The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-20
TRAINING CAMP FOR OFFICERS FOR NEW ARMY Details Have Been Received by Gov. Riggs Concern
 ing the Provisions
 of Same. FROM PROVOST MARSHAL Telegram Received Gives An Idea of What Is
 Necessary for the
 Recruits.
FROM PROVOST MARSHAL


 the Fourth officers training camp have been completed and this morn ing Gov Thomas Riggs, Jr.. received the following telegram giving full details of those to be admitted. Governors of all States:
 No. B 704.
 Paragraph one. The Adiutant General of the Army has completed arrangements for the Fourth off cers's training schools, to be estab- lished May 15, 1918.
 Paragraph two. The training schools are primarily established for training enlisted men, but cer- tain men within the draft age may be selected and permitted to enlist therein if they are: One, mem- bers of the Reserve Officers Train ing Corps Units who either will complete the senior course this present year or have completed one years course of same and since Jan uary l, 1917, have received not less than three hundred hours of military instruction under the su- pervision of an army officer; two graduates of educational institu- tions maintaining a course of mili- tary instruction under the super vision of duly detailed army of fcer, who has received not less than one years military training at same.
 Paragraph three. In order that registrants selected to attend may enlist and attend said Fourth Of ficers' Training schools, section one fifty one, s. s. R. has been amend. ed by adding the following para graph (g):
 "When any registrant who is se- lected to enlist in the Army and to attend the Fourth Officers Train ing Schools presents to his local board certificate signed by the professor of military science and tactics on duty at the educational institution which the registrant has been attending, or signed by the ex- exutive head of such institution, that such registrant has been se- lected to attend such Fourth Off cers' Training schools, the local board shall issue to such registrant a permit to enlist. Said permit shall contain as an integral part thereof a reference to section one tixteen, Selective Service Regula- tions and an admonition to such registrant that within five days af- ter the termination of his enlist ment either by expiration of the pe- riod of enlistment or by discharge from the Army, he shall, unless he has been commissioned in the Army report to his local board such ter imitation of enlisted status. Said certificate shall also contain. as an integral part thereof an order to such registrant that Immediately upon his being accepted by a com missioned officer of the Army. Up on the receipt of such certificate of enlistment, it shall be filed with tHe QucStiOuHdiIc anu thC iOaieei oh shall be placed i'm class five on the ground that he iS in the military service of the United States. In the interim between the issuing of the perfit by the local board and the receipt of the certificate of en- listment such registrant shall not be inducted into military service notwithstanding his order number may have been reached but unless such certificate of enlistmnet is re- ceived within twenty days after the issuing of the permit by the local board, said permit shall there by cease to operate and the regis trant shall be liable to be induct- ed as soon as his order number is reached or otherwise in due course"