Evening star., 1933-04-06
PICKS LOCAL MEN
F0RREFORESTA ARMY
District Welfare Board Head
Begins Choosing 500 for
Civilian Corps.
Continued From First Page.)

Will lOuT 1OVeTLulellL OepdI tulentS
speeding preparations in a bustling
atmosphere reminiscent of wartime eff
forts to carry out the Presidents
attack on unemployment.
At the White House, orders were
issued for the War Department to be
ready for the first movement of men
immediately. but it was learned at the
Labor Department that the first re-
cruits will not enter the conditioning
camps until tomorrow or Saturday.
Allotment of the STSt $4,000 men
from IT cities in the Eastern half of
the Nation was complsted yesterday.
Others will be chosen in additional
cities before the end of the week, and
the President hopes to have 250, 900
men at work before July l.
Wherever recruiting stations are set |
up, the Labor Department announced.
Elections will be made by established /
StGIe or city relief administrations,
whl7h are actively assisting those known |
TO be most in need of work.
Each State to Have Quota.
There will be registration of appli- |
cants at public places. as was at first
planned, only in the event all the
jobless young men on the eligible lists
compiled by the various relief agencies
have been taken care of. In this
case each State will be given a quota
based on population.
In addition to the work in the forests |
projects on State and private lands
are contemplated. This phase of the
plans were to be discussed today at a
conference between State foresters and
Maj. r. Y. Stuart, had Of the Forest
Service
The military camps In which the men
will be trained are being chosen by
Army corps area commanders, with q
view TO being convenient both to the
places from which the recruits come
and the location of the projects on
which they will be put to work.
After two weeks in the military CEN
ters, the recruits will be sent to the |
tented camps in national forests and |
parks. They will work a maximum of
40 hours (five days. a week on the |
various projects involved in conserva-
ton work
The second selection of men will be |
begun before the end of the week |
From 25,000 to $4,000 men will be !
taken at frequent intervals.
First Group to, Go South.
Forests in the South and East win |
receive the first men, Southern forests |
being favored because of warmer |
weather.
In addition to the Virginia camp
other sites selected include:
One near Marionville, one near Kane |
and another near Sheffield, all in the
Allegheny National Forest in Pennsyl-
vania.
Three camps in Monongahela Ma
tional Forest of West Virginia.
One camp near Waynesboro, one near
Buena Vista and one near Snowden,
all in the Natural Bridge National For
est Of Virginia.
Two in Unaka National Forest in
Tennessee and Southwest Virginia
Four in Pisgah National Forest, all
in North Carolina, with headquarters
to be at Asheville.
Four camps in Nantahala National
Forest, two Of them in North Carolina,
one near Walhalla, S. c. and one near
Clayton, Ga
Three in Cherokee Forest in Tennes-
see and Georgia. The Georgia camp
will be north Of Dahlonega, where the
first placer gold mining in the United
States was undertaken
One camp near Moulton, Ala, in the
Alabama National Forest.
Two Camps in Florida.
Two camps in Florida near Lake
City In the Osceola National Forest;
one near Ocala, Fla, in the Chocta-
whatchee National Forest; one near
Crestview, Fla, and one near Milton,
Fla.
One camp in the Ouachita National
Forest in Arkansas, near Eagleton.
One camp near Page. Okla; one near
Ally, Ark, and one near Crystal Springs.
Ark. Two other Arkansas camps will
be located, one near Mena and the
other adjacent to Slatington.
Also in Arkansas in the Ozark Ma
tional Forest will be situated. one near
Mountain View, one near Dover and
one near CaSs.
Three camps will be set up in the
White Mountains, two in New Hamp-
shire and one in Maine
A camp in the Green Mountains will
be set up near South Londonderry, VT
The quotas of the first movement
follow: New York City. 1900: Buffalo,
500; Chicago 4.0O0 Philadelphia, 5000;
Pittsburgh, 900; Detroit. 2,lOO: Cleve-
land, 1000; Cincinnati. 500: St. Louis,
goo; Kansas City. 400; Boston, 900;
Milwaukee, 600; Minneapolis and ST.
Paul, 900. and Newark, 500.
J*o Weeks to Arrange Work.
Because of the time the men will
be in conditioning camps under Army
direction, the forest service and other
groups have nearly two weeks to ar
range their projects.
Possibly one of the first projects
will be directed toward forestation and
Hood control in Ohio developed yester-
day. A group of Ohioans, headed by
State Forester Secrest, talked with
Robert Fechner, appointed by the Presi-
dent to coordinate the program. The
OhioanS said afterward they were con-
hdent thair project, carrying forward of
the Muskingum watershed c0nservancy
plan, will receive prior status. J.
The group. including w. A. Julian of
Cincinnati, President Wilkin of the
-Tuscarawas Association, ac-
companied by President william Green
Of the American Federation of Labor,
proposed that 10000 men be put to
work ON the project: which would in
clude foreStation work and construction
of check-dams in a large section of
the State. Plans now are ready for
preliminary construction, they told
Fechner
Thousands of projects, including
erosion control and the combating of
forestry disease, are ready in every ether
national forest, particularly In the
West. where mcSt Of the 16l 900, 600
acres of national forest area is located.
The exact amount of funds which
VIII Oc IlidQc dVdlldDlc HAS not Deen .
In an executive order
establishing Fechner'S authority to CO.
ordinate functions of the War, Agricul-
ture, Interior and Labor Departments.
the President ordered the transfer, of ;
$40 600 600 in unobligated construction
funds to meet the initial expenses.
Explains Cities Quotas.
In a statement from the White !
lot, l
the II cities supplying the first con-
tingent were fixed because existing en-
rollment facilities could be used i'm
mediately.
''As soon as possible. the enrolment
will be extended to the smaller COM
the statement said adding /
enrolment in cities and communities ,