Evening star., 1940-02-04
Regular Army Officers Detailed
To Make Guard Inspections
Inspectors on Duty With Pennsylvania
Mitio Have Been Ordered Here

Most Of the Regular Army officers
who will inspect the District Ma
tional Guard to determine its state
of proficiency for field service, as
well as the suft1ciency of equipment,
will come here from Pennsylvania,
according to information received at
brigade headquarters from head
quarters of the Sd Army Corps at
Baltimore, Md.
Col. William P. Kelleher, U. s. In
fantry, on duty with the Pennsyl-
vania National Guard at Scranton,
will conduct the tests of the State
staff and the Special Troops, 10Th
Division. The 104th Quartermaster
Regiment will be inspected by Maj.
Charles H. Henry, Quartermaster
Corps, U. S. Army, on duty at Har-
risburg, Pa. This officer also will in
spect the Medical Department De-
tachment of that regiment.
The Medical Department Detach-
ments of other units of the Guard,
including the 260th Coast Artillery,
12lst Regiment of Engineers and di-
visional troops will be inspected by
1t. Col. George w. Rice, Medical
Corps, U. S. Army, on duty as in
structor of the 1O4th Medical Regi-
ment of the Maryland National
Guard at Baltimore.
The l21st Regiment of Engineers
will be inspected by Maj. A. S. Acker-
man, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army,
inspector-instructor of the 1O3d En-
gineers of the Pennsylvania National
Guard at Philadelphia. The 26Oth
Regiment OF Coast Artillery will be
inspected by 1t. Col. Charles J..
Herzer, U. S. Coast Artillery Corps,
on duty at Allentown, Pa.
Capt. Edward H. Walter, U. S.
Corps of Engineers, inspector in
structor of the 121st Engineer Regi-
ment here, has been ordered to Phil
adelphia, Pa, from April 8 to 16 to
conduct the annual inspection of the
103d Engineer Regiment of the
Pennsylvania National Guard.
Plans are being made by the anti
aircraft coast artillery regiment
here, commanded by Col. Walter w.
Burns for an active target season
during the period of the annual en-
campment. Allowances for this
work have been fixed by the War
Department, according to informa-
ton just received at brigade head
quarters, including sleeve targets
and 10000 feet of cable to be used
by the aeroplanes in placing the
targets a safe distance behind them
while the militia gunners blaze
away from the anti-aircraft guns on
the ground.
A new system of records for en-
listed men of the National Guard
has been ordered put into effect
according to instructions received
from the War Department by the
local brigade headquarters. The
purpose, it was explained, was to
put the National Guard records on
the same system as the Regular
Army, so that if and when the mill
tia is called into the Federal service
there would be no delay incidental
to changing the records at that time
to conform to the Army method
The War Department has in
formed the local brigade headquar-
ters that all records of enlistment
and details of service must be COM
pleted on the new records by June
80, l941 Effective February l next,
and continuing throughout the cur
rent calendar year, all new enlist
ments and all re-enlistments will be
made on the new records. The in
structions further state that COM
mencing on January /, 1941, the
conversion of all other existing en-
listment and service records will be
begun so that by June 30 of next