Evening star., 1940-01-28
Plans for New Guard Arnory
Expected to Be Ready Soon
Contract Already Let for
Boring Operations on Site

| turned to the active list Of that
command.
Upon recommendation Of the unit
commander. Pvt First Glass Joseph
I. Looney has been ordered pro-
NOTED to sergeant in the Head
quarters Company, 104th Quarter
master Regiment.
Intensive efforts are being made
by the several units of the local
militia to obtain the additional
number of enlisted men which were
authorized to increase the strength
Of the local militia last fall. A total
Of 535 additional men were author
lied, but it was said at headquarters
that only half of this number has
been obtained, and it is the hope
of the heads of the guard that the
full compliment will be obtained
before the units prepare to 90 into
the field for their annual training.
Furthermore, it was said, the diff
culties of keeping up the strength
have been materially increased due
to the fact that number Of men
enlisted in the militia, and find the
service to their liking and then
enter the Regular Army.
But every effort from now on will
be directed toward recruiting the
full increment of the last increase
allowed, so that all units may be
able to go into the field for training,
whether at base camp or for ma
neuvers, with full peacetime COM
plement. 1t is also the plan to try
to complete the enlistment OF the
additional men several months be-
fore the time arrives for starting the
field training.
Pvt. First Class Henry D. Bob
bitt, jr, has been ordered promoted
to corporal in Company B, 104th
Quartermaster Regiment, upon rec.
ommendation Of the unit com.
mander.
Pvt. First Glass; Walter l.. Red.
field has been promoted to corporal
in the band, 12lst Regiment of En-.
gineers.
Capt. Hugh Everett, jr., has filed
an application with brigade head
quarters for permission to attend
the class for National Guard officers
at the Command and General Staff
School of the Army at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kans. It was said that his
application will be sent to the War
Department for consideration, as no
formal ALLEGATION of vacancies is
made to Guard units, those attend
ing the school being selected from
applications sent to the War Depart.
ment.
Corpl. George H. Lawrence has
been promoted to sergeant and Pvt.
(First Class Edison v. Olmstead
has been promoted to corporal in the
Headquarters Company, 29th Divi.
sion.
First 1t. Joseph F. Fitzgerald,
Headquarters and Service, 121st En-.
gineers. has been granted leave Of
absence.
Pvt. James E. Bradley, Battery F.
260th Coast Artillery, has been
ordered honorably discharged to
permit him to enlist in the United
States Army. For the same reason.
Pvt. First Glass; Guy E. McVeigh.
Battery H. 260th Coast Artillery, has
been given an honorable discharge.
Pvt. (First Glass; Maurice B.
White, Battery H, 260th Coast Ar.
tillery, has been given an honorable
discharge to permit him to enlist in
the United States Coast Guard.
Corpl. George P. Magill, Company
F, 121st Engineers, has been ordered
honorably discharged upon his own
request, he having completed one
year of three-year re-enlistment.
Because of removal from the city,
the following have been ordered
honorably discharged: Pvt. Francis
R. Ferguson, band, 260th Coast Ar.
tillery, and Pvt. Wayne S. Christof.
fersen, Battery E. 260th Coast Artil.
lery.