Evening star., 1939-08-27
District Rifle Teams
Complete Training
AT Camp Perry
Col. Oehmunn Pleased
With Accommodations
For Two Groups
Star Staff Photo.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Aug. %
Members of the District of Columbia
National Guard and civilian marks
manship teams competing in the
national matches at Camp Perry,
Ohio, yesterday completed a weeks
course of intensive instruction in the
small arms firing school,
The small arms firing school is
again conducting two courses in
rifle craftsmanship: A basic course
and an advanced course. The basic
course is similar to the rife course
given in previous years.
The advanced course, inaugurated
last year, offers to the experienced
competitor an opportunity to de-
rive the greatest benefit from the
school period. The courses are con-
Quoted by experienced officers who
have been both shooting members
and officials of rifle teams of the
regular services.
Members of Guard Team.
The members of the District Ma
tional Guard team are: Maj. Just
c. Jensen. Ordnance Department,
state staff, team captain: First 1t.
Henry M. Boudinot, Company I,
104th Quartermaster Regiment,
team coach; Capt. Edward A. Nc
Mahon, Headquarters and Service
Company, 12lst Engineers: First 1t.
James D. Tanner, adjutant, I'd Bat
talon, 121st Engineers; First 1t.
William D. Putnam, Company B,
104th Quartermaster Regiment;
Capt. James R. Quade, Company A,
12lst Engineers; Maj. Clarence S.
Shields, 121st Engineers, individual
member: Staff Sergt Alex j. Thill,
Ordnance Department, state staff;
| Sergt. Sterling E. Chambers, Head
quarters and Service Company, 121st
Engineers; Sergt. Warren G. Synder,
Company B. 104th Quartermaster
Regiment, Pvt. Arthur H. Ross,
Headquarters and Service Company,
12lst Engineers, Pvt Jack Oehmann,
Headquarters and Service Company,
121st Engineers; Sergt. Horace G.
Skinner. 260th Coast Artillery;
Sergt. Hubert L. Cooke, 104th Quar-
termaster Regiment; Corpl. Robert
E. Black, 104th Quartermaster
Regiment.
Civilian Team Members.
Members of the civilian team
are: Alfred H. Yoemans, 1924 Nine
teenth street NV, team captain;
Ollie Shriver, team coach; Henry
H. Pike, 1923 Nineteenth street
NV; Fletcher H. Jones, jr., 1343
Montague street NV; Arthur N.
Thomas, TIT Massachusetts avenue
NE; Walter F. Arnold, 4443 P
street NV; George A. Ninas, jr..
2403 Observatory place: Abraham
Goldstein, 1902 Eleventh street
NV; Robert M. Rivello, 7139
Georgia avenue NV; Robert H.
Hartshorn, 903 Webster street NV;
Emmett L. Crouch, "a Seaton place
NV; Albert E. Seidler, 1905 Seven
teenth street Sc; Ira Lee Law, 921
Hamlin street NE, and E. A. Tur-
rou, 1901 r street NV.
Young Washingtonians enrolled
in the junior rifle school, which is
open to juniors II to 18 years of
age, are Betty and Homer Mcmahon
22l3 First street NV; Allen D.
Brown, GAIT Thirty First place;
Glenn M. Heimer. 5706 Eighth
street; Kenneth Swingle, 923 Far
ragut street; Donald Erdman, 1406
Decatur street; William E. Tolley
4916 Illinois avenue; Robert j.
Griffin, 241 Delaware terrace.
Col John w. Oehmann, COM
manding officer of the 121st En-
gineer Regiment, is in camp for
few days to get first-hand infofrma-
ton on conditions under which the
team members are required to live
and work, and he highly recon-
mended the accommodations for
food and shelter and also the sim
cerity and earnestness with which
the men are taking up the first
phases of their work. Col. Oehmann
plans to return to camp in time for
the team matches, and, if possible,
bring with him Brig. Gen. Albert
L. Cox, commanding general of the
District Of Columbia National
Guard.