Evening star., 1937-09-12
INACTIVE TRAINING
PERIODS ARE FIXED
District Officers of Six Units
Begin Work First Week
in October.

Now that the Summer active duty
training periods for District Reserve
officers has been completed, Col.
Richard Wetherill, senior instructor
| of the Organized Reserves in Wash
ington. and the unit instructors of
| the various District Reserve. units
are turning their attention to their
programs of inactive duty training.
There are two outstanding features
Of this training. First. the troop
| school assemblies of the various units
held on various designated evenings
between october l and May 81. and
the Army extension courses. Officers
| belonging to six District units will
begin during the first week in October
the 1878 conference schools. The
troop schools inaugurating the 1878
school year and the evenings during
the first week in october on which
they will be held are as follows:
428th Infantry (colored). Monday:
Signal Corps, Tuesday; 320th In
fantry, also on Tuesday: Field Artil-
lery Wednesday; Cavalry, Thursday;
District officers are urged by Col.
Wetherill to take the Army extension
courses, for that instruction not only
prepares the ResMvists for their war
time duties, but enables them to earn
the inactive duty training credits to
make them eligible for active duty
training next year.
There have been a number of
changes in the personnel of the unit
instructors who will conduct the con-
ference schedules of the various Dis
trict Reserve units during the next
nine months, beginning October l.
The instructors who will conduct
the inactive duty conferences for
District officers during the 1878
school year. with their units indi-
Gated, will be as follows: Col Rich
ard Wetherill, senior instructor of
the Organized Reserves in Washing
ton and unit instructor of the 1920
Service Unit; Col B. B. Grafton,
32Oth Infantry; Col Dunlop P. Pen
hallow, Medical Corps; Lieut.. Col.
John G. Burr, Field Artillery: Lieut..
Col Roy S. Atwood Coast Artillery
Corps; Lieut.. Col E. c. Wallington.
Chemical Warfare: Mai. w. D. Lup-
low. Corps of Engineers: Mai. John
c. Mullenix, 306th Cavalry; Mai. E.
w. Leard, 428th Infantry and Mill
tary Intelligence; Mai. George H.
Foster, Signal Corps: Maj. Charles H.
keck, Ordnance Department: Mai.
Andrews, Quartermaster Corps; Capt.
Henry r. Baxter, Air Corps; Capt.
James F. Havaley, Judge Advocate
Generals Department. and Capt.
Donald G. White, l320th Service Unit.
Less than three weeks remain before
the 1878 conference schedules will
begin, and up to the present time only
one schedule, that of the 1320th Serv-
ice Unit. of which Col. Harrison
Brand. Jr.. Engr. Res, is executive
officer. has been completed and ap-
proved. However. the work of pre-
pairing the others is proceeding apace
and there is no doubt that all will be
ready when the troop schools begin
in October.
Lieut.. Col. John G. Burr. who has
been on duty with the 77th Field
Artillery at Fort D. A. Russell Maria.
Tex. will be the new unit instructor
OF the l55th Field Artillery Brigade.
less the 314th Field Artillery Regi-
ment. He succeeds in that capacity
Maj. Preston T. Vance. who is now
undergoing course of instruction at
the Army War College. Col. Burr is
expected to assume his new duties at
DlStrlct Reserve headnllarters On