Evening star., 1950-08-22
Reserve
ActiveDutyCaI|s
Begin Going Out
100 q Day Are Being
Ordered to Report
In IS Doys

Orders summoning enlisted
members of the Marine Corps in
active reserve to duty in Is days
began pouring out of Washington
today at an anticipated rate of
100 day.
Another move toward bringing
the Marines up to an authorized
strength of 10000. the active duty
orders go to enlisted specialists,
trained volunteer reservists and
those holding combat designa-
tions. The call goes to members
in the 5th Marine Corps Reserve
district, made up of Washington,
Virginia, Maryland. West Virginia
and Kentucky.
Active duty orders for officers
of the inactive Reserve, not older
than 81 and not over the rank of
captain are expected to start
within the next few days, a
spokesman said. No Marine fly
ers are to be included now.
No Estimates Given.
officials would make no esti-
mate of the number Of men in
volved in the call.
Members are being called in
order of priority in the following
occupational fields: Construction
and equipment, fire instrument
control repairmen, operational
communications, communications
materiel, electronics, motor trans
port, machine accounting, avia-
ton electronics and air control.
Meanwhile, the draft is sched-
uled to take the first inductees
from nearby Montgomery County
Thursday.
Eight Maryland men, three from
Rockville and five from Upper
Marlboro, will be sworn in at the
Arlington Farms induction center.
BY 10 pm. Thursday they will be
entrained for Fort Jackson, S. c.,
for basic training.
Twenty-one more Maryland men
will be inducted next week as the
State moves to meet it's September
quota of 750. A week from today
Hyattsville will send one man and
Chevy Chase six. Next Thursday
Upper Marlboro will send nine
more and Silver Spring six.
virginians to Report Sept. S.
Virginia is scheduled to send its
first batch of inductees to Arling-
ton Farms on September 5. At that
time two men from Greene County.
three from Madison County and
three from Rappahannock are
scheduled to report.
The District will send it's first
group, probably about IS men, for
induction September 6.
Meanwhile. it was announced
that two units of the District Ma
tional Guard would leave on or
about Friday for active duty train
ing.
The outfits are the 370th Signal
Radar Maintenance Unit, which
will be billeted at Camp Gordon,
Ga, and the 715th Transportation
Truck Company. scheduled to
train at Fort Eustis, Va. Y
Units Called August IA.
Both units were called to active
duty August ID. The first District
GuardSmen to go on active duty
since the Korean fighting began
June Is. they have been under
going processing at the Armory
here for a week.
The 163d Military Police Battal-
ion has been alerted for active
duty training on September 3,
while the Hist M. P.'s and the
260th Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Group are scheduled to move out
10 days later.
Brig. Gen. William H. Aben-
droth. commander of the D. C.
Guard, and two aides, left WASH
ington by plane today for an in.
spection of Air National Guard
units now in summer training.
Leave for Richmond.
The general, accompanied by
Col. John A. OKeefe, adjutant
general. and 1t. Edwin c. Fades,
an aide de camp, took off from
Andrews Air Force Base in an
Air National Guard CAT for Byrd
Field. Richmond, where the 213th
Air Service Group and the ll3th
Fighter Group are billeted.
From Byrd Field they will fly
to Mitchell Air Force Base, N. Y,
to inspect the 18th Aircraft Con-
troll and Warning Squadron. They
will return to Washington tomor-
row night.
The I'd Army headquarters
yesterday asked women physicians
and dentists to join the Reserve
so they may be called to active
duty.
Col. Harold w. Glatty, I'd
Army surgeon, said women who
volunteer would be counted to-
ward the quota of medical officers
to be drafted from the seven
State area. The quotas are 141
doctors and 50 dentists.
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