Evening star., 1940-03-10
Board 10 Examine
Prospective Medical
Officers Named
Field ArtiI|erymen Leod
In Pistol Competition
Of Organized Reserves

Col. George r. Callander has been
appointed head of a board of Of
ficers which will meet at the Army
Medical Center to examine candi-
dates residing in the Washington
area to determine their fitness for
appointment as Medical Depart
ment officers in the officers Re-
serve Corps. and for certificates of
capacity. Other Regular medical
officers detailed to the board in
clude 1t. Col. Harold P. Sawyer
and Capt. Gottlieb l.. Orth.
Members of the board include:
Dental Corps-Lt. Col. Terry P.
Bull and the following local Dental
Reserve officers: Majs. John A..
Boston and Harry NJ. Wheeler,
Capts. Chester R. Smith, Leo C..
Faherty and Thomas d. Gates
Medical Corps-Col. Dunlap P. Pen
hallow and 1t. Col. Clarence M
Dollman, both local Medical Re-
serve officers, and 1t. Col. Cleon
j. Gentzkow. Medical AdmInlstra-
tive Corps-Lt. Harland W. Layer
and the following Reserve officers:
Capts. John l.. Mccarthy, Irving
E. Tier, First 1t. James E. Davis
and Second 1t. Joseph w. Mollaun.
Sanitary Corps-Lt. Col. James H.
Defandort. Veterinary Corps-Lt.
Col, Ralph B. Stewart and the fol-
lowing Veterinary Reserve officers:
1t. Col. Elmer Lash and Maj. Harry
w. Schoening.
With a score of ALAS, the Field
Artillery pistol team, headed by
Capt. George L. Hart, jr., COM
manding Battery F., 3l3th Field Ar
tlllery, is leading the 1910 inter-
service pistol competition now being
conducted among District of Co.
lumbla Reserve units at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation range. AS
OF February %, the scores of the
competing teams, in addition to the
Field Artillery, were as follows: In
fantry, 4,032; Cavalry, 4,OO5; En-
glfleers, 1881; service units, 3,474;
Quartermaster, 1878; Military In
telligence, 3,171.
District cavalry officers will meet
at Fort Myer today at $3.50 m. for
instruction in horsemanship. Meet
ing tomorrow evening, Quarter
master, Finance and 136th Service
Unit officers will discuss the duties
and functions of the Philadelphia
depot zone. Representative Spark
man of Alabama, who is also a
major of coast artillery, Officers
Reserve Corps, will be the principal
speaker at the coast artillery con-
ference Tuesday evening. On
Wednesday evening military intel
ligence officers will discuss a map
exercise, while field artillery staff
officers will take up defensive
tactics of the infantry division.
Col. Richard Wetherill, executive
Of the Washington military district,
and Capt. Robert c. Rives, 317th
Infantry, will go to Front Royal,
Va, Wednesday to conduct the
group school at the Randolph
Macon Academy. War Department
training films also will be shown.
Engineer officers, meeting Thursday
evening, will discuss the organiza-
ton Of the ground for the new in
fantry battalion. Following this
problem, War Department training
films portraying the medical regi-
ment and the technique of river
crossings will be shown. The School
of Tactics and Technique on Friday
evening will discuss the use of light
tank company in attack. The same
evening the quartermaster-service
unit pistol competition will be fired
at the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton range. District Field Artillery
officers will meet at Fort Myer
March 10 for instruction in equita-
tion.