Evening star., 1940-06-16
Call for Active Duty
Issued for Doctors
In Reserve Corps
Dental and Veterinary
Coptoins, Lieutenonts
Under IS Also Wanted

In order to provide adequate per-
increase in the Regular Army, the
War Department has issued a call
for captains and lieutenants of the
Medical, Dental and Veterinary Re-
serve Corps under 35 for extended
active duty with the Regular Army
for one year. No extensions are
contemplated at this time This
procurement campaign for addi-
tional Medical Department officers
will be conducted through the vari-
Gus corps area commanders, who
will contact not only the company
medical, dental and veterinary Re-
serve officers in their respective
corps areas, but will solicit hospitals
to obtain applicants for commissions
in the Reserve corps from eligible
internes. Applications of District
Medical Department officers will not
be withheld because of; % A re-
mote date of availability for active
duty, (2) physical examination re-
port dated more than 80 days prior
to the indicated availability, pro-
vided physical examination report
does not show disqualifying defects,
or go lack of inactive status train
ing credits, since none are required
for extended active duty.
The applications of physicians or
internes in the District for appoint
ment in the Medical Corps Reserve
to obtain active duty will not be
withheld because ID the applicant
has not completed an internship
when actually he shall have COM
pleted his internship within six
months of his application for ap-
pointment. 90 the applicant has
not expressed his intention in writ
ing of taking the competitive exam
ination for entrance into the Regu-
lar Army Medical Corps, since this
requirement has been deleted, and
g, the applicant is over age for
entrance into the Medical Corps of
the Regular Army, provided he is a
recent graduate and is within the
age maximum of 35 years for ap-
pointment in the Medical Corps Re-
serve.
Applications from doctors of med
icine, dentistry and veterinary
medicine for employment on a con-
tract basis will not be encouraged
inasmuch as funds have not been
appropriated for this type of con-
tract.
Additional Reserve officers were
ordered to active duty at nearby
posts of the Regular Army. Be
ginning July S, the following will
begin duty: Second 1t. Charles w
Hutton to I'd Coast Artillery, Fort
Monroe. Va; Second 1t. James B
Berry, jr.. to Arlington. Va: Second
Its. Gerald E. Gowell. Frederic r.
Smith and William P. Cassedy to
the 7th Cavalry Brigade, Fort Knox
KY: Second 1t. Burton D. Borden
to Fort Belvoir, Va; Second 1t. John
E. Van SAINT to Fort Hoyle, Md,
and Second It. Francis X Beamer
to Fort Myer, Va. Beginning July
8. at Fort Jay. N Y: Second Its
Floyd A. Soule. George D. Allen
Eliot P. Y. Powell, and Morgan L.
Tenny
First 1t. Miles v. Engelbach has
been assigned to duty at Fort Myer
and First 1t. David T. Clements at
Fort Howard, Md.
Beginning today are: First 1t.
Forbes H. Burgess to Carlisle Bar
racks, Pa; Second Its: David r
Strobel and Benjamin w. Smith, to
Fort Monroe; Second 1t. Richard
Meg. Lee to Fort George G. Meade,
Md: Second Its. Bruce S. Branson.
jr., Ferdinand T. Schneider. jr., and
Oliver NJ Walcott to Fort Belvoir:
Second 1t Richard w. Moncure to
Fort Hoyle and Second 1t. Hugh C.
Minton, jr., to Fort Belvoir
Beginning July 7, to Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Md, 1t. Col. Franz
S. Blue. 1t. Col. Raymond o. Ella
son and Maj Robert w. Buzzard.