Evening star., 1937-09-05
TODAY MARKS END
Of FIELD TRAINING
D. c. Guardsmen to Dig In
for Strenuous Winter
PROGRAM.


day when the goth Division staff and
troops return from the Army's war
maneuvers in Massachusetts,.
The major sections of the local
troops completed their field training
several weeks ago. However, while
the Goth Division troops overlapped
some of the camp period of the 12lst
Engineers at Cascade, Md, section
Of the oficers and few of the troops
went to Massachusetts,. The division
staff is composed Of officers of the
Militia from this city, Maryland and
Virginia and is headed by Maj GEN.
Milton A. Reckord. commanding the
National Guard of Maryland as well
as the 29th National Guard Division
Lieut.. Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, division
adJutant and assistant in charge of
the local brigade headquarters, and
Col John w Oehmann, commander
OF the local Militia as we'll as the l2lst
Regiment Of Engineers, went with the
division staff. the latter being the
divisional Engineer officer.
Guard officials are headed for a
busy year in connection with the ef-
forts to bring about some definite
action for an armory here and place
in which they receive all branches of
their training during the Winter
months
Guard officials have requested the
District Commissioners to include the
armory site and the armory building
project in the Districts estimates for
the next fiscal year. While the re-
quest for 100000 for a site was in
cluded in the Guards estimates, there
Is belief this item will be left in
this year, because President Roosevelt
asked Congress just before adjourn
ment to provide the fund SO that
site on East Capitol street could be
saved for the project.
AS to the building project meeting
such action there is question. although
District officials, at the direction of
the President, have been studying the
building project for some months.
However, so far as could be learned.
no report on the matter has been re-
turned to the Chief Executive.
There is a likelihood that if the
money is provided by the next Con-
gress, it will not be N time to save
the site which had been selected by
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission for an armory
Building is now going on the site,
and one of the first ma alters which
will have to be studied by the Guard
officers is that of obtaining another
site, because obviously Congress is not
going to appropriate enough money
to purchase the new buildings in order
to get this site. Sites large enough
to construct building which would
adequately house the Guard and
which also would provide an adequate
open parade ground are very scarce
During the past year II officers and
204 enlisted men were added to the
Guard by the formation of new units
They were the 18th Motor Transport
Company of the 29th Division Quarter
master Train, 2 officers and 48 en-
listed men; the Headquarters De-
tachment. I'd Battalion. 26oth Coast
Artillery. ! officer and 18 enlisted
men; Battery F., 26Oth Coast Artillery,
3 officers and 66 enlisted men, and the !
Headquarters Company and Medical
Department Detachment. 29th Divi-
sion. Special Troops. 5 officers and 70
enlisted men.
Pvt. John G. Roy, Headquarters
and Service Company, 12lst Engineers,
\, fa III IN
enlist in the United States Army.
Pvts. Cecil c. Cox and Arthur L.
Spedden have been transferred to the
list of Company B. l2lst Engineers.
Pvt. Thomas A. Reneau, Battery c, |
260th Coast Artillery. was honorably |
discharged to permit him to accept |
q commission in the Organized Re
serve Corps
Because of removal from the city, |
the following were honorably dis
charged: Pvts. William H. Hutton and
Howard r. Bayne Of Battery A, 26Oth |
Coast Artillery, and Pvts. John S.
Jarvis and Emil F. Pashall. Battery F,
260th Coast Artillery
Pvt. Cruise Amsden Headquarters
and Service Company, l2lst Engineers,
has been honorably discharged to per-
NIT him to enlist in the United States
Army. as was Pvt Stuart B. Marshall, |
jr,. from the Medical Department De-
tachment. 260th Coast Artillery.
Pvt. First Glass; Joseph E. Royston
has been promoted to corporal in the
29th Division Military Police Com
pany
Pvt. Philip M Goldman has been
transferred from the Headquarters De-
tachment 29th Division. to the Med
ical Department Detachment.
Because of business interference
with the performance of military duty.
the following have been transferred to
the inactive lists: Pvt. Herbert F. Nc
Donel. Headquarters Company, 29th
Division: Pvt. First Glass; Kalman K.
Vadney, 29th Division Military Police
Company, Pvts William T. Lowry and
Harry l. Gray, Company E, 12lst En-
gineers.
Pvts. Claude E. Cooper, Raymond E.
Halliday and Kenneth M. Madison OF
Company A. 12lst Engineers, and Pvt.
Herbert F. Dunbar, 29th Division Mill
tary Police Company, have been trans
ferred to the active lists.
Removal from the city was reason
FOR the honorable discharge of the fol-
lowing: Pvts. John Levytsky, George
W. Kerner, jr., and Donald H. Miller.
Pvt. First Glass; Morris F. Wolfe
has been promoted to corporal in the
Headquarters and Service Company,
12lst Engineers.
Pvt. Augustine G. Feudale has been
Transferred to the inactive list Of the
2sth Division Military Police Company
because OF business interference.
Pvt. VernAl C. Hume has been hon.
orably discharged from Company A,
l2lst Engineers, because Of removal
from the city.
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