Evening star., 1939-12-24
0. R. {. Appointments
Have Been Suspended
By War Department
Pistol Competition to Be
Held Under Direction
Of Col. WetheriII

Appointments in all sections of
the Officers' Reserve Corps, except
for aff1liated units. have been sus-
pended by the War Department
with the exception of the Air Corps
Reserve. and the Medical, Dental,
and Veterinary Corps Reserve This
suspension of reserve appointments
will not be applicable where an
applicant for commission in the
Regular Army has successfully
passed the required examination
and tests and has been selected for
commission in the Regular Army.
or in the case of recent graduates
of recognized schools who are de-
sired by the Surgeon General Of
the Army for extended active duty
and who have declared their inten-
ton in writing to seek commits
sion in the Regular Army at the
end of their tour of duty The
existing prohibition of appointments
in the Specialist Reserve remains
in effect.
The War Department pointed out
that the suspension provisions will
not be construed to deny appoint
ments in the Officers Reserve Corps
to applicants from ta) approved
graduates of the Reserve Offlcers'
Training Corps; (b) graduates of the
Air Corps Training Center: Co ap-
proved graduates of the blue course
of the Citizens Military Training
Camps: Id graduates of the U. S.
Military Academy .or the U. S. Naval
Academy, and te) warrant officers
and enlisted men Of the Regular
Army" All vacancies existing or
occurring under the Reserve Officers
peacetime procurement objectives
for mobilization will be filled by pro-
curement from the above FIVE
sources, or by promotion, or by
transfer of qualified reserve officers
from other sections of the Officers
Reserve Corps.
District Ordnance officers will
meet next Thursday night. Ord
nance service in triangular division
will be discussed.
District officers have been assigned
to the units indicated: First Its.
Charles H. Cunningham and James
c. Mcintyre to 3l3th Field Artillery,
Second Its. Harry D. Grossman,
Joseph A. Murphy and John M.
Wrightson to 320th Infantry, First
1t. John T. Schnebly to 343d Engi-
neers, First Its. Llewellyn P. Leigh
to 622d Coast Artillery. Capt. Gran
ger G. Sutton, First Its jerome B.
Harrell. Joseph M. Friedman, Edison
H. Dimmitt, Robert G. Gleichman
and Second Its. Harold Flaata,
Clarence B. Long and Michael J..
Reedy to the 131Oth Service Unit,
First 1t. Frederick F. Bartlett to the
18th Military Police Company, First
1t. William r. Swarm to the head
quarters and headquarters battery,
155th F. A. Brigade.
Having obtained use of an indoor
pistol range, Reserve officers of
teams representing general service
units, infantry, cavalry, medical
corps, coast artillery, field artillery,
military intelligence and Ordnance
Department will conduct semiweekly
practice matches with interteam
competitions twice month. This
firing will be under the supervision
of Col. Richard Wetherill, senior in
structor of the Washington area for
Reserve activities and donator of
the Richard Wetherill Small Arms
Trophy, which is placed in annual
competition. Field artillery officers
have won the trophy the past three
years.
Officers of the 320th Infantry,
composed entirely of Washington
mans, are being given intensive in
struction in the conduct of staff
duties in preparation for their COM
mand post exercise, to be held at
Fort George G. Meade, Nd, as the
annual field training of the regi-
ment.