Evening star., 1940-02-04
New Policy 10 Relieve
Reserve Officers Who
Take No Training
Inuction for Two Years
Will Result in Lifting
Of Assignment

A new policy has been inaugurated
by the War Department that will
render inactive those members OF
the Officers Reserve Corps who fail
to comply with active or inactive
training requirements. A Reserve
officer who for two succeeding years
fails satisfactorily to participate in
the active duty or inactive status
training of the unit to which he Is
assigned, or who has not satisfac-
torily performed the administrative
duties appropriate to his assignment,
will be relieved from assignment. He
will either be transferred to the in
eligible list for the remainder Of his
current f1ve-year appointment, with
out eligibility for reappointment, as
signment or promotion, or, If he has
had is years commissioned service
subsequent to April 6, 1917, which
has previously been satisfactory, be
transferred, in his current grade, to
the inactive Reserve of the Off1cers'
Reserve Corps.
A reassignment of officers. has been
effected in the 364th Medical Regi-
ment, a local regiment commanded
by Col. Dunlap p Penhallow. In
addition to Col PenhalloW, regi-
mental headquarters is composed Of
1t. Col. Augustus C. Gray, executive;
Capt. John L. Mccarthy, adjutant,
and Capt. Henry L. Bastien, in
telligence officer. Maj. Clayton H.
Hixson commands the collecting
battalion, to which Is assigned Sec
ond 1t. Julius c. Bryan. The regi-
mental chaplain is Chaplain Howard
S.. Wilkinson. Officers assigned to
the collecting battalion include:
Company A: Capt. John H. Gill
ligan, commanding, and First Its.
Henry L. Butler, jr; James R. Cullen
and Samuel j. Sugar. Company B:
Capt Beverage Miller, commanding,
and First Its. John B. Smith, Paul
w. Bowden and Henry S. Parker.
Company C: Capt. Howard Katz-
man, commanding, and First Its.
Eugene w. Higgins, Paul R. Wilmer
and Arthur Dick.
Maj Edward A. Krause is in COM
mand of the Ambulance Battalion,
with First 1t. Francis j. O'Bryan
as adJutant. Other officers include:
Company D-Capt. Jay L. Hoffman
commanding and FiBt 1t. Cleo A.
Brazil; Company E-First 1t. Thomas
j. Kelly, commanding, and First 1t.
Leo w Dufault; Company First
1t. Thomas F. Barrett command
ing and First 1t. Jacob Ceppos.
The commissioned complement of
the hospital battalion, commanded
by Maj. Henry j. R. McNitt, with
First 1t. James E. Davis as adju-
tant, is composed of the following
officers: Company G-Capt. George
V. Martin, jr., commanding; Capt.
Chester R. Smith and First Its.
Max H. Cohen, Charles B. Hooker
and Thomas A. Hurney. Company
H-Capt. Reuben E. Stone COM
manding and First Its. John R.
Judson, Emil H. Sloan, Edward A.
Kelly and Robert S. Jacobs. Com
pany Capt. Luther Wy. Gray COM
manding and First Its. Leon I.
Nathanson, Elmer j. Neaverth,
Philip A. Degnan and Thomas j.
Ready
Assigned to the veterinary COM
pany is First 1t. Charles G. Grey
commanding and First 1t. Ernest l..
Love, while the service company will
be composed of First Its. Harold M.
Britain and Alexander Prayer.
District Cavalry officers will meet
at Fort Myer, Va, today for instruc-
tion in horsemanship. Aerial photo
graph reading will be taken up at
the 428th Infantry conference to-
morrow evening. On Tuesday eve
ming infantry officers will discuss
field orders, while signal officers will
take up map problem, signal COM
munications and a division in river
crossing. A map problem involving
the tactical employment of a field
artillery battalion of 75-mm. guns
(motorized will be the subject of
the field artillery conference We'd
nesday evening. The same evening
the infantry chapter of the Reserve
Officers Association will meet at
1926 Massachusetts, avenue NV. to
hear Maj Herbert c. Holdridge.
Engineers with mechanized cav
airy brigade will be discussed at the
engineer meeting Thursday evening,
following which training films will
be shown. District mobilization
units, including the 1,300th, 1,308th
and 1,322d Service Units, will meet
Friday evening. The infantry and
military intelligence pistol teams
will compete Friday evening at the
range of the Federal Bureau of In