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Marine Reservists
Begin Maneuvers
At Quantico
Fifth Battalion Moves
Into Combat Area
For Two-Day Games
Special Dispatch to The Star.
QUANTICO, Va.. Aug. 10.—Marine
Reservists from Washington got a
taste of something like battle today.
With their fellows in the 5th Bat
talion, Marine Corps Reserve, they
moved into a pre-charted combat
area for two days of maneuvers.
Tonight they will bivouac in shelter
tents.
The marines’ war game involves
maneuvers in attack from the sea
<Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake
Bay! and defense of the beach on
the Southern Maryland shore, near
Stump Neck, on the lower Potomac.
The defense forces occupy trenches
and dugouts, while the assault forces
will take part as a battalion in
attack movement.
All companies of the reserve bat
talion went over the side of the de
stroyer Manley via cargo nets and
Into assault boats in an exciting
aspect of the maneuvers.
Competitions Decided.
Although the program has been
crowded, the time has been found to
decide the various competitions for
cups, trophies and awards, all of
which will be presented at a review
in honor of Brig. Gen. William P.
Upshur, U. S. M., commanding gen
eral of the Marine Corps Reserve
Forces, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Tomorrow night the 5th Battalion
Will take part in the final brigade
review, in honor of Brig. Gen. Rich
ard P. Williams. U. S. M. C.. who is
going from Quantico to San Diego to
assume command of the entire Fleet
Marine Force.
The contest for the American
Legion's Best Corporal Medal will
take place tomorrow night in the
combat area, and the contest for the
best drilled guidon bearer has yet
to take place.
Company G Wins Award.
“The old rifle" emblematic of the
cleanest rifles in the battalion was
T roops
(Continued From First Page.)
should be more of it by all means.”
The chief of staff and other high
command officers divided attention
between the Manassas maneuvers, a
silent mimic "paper war" already
in progress on the Pacific Coast and
preliminaries to the concentration
of some 45.000 troops in northern
New York.
New Phase of Training.
Today's exercises, the largest so
far held by the guardsmen, marked
a new phase of training for the citi
zen soldiers, many of whom never
have taken the field with units
larger than a battalion or regiment.
Tomorrow the full strength of each
division will be marshalled and the
two divisions will meet as opposing
forces. This will mark the close of
the first phase of the two-week
training program. Saturday will be
given over to divisional reviews.
Foreign Attaches to Watch.
The second phase will begin Mon
day when a provisional division of
Regular Army troops, now asem
bling and training at Fort Meade,
Md., and Fort Belvoir, Va.. will move
against the combined strength of
the two Guard divisions in a test of
theories and equipment of the mod
ern national defense machine. Re
garded as of outstanding impor
tance in the development of the
Regular and Reserve defense forces
of the Nation, next weeks’ maneu
vers will be witnessed by the mili
tary attaches of 12 foreign nations—
Lt Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher of
Germany, Maj. Gen. Masafumi Ya
muti of Japan. Col. Carlos Sanchez
of Venezuela. Col. Ricardo Calde
ron of Mexico, Col. Dumitru Peter
8cu of Rumania, Col. Ivan L. Oku
nev of the U. S. S. R„ Col. Richard
V. Read of Great Britain, Col. Teh
Chuan Kuo of China, Lt. Col. Edu
ardo Leongomez of Colambia,
Squadron Leader Ismael Sarasu of
Chile, Maj. Felipe Munilla of Cuba
and Maj. Jose Bina Machado of
Brazil.
An essembly of National Guard
troops from points as far distant as
Pittsburgh, which had been carried
on without so much as a mashed
finger, constituting a safety record
almost without parallel among
militia troops, was marred yesterday
by the first accident of any conse
quence. A truck carrying 19 Guards
men of Company G, 1st Virginia In
fantry, from Petersburg. Va., strik
ing a stone concealed in a cloud of
dust, turned over into a ditch and
through a fence on the old Braddock
road, just off the Lee highway.
Eight of its occupants, none of them
believed to have been seriously in
jured, were ordered to the Army
Hospital at Fort Myer, Va., for ex
amination and X-ray observation
and were transported there in am
bulances of the 104th Medical Reg
iment, Maryland National Guard.,
from Baltimore.
INames or injured.
The injured are First Lt. Richard
H. Ryan, Corpls. George F. Logsden
and Louis E. Parker and Pvts.
Daniel T. Caldwell, John W. Brooks,
Alvin E. Goulder, Forest F. Curlin
and James K. Livesay. Pvt. Curlin
•was thought, after preliminary ex
aminations in the field, to have re
ceived a slight concussion. The
preliminary examinations showed
no broken bones or fractures in any
of the eight cases.
The Regular Army troops forming
the provisional division were almost
entirely assembled yesterday at
Fort Meade and Fort Belvoir, with
only the 2nd Separate Chemical
Battalion, from Edgewood Arsenal,
Md., still missing from the organi
zation at Meade. Under command
of Brig. Gen. Maxwell Murray, the
regulars today are going through
much the same training program as
the guardsmen, conducting ex
ercises by successively larger units
until the division is welled into a
single fighting force.
Heavily mechanized, with tanks,
combat cars, scout cars, motorized
artillery, infantry and cavalry, pre
ceded by the air screen of the 3d
Observation Squadron, from the
General Headquarters Air Force.
Langley Field. Va., the provisional
division will be hurled next week
against the Guard divisions. Though
outnumbered 17,000 to 6,000 by the
guardsmen, the regulars are count
ing upon their more compact or
ganization, greater mobility and
harder hitting weapons for victory
•gainst the bulkier Guard divisions,
1
won by Company G, Capt. Charles
B. Nerren. with Company C, Capt.
Justice M. Chambers, in second place
and Company F, Capt. Ralph M.
King, in third place.
The Norfolk Chamber of Com
merce Cup for the best company at
close drill was won by Company D,
Capt. Otho L. Rogers, with Company
G second and Company C third.
The Elizabeth Edmonds Harris
Cup for the best drilled squad was
won by the squad from Company C
j under Corpl. Louie B. Rodiers and
j composed of Pvt. (First Class) W. R.
i Leslie and Pvts. H. L. Choate, J. R.
| Harper, H. O. Bailey, G. A. Dell, J.
F. McClanahan and E. E. Bowers.
The squad from Company E was
i second, the one from G was third.
The Daughters of 1812 Medal for
best all-around non-commissioned
officers was won by Sergt. William
j J. Blake of Headquarters Company.
Sergt. Douglas E. Studdeford of Com
pany C was a close second. Sergt.
Blake also won the Clay Keene Mil
ler D. Ai R. Medal for the best record
1 for the year in military education,
i The Veterans of Foreign Wars Medal
for the best drilled private in the
battalion was won by Pvt. Karl W.
; Rhine, a member of the battalion
band. Pvt. William E. Payne of
Company C was second.
patterned more nearly on the World
War plan.
Maj. Gen. James K. Parsons,
commanding the Guard divisions,
yesterday entertained city officials
of Manassas at luncheon in the
camp here. The affair was one ot a
number of social events which will
reach a climax tonight with a
dinner by Gen. Parsons in honor
of Lt. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, who is
to arrive here late in the afternoon
of his first visit to a military com
mand since accepting promotion
from the rank of Major General.
I Arriving at Union Station in Wash
ington at 4:30 p.m. today, he will
be met by Gen. Parsons and es
corted to the field headquarters
here. Gen. Drum will go from
Manassas to Plattsburgh. N. Y. to
assume command of 50.000 regular
and Guard troops which will be
engaged in maneuvers there during
the coming two weeks.
Smoke Screens Hide
29th Division 'Battle'
B> t Stafl Correspondent of The 3t»r.
GROVETON, Va., Aug. 10 —
Smoke screens "brewed" from Army
smoke pots covered the Bull Run
sector today as troops of the 58th
Brigade, from Maryland, and the
91st Brigade, from Virginia, clashed
in simulated warfare.
The brigade maneuver brought
into action most of the troops of the
29th Division, of which the District
National Guard is part, along with
their two generals.
Brig. Gen. Samuel Gardner Wal
ter. commander of the 91st and
adjutant general of the Virginia Na
tional Guard, directed his own troops
in the field, while the Maryland gen
eral was Brig. Gen. Amos W. Wood
cock of the 58th.
Divided between the two brigades
was the 104th Medical Regiment.
Maryland National Guard, which
picked up and administered first aid
to the fictitious casualties of the
test battle.
Walter Commands Attackers.
The 91st Brigade, under Gen.
Walter, was cast in the role of the
attacking force and was designated
as the "Blues." Paired in battle
, with the brigade were the 29th Divi
sion Tank Company, under Capt. Bill
Bailey, Danville, Va., an infantry
plane and an artillery plane, while
j the Marylanders were aided by two
regiments of the 54th Field Artillery,
Brigade firing their powerful 155
milimeter guns.
Their battle was fought ~out within
view of famous Henry Hill, one of
the vantage points of the Civil
War when the two battles of Bull
Run were fought in the same area.
Reporters, photographers and Army
observers mounted the hill to view
the military spectacle, while Regular
Army umpires stayed with the
troops to render decisions and desig
nate the victors.
Capt. Bailey's tanks, now a
familiar sight on the old battle
fields. sped to the maneuver area
over the main roads, coming from
the sector north of Lee highway,
where they are quartered with the
29th Division Special Troops, com
manded by Maj. William T. Roy,
Washington. The tank company
from Danville has given a fine
account of itself throughout the
field encampment which began last
Saturday. The men have been
called into special maneuvers at
any and all times of day to play as
well as possible the parts that tanks
; fill in real warfare.
The 58th Brigade, under Gen.
Woodcock, is composed of the 1st
and 5th Maryland Regiments, in
fantry. The 91st Brigade, com
manded by Gen. Walter, is made up
of the 1st and 116th Virginia Regi
ments, infantry.
Rain Settles Dust.
Troops fought a test war today
over fields that had been soaked by
a heavy rain last night, bringing
the troops relief from the dust
churned by motor traffic and the
heat that has prevailed for several
days.
The skies over Bull Run were a
myriad of light last night, revealing
not only flashes of lightning that
came with the storm but the
searching beams of the powerful
anti-aircraft searchlights of the
260th Coast Artillery, District Na
tional Guard, and the 213th Coast
Artillery, Pennsylvania National
Guard.
The 260th already has several
“lost" batteries. They have been
lost by location, in preparation for
the big “push” which comes next
Monday morning.
i
! OVER THE TOP—Members of Company E, 111th Regiment of the
j Philadelphia National Guard, rehearsing on Signal Hill (near
Manassas, Va.) yesterday for the 3d Corps Area mass maneuvers
in which Guardsmen and the Regular Army units will clash on
the Civil War battleground.
Six Months' Legal Preparation
Preceded 'Third Bull Run'
By a Stall Correspondent of The Star.
MANASSAS, Va„ Aug. 10.—
Use of this Virginia Piedmont
country for training of the Guard
and regular forces of the 3d Corps
Area has been made possible only
as a result of more than six months
of hard work on the part of the legal
officers of the Corps Area. Their
difficulties are symbolical of the
freedom of the American citizen,
who has the right to deny to the
Army use of his land even for
maneuvers essential to the develop
ment of national security. Thd use
of every foot of the 75.000 acres
over which the divisions are maneu
vering had to be obtained by nego
tiations with the individual property
owners. The work began last
February and as testimony to the
public spirited co-operation of the
Virginians in this area, the Army
pointed out that the owners of only
five plots, totalling 400 acres, have
denied access to their land to the
Army.
The Army has leased land for
actual camp sites. There are three
major sites totalling about 475 acres
and a number of battery positions
and other camping areas bringing
the total to about 510 acres. All of
the other property owners have of
fered the use of their land to the
; Government free of charge subject
only to an agreement that damage
which cannot be repaired by the
troops will be paid for in accordance
with the findings of an Army board
created for the purpose.
One property owner, identified as
Mrs. Daisy Wells, granted the use
of her land adjoinging the Lee high
way East of the historic stone house
on the battlefield with some re
luctance because of what she
termed an “unfortunate experience"
with National Guard troops in the
great exercises here in 1904. She
said that at that time soldiers
raided her farm yard and carried
off five turkeys. This in itself was
not so bad, she said, but they added
insult to injury by borrowing from
her a pot in which to cook the
birds. She presented a claim and
soon afterward received from the
Adjt. Gen of Connecticut a check
for $7.50, representing one-third of
her claim, together with the sug
gestion that she bill the Adjt. Gen.
of Tennessee and another State for
the remainder of the amount, since,
it appeared, guardsmen from three
States seemed to have been im
plicated.
"I could have forgiven the men
for the theft of the turkeys but the
pot was just too much," Mrs. Wells
said.
Eight colored families bearing the
name of Harrison, holding adjoining
plots in a secluded back-country
valley, were among those donating
the use of their land. Their proper
ty, they explained, had been part
of a great pre-civil war plantation
on which their ancestors had
been held as slaves by a family of
the same name. During the war
the Harrisons had liberated their
slaves and deeded to them sufficient
land to set them up as farmers. Tak
| ing the name of their former mas
I ters, the freed men settled down and
passed their property on from
father to son.
As a matter of fact, it was ex
plained, the Army probably will
leave the country in better shape
than it found it. The 121st Engineers
of the District National Guard, for
example, have constructed four
"turnouts” from the main highway
into adjoining farms and have built
at least two permanent culverts, one
involving 35 hours of labor, which
will remain as permanent improve
ments after they have gone. Dusty
county roads have been improved
and other construction carried on
which will prove of lasting benefit
to property owners in the maneuver
area.
Army's Surgeon General
Guest at Regiment Dinner
t Stafl Correspondent of The Star.
GROVETON, Va., Aug. 10.—Sur
geon General James C. Magee of
the United States Army and Brig.
Gen. Leigh Fairbanks, chief dental
surgeon, were honor guests last
night at a dinner given by the 104th
Medical Regiment, Maryland Na
tional Guard, part of the 29th Divi
sion. at "The Stables” on Lee High
way, near the Old Stone House on '
Bull Run battlefield.
They were received by Col. Fred
erick H. Vinup, Baltimore, com
mander of the regiment, and Maj.
Gen. Milton A. Reckford. Baltimore
and Washington, division com
mander. Music was furnished by
the regimental band.
The dinner and reception in honor
of Gen. Magee and Gen. Fairbanks
was arranged by Capt. Richard C.
O'Connell, president of the Balti
more City Council and adjutant
of the regiment.
^1 "
Just a couple of young fellows looking over the Army’s latest
short-wave field radio at Fort Meade. Pvt. Harley Steward is
packing the outfit by which the 112th Infantry of the 28th Divi
sion, National Guard, hopes to relay messages from the field
during the war games. —A. P. Photos.
1—-——
Trooper Shies at Publicity
For Returning Lost $115
B» t Stab Correspondent ot The Star.
GROVETON. Va.. Aug. 10.—Dio
genes, the man who took up his
! lantern and went forth in quest of
an honest man, might devote some
time to looking around in the 110th
Field Artillery Regiment, Virginia
National Guard, encamped on Bull
Run battlefield.
William H Booker. Alexandria,
Va., keeper of the canteen for the
29th Division special troops of the
District National Guard, went into
the camp baths for a shower and
lost a wallet containing $115 in cur
rency .
It wasn't long before he had the
money back without advertisement,
without fanfare and without much
worry.
A company commander from the
110th, who did not care to disclose
the name of the finder, returned the
wallet and money to Mr. Booker.
One of his enlisted men found the
money and turned it over imme
diately to his superior.
Mr. Booker, who works day and
night felling soft drinks and candy
over the counter of the canteen to
hungary and thirsty troopers, was
not only gratified to get his money
back—he had offered a reward of
$20 but he had a stronger faith in
mankind.
Capt. Louis M. Gosorn, adjutant,
was told that the finder desired no
publicity. Capt. Gosorn, however,
felt a reward was in order.
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