The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-10-06
ARMY GIVES UP
IS PROPERTIES
Cantonments, Flying Fields
Depots, and Gun Plants
To Be Abandoned.

Washington, Sept. 30-Fifty-
eight army environments, flying fields
and depots have bien eliminated
from the lists of military posts adj
ministered by the War Department.
Troops have been moved from them
to permanent stations and the prop
critics soon will be either sold at
public auctions or turned over under
revocable licenses to States which
have applied for them for use Of
the National Guard.
Closing of the various stations, the
War Department announced today,
was decided upon as a necessary step
in the reorganization of the army
and the reduction Of its enlisted
strength to 1875. 900 enlisted men. It
also was explained that. in many in
stances. the buildings and temporary
quarters which were occupied by
troops during the war have d;terior-
ated to point where their mainten-
ance is now prohibitive from stand
point of economy.
Cantonments to be leased to States
for use of the National Guard in
clude Campo Pike, Ark; Camp Lee.
Va; Camp Jackson, S. c.: Camp
Grant. H.; Camp Dodge, Iowa and
Camp Funston, Kan; Camp Kear-
ney. Calf, and Sherman. Ohio, al
ready have been turned over to the
Veterans Bureau.
Sell Gun Plants.
The programme of the department
also calls for the abandonment OF
Forts Dade and De Soto, Fla, Camp
shannon. n. NJ, and Camp Hidalgo.
Texas. Fort Apache, Ariz. will be
transferred to the Interior Depart
ment
Quartermaster Depots to be aban-
donsd. include Atlanta. Ca, Seattle,
Wash. Except one covered pier).
Omaha. Neb.; New Orleans Except
for reserve supplies), Port Newark,
N. j.. Norfolk. Va. (7.200 railway
cars sold to Poland to be removed in
twelve months,) Boston, Mass. Pitts
burgh. Penn, and the Hawthorne
race track, Illinois.
Ordnance plants 20 be sold are the
Erie. Penn, howitzer plant. the
Rochester, N. Y. gun plant and the
Chicago Storage Depot, while the fol-
lowing reserve ammunition depots
will be abandoned and $4,000 tons
of material salvaged; Morgan. N. j.;
Seven Pines. Va; Antol. N. j.; Tully-
town, Penn; Toledo, Ohio; Wood
berry, N. j.; Penniman. Va; Sparta.
Wis. Ito be used by Agricultural De-
partment in preparation of explosives
for highway work for probably six
months); Middletown. Penn. (trans-
ferred to air service.)
Keep Camp Knox.
Air S.rvice plants at Chapman
Field, Miami, Fla; Love Field, Dali
las. Texas; Americas Depot. Ca;
Long Island Depot, N. Y; Richmond
Depot. Va; and the CARTS Elmwood
plant New York, will be sold. The
following air fields will be retained
with care-taking detachms nts only;
Fairfield, Tenn; Carlstrom Field,
Fla; Dorr Field, Fla; Southern
Field, Ga; Ross Field. Calf; Filing
ton Field, Texas. and Montgomery
Depot, Ala.
or the great wartime environments,
those to BE- retained under caretakers
as corps area training camps with
only nonperishable supplies on hand
are Mcclellan, Ala; Devens, Mass;
Dix, N. j.; Meade. Nd; Lewis,
Wash; Knox. KY; and Custer, Mich.
"1t is not contemplated to expend
funds on the buildings Eat the above
named cantonments) retained but to
make use of them as long as possible
In ordar m Heava tanap 90 " the deDart-