The Nevada County picayune., 1921-07-28
CAMP PIKE TO
 BE ABANDONED
First And Second Divisions Will Re main at San AntOniO--Third Moved From Little Rock.

the United States army to peace time strength of 15O.OOO men will be ac- complished by July 31. in accordance with the decision of congress when it refused to appropriate funds for pay of a greater force after October 1. With the reducton, Secretary Weeks announced today. there would be gnreal redistribution of troops, practi- cal abandonment of seven of the great wartime army cantonments. placing of many organizations on the inactive list and skeltonization of others into materially reduced strength.
 The cantOnments to be abandoned "at the earliest practicable date as an nounced by Secretary Weeks. are Camp Devons Mass: Sherman, Ohio: Pike, Arkansas Grant Illinois, Jackson, $, c: Meade. Maryland, except for small detachment. and Bragg. N. C. Those to be retained under the plans of reorganization are Dix. N. J., Travis Texas: Lewis. Washington. and Knox, Kentucky.
 The war secretary said it was his plan eventually to remove all troops from the cantonments to be vacated and to salvage the greater part of the buildings. It was not his purpose, he sa:d. to sell the land but to retain it as well as the utilities and improvements such as store houses. water system and railroad tracks He said these conld be if future approprations per mitted an expansion of the citizens military training camps,
 There was considerable surprise among army officers when IT was .found that the enlisted strength would he reduced to the one hundred ana fifty thousand mark by July 31 Only few had believed it possible fhef me men would resign under secretary Weeks order in numbers sufhc'n'lS large to effect the reduction from ap- nroximatelv two hundred thousand men in June to the smaller figure pe- fore winter.
 Corps areas and divisional eommah- ders have been ordered hy the war oe- na artment. Secretary Weeks sald to p'e-
 .o Cor the the redistribution or troops made necessary by the reo"' +io, in the enlisted strength or the rnv Actual changes of station how eve~. will be postponed until s"ppie-
 onta, instructions are issued by the department.
 rnaer the order the First and See ond divisions will remain at camp r,.o,ic Texas. selected as permanent co ntonment. while the Third diNiS'oh s+o tioned at Camp Pike. Ark, will ne moved to Camp Lewis, Wash.
 ucadouarters of the Tenth origao' o+ Comn Jackson. s. C. will he trans forrod to Jefferson Barracks, Mo
 The Tenth infantry training corps ,.oo;ment at Camp sherman ana ''' ,,nhns Barracks will go to camp nn"N' Kv the Eleventh infantry at 'anp 1oolson to Fort Thomas. Ky, eN"ep' for one battalion which goes to 'o'"'" hus Barracks and two compa''es 'o Fort Benjamin Harrison
 The Sixth division at camp '''"t,
 ,,;,, he reduced to brigade anu stationed partly at Jefferson har'a'N'' Mo. tho ,.ootive list and for which parent o'-
 .,;uo+;ons are designated. include the ,r.i rtvs second. Thirty-sixth. ihir's' aorenth Thirtyninth. Fortieth, Forty t;rst Forty fourth. Forty-sixth' for.s .ororth Forty4eighth, Forty -hin'h' p;ft;eth Fifty-first Fifty-seeond' fli's f;fth Fifty-sixth sixtieth' sixty-irs' s,..tn socond and sixty-third regiments
 cavalry units placed on the inac'''e ,ist and for which parent organiza'io,,' are designated include the sixteen'h
 o,rv at Fort Sam Houston ioi ,rhicb the Fourth at BrownsViiie ID more the parent.
 Field artillery units placed on 'he inactive lis include the Ninth at ro'' cu the Fourteenth at Fort siii, the