Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-03-03

Regular Army officers as
signed here for the purpose. They
will inspect the clothing and equip
ment of the various units and give
them tests in drills and exercises for
the purpose of reporting to the War
Department their condition of pre-
paredness to take the field in the
event Of national emergency.
The tests will begin tomorrow night
when the State Staff and Detachment,
the Headquarters, Goth Division and
Headquarters, Special Troops, 29th Di-
vision, will 60 before the inspecting
officers. The others will be taken on
various dates, as follows:
Headquarters Detachment. Special
Troops, 29th Division. and Headquar-
tiers Detachment. 2eth Division, Tues
day; 18th Division Military Police
Company, Wednesday; Company A,
372d Infantry, and the Medical De-
partment Detachment of that unit,
Thursday.
The inspections for the 12Ist Regi-
ment Of Engineers, the largest unit in
the local Guard, will start Friday night,
when the regimental and two bat
talon headquarters units will be in
spected. The remaining ul,itS of this
regiment then will be taken during
the following two weeks as follows:
Medical Department Detachment,
March II; Headquarters and Service
Company. March IL; Company A,
March Is; Company B, March IA;
Company c, March IS; Company D,
March Is: Company E, March 10;
Company F, March 20.
The 260th Coast Artillery units will
be inspected as follows: Headquarters,
1st Battalion and Medical Department
Detachment, March 81; Headquarters
Battery and Combat Train, March %;
Battery A, March IS; Battery B,
March IS; Battery c, March q and
Battery E, March %.
THE commanding officer of the
unit concerned" the inspection order
says, rs responsible for producing all
property and records and presenting
them to the inspecting officer. Each
commanding officer will maintain a
erty to insure that all property for
which he Is responsible to the United
States property and disbursing officer
has been exhibited to the inspecting
offlcer. Any differences existing be-
tween the amount inspected and the
amount for which the officer Is re-
sponsible to the United States prop
erty and disbursing officer will be re-
ported to this headquarters by the
officer concerned with certificate as
to the disposition Of the property
and the action being taken to account
for same.
Unit commanders are authorized
to detail not to exceed two officers
and three enlisted men to report in
uniform at 10 am. on the date speci-
fed for duty in connection with the
inspection of property and records.
Government employees will be fur
rished certificates for duty performed
under this order.
Unit commanders will use last
years inspection report as guide to
assure themselves that all matters
covered by the report are in salts
factory condition for the inspection
and that deficiencies noted at the
last Federal armory inspection have
been corrected.
THE commanding general, Sd
Corps Area, has detailed a board
consisting of instructors on duty with
the District Of Columbia National
Guard to make this inspection"
As soon as these annual armory
tests are out Of the way, the majority
Of the local troops will begin making
preparations for the largest field
mobilization of troops in this area
since the World War. 1t will be the
first mobilization Of the 18th Divi.
sion, provided the War Department
finally approves the plans, which have
been formulated in tentative way
by Mai. Gen. Milton A. Reckord,
division commander and commander
Of the National Guard Of Maryland.
Not all of the local troops are part
are not, and they are the 260th
Coast Artillery and Company A, 372d
Infantry, the latter the colored con-
tingent, will make preparations to
take their annual field training at
regular camps, the former at Fort
Monroe, Va, and the latter at Camp
Albert c. Richie, at Cascade, Md.
The division troops will be given
taste Of wartime transportation, for
1t is planned now to have them 60
from the home stations to the mobili-
ration site at Indiantown Gap, Pa, by
motor transport Although it is said
that there are not now enough motor
vehicles within the division to make
the movement, it is planned to borrow
some from the 18th Division, which
comprises the Pennsylvania National
Guard. The details for the movement
now are being worked out by the divi-
sion staff.
Capt Samuel r. Turner, command
ing Company D, 121st Engineers, has
recommended that the following
members of his command be awarded
10-year service medals: First Sergt
Neil M. Goen, Staff Sergt William H.
Nation, Sergt. Chauncey H. Patter-
son and Sergt. Robert E. Shanahan.
The 121st Regiment of Engineers,
under command of Col. John w. Och
mann, who also is acting commander
Of the local militia, is making prep
aration for the annual target practice
Of the various units to be held on the
local rifle range of the Guard at Camp
Simms, Congress Heights, D. c.
It is contemplated, it was said at
brigade headquarters, that the prac-
tice will be started this month and
will continue until all of the units
have been on the range, and it is also
planned to have all of the firing COM
pleted before the troops go into the
field for their annual training.
The tentative plans provided that
certain units will be selected to go out
on the range each Saturday evening
and camp tor the night, SO that the
range practice can be started early
Sunday morning.
Members Of the local Guard ex-
pressed themselves as much pleased
with the provision made in the Army
appropriation bill for an increase in
the militia. It provides for an in
crease Of 5000 in personnel. How
ever, it Is not known how the in