Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
c. NJ. 7. c. CAMPAIGN
TO Be OPENED SOON
1880 Young Men OF District
Maryland and Virginia
to Be Enlisted.

Activity has begun toward the en-
listment of the 1880 young men Of
washington. Maryland and Virginia
whom the Third Corps Area headqHar.
ters expect to attend Citizens, Military
Training Camps this, Summer, and
within few weeks an intensive pro-
clireme11t campaign will be inaugurated.
The majority of the candidates this
year will 60 to Fort Eustis, Va, where
they win fraternize with students from
seven counties of Pennsylvania. Fort
EuStis Ii by far the largest C. NJ. T..
Camp In the corps area, arrangements
having been made for the accommoda-
ton of 1900 young men. Here will be
sent all the basic and Infantry course
candidates form the District of Column
bia, Maryland, Virginia and the fol.
lowing Pennsylvania counties: Adams,
Cumberland, Dauphin. Franklin, Lam
caster, Lebanon and York
Fort Hoyle, Nd, will be the scene Of
training for all Field Artillery students
from the District Of Columbia. Mary
land: Virginia and Pennsylvania, while
Fort Monroe, va. has been designated
for the, Coast Artillery students from
the same territory and Fort Myer, Va,
for the Cavalry. These same arrange
ne1ts were in erect last year and
proved highly satisfactory.
Signal Corps to Meade. 2
There win be q change. however, in
the training Of basic red, white and
past all signal instruction has been at
Fort Monmouth, N. j.. This year the
students viii be sent to Fort George @.
Meade. Md, where plans have been
made to accommodate 200,
Differing also from the plan Of last
year win be the time of training. All
candidates will go to camp at the same
time, July 3. They will entrain for
home July,31.
Quotas have been allotted the vari-
Gus States and counties in the corps
area. The Districts apportionmeIlt has
been set at 206 candidates, although
the district Of Washington, which in
cludes the District of Columbia, Mont
gomery. Prince Georges, Charles and st.
MaryS Counties, Maryland, and Arling-
ton, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince VIII
liam Counties. Virginia, will be allowed
to send BOT young men to the camps.
The quota of the State of Virginia has
been set at 997 and that of Maryland
at 646.
1t has been made plain, however, by
corps area headquarters that where
procurement of specific apportionment
has been realized, the procurement cam
paign will not cease until such ces-
sation is ordered. This order is the
result of the desire to have 4,500 or
more candidates in camps even though
one particular district does not send its
entire quota.
Washington Committee.
In each district there Is civilian
committee in charge of the procurement
of candidates. Charles Demonet, 1880
Connecticut avenue, Is the Washing
ton chairman. His committeeman in
clude James G. Boyer Walter c. Gle
phane, Wallace M. Craieie, isaac Cans,
E. P. Van Hise, Altus @. Moore, John
j. Payette, Robert L. Pritchard, Charles
Riemer, Andrew j. Schwartz, John E
Shoemaker and Howard z. Snyder.
William Green, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, is civilian
aide to the Secretary Of War for the
District OF Columbia during the cam
gaisn, while Col Melville s. Jarvis, U.
8. A., senior instructor OF the local
organized Reserves, Is the regular Of
ficer assigned to the work.
Fort Eustis, where most of Washing
toms candidates will receive their train
ing. Ia situated on the famous PENN
sular, between the James and York
Rivers, Is miles from Newport. News
and 8 miles from Yorktown. James
town, the first English settlement In
America, is but II miles distant.
The site Of the fort was selected dur
ing the World War for heavy mobile
and railway artillery practice and train
ing station for troops to be sent abroad
This waA the largest railway artillery
post In the United states Army. II was
named for Gen. Abraham Eustis OF the
War of 1910