Evening star., 1935-02-24

DlStICC OF COlufuDla, Will DC
put through the tests incident TO the
annual inspection on the night of
April 8, it was announced at the Re-
serve headquarters in the Washington
Navy Yard. A letter received some
time ago from the Navy Department
tentatively fixed the date for the in
spection as April /, but it was said
at the Reserve headquarters that def
mite word has been received that the
inspection will be held on the later
date.
At the same time word was re-
ceived that the inspection of the Avi-
alton Division at the U. S. Naval Air
Station at Anacostia will be held on
May 3, as tentatively fixed in the
original schedule.
Both officers and men have been
working diligently for several weeks
preparing for the inspection on April
/, and 1t Is expected that they will
be in the best of trim when the in
spection board, which is composed of
regular officers from the Navy De-
partment, arrives at the armory.
Although each Of the three divisions
drill on a separate night of the week,
for the purposes of the inspection all
of the units will be directed to report
on the night of April 8. The drills
and tests will be given in the small
armory building, which the Reserve
occupies in the Washington Navy
Yard. and owing to the crowded con-
ditionS, which require that the divi-
sions have their drills on separate
drill nights, also will take their tests
separately. 1t is impossible to put on
/ battalion drills in the present drill
hall. which Is a sort of lean-to erected
around the main structure of brick,
During the past several weeks the
divisions have been going through q
series of drills for the purpose of pre-
pairing them for the inspection, and
the petty officers have been making
preparations for the written tests
which the board now gives in various
instances to determine the knowledge
which the men have of their special
duties.
AS the training ship, the q. S. de-
Stroyer Leary, which mas been here
for several weeks, will leave prior to
! the inspection, the men VIII have to
| put on their drills and other exercises
without her. The armory has been
| fitted out in ship fashion and various
pieces Of equipment from ships have
been installed so that the men can
simulate shipboard conditions for the
inspection board.
Chief Radioman Bartlett of the
U. S. Destroyer Leary has been giving
series Of lectures to the officers and
| men of the Communications Reserve
Division on matters relating to COM
munications and procedure.
On March Bartlett will show to
| the Reserve division motion pictures
which he took at various points ir
Southern waters while attached to the
| fleet. They were taken in Panama
/ and, parts of the San Bias Indian
country. and the Panama Canal.
He also will lecture on the picture:
while they are being shown.
The Navy Department announced
that the following Reserve officer.
had been discharged:
LieutS. (Junior Grade) Philip c
Bangs, Ernest E. Brown, George McJ
Crawford. William F. Grantlin, Con-
ME H. King. Alfred S. Pollak, Wiley
| M. Sans and Ralph Waters.
EnSigns Thomas A. Brannelly, How.
| ard E. Cugle, Joseph L. Dalton. jr.:
/ Victor A. Flobere, Frank Hudak
BARNARD S. Leizear, Millard A. Mac.
Connell, Earle E. Magruder, Pietrc
Muscari, Bernard J. Rice, Charles M
Robinson, Thomas F. Wells and Avedi;
w. West.
The Judge Advocate General OF the
! Navy, in a recent decision, accordine
to the Navy Department, states thai
there is no existing law which pre-
vents the making of a valid contract
for enlistment to be effective at some
future date. An enlisted man of the
Navy or Marine Corps, while SO serv.
| ing, may be re-enlisted in the service
or may be enlisted in any branch OF
the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve
for which eligible, the new contract
Of enlistment to be effective on the
expiration of the current contract o.
| enlistment. Legislation for this pur.
pose is not necessary"
This decision, it was pointed out by
the department, will be helpful to the
Naval Reserve in effecting re-enlist-
ments Of those men about to start or
training cruises or other active duty
whose enlistments expire during the
performance of such duty, and also In
connection with the re-enlistment oi
men in the Naval Communications
Reserve.
In an effort to familiarize officers
Of the Naval Reserve with the pro.
motion plan in that branch of the
service the Navy Department has is.
sued the following explanation:
"All promotions in the Reserve. ur
! to the rank of lieutenant commander
are based on the number of line fleet
Reserve officers In accordance with
paragraph H-2502, Bureau of Naviga-
ton Manual, 16 per cent of the line
fleet Naval Reserve officers of lieu.
tenant commander rank and below
! arc dulIlOIlZeO W DS lieutenant COM
manders. 81 per cent lieutenantS anc
the remainder lieutenants, junior
, grade, and ensigns.
''On the 1st of January and the Isl
of July a computation is made, TAX
ing the line feet Naval Reserve offi-
GERS of that date and establishing q
figure for the allowed lieutenant COM
manders and lieutenants. This figure
stands for the next six months, ir-
respective of the change in the num-
Der Of such officers during that Pc
riod. Example: On July !, 1884
there were commissioned in the Naval
Reserve 923 line fleet Naval Reserve
officers. On this basis the bureau Is
authorized TO commission 14S of these
officers as lieutenant commanders and
342 as lieutenants. In consequence,
all promotion in these ranks is de-
pendent upon there being vacancy
in such ranks. Officers in the Volun-
teer General, volunteer Special and
staff Corps are promoted with their