Evening star., 1934-12-16
Reserve Examination
Requirements Relaxed
Commissioned Personnel Not to Be Examined
in Subjects in Which They Have Passed
Naval Correspondence Courses

serve, which includes all classes there
of. may therefore be counted in deter
mining eligibility for service stripes"
Naval Radio Station NAA will trans
nit a special emergency drill at IL
o'clock today and members of the local
Communication Reserve have been in
structed to be at their stations to re-
ceive the messages.
Three officers and two enlisted men
of the Naval Communication Division
were on active duty during all of the
week just ended renovating the radio
station, which is located in the Reserve
armory on Eleventh street southeast.
While these men were on an active
duty status. it was explained that they
volunteered their services and are not
receiving any remuneration for the
work they are doing in the armory
Those who were on duty are Lieut..
James H. Nicholson, commander of
the Communications Division; Lieut..
q. g. Harry B. Pollock, Ensign H. r.
Rothrock, Harry L. Miller, radio man,
third class, and Henry M. Fliedner,
seaman, first class.
William H. Black, chief quartermas-
ter, has been transferred from this area
to the headquarters, 4th Naval District,
Philadelphia, Pa.
John j. Murphy, chief quartermas-
ter, and John Smell, chief machinist's
mate, have both been ordered retired
upon completion of 80 years Of service
in the regular establishment and the
Reserve.
Charles Bromberg, chief commissary
steward, has been ordered retired on
January l, at which time he will have
completed 80 years of service in the
regular Navy and the Reserve, it was
announced at the Reserve headquar-
ters here.
The following enlistments In the
Communications Reserve have been
announced:
Blair Barghausen. lat INLAND ter
race northeast, radio man, first class;
Eldridge A. Snigth, 1881 @ street, yeo-
man, third class: Harry L. Miller, 1905
Battery lane, Bethesda. Md; Roger F.
Thompson, seaman, second class, Riv-
erdale, Md.
Chauncey F. Rooney, Sixty-second
street and Franklin avenue, Capitol
Heights, Nd, has enlisted as an ap-
prentice seaman in the 1st Fleet Di-
vision.
Lieut. K. L Forster, United States
Navy fleet communications oficer.
paid visit to the local Naval Re
serve Communications Division last
week and observed the local op-
orators handling traffic over the air.
During the current week the three
divisions of the Fleet Reserve will be
put through their quarterly inspec-
ton by Lieut.. Comdr F. w. Benson,
U. S. N, officer in charge Of Naval
Reserve affairs. There also will be
examinations Of petty officers.
The drills this week will be the
last for the current calendar year
All drills have been suspended for
Christmas and New Year week.
As soon as the Reservists return for
the beginning Of drills in the new
year they will be started on an in
tensive training program to prepare
them for the annual inspections this
Spring before a board Of Regular
naval officers from the department
The drill date has been tentatively
set for April /, which will give but
little time for the preparations, as
the Reservists only drill for two hours
one night a week. These inspections
have been made more difficult every
year and it is the hope of the local
Reservists that they will reach a
place near the top Of the list as a
result of the coming inspections.