Evening star., 1918-07-23
1850 D. C. COlORED
MEN!cALLED0UT
To Be Sent TO Training
Camps the First Week
In August.

Provost Marshal General Crowder
today called upon the District Of Co
lumbia for 1.o5o colored registrants
to be sent to camps during the first
dvs days Of August. Ono Thousand
men, constituting the largest single
call ever made upon the National Cap
ital for the National Army, are to be
sent to Camp SEWER. Greenville. 9. G..
during the five-day period August
to s. The remaining lfty men are to
be sent to Camp Wheeler. Macon. Ca
during the same period.
Today's call upon the District, part
Of a call for 50,395 colored men quail
lied for general military service made
avowed intention of the ohice OF the
provost marshal to call all colored
men of the 1917 registration in class
before touching any Of the regis
trants Of 1913.
About All Co1ored Registrants.
The big thousand-man call probably
will take all the eolored men OF the
1917 registratoin In. class / in the
draft here. There are at present no
statistics available showing the num-
Dor OF GLASS; ucHs cilHot WhtS VI
colored, left to the eleven local
boards.
July calls will deplete white regis
trants in class l OF the 1917 registra-
tion in the District. 1t has been prac-
tically assured for some time now
that the August calls upon the Ma
tionaI Capital must necessarily be
it is expected that all the larger calls
upon Washington during the coming
month will be for the colored men.
Owing to the large colored popula-
tion in the District, the situation
here almost parallels conditions In
for divisions No. l, Q, 3, 4 and all
have large colored registrations, and
1t is expected that these boards will
have to bear the brunt of the large
calls for coloyed men. which began
today with the call for more than
1000 men.
To Clean Out Glass 1.
Glass l men who registered in 1917
must all be taken before a single
twenty-one-year-old man who regis
tered June, 1918, and who will be
placed in class l. can be called for
military service.
class one in Washington, then we
can't take them. that's ALL" an officer
of the provost marshal generals Of
fee said recently. This statement was
borne out by the big call made today
upon the District for colored men.
Entrainment of 1000 men as one
group being practically impossible. it
Is probable that the men who will go
to Camp Sewer will be sent In de-
tachments each morning during the
entrainment period August l to 5.
Nearly 400 colored men were sent to
Camp Meade from the District last
week. These. added to the 1.050 to be
sent the first nve days OF August. make
a number nearly half again as large as
the entire number Of white and colored
registrants who were sent to Meade In
the first draft" of last September.
45e Going to Camp Meade.
Thursday morning 45s white regis
trants will be entrained at Union station
for Camp Meade. Two hundred and six
ty-eight white registrants win be sent
August I to the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute: 100 white men to the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute August Is, and
fifty white men to Camp 6helby, August
S to 8.
In addition there is the mysterious
call" for fifty white regtstrants from
the District, qualified for special or
limited military service. who are to
be sent to Syracuse, N Y, during the
period between July 20 and August 2.
1t seems likely that these men will
be entrained in July, to get them out
of the way of the big entertainments
scheduled during the first days of
August.
This call is regarded as ''mysteri-
Gus" owing to the fact that no an
nouncement has been made from an
official source as to Just what these
limited service men are wanted for.
1t was stated at the provost marshal
Generals office that they will be
"sorted out" after they reach Syra-
cuse.