Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-01-06
Naval Reserve to Start
Drills on Leary Tuesday
Officers and Men of 1st Battalion PLANNING to
Use Vessel to Limit During Stay
at Navy Yard.

moved to its present cramped and I'M
satisfactory quarters in the Washing
ton Navy Yard.
With the armory question an i'm
portant one here, the suggestion had
BEEN made that when the militia Cb-
tanned its new armory the water front
building might be allocated to the
! Naval Reserve, ss it is ideally located
! Tor training, ha ing, as it does, dock
! ing facilities for large vessels which
come here from time to time to train
the Reserves and to take them on
their annual cruises.
It Is understood that the local
militia officials have other plans for
the use OF that building II the new
armory Is constructed The Reservists
some time ago prepared tentative
plans Tor an armory for their special
purpose, but with the economic de-
preston, these were temporarily laid
aside. However, observers point out
that the organization is forced to get
its drills under very unsatisfactory
conditions in a structure built for
commercial purposes, the drill hall
being nothing more than q lean-to
which was constructed along two sides
Of the building during the World War.
The drill hall is so small that only
| one division can drill in it at one time,
making 1t necessary to have separate
drill nights instead of having the en-
tire battalion assembled at one time.
only on special occasions, such as
Navy day and the annual inspection,
Is the entire battalion assembled.
| NO effort has been made by the
naval authorities to obtain any public
works funds for the construction OF
an armory for the Reserve, and the
ReserviStS as individuals are pre-
vented by naval procedure from
taking the initiative in attempting to
Improve their condition by seeking
the construction Of an armory. On
the other hand, the Guard officials
are unhampered in their efforts to OBJ
tain the funds and are working hard
to reach their goal
The following enlistments were re-
| ported at the Reserve headquarters
during the week:
Joseph A. Bennett, 215 Girault ave-
nue., Virginia Highlands, Va, radio
man, third class. Communications Di-
vision; Paul r. Johnson, $50 Fifteenth
street southeast, apprentice seaman,
Third Fleet Division; William F.
Bender, IT'S Allison street, fireman,
third class, Third Division; William
L. Klare, 1923 Webster street, appren-
| tice seaman, First Division; William
E. Braun, Silver Spring, Nd, ap-
prentice seaman, First Division:
Chauncey F. Rooney, Second street
and Franklin avenue, Capitol Heights,
Md, apprentice seaman, First Divi-
sion; Ward w. Fleharty, GAS Shep-
herd street, gunner's mate, third class,
Second Division; Loring ]. Turner,
206 Ninth street northeast, seaman,
second class, Second Division.
| The following were enlisted as ap-
prentice seamen in the Aviation Di-
vision:
Thomas F. Wyatt, 100 North Spruce
street, Clarandon, Va; Walter E.
Geilch, GIG Lexington place north
east; Charles v. Moran, 1926 Euclid
street; Frederick A. Randall, 323
Seventeenth street northeast; Morris
M. Boyles, 1915 Corcoran street
| northeast; Elmer L. Jenkins, 1918
Corcoran street northeast, and Alfred
r. Fresz, 1915 Sixteenth street.