Evening star., 1918-06-02
Sad. c. MEN ARE
CALLED IN DRAFT
To Go Into Special Training
June Is, Provost Mar
shall Announces.
II ENTRAINED YESTERDAY

Calls for 574 selected men Of the Dis
trict to. go into special training June 15
were made by Provost Marshal General
Crowder yesterday.
June Is is to see 2oe white grammar
school graduates sent to the COM
manding officer at the Bliss Electrical
School at Takoma Park for instruc-
tion in electricity: These men must
military service. This military train
ing school will be the second such
school for drafted men to be estab-
lished in the District OF Columbia. the
other at the Howard University.
ing special instruction. now being In
full operation.
Will Go to Greensboro.
June Is also will see 2ss colored
from the District for Greensboro. N.
c., where they are to report to the
commanding officer of the Negro Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College Of
North Carolina for special instruction
in automobile driving. tractor oper-
ating, truck driving. carpentry, etc.
ence along mechanical lines and show
some aptitude for mechanical work.
White registrants with the neces-
sary qualifications may volunteer for
the special call for men to go into
training at Takoma Park until June z.
after which the quota will be COM
pleted by selection. Colored regis
tions, may volunteer until the same
date for the Greensboro call.
The men selected for the Takoma
Park and Greensboro training schools
will receive q course OF training at
the government expense fitting them
| to serve in Army positions incident
to many kinds Of military service.
both at the front and behind the
lines" Provost Marshal General Crow
der pointed out, in issuing the call
today.
Chance for Ambitious Men.
"The men taking these courses will
receive thorough instruction which will
be of great personal value in working
their way ahead, both in tho Army and
in civil life" says the provost marshal
These are exceptional opportunities for
energetic. ambitious men"
be offered this month to local regis
| trants. District men may volunteer for
| work in connection with spruce produc-
tion for airplanes. under call issued
yesterday. but with no particular states
designated at that time.
These men are to be men qualified for
| limited military service.
Registrants may volunteer for this
| service until June z. following which
! the local draft headquarters will re-
port the number of enlistments to the
Office Of the provost marshal general
which will then make definite allot-
ments.
Technically qualified registrants
may present themselves to their local
boards for listing. Among tho mer
veyors, steam shovel operators, car.
| penters and many others.
Seventeen Men Entrained.
Seventeen men were entrained from
| the District yesterday on the first
call of the month, made several weeks
ago. The men. skilled in various
lines, were as follows:
To the commanding officer. en-
gineers. Camp Meade, Md.-William
Linsford Dawson. 4s II street north
east; Robert Shepherd Mead, Pullman
Company, Washington, D. c.: Ryland
Lee Joyner. s15 P street northwest:
E street southeast: John Marshall
Henry Ashby Weaver. 631 East Capt.
toll street: Joe Marshall. sos Sd street
northeast: Albert Lee Litton. 21o c
street northwest; William Louis
Stevens, 1916 W street northwest:
James Bruce Simpson, 22S A street
! southeast: James Eldridge Lowry, 707
e street northeast: Elmer Harry
mond F. Mickum, 1908 New Hamp-
shire avenue northwest; Howard
Crawford Currtn. 2304 18th street
northwest; Ollie +. Stanford, Alexan-
dria, Va.
ary corps, Camp Lee, va-Charles
label Robinson, 222 C street north
west: DR.. Milton Alfred Bosley, 404
I'd street northwest.