Evening star., 1940-01-28

General plans and the detailed
specifications for the proposed new
armory for the National Guard Of
the District Of Columbia are expect
ed to be ready within the next week,
or 50, according to Brig. Gen. Albert
L. Cos, commanding the local mill
tia brigade. Other steps in the
direction Of construction are being
taken in the ofnce of the municipal
architect Of the District Of Colum-
bia, which gives to the local citizen
soldiers an assurance that they will
not have to put up for an uncertain
period with the present most unsat-
isfactory training conditions in their
name Of an armory.
name o fan armory.
However, there are many details
yet to be completed before the
steel frame work and actual stone
construction begins. It is under
stood that contracts have been let
Tor test borings on the site at the
eastern end of East Capitol street
to obtain information on which to
obtain contractors for the laying
down of piling on which the building
will be constructed.
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord,
commanding the 10Th National
Guard Division, of which the local
militia brigade is part, and also
commander of the National Guard
of Maryland, has recommended that
the 1O4th Quartermaster Regiment
and Special Troops, 10Th Division,
both division units. and Company A,
372d Infantry. take their annual
field training this summer at Camp
Albert c. Ritchie, the State camp
of the Maryland Guard at Cascade,
Md, from August to II. The date
for the 104th Ordinance Company
has not been suggested, that being
left to the Army authorities at Fort
George G. Meade, Nd, where 1t has
been recommended that it take its
training.
OF course, it was explained at
brigade headquarters, that these are
tentative dates. which will
not only have to be approved by the
Corps Area Headquarters Of the
Army, but by the National Guard
Bureau of the War Department.
Such plans. of course, will depend
upon Congress providing funds for
such duties. which will involve large
expenditures for transportation. in
the event 1t was decided to take the
troops some distance from their
home stations where large maneu-
vering space would be available.
Pvt. Edwin B. Albaugh has been
ordered promoted to sergeant in the
Headquarters Company. l04th
Quartermaster Regiment. upon rec.
ommendation Of the unit COM
mander.
Pvt. George A. Yohe. Battery H,
260th Coast Artillery. and Pvt. Jas
son r. Morton, Battery E, 260th
Coast Artillery, have been ordered
discharged from their
units in order to permit
them to enlist in the United States
Army.
Plans are being made to send a
group of enlisted men of the 260th
Coast Artillery to Fort Monroe, Va,
to attend the new school which has
been established there for enlisted
men of anti-aircraft gun batteries.
The school particularly will conduct
a special course in stereoscopic
hight finding. 1t was said at bril-
gade headquarters that the plans
call for sending one enlisted man
from each of the three gun batteries
to each of three courses which will
be given at the school.
Each man selected must be less
than IS years of age and must pass
the same physical examination that
Is given to officers taking army
school courses.
Technical Sergt. Edward ]. Shep-
pard, jr., and Pvt. Lester N. Novis,
both attached to the Headquarters
Company, 104th Quartermaster
have been ordered re-