Evening star., 1939-09-03
Naval Reserve
Officers Assigned
In Radio Group
Volunteers Offer
Services to Train
Communications Men
Communications Men

Services to Troin
Communications Men
Increasing interest Is being shown
by number Of ofdcers Of the VOL
unteer Communications Reserve In
the activities Of the local division
who have volunteered their serv-
ices, according to an announcement
OF 1t. M. Weinstock.
The present international situa-
ton Is believed to be one Of the
reasons that increased interest is
being displayed in the activities, and
the men are desirous of brushing
up on their naval procedure so that
they will be able to promptly take
their stations in the event an emer-
gency develops which might re-
quire calling them to the colors for
active duty.
Among those who have offered
their services to the local Communi-
cations Division and who have been
accepted and assigned to duties are
1t. q. g. L. T. Bourland, execu-
tive officer and member of the
Policy Board; Ensign J. M. Cham
berlain, ofdcer in charge of class B,
c, D drills and navigational prob
lens; Ensign c. F. Coleman, as yet
unassigned; Chief Radio Electrician
D. j. Detweiler, to N. A. A. as off,
cer-operator; Ensign E. H. English,
officer in charge of the recruit
training group; Ensign r. A. CAL
lery, operations officer in charge
OF N. E. D. during class A and
emergency drills; 1t. Comdr. S. A.
Greenleaf. oficer in charge of N.
A. A. staff and member of the Pol
Icy Board; 1t. q. g. c. w. Jones,
commanding officer of the Signal
Section and member of the Policy
Board; 1t. q. g. I. H. Loucks, com.
manding officer of the Radio Sec
tion and member of the Policy
Board; 1t. E. w. Lovejoy, N. A. A.
ofhcer-operator and radio materiel
officer; 1t. j. H. Nicholson, senior
member of the Policy Board and
inspection officer; Ensign L. Schle-
singer, N. A. A. officer operator and
llalson officer with Naval Reserve
Aviation Squadron, and 1t. q. g.
w. B. Wells, instructor.
1t. Weinstock said that he would
be glad to have the services of any
other of1cer who is willing to volun-
teer and that each would be given
an appropriate assignment in the
organization. The local Communica-
tions Division meets in the Reserve
Armory on the Eleventh street side
OF the Washington Navy Yard,
where those desiring to participate
may contact the officers in charge.
Local Naval Reservists have been
apprised of the plans for the con-
struction of armories for the Naval
Reserve units in Baltimore, Nd.
and Seattle, Wash, and have thus
been spurred to start another move
ment TO obtain an armory for the
local contingent.
Several attempts have been made
by former commanding officers OF
the battalion to have funds allo-
Gated for the construction of a suit.
able building not only to house the
naval contingent but also the Ma.
rine Corps Reserve. The funds would
be needed only for the actual con-
struction of the building as a site
has been provided on the Navy
Yard water front, where 1t would be
more convenient for drill purposes,
particularly during the summer
months, where small-boat equip
ment and the training ship would
be close at hand.
The Navy Department has called
attention to the fact that the regu-
lations require that all officers of
the Naval Reserve must provide
themselves with specified items of
uniform. The purpose, 1t was ex-
planned, is that Reserve officers
shall be ready at all times to answer
call to active duty in the event
OF emergency, or, during time of
peace. to appear in uniform on
occasions when uniforms are pre-
scribed. Upon first reporting for
active or training duty in time of
peace, at a location where uniforms
are required to be worn, officers of
ali classes of the Reserve who have
provided themselves with the re-
quired uniforms are entitled to be
paid 500 as reimbursement for
them, and In time of war they
are entitled to a further reimburse
ment of $3.50.
Before being able to obtain these
funds, their commanding officers
must certify that the oficers con-
cerned have the required equipment.
Naval Reserve officers have been
admonished that they must brush
upon their methods Of handling
ofdcial correspondence to cut down
the work load involved in additional
paper work on account of mistakes
detected when the papers get to
the Navy Department.
The Bureau of Navigation of the
Navy Department said that 1t re-
grets to note continued laxity on
the part of many commanding Of
flcers of organizations in this regard.
The faults are particularly in reports
Of examinations and advancements
in rating, preparation of various
papers in connection with enlist
ments, records Of applications, re-
lection reports, preparation of drill
pay vouchers and preparation Of
uniform gratuity vouchers.
The bureau informed the Re-
servists that all of these errors
create additional paper work for
already overtaxed ofices. Errors
or misstatements OF fact In the
preparation of vouchers are held to
be particularly serious.
While the Navy Department has
changed the term Of enlistment in
the Regular establishment to six
years, 1t was announced that the
Bureau of Navigation does not at
this time contemplate changing its
policy with regard to the term of