Evening star., 1937-07-25
GUARD PHYSICAL
/. TESTS STARTED
Units of Engineers Prepare
for Annual Field Ex-
erCiSeS.

erCises.
Further steps in the preparation for
the 12lst Regiment of Engineers in
its plans for annual field training
were taken last week when the medi-
cal officers started their physical ex-
aminations Of personnel Special
dates were set for the field and staff
officers, while the company officers
will go on the same dates as fixed
for the personnel of their respective
commands. The examinations will be
completed August g.
All of them must take their three
injections of anti-typhoid serum.
These must be completed prior to the
departure of the troops for the en-
eampment next month at Camp Albert
G. Ritchie at Cascade, Md.
Col, John w Oehmann, command
ing the local militia, as well as the
l2lst Regiment of Engineers, is di-
rectins camp preparations
While the Engineer Regiment is in
camp, there also will be at Cascade
the 29th Division Headquarters
troops, Company A. 372d Infantry,
and the l04th Quartermaster Regi-
ment, headed by Maj Fletcher F.
Bernsdorff.
Pvt Lee B. Snow has been trans
ferred to the active list of Headouar-
ters Battery, 260th Coast Artillery. Pvt.
First Glass; George w. Hall. Head
r+o Do
has been transferred to the inactive
list Of that command because of busi-
ness interference with the perform
ance Of military duty PvtS Marion
j. Ball, Andrew I. Brown and Everett
H. Burke have been transferred to the
active list of Battery B, 260th Coast
Artillery.
Three year service medals have been
awarded to the following members of
Company D. 121st Engineers: Sergts
Bates. w. Shanahan. Gallun. Graham,
Sweeney and Taylor; Corpls. Baker
Roland and Watts and Pvts Marsh
and Carey. Capt Samuel D. Turner,
commander Of the company. explained
these men have considerably more
than three years service, and the
awards were held up because the old
type medals had become exhausted and
new design was being cast. Other
medals will be awarded at a regi-
mental ceremony during the annual
encanpment.
Headquarters has revoked the order
granting an honorable discharge to
sergt Emil G. Ganschov. Headquar-
ters Detachment, 29th Division, on
account of removal from the city.
The following members of the Head
quarters Company 29th Division, have
been transferred to the active list
Of that unit: Pvts Walter B Green
wood, Bayard r. Kingsley and Casinir
M P1entka
Temporary removal from the city
was given for the transfer to the
inactive list OF the 29th Division Mill
tary Police Company of Pvt. First
Class Maurice C. Weeks and Macon
E. Gooch
Pvt. John S. Hoffman, Company D,
l2lst Engineers, has been honorably
discharged, upon his own request,
having completed two years of a
three-year re-enlistnent period. For
the same reason Pvt. Egbert R. Rude,
Company D, I21st Engineers, was
honorably discharged.
Pvt. Benian1 Catchings, ir, Com |
pany B, l2lst Engineers. has been
honorably discharged, upon his own |
request.
Because Of business interference or !
temporary removal from the CITY the |
following were placed on the inactive |
list:
Headquarters and Service Company,
12lst Englneers-PvtS. Warren w, !
Ireland and Robert NJ. Lewis.
Medical Department Detachment, |
12lst Englneers-Pvts. Lloyd Gaillavet.
lr.; George Jones and John r. Sin
grey, Jr.
Company 3, l2lst Engneers-Pvts.
Herbert w. Manson. Arthur l.. Sped
den and Bernard A. Holeer, jr.
The following have been transferred
to the active lists: Pvt. Joseph A.
Donman, Headquarters and Service
Company, l21st Engineers; Pvt. Robert
z, Heferman, Company B. 12lst En-
Glneers; Pvt. Guy c. Brewer, Pvt.
Leslie L. WilIoughby, Company B.
l2lst Engineers, and Pvt. William T
Lowry, Company E, l2lst Engineers
First Lieut.. Lewis A Jackson, Com
pany E, l2lst Engineers. and Corpl
Anton Q. MenSik, Company A, l2lst
Engineers. have been ordered before
an examining board headed by Col
John w. Oehmann, the former to be
examined for promotion to first lieu
tenant OF Engineers and the latter
Tor appointment as second lieutenant
of Engineers.
promotions to corporals in COMPANY
b, lO4th Quartermaster Regiment
nave been ordered for Pvts. First
class Robert E. Black, Donald B
Madden and Clifford L. Miller. and
PVts. Claude T. Johnston and Martin
J. Littlefeld
Corpl. Charles W. Simms has been
transferred from Company B to the
headquarters Company, l4th Quar-
termaster Regiment.
temporary physical disability was
gwen as the reason for the transfer
10 the inactive list of Company B,
loath Quartermaster Regiment, of
PVts. Buford Jones and Louis Melan-
son Pvt, James W. Hollon1an has
been transferred to the active list of
company A, l04th Quartermaster
Regiment.
second Lieut.. Edward D. Mulvanit
has been transferred from Company
3, 1o4th Quartermaster Regiment to