Evening star., 1941-03-09
D. {. Naval Reservists
To Put on Show of
Their Training
Mock Bottle Engagements
To Be Stoeed as Part
Of Events This Week
General quarterS!"

GeUeTdl quarters!
There is instantaneous response
to this command, and every man is
ready for his battle assignment. The
commanding officer knows the COM
bat problem, gun crews and men in
the engine room are prepared to
implement his efforts at solution,
No blood will be shed and no equip
ment will be damaged, either in
victory or defeat, for this is a mock
engagement, and the ship" is the
Naval Reserve Armory at the Wash
ington Navy Yard.
Little publicity has attended the
weekly training sessions of the Off
GERS and men composing the 1st
Battalion, Organized Naval Reserve
but they have applied themselves
diligently to the task of making
themselves worthy defenders of
the Nation in the Navy'S tradition
of competence. Those in one ele-
ment of the battalion, the Sd Di-
vision, have been called to active
duty and are being given Oppor-
tunity to show how much they have
absorbed through study and prac-
tiCe.
Demonstration Tomorrow.
Beginning tomorrow, the 1st and
I'd Divisions and three others, COM
posed of young men training for
admission to the Naval Academy,
will take turns demonstrating their
routine in the armory, as Naval
Reserve week, sponsored by the
Junior Board of Commerce and rec
ognlzed by the District Commits
sioners by proclamation, is inaugu-
rated. Through next Sunday public
drills will be held at 8 o'clock each
night
Prospective ReServistS and others
interested are to be shown what
the battalion does every Tuesday
night-hoW battle problems are
worked out, how manual of arms
and signal drills are conducted and
how the unit prepares in many
other ways for a possible call to
service. Special exhibits are to be
open to inspection from am. until
10 pm. and officers are to be on
hand to answer questions.
Visitors will see how the reserviSts,
despite minimum of equipment,
manage to simulate shipboard con-
ditions. They will be shown the
ways in which special aptitudes of
enlisted men are encouraged. They
viii see the makeShift engine room
setup, the radio shack" guns, gas
masks and all other paraphernalia
that can be displayed without giving
away defense secrets.
Some Come 20 Miles.
The members of the battalion,
some of whom drive each week
from homes 20 miles or more from
the Capital to get their instruction
and one days pay per drill period
are checked as they carry out orders
OF superiorS and are corrected later
If they make mistakes. Each officer
gets a chance to be commander of
the ship and experienced OBJ
servers. equipped with Stop-watches,
call out changes in combat condi-
tlons at predetermined intervals
and then watch the tyros' reac-
tons. All this will be presented
during the nightly programs.
1t will mark the first time since
adoption of defense emergency regu-
lations banning visitors from Navy
establishments that civilians not on
official business have been admitted
to a building within the confines of
the Navy Yard. The armory is en-
tered directly from Eleventh street
Sc. and those coming for the ex-
hibition and drills will not be re-
quired to go through the yard
gates.
The lst Battalion is commanded
by 1t. w. Croft Jennings and the
1st and End Divisions are headed,
respectively, by 1t. q. g. Bert H.
LIndman and 1t. Winston S. Brown.
1t John GullickSon, retired off,
Ger whose Navy experiences have
included being torpedoed four times
during the World War, acts as in
Structor in battle problems.
Others Cooperating.
Also cooperating in plans for
Naval Reserve Week are Rear Ad-
miral George Pettengill, comman-
dant of the Navy Yard, and Comdr.
Arthur B. McCrary, in charge of
Naval Reserve affairs of the wash
ington area.
Arthur Godfrey, WJSV radio
broadcaster, lieutenant command
er in the Naval Reserve, has been
assisting in preparation of the pro-
70 CT Do+ +%1l1
which he is not connected officially.
He will speak to students of Roose-
velt High School on naval affairs
Thursday.
The Junior Board of Commerce
participation is being handled by
the National Defense Committee,
of which Minor Hudson is chair
man.
Winners in the art school section
of the Naval Reserve Week poster
contest were announced yesterday
by the judges, Mrs. PettengilI and
William Dean.
Those who will receive six-month,
three-month and one-month passes
to downtown theaters are, respec-
lively, Mary Hillberg, Abbott Art
School; David G.. Ninas, Columbia
School of Commercial Art, and
Martha Lewis, Abbott Art School.
The public school section of the
contest will be judged tomorrow.
"Navy Bean Supper"
Plans are being completed for
"Navy bean supper" to be held as
a climax to Naval Reserve Week
and at which officers will be hosts
to young men who by their in
quiries during the week impress as
possible candidates for enlistment
in the 1st Battalion.
Enlistment in the Naval Reserve
is for cruise" of four years. The
regular Navy term is six years. Men
between the ages of II and % may
enter as apprentice seamen and re-
ceive the chance of specialized
training according to their abili-
ties. They must measure up to the
NaUv'S high standards of charac-