Evening star., 1933-06-11
|275,ODD EXPECTED
IN c. c. c. BY JULY |.
Army Is Pushing Program
and 1000 Have A.
ready Been Enrolled.

BY July / it is planned TO have
275,000 men of the Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps under canvas in conservation
camps throughout the nine corps areas
and the Army is working day and night
to make sure that the program Is car
ried out as scheduled. OF this number,
235.o0o had been enrolled up to mid
night of Friday.
These men are being sent out OF con-
ditioning camps at the rate of 1000 a
day and railroad yards are humning
with activities approaching wartime
mobilization. Fffty-three trains loaded
with $4,000 men were dispatched to the
Pacific Coast from the East in five days
this month.
The assembling of the personnel In
the far scattered camps. 1t is said, Is
only one phase of the stupendous task
that faces the Army. Even more COM
plicated is the assemblage Of camp and
work equipment.
No longer are complaints heard in
the Army about the task imposed upon
1t by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
At first it was regarded as white
elephant" dumped upon their hands.
Now the commissioned personnel, par
ticularly, look on the administration
forestry program as their salvation and
with evident good reason.
Knocked Economy Plans.
More than anything else, the Civilian
Conservation Corps program knocked
the Administrators economy plans for.
the Army into a cooked hat. BY the
heavy drain it has made upon the serv-
ices OF commissioned officers, the plan
to furlough at least 1000 commissioned
officers and some $4,000 enlisted men,
as one way Of reducing expenses. has
been dropped. Without the additional
work entailed by the forestry program,
the Army realizes it might have been
unable to prevent the furloughing of
1000 or more officers.
The selection of veterans for the
Civilian Conservation Corps will be
made June IL to Is by the Veterans
Administration. The enrolment of
these $4,000 veterans, of whom per
cent may be Spanish War veterans, will
begin June 20. The $500 veterans as
signed as the quota for the Sd Corps
Area will be employed on the Winooski
River, Vermont
Total Strength to Be 301,575.
The total strength of the Civilian
Conservation Corps, when filled, will be
301,575 men. Included among these
will be 34,375 experienced foresters and
other civilian workers, these being en-
rolled with the 1000 unmarried men
of ages between 10 and Is with depend
ents. In addition, there will be $4,000
Indians, coming under the Indian
Reservations; 1900 members of the
bonus expeditionary force and the u.s.
600 veterans
BY midnight of last Monday 1000
men were enrolled in the G. G. c., Of
which number 5000 were in 514 con-
servation camps and $4,000 were in
conditioning camps.
To handle this army, much larger
than the Regular Army itself, $50 ad-
ditional officers have been placed on
duty exclusively with the C. c. G.
within the last week or so, making
total Of 4,230 officers. Most of the i'm
portant posts of the country have been
stripped of all available officers and
men for service with the camps. As
firmly against any sharp economy cuts.
Practically all the r. o. T. G. training
camps for college youths have been
abandoned for this Summer, due to the
drain on training personnel In the vari-
Gus corps areas. Particularly is this
so in the Sd Corps Area which en-
braces the District of Columbia, Mary
land, Virginia, Pennsylvania. No r. O.
T. G. camps will be held within this
area at all this Summer.
Navy and Marine Officers Called.
In addition to Army Regular and
Reserve officers detailed to duty with
the C. G. c., President Roosevelt, by
executive order has called out 800 Navy
line and Marine Corps officers. Eighty
of these are to be Marines.
Testifying to the thorough job which
the Army Medical Corps is doing, only
one death has been reported at G. c. G.
camps. Maj. Gen. Edward L. King,
commanding the 4th Corps Area, re-
ported on the excellent health condi-
tions by saying that if nothing else was
accomplished by the forestation pro-
gram, it would still be an ample return
on expenditures to turn out 275,000
strong, healthy citizens in place of the
275 600 underfed and poorly nourished
men now being taken into the camps.