Evening star., 1938-09-25
CONFERENCES SET
F0R|NACT| I'VE DUTY
Schedule Is Arranged for
Quartermaster, C. A. c.
and N. |. Units.

Approval was given last week for the
1938-39 inactive duty conference sched-
ule of District officers belonging to
the Quartermaster Corps and Finance
Department, Coast Artillery Corps and
Military Intelligence Department.
Close-order drills will be held dur
ing October and November, in addi-
ton to which the following lectures
are scheduled: October 10, situation
in Europe, by DR.. James T. Lowe Of
Georgetown University; October ~,
the Quartermaster Corps, by 1t. Col.
Roland Walsh; November IA, tactics
and supply Of the German eighth
army on the Eastern front, 1914, by
Maj. M. v. Brunson; November %,
the Far East, by DR.. William Boyd
Carpenter of Georgetown University,
and December IL, Maj. Brunson's
lecture on the supply of the German
eighth army on the Eastern front.
In 1899 the schedule will be: Janu-
ary 9, War Department mobilization
plan, by J. H. Hester; January %,
Sd Corps Area mobilization plan:
February 13, national defense week;
February 27. Ga scenario; March
13, requirements, by Maj. j. P. Clan
don; March ~, Quartermaster Corps
mobilization plan. by Maj. M. v.
Brunson; April 10, Finance Depart
ment mobilization plan, and organiza-
tional matters of interest, by Capt.
James B. Haley; April "a. industrial
mobilization plan for the United
States: May 8, functions of a corps
area service command, and May 70.
405th Quartermaster Regiment, by,
Col. Stuart c. Hopper.
Coast Artillery Schedule.
District Coast Artillery officers,
meeting on the second and fourth
Tuesdays Of each month, will have
their inactive duty training schedule
as follows: October II, resume of sum-
mer training and plans and assign
ments for tactical exercises (anti-
aircraft. by 1t. COL Roy Atwood. unit
instructor; October %, location of
anti-aircraft guns and 81 positions;
November 8. critique on tactical ex-
ercises; November %, computation Of
firing data, mobile artillery, by 1t.
Clifford; December 13, terrain of Ver-
dun and operations of French and
Americans, by Lieut.. Col. Kessenich,
and December 81, anti-aircraft fire
adjustment, by 1t. Peterson. In 1899
the schedule will continue as follows:
January 10, the National Guard and
its progress. by Maj. Sidney Morgan.
District National Guard; January "a.
relations Of the Coast Artillery and
the Navy, by Col. Thomson; Febru-
ary IA. service legislation. and inter-
national affairs. by Maj. Sparkman;
February %. problem shooting polaris,
by Its. Shook and McCartha March
II, Coast Artillery plans and progress.
by Maj. Gen. Sunderland, chief Of
Coast Artillery, and the situation in
the Orient. by Maj. Belts; March %,
anti-aircraft gunnery problems. by
Capts Morris and Church; April II,
defense of Port Arthur and Tsingtao,
by Col. Bentley; April Is, harbor de-
fense gunnery. by Its. Markert and
Wisner; May 9, to be announced
later; May %, processing C. M. T. c.
The concluding assemblies in June
will be announced later.
Sound Films on Schedule.
Sound films and lectures will COM
pose the 1889 conference schedule
of District intelligence officers, the
first of which will be held on October
IL. with sound films depicting map
reading. War Department message
center and signal communication
within the infantry regiment. The
remainder of the schedule follows:
October 26. military sketching, by 1t.
Burd; November 8, same as October
26; November %. (a) safeguarding
military documents. information and
material. and (b) legal rules of evi-
dence as a standard for evaluating
intelligence information: December II.
the war in China; January IL, combat
intelligence; January Is (a) use of
aviation in the collection of informa-
ton and Co Interpretation of aerial
photographs; February 8, the war in
Spain, by Col S. o. Fuqua; March
8, duties and functions of the divi-
sional CO in the Hawaiian Islands,
by Maj. H. M. Gwynn; March 20,
corps area intelligence activities, by
1t. Col. c. L. Clark; April IL, dis
cussion on infantry and artillery
weapons; April rs, military cryptogra-
ply, by 1t. Col W. F. Friedman; May
10, situation in Europe. and May "a,
open.