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Show ADD 1 5.0G0 MEN TO FORGES FOR DUTfpiRB 45,000 Now Available for Use in Protection of Industries In-dustries in United States. TEN MORE STATES j AFFECTED BY CALL War Department Halts the Mustering Out of Troops Used on the Mexican Mexi-can Border. WASHINGTON, March 27. Nearly 15,000 men were added today to the national guard force available for federal fed-eral police duty by a warj department order suspending the master out of all guard organizations still in the federal service. With the men called out during dur-ing the past few days, this gives the government upward of 45,000 guardsmen guards-men for employment in their home states to protect industries aud other property. Most of the men affected by today's order are at their home mobilization camps, preparing to return to civilian life after long stays on the Mexican border. They now will be held at their camps or armories for assignment as conditions require. In all, about 18,000 men are retained by the order, but several of the units already al-ready had been designated for federal service. The full list follows: Arizona First infantry. New Mexico First infantry, battery bat-tery A. Alabama First, Second and Fourth infantry, First regiment cavalry, one field hospital. Colorado Called. Colorado One field hospital, one signal sig-nal corps company, three troops cavalry. cav-alry. Georgia First, Second and Fifth infantry, in-fantry, Second squadron and troop A cavalry, one field hospital. Kentucky First infantry, company B signal corps, ambulance company No. 1. Ohio First battalion signal corps, First, Second and Third field hospital, First and Second ambulance companies, First battalion field artillery, First battalion bat-talion and company B engineers. North Carolina Second infantry, troops A and B cavalry, companies A and B engineers. - Texas Fart of Fourth infantry. Virginia First squadron cavalry. Meet Emergency. Another announcement made today was that the federal reserve board had ordered army vouchers accepted by federal fed-eral reserve'banks as negotiable paper. The action was taken to meet the emergency emer-gency presented by the failure of the last congress to pass the army appropriation appro-priation bill and the deficiency bills to cover border mobilization -expenses. Probablv the total amount of business the war department must do on credit will pass $50,000,000 before appropriations appropria-tions become available. This burden was found too heavy for contractors to carry unaided. As originally given out at the war department, de-partment, the list of troops retained In federal service contained a number of units which already had Deen mustered out. Department officials explained to-ntght to-ntght that reports ot the completion of the mustering out formalities had been late in reaching them. Troops discharged from federal service as late as today included in-cluded the Third North Carolina and First Mississippi infantry, which thus escape es-cape further federal duty until another formal call Is Issued. Today's order will not affect any troops mustered out before be-fore instructions to hold them arrived. |