Evening star., 1937-08-01
- NGINEER troops. d

n NI1NEER troops. divisional
~ Quartermaster units and divi-
slonal headquarters units OF
- the 10Th National Guard Divi-
sion will leave here next Saturday
morning for their annual encampment,
which will be held at Camp Albert c..
Ritchie, Cascade, Md. They will leave
at $50 O'Clock, which will get them
to camp about noon.
The troops in this movement will be
the l2lst Regiment Of Engineers,
commanded by Col. John w. Och
| mann, who in civil life is the District
OF Columbia building inspector and
who also is commander of the District
OF Columbia militia, and will be COM
mander OF all the troops in camp; the
l04th Quartermaster Regiment, headed
by Maj. Fletcher F. Bernsdorff. and
the 29th Division troops, commanded
by Maj William T. Roy.
All during this week the armory will
be agog with men making preparations,
for the heavy equipment and other
supplies must be ready by the middle
OF the week, when the advance guard
will leave for Cascade in a motor
caravan with these supplies and with
men TO make the camp ready for the
Saturday arrival Of the main body of
troops
The advance detachment OF the 10
cal troops will be commanded by Capt.
Walter S. Welsh, who also commands
the Headquarters and Service Com
pany of the Engineer Regiment.
Maj. Just C. Jensen. Ordnance De-
partment, in charge of rife training
in the local militia, has submitted TO
headquarters the names of members
Of the Guard who are recommended
TO be named to the rife team which
will represent the local militia at the
national rife matches next month
at Camp Perry, Ohio. Maj. Jensen
Will be the team captain. 1t has been
recommended that Staff Sergt. Harry
B. Parsons be appointed chief coach.
Those recommended for the team at
tanned the highest scores during the
try-outs on the local range at Con-
gress Heights, under the direction of
Capt. Jensen.
Pvt. Roger @ Mills has been trans
ferred from the Headquarters De-
tachment Special Troops. to the
Headquarters Detachment, both units
in the 29th Division
Corp. George A. Mensik has been
promoted to sergeant in Company A.
l2lst Engineers
In Company C, l2lst Engineers.
Sergt. Thomas R. Padgett has been
reduced to private. while Corpl
Charles M. Holmes has been promoted
to sergeant and Pvt. Floyd r. Agrell
TO be corporal
Promotions in Battery E, 260th
Coast Artillery. are as follows: Corpl
Thomas R. Pond and Pvt Ashley G
DuVall TO be sergeants and Pvt First
Class Melvin T. Pareat to be cor
poral.
In the Headquarters Battery. Corpls
Salvatore F. Ciarratano and Robert L.
Hartman. Jr.. to be staff sergeants;
Pvts. William B. Gates. Virgil E Kru-
ger and James c. Thomas TO be cor
porals.
Headquarters Detachment changes
were directed as follows: Pvt Richard
D. Davis to be corporal. In Battery B,
Sergt. Arnold Sokel was ordered pro-
noted to first sergeant; Corpl. Denis
K. Lane to be sergeant and Pvts. Will
son H. Clark and James w. Hill to
be corporals. Pvt. Hugh T. Myers
has been promoted to corporal in
Battery E
Pvt. Albert C. Johnson. Company
A, l2lst Engineers. has been honor
ably discharged. upon his own re-
quest. he having completed two years
of three-year re-enlistment
The following have been transferred
to the active lists of their respective
units: Pvt. George w. Chapman. Com
panv B. l2lst Engineers. and Pvt Bar
nard ]. Gates, Company F. l2lst En-
gineers