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Show MIIIS IS flAIQ y TO IBM POST Attorney Is Called to Head Final Campaign for Training Train-ing Camp. I SEVENTEEN ENROLLED A j Scheid Telegraphs Assurance Assur-ance to Officer in Charge ! at San Francisco. ! S. A. Maginnis yesterday became the executive head of tho final campaign t just started for the citizens' military j training camp and for the next two weeks will devote his entire time to the j promotion of the movement. Mr. Ma- j ginnis will this morning open offices in the Felt building store, donated by O. J. Salisbury. There information and lit-erature lit-erature relative to the camp and its progress can be had at any hour of the dav, and from there the committeemen will radiate to all points of the stat , and the intermountain region, with thrN expectation of reaching more than the re- Xj quired 500 enlistments by July 15. Yesterday's seventeen enlistments, the best days' record since the national guard was mobilized, was taken at tho local headquarters to be the first flood in the avalanche of applications expected expect-ed to pour into the office during the next few davs. Arrangements are being be-ing completed to send delegations of local lo-cal training camp enthusiasts to those cities of the intermountain region where the recruiting has not come up to expectations. ex-pectations. It is probable that a successful effort will be made to raise an individual com-panv com-panv of men at Ogden, and it is not unlikely that some of the cities in outside out-side states will combine to form companies com-panies from their localities. Appropriation Helps. With practically all doubt set aside concerning the cost of the camp to recruits re-cruits by the passage of the appropriation appropria-tion bill by the house, and itB favorable recommendation by the aenate committee, commit-tee, it is expected that many from points distant from Salt Lake will view the camp in a more favorable light. The subsidence of intense Interest in the national guard of the intermountain states Is expected to result in a renewed enthusiasm for preparedness as made possible by the training: camps. With the help of the local spellbinders who will be sent to the various points, the commit tee feels sure that generous representations representa-tions will be secured for the training camp. To assure the headquarters of the western west-ern division of the army, under whose auspices the Fort Douglas camp will be held, the following telegram was ient last night by City Commissioner Karl A. Scheid, newty chosen chairman of the general committee, to the officer In charge of the camp at San Francisco: Abbott Maginnis. prominent local attorney, has been named managing director of the local training camp. , Main street quarters have been se- j cured and a whirlwind campaign now Is under way, with a view to enroll- " ing 500 at least by July 15. Watch ( our smoke. "We approve recommendation recommenda-tion of Major Wallace that Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Santschi be appointed government govern-ment representative exercising supervisory super-visory charge over the camp. Seventeen Enrolled. In reply to a telegram from George A. Smith, general attorney for the Oregon Short Line and chairman of that railroad's rail-road's recruiting committee, notice was received yesterday from E. E. Calvin, newly elected president of the Union Pacific, that officers and employees of the Wyoming branch of the railroad will be allowed to attend the training c;mp. It is assumed that the same conditions of salary and position assurance will apply ap-ply to this division as that now in force for the Oregon Short Line men who have already enlisted. It Is believed that between be-tween twenty and thirty Wyoming enlistments en-listments will come from the railroad men. Notable among yesterday's enlistments were the two from Ely, Nev. These bring the Nevada town's total to sixteen, the biggest yet In proportion to population. popula-tion. James S. Bennett, manager of the White Pine Telephone company, Is the Ely recruiting officer and promoter who is largely responsible for this showing. Geographically, yesterday's enlistments show more diversity than those of any day so far. The variety of occupations represented is also notable The new recruits re-cruits are: Pete Norregard, rancher of Ely, Nev.; William Biggane. assistant cashier of the First National bank of EIv; Harold B. Daggett, civil engineerof Delia, Utah; Charles S. Shepherd, Oregon Ore-gon Short Line agent at Pocatello; Russell Rus-sell H. Bonnell, lumber yard foreman, and Alma Allsop, automobile mechanic, of Grace, Idaho; Harry T. Chase, superintendent super-intendent of traffic for the Utah Light & Traction company; J. C. Waite, public accountant; James P. Waite. public ac- j countant; S. L. Sorenson, stenographer 1 with the t'tah-Idaho Sugar company; JL William B. WalMs. bookkeeper, and Clar- FV ence A. Hurler clerk, with the Consoli- jj dated Wagon & Machine company; Roy H. Craddock, clerk, and George J. Car- f ter, street department Inspector, among city employees; William T. Igleheart, re- , porter for The Salt Lake Tribune. J |