Evening star., 1936-04-19
PREPARATIONS for the annual
- field training are being made
bv officers and men of the Ma

by OncerS ana men OF tIle me-
tional Guard of the District of
= Columbia and the goth National
Guard Division, which comprises the
militia of this city, the States Of
Maryland and Virginia and portion
of Pennsylvania. The work includes
the plans for mobilizing the large force
of troops at IndiantoWn Gap, Pa,
by motor truck, and the preparations
for the service of supplies to supply
the large army of citizen soldiers who
will be in the field at that time.
It was announced that during the
period of the maneuvers the division
will have assisting it the 104th OBJ
servation Squadron from Baltimore.
While this organization will have a
separate camp early in the Summer,
1t was said that it will be called back
to duty for another period of II days
in order to assist in the maneuvers
of the surface forces. The planes will
be used for making observations Of
enemy movements for the forces to be
employed.
Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
vision, which includes the Pennsyl-
vania National Guard, and the 29th
Division will hold conference with
officers of the National Guard Bureau
of the War Department on the eSti-
mates for support of the troops while
in the field during the coming ma
neuvers. Lieut.. Col. Peyton G. New
lit, division adjutant, will represent
the local Guard at the conference
Representing Maryland will be Maj.
E. L. Medford, United States property
and disbursing officer for the Guard of
that State, and Lieut. Col. T. G. Nc
Nicholas, State quartermaster.
From Virginia there will be Lieut..
Col Sheppard Crump, United States
property and discussing officer for
the National Guard of that State.
and from Pennsylvania there will be
Lieut.. Col. L. A. Luttringer of Penn
sylvania.
When the 29th Division goes into
the field this year it will be the first
time in its history that it has been
mobifized to operate in the field as a
division. The plans made for last
year, it will be remembered, had to
be abandoned because of the infantile
paralysis epidemic, which caused
Pennsylvania health authorities to is
sue an order barring the troops from
the State. All of the units went to
their respective field camps for in
struction, the local Guard remaining
in the city at its rifle range at Camp
Simms, Congress Heights.
While the organizations will not 60
into the field until August it will re-
quire all Of the time to make the
necessary arrangements. not only for
the movement from all parts of the
State to the point of mobilization, but
to prepare for the practice battle
campaigns, plans to support them with
supplies while in the field and move
them to their home stations upon
completion of the two weeks Of
training. All of the movements of
troops are to be overland by mo-
tor truck, to test the ability of the
Guard to move quickly by this method.
A vast number of motor vehicles will
be assembled for the purpose.
The only local organization which is
not affected by the divisional plans is
the 260th Coast Artillery, which is
commanded by Lieut. Col Walter w.
Burns. That organization will take
Its field training at Fort Monroe, Va.
Col. Burns has requested permission
to change the date of his camp to
begin on August 18 instead of 10, so
that the camp can begin on Saturday
instead of Sunday, and it was indi-
Gated that it probably will be approved.
The local headquarters has given its
approval to the request and has for
warded it to corps area headquarters
at Baltimore, Md.
Siviter w. Horn, a corporal in Bat
terry E, 260th Coast Artillery, has re-
quested permission to be enrolled in
the officers school correspondence
course. If upon completion of the
course he passes to the eligible list,
he will be commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the National Guard of the
United States, it was said at head
this would not give him an assign
ment in the local Guard, but would
provide him with a commission in the
event that the Guard was called to
the Colors in the event of a national
emergency developing requiring the
mobilization of the armed forces.
While officials of the local Guard
are hopeful that the National Guard
Officers Association and the Militia
Adjutant Generals Association will
be able to bring into being a pro-
gram to spend S75.000 900 for the con-
struction of armories throughout the
country, it appears now, it was in
dicated, that it will require legiSla-
tior before the Works Progress Ad-
ministration can allocate such a fund
for this purpose.
Officers of the Guard are giving con-
siderable study to the problem, and
it is the hope that if legislation is
found necessary it will be possible
to get it through the present Congress
before it adjourns. If legislation is
not required, every effort will be made
to have the various funds allocated
early in the Spring so that much of
the construction work can be gotten
under way during the Summer months.
The request of the local Guard calls
for an ALLEGATION of $2500.00O for
the construction of an armory here
to house all of the local units. This
fund would be used entirely for con-
struction, the site either to be pro-
vided from ground now owned by the
Government or by the purchase of a
site now privately owned. In any
event it would require legislation, it
was pointed out, as in the case of
the purchase of private land Congress
would have to authorize and appropri-
ate the money and in the other it
would have to designate the site, as
the public parks office has decided that
1t does not have blanket authority to
set aside Federal lands here as sites
oY1 which to construct buildings of this