Evening star., 1933-04-13
. ROOSEVELT GIVES
REFOREST CAMPS
DIRECTION TO ARMY
Reserve Officers Will Be
Called to Administer
Encampments.
DISTRICT CONTINGENT
EXPECTED TO HIT 800
Completion of D. C. Quota by
Tomorrow Seen-Enrollment
Throughout East Grows.

unemployment camps in the national
forests
The order called upon the Army to
take full charge of the discipline
within the camps and to call in emer-
gency officers, both line and medical,
to administer the camps. The forestry
work, itself, however, will be under
Service of the Department of Agri-
culture.
Training camps were filling rapidly
through the East today.
The Districts forestry army contin-
gent at the Fort Washington training
camp will number well over 300 be-
fore dark.
so in Line This Morning.
This is by far the biggest day yet at
the local Army recruiting station, with
about so prospective foresters continu-
ously in line this morning. Yesterday
afternoon SO men were sent to Fort
Washington and 26, some of them wait
ing in line before the recruiting station
opened today, were dispatched to the
training post this morning. 1t is ex-
pected that at least 100 more can be
added this afternoon to the 236 already
there.
Capt. James p. Wharton of the Army
recruiting service and his staff of en-
listed men were pushing to the limit to
handle the recruits today and to turn
away those who showed up without the
proper credentials from the District
Board of Public Welfare, through which
all must pass At this rate it may be
possible to fill the entire quota by to-
morrow, just week from the day re-
cruiting was started.
Officers at Fort Washington are work.
ing hard to get the men physically fit
to go into the woods and to segregate
among them tradesmen and those capa-
bic of handling executive jobs. The
drilling Is restricted to calesthenics, but,
under direction of Army non-coms, the
men are engaged about the Maryland
post at approximately the same kind of
when they go into the Virginia ma
tional forests
H. o. Stabler assistant regional for
ester of District Z, which includes all
the Eastern forests, was at Luray, Va,
today, accompanied by an Army repre-
sentative, to make final plans for the
establishment of the first camp in the
Massenutten Mountains. The site has
been selected by forest rangers with a
view to proper sanitation and the men
themselves will throw up the tents as
soon as they arrive
The first work will be camp con-
Struction, to be followed by road and
trail construction, detailed plans for
which are in readiness. For the present.
at least, the forest rangers already in
the George Washington Forest will
have charge of the work and there will
be no immediate addition to the force.
Approximately 200 to 800 Army SER
geants are to be assigned to the various
camps to assist the officers. Each camp
Will be in charge of one captain and
two neutenants Three medical officers
from the Organized Reserve personnel
will be assigned for each 1000 men.
Under the original program the For
est Service was to have full charge of
the camps, with the Labor Department
supervising recruiting of the unemployed
men in the various cities.
1t was explained at the headquar-
ters of Director Robert Fechner of
the Presidents emergency conservation
work that the Labor Department would
continue to supervise the recruiting of
the men and that the Army would re-
place the Forest Service in supervising
the personnel directly within the camp.
The reason given for the change was
that the Army has facilities to handle
such work.
Director Fechner and his advisory
board and War Department officials
were reported in conference at noon
today and full details of the Armys
part in the forestry program were ex-
pected to be drafted by the conferees.
Orders Sent Commanders.
Meantime orders to carry out the
new plans were Immediately dispatched
by radio to the Army Corps Area COM
manderS by Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
chief of staff. The orders read:
The corps area commanders will be
responsible for all matters incident to
command of units, the construction of
forestry camps and their supply, ad-
ministration, sanitation, medical care,
disqualification and welfare Actual
work projects, their technical planning
and execution will be under the i'm
mediate control, supervision and di-
rection of technical representatives of
other Federal departments No change
is contemplated in the method Of Sc
lecting, reconditioning and delivering
men
The strength of forestry camps will
in general approximate 200 men. The
details of general organization for COM
mand and supply will be determined by
you for your corps area, based upon the
VI lOCdltOll VI
to be furnished you at later date.
The forestry camps will be estab-
1ished under supervision of regular per-
sonneL The Regular officers may b.
replaced at your discretion by Reserve
officers and the enlisted men from the
personnel of the Civilian Conservation
Corps itself.
Reserve Officers Called.
You are authorized by direction oI
the President to call to active duty witt
their own consent and for the period o!
six months the following Organized Re-
serve personnel: For each 1000 of thu
Civilian Conservation Corps-viZ, ont
captain and two lieutenants; for eacl
forestry camp, three line officers-viz
one captain and two lieutenants
The locations of forestry camps art
being selected as rapidly as practicable
and a detailed list will be furnished a
the earliest opportunity so that you ma!
proceed with the preliminary reconnais
sance of sites and arrive at clear est!
mate Of the newly assigned mission.
"A liaison representative from othe
departments concerned will be asignet
to your headquarters at an early date.
Attempts to speed up enrolment o
the forest corps also were revived toda,
at Fechner's headquarters as report
from all the conditioning camps indi
Gated fewer than 10000 men had beel
received during the week since recruit
ang was begun.
Representatives of Western States VIII
will be in charge of enrolment in tha