM
manders in the Medical Corps, as
compared with three in the Supply
Corps, the vacancy in the grade Of
commander in the staff resulting from
the selection Of commander for pro-
motion to captain in the Medica
Corps has been allocated to the Sup
ply Corps. Lieut.. Comdr. C. G. A
] Johnson, who was selected by q board
which convened in April, 1884, to fl
| the vacancy occurring in the Supply
Corps will be promoted to I'LL the above
vacancy.
Naval Reservists evinced some dis
appointment last week when the U. S
Destroyer Dewey did not steam into
the Washington Navy Yard as planned
The Reservists had been looking for
ward to an inspection of this ship
which is one of the latest type o.
vessel in that class, being in ths
1,500-ton class.
I All of the Naval Reserve division.
are organized as skeleton crews fol
destroyer duty in the event of emer'
gency, and while all Of their service
for training has been aboard vessel.
of the type constructed prior to and
during the World War, many OF them
were anxious to see the latest in thii
type of vessel.
The following enlistments in the
| Naval Reserve were reported by the
local headquarters during the week
] William Mckinley Lewis, for r1any
years a member of the local Reserve
but who has been in civil life for sew
eral years, enlisted in the I'd Flee
Division as officers cook, first class
Robert L. Richardson, former mem
ber Of the regular establishment, en-
listed as a machinist's mate, Seconc
class, and was assigned to the I'd Flee
Division; Charles E. MilleI, jr., en-
listed as an apprentice seaman, anc
was assigned to the I'd Fleet Division
Lawrence B. Battley became an ap-
| prentice seaman in the 1st Division
as did also Elton W. Harville, Alvir
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