Evening star., 1938-11-20
Guard Officers May Get Two
Training Periods Next Year
Stoff Group at SeIeetive Service School
May Also Attend Training Camp

Omcers Of the District National
Guard who attend the selective
service conference to be held here
In the spring also will b permitted
to attend the training camps In
addition, according to information
received at brigade headquarters.
In the future the conference will be
classed as a school, which permits
the officers to attend both. In the
past attendance at the conference
has forced officers to give up their
field training.
The conference is held under the
direction of the Joint Army and
Navy Selective Service Committee,
and deals with problems which
might develop in putting the service
into effect in the event oY a national
emergency which would necessiate
taking large numbers of civilians
into the military service.
The Non Commissioned Omcers'
Club of the l2lst Regiment Of En-
gineers will hold q turkey shoot at
the National Guard rifle range at
Camp Simms today, beginning at
10:30 o'clock.
Company F. 121st Engineers, plans
to hold a dance at the armory on
the evening Of November rs.
Circulars are being sent out by
the Athletic Council of the Guard,
headed by Capt. C. Earle Smithson,
seeking men to join the Guard who
are interested in boxing and who
would be eligible to become members
of the boxing team which will repre-
sent the militia at various boxing
competitions.
Corp. Stanley Ward Stephenson
Company A, 121st Engineers, has
been appointed second lieutenant
Of engineers, and detailed for duty
with Company F.; He is a native OF
Austin. Mimi, and has been in the
local organization about one and
one-half years.
Earl F. Fischer, second lieutenant
Of Coast Artillery. has been granted
q commission in tl,s National Guard
Of the United States.
First It. Edward D. Mulvanity
has returned to duty from Holahird
Quartermaster Depot, Md. where he
has been attending school since the
middle of September.
Many members in the ranks of the
Guard have filed applications tt
take the examination for the elgi-
BILE list from which selections are
made as vacancies occur in the
commissioned grades. The board
of officers has just begun its work
of determining by tests what men,
bers of the Guard interested in OBJ.
tanning commissions are qualified
for promotion.
The tests are to determine wheth-
er the candidates have suflicient
education to make them ofncer ma
| terial. No military examinations
are given by the board at this
time.
Members received much valuable
training out of the movement OF
the 260th Regiment of Coast Ar
tillery to Martinsburg. w. Va. last
week to participate in the Apple
Harvest Festival under the COM
mand of Col. Walter J. Burns. After
participating In the parade they
gathered in front of the Apple Show
Building, where they demonstrated
the weapons used by this anti-a1r-
craft OUTFIT.
Batteries + and r each took two
machine guns, with tripods, and
they proved a center of consider
able interest to those attending the
festival. The regiment also had
there for demonstration purposes
the Battery B prime mover, a new
truck assigned to Battery D; one
from Battery F, and new recon-
niassance car from the Headquarters
Detachment and Combat Train, 1st
Battalion. During the road march
to and from Washington Capt. Per-
ry C. Huff was operations ohlcer
with 1t. John A. Bartlett as his as
sistant and 1t. Calvin M. Pentecost
was reconnaissance Omcer. with 1t
Charles H. Talbot as his assistant.
Pvts. (First Glass; Charles H. Mac.
Donald and Alvie S. Price and Pvts
Harry Nicholson and Alan N. Will