Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-16
Marshall 10 LIST,
Units Tonight in
New Guard Call
Army Chief Of Stoff
To Review Progress
In Radio Address

While $4,000 officers and men of
Guard units in 26 States reported
today to home armories in the first
Federal mobilization of the National
Guard since the World War, Gen.
George C. Marshall, Army chief of
staff, prepared to announce Guard
units which will comprise the Sec
ond contingent to be called into
service.
The announcement will be made
in a radio address at 1915 o'clock
tonight, during which Gen. Marshall
will review mobilization progress to
date
Commanders of the Guard units
called into Federal service today
were under orders from Washington
to concentrate their men in train
ing centers "as soon as practicable
and it was expected that all the
men will be in camps within 10
days.
The date when the second con-
tingent will be called into service,
which also may be announced to-
night by Gen. Marshall, is expected
soon after the first contingent, mo-
bilized today, is cleared from initial
assembly points.
Before leaving home armories the
$4,000 officers and men called into
service today must undergo medical
examination, complete required
paper work and draw and pack
clothing and equipment.
President Roosevelt ordered the
initial contingent of Guardsmen in
Quoted into the Regular Army to-
day under the recently enacted law
empowering him to mobilize the full
force of the National Guard, totaling
about $4,000 officers and men, for
a years training.
More to Be Called Later.
Additional Guard units, among
them the District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard organizations, are to be
ordered out later. as Gen. Marshall
may indicate in his speech tonight
Original Army plans called for in
duction of the entire Guard into the
Federal service by January /.
Calling of the National Guard Is
a preliminary to the compulsory
military training program which
will be started with the signing by
President Roosevelt of the Burke
Wadsworth CONSUMPTION bill, which
Congress passed Saturday. Men
conscripted under this measure will
be trained in the ranks of the
guard and Regular Army rather
than in separate units. according
to War Department plans.
Guard units modified today in
clude four divisions. the 44th, 30th
45th and 4lst; Is coast artillery
regiments, all but two of them an
ti-aircraft organizations, and four
observation squadrons. Tank COM
panies of the four divisions. ex-
empted from today's call, will be
ordered out later.
The mobilizlng Guardsmen are
from New York, New Jersey, North
Carolina, Tennessee, South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arizona
New Mexico, Colorado, Washington
Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming
New Hampshire, Delaware, Illinois
Missouri, Massachusetts,, Pennsyl-
vania, Maine, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, Virginia and Arkansas.
Under the law authorizing Undue
ton of the Guard into the Regular
Army, Guardsmen come under COM
plete control of the Regular Army
staff and may be used anywhere
in the Western Hemisphere or in
United States possessions.
Guardsmen below the rank of
captain who have dependents were
allowed 20 days from. the date of
the Presidents mobilization order,
September /. to resign. Those un-
der 18 will be discharged 1t is
not yet known how many will be
dropped as a result Of these pro-
visions.
Provision for Jobs.
The law authorizing mobilization
also directs employers to reinstate
Guardsmen applying for former
jobs within 40 days after they COM
plete their years service. Excep-
tions are authorized only where re-
instatement would be impossible OF
unreasonable"
The Guard equipment, already
Federal property, has been in charge
of United States property and dis
bursement officers in each State, but
will be transferred to unit COM
manders in the next 10 days before
the units report to training camps