Evening star., 1934-08-28
ARMY COUNTERS
COAST ATTACK
New Military Set-Up Tested
in Simulated Invasion of
New Jersey.

itol Hill, to engage in Nation wide
! military exercises, expected to deter
mine the fate of the War Depart
ment's new four army plan Of or
ganization.
Except for the actual movement OF
troops, the headquarters of the 29th
Division is going through every phase
Of its participation in a war" in
volving simultaneous enemy assaults
on both Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.
This week the goth Division, in
common with every division of the
Nations Regular, Reserve and Ma
tional Guard forces, is completing
mobilization and movement into the
theaters of action. Under command
of Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, COM
manding the 29th Division, staff Off
GERS of the division were assembled to-
day in the National Hotel headquar-
terS for a week of concentrated activi-
ties which will lead to their departure
next Monday for Camp Dix, N. j., to
engage, with officers of all the East
coast high command posts, in the
final phases of the simulated war.
First Large Exercises.
The activities in which the local
division is participating are the first
large-scale exercises held since the re-
organization of the Army into four
field armies. The exercises, preceded
by a review of mobilization plans,
are intended to give field training to
higher commanders and stats, to
check existing plans and to determine
the practicability of the four army Or
ganization.
The staff assembled here by Gen.
Reckord is composed. of Col. John A.
Cutchins, Richmond, Va, chief of
staff; Lieut.. Col Peyton G. hewitt,
Washington, adiutent general; Lieut..
Col. Kenneth S. Purdie, Lexington, Va,
Ga, or supply; Lieut.. Col. Herbert L.
Grymes, Baltimore, signal officer;
Maj. william Mckee Dunn, Washing
ton, acting G-1, or personnel, and
Mai. Henry G. Stanwood, Baltimore,
acting Co., or military intelligence.
The following enlisted men have
been ordered to duty in connection
with the exercises: Master Sergt. Paul
A. Chalupsky, Technical Sergts.
Wayne G. Trackler and Hamilton Colt
and Pvt. Don F. Riordan, all of the
headquarters detachment of the 29th
Division.
Move on New Jersey.
Gen. Reckord and the officers Of his
staff are going through every phase of
the mobilization and movement of the
division to a battle front in New Jer-
sey and along the North Atlantic
coast and, beginning next Monday,
will engage in simulated field opera
tions involving an effort to repel a
Black invasion of New England.
Operating on the basis of daily esti-
mates of the situation furnished by
higher authority. they are issuing
every order necessary for the mobiliza-
ton and operation of the division, in
cluding designation of methods of
supply, lines of communication and all
the other multiple details involving
on the staff of a wartime division.
Any errors the staff may make in
its estimate of the situation and in
its orders to meet that situation will
be checked by War Department UNI
pires and will be taken into account
in making up subsequent estimates of
the situation.
The 29th Division is being "mobi-
lized" as a part of the Sd Corps,
under command of Maj. Gen. Paul B.
Malone, which in turn is a part of
the 1st Army under Maj Gen. Dennis
E. Nolan, with headquarters at Camp
DIX N J.
Study Battle Maps.
Officers OF the division, in their
headquarters in the remodeled hotel,
are at work studying the situation now
being developed by the War Depart
ment on battle maps and are franz
ing and writing the sheafS of orders
necessary to bring the local National
Guard forces into action.
The general situation which the
military leaders of the Nation are
facing today in the simulated war
exercises follows:
The United States is involved in
a war in the West. which has ex-
listed for a short period of time; the
United States Fleet and General Head
quarters Air Force is assembled along
the Pacific Coast. A powerful BLACK"
coalition, taking advantage of this
situation, yesterday declared war on
the United States, and having pre-
pared in advance of the declaration
of war, struck with great rapidity
and early yesterday began landing
troops on the Eastern shore of Della
ware and gained complete possession
of Delaware Bay Landing operations
also have begun in Southern New
Jersey.
Black Fleet aviation, using fast,
powerful bombardment airplaneS, has
bombed the harbor defenses of New
York. and their naval forces are active
from Chesapeake Bay to Boston. The
War Department is hastily preparing
to meet the Black invasion with the
1st and I'd Armies and the General
Headquarters Air Force.
Peace time Plans Used.
Defense plans, which have been pre-
pared by the War Department general
staff during peace times since the
World War, are being put into eXecu-
tion through the orders now being
isued by Gen. Reckord and his stan
and the officers OF every other Army
corps and division in the United
States. Gen. Douglas Macarthur has
assumed command and is preparing
to establish actual general headquar-
ters in the field near Raritan Ar
senal, N. J.
Today Gen. Macarthur ordered the
concentration of the 1st and I'd
Armies to meet the Black inva-
sion. Gen. Nolan, commanding the
lst Army, has directed the movement
Of the 1st and 10th Brigades, the lat
ter from the District of Columbia,
both reinforced with artillery, to de-
lay the advance of the Black forces.
The general headquarters air force is
on the way across the United States
on paper.
In its report of the situation" to-
day the War Department said:
The Blacks have pushed inland
sufficiently to establish beach heads
for the protection of their landings.