Evening star., 1937-12-05
d. G. Guard Efforts to Improue
Attendance Bringing Results
Drill Reports Sho,u Units Haze In.
creased Number of Men at Drills
: After Weeding-Out Process.

Efforts of the officers of the District
National Guard to keep the ranks
filled only with men who are inter-
ested enough to attend drills regularly
appear to be bearing fruit. Exami-
nation OF the recent report on drill
attendance shows improvement.
Orders were issued to unit COM
manders to weed out all men who do
not attend drills regularly, and place
theri on the reserve list, and to fill
their ranks with active men, men who
will profit from the regular attend
ance at drills and will be ready in
the summer to take the field exercises.
Reserve-list rosters are being ex-
amined to ascertain whether there are
men on them who would be more
active than those now on the active
lists, and, if so, they will be trans
ferred. On the other hand, an inten-
sive recruiting campaign is under way
with view to enlisting young men
who are interested in the training and
will promise to attend drills regularly.
Men are usually transferred to reserve
status when their business or their
education interferes with regular at
tendance at the weekly drills at night,
or for temporary removal from the
city.
While the law permits the officials
to court-martial men who do not at
tend drills regularly, there is no dis
position on the part of the officers to
force this issue, except in fragrant
cases of refusal of enlisted men to
attend to their duties. They have
tried in the past to assist men in their
civilian employment and in their ef-
forts to get an education by making
1t possible for them to stay in the
Guard, under conditions that will per-
NIT them to attend to their tasks
But, it was pointed out, many of the
companies are depleted during the
school period by these transfers, and
to some extent the training work can
not be carried forward to its full ef-
flciency. When the school season ends
and these men return to their active
status, it is usually only few weeks
before camp, and intensive work has
to be done to get them up to the state
of efficiency found among those who
attend during the winter months.
The 29th Division Military Police
Company still heads the list in at
tendance for October with percent
age of 1927. The others. with per-
centages. are as follows: Medical De-
partment Detachment. Special Troops
29th Division, 97.9l; Headquarters De-
tachment, Special Troops. 29th Divi-
sion, 1896; State Detachment. "a 73;
Headquarters Detachment, 29th Divi-
sion, 94,63; Headquarters and Serv-
ice Company, l2lst Engineers, 80. 46:
Headquarters Company. 104th Quar-
termaster Regiment, 9032; Head
quarters Detachment. I'd Battalion,
260th Coast Artillery, 8803; Head
quarters Company, 29th Division,
1852. Band, l2lst Engineers, 86.43;
Company A. lo4th Quartermaster
Regiment, 80.89; Company A, 372d
Infantry, 8003; Battery B, 260th
Coast Artillery, 1851; Company B,
12lst Engineers, 7S44; Company B,
l04th Quartermaster Regiment, 1884
Battery C. 260th Coast Artillery,
1868: Battery D, 260th Coast Artil-
lery, 1908; Medical Department De-
tachment, 260th Coast Artillery. 68 %;
Medical Department Detachment,
l21st Engineers. $3.50; Battery A,
260th Coast Artillery. $3.50: Battery
E, 260th Coast Artillery, 6504: Bat
terry F, 260th Coast Artillery, $500:
Company A. 12lst Engineers, $500;
Company D, l2lst Engineers. $3.50;
Company F. l2lst Engineers. 6l.95;
Headquarters Detachment and Com
bat Train, 1st Battalion. 260th Coast
Artillery, 6062; Company c, 12lst
Engineers. Company E, 121st Engi-
neers, 5583
The Special Troops, 2sth Division,
also stood at the top of the list
among the larger groups with a score
of 1888. the others being as follows
Company A, 372d Infantry, 8O83;
lst Battalion. 104th Quartermaster
Regiment. 1882; 260th Coast Ar
tillery, 68.35. and the 12lst Regiment
of Engineers. $3.50.
Sergt. Milford A. Juten, Company