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Show " ENHOLLMEHT BEGINS , FOR 1AI1G GIP Mining Engineer and Government Gov-ernment Employee First to Enter Names. OUTLOOK PROMISING "M Committees Will Meet Today To-day to Consider Plans for Preparedness Parade. ; The first actual enrollment for the citizens' citi-zens' training camp was begun, yesterday, Harry X. Kenney and John L. Segall being be-ing accepted for the service. Mr. Kenney, in his application, stated that he had done little military work ; that he is a native of Middletown, N. Y., and has attended Lafayette college and Columbia. He is now a mining engineer. Mr. Segall is a government employee. He is at present chief clerk in the United States reclamation service, with headquarters head-quarters at Frovo. He Is from Boston and has served a term, in the Seventy- 4.1 first regiment of the Virginia infantry Norfolk. He has heen in. government work for eleven years. More applications are to be considered. Committees to Meet. A meeting of the executive and recruiting recruit-ing committees of the camp is scheduled for 12:15 o'clock this afternoon at the Commercial club to consider ways and means of recruiting and to discuss plans for the big preparedness parade on June 3. Effort Is being made by Captain W. B. Wallace to engage the Interest of local business men In the parade. They have been asked to give their employees time off to enter the. procession. - Further encouragement for the training camp officials was received yesterday from Captain John Murphy, now in San Francisco. In a telegram to local training camp headquarters he said: f Army bill passed both houses of congress. Provides free rations and transportation to and from camps. The depoHit required will be reduced to $15. of which Jo will be returned in case there is no loss or damage to equipment. Printing bulletin announcing an-nouncing provisions of bill. You should have It by Saturday. Stimulates Enlistment. According to officials, this bill wilt stimulate enlistment for service and is pleasing to the citizens' training camps, in that it shows congress to indorse their plan of preparing the nation for possible war. Word was received yesterday by Captain Cap-tain W. B. Wallace from Sergeant A. A. Meyers of Logan, to the effect that sixty recruits had already been- gained for training in the cavalry division of the Utah national guard and that six more were expected today. The' cavalry auxiliary of the guard is not a part of the citizens' training camps system, but comes under the jurisdiction and Instruction Instruc-tion of the national guard. |