Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-15
Roosevelt Inspection
Saturday Shortens
29th's Attack
: Division Bottles 18th
!: Today; Officers Hear Of
Flows in Engagement
BY ROBERT A. ERWIN,


RENSSELAER, FALLS, N. Y, Aug.
i5.-Cast in an offensive role, the
29th Division early today launched
an attack upon the 28th DIVISION,
PENNSYLVANIA National Guard, in a
Sd Corps maneuver that will con-
tinue until it is called off some time
tomorrow.
Originally scheduled for two days
and two nights, this seminal wind
I'D of the LIST Army war games IN
Northern New York was shortened
to one night in the field because OF
President Roosevelt's scheduled visit
to the troop concentrations Satur-
The 10Th will be reviewed by Mr..
Roosevelt between and 4:30 pm.
Saturday near Rensselaer, Falls, and
the forenoon of that day will be de-
voted to getting men and material
ready for presentation to their
Commander in Chief
Olive Drab Ordered.
To assure the 29th its best pos
sible showing, Maj. Gen. Milton A.
Rockford announced the olive drab
wooden uniforms would be the order
of the day and that there would
be no exceptions. In fact, military
police are being instructed to turn
back any officer or enlisted man
wearing summer khaki for the presl-
Dental review.
The big First Army maneuVer OF
the current three-week training
period comes off next Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day. Today's event, therefore, may
be classed as the seminal, since
1t is division against division. In
next weeks grand scale exercise,
the LIST Corps Area, Regular Army
and National Guard soldiers Will be
pitted against the I'd and Sd corps:
The latter includes the 29th and
the District Guard.
Officers of the Goth started the
maneuver today with the beneht OF
friendly but pointed criticism on
the divisions own games that ended
so suddenly yesterday morning with
the 9lst (Virginia) combat team
defeating the 5Sth (Maryland) team
in an overnight test.
Flaws Pointed Out.
Hundreds of commissioned ON
GERS, ranging from Maj. Gen. RecK-
ord on down to second lieutenants,
sat or stood on the ground before
their commanders tent to hear the
high command pick flaws in move
mont of troops and their direction
in action.
Gen. Reckord criticized the Vlr-
einia team, directed by Col. John
Fulmer Bright of the LIST Virginia
Infantry, because its reconnaissance
troup became lost and the team
failed in its initial mission, although
1t won the final engagement.
The division commander was par
ticularlv critical of the regiments
exposing their field kitchens during
the maneuver. He did not spare
Regular Army and Reserve officer
umpires in his remarks. 1 saw
IS umpires concentrated at one
road junction" he said, "and there
was no excuse for that. The brigade
commander should have been al
lowed to issue his orders before the
umpires interviewed him.
10Th Is BLUE" Army.
Color designations were used
again for the war game that began
this morning. The goth division,
the blues. had its enlisted men IN
blue denim as they set out by motor
CONVOY to the northeast to meet
the red invaders-the Pennsylvania
puardsmen-who were attired In
Regular khaki.
In addition to its own units, the
e9th was reinforced by composite
battalion of the 213th Coast Artil-
lerv based at Richville, several miles
south of Rensselaer, Falls.