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Show NLRIBEB GALLS ! FOR SI, 600 MEW IN JR ARMY Provost Marshal Summons Draftees of 24 States and Columbia for General Gen-eral Service. MOVEMENT EXTENDS OVER TWO PERIODS First Is May 20-24 and Second Sec-ond May 20-June 2; To Be Sent Where Facilities Allow. WASHINGTON, May 14. Twenty-four Twenty-four states and "the District of Columbia Colum-bia were called upon tonight by Provost Pro-vost Marshal General Crowder to furnish fur-nish for the national array 51,600 more men qualified for general military service. serv-ice. Movement of drafted men to the camps under this call is to extend over two periods, from May 20 to 24, and from May 29 to Juue 2. These dates were fixed because during the five days, beginning May 25, approximately approximate-ly 233,000 men called for recently will lie moving to the camps. Tonight's call marks further development develop-ment of the government's plans for hastening men to France and replacing them as rapidly as they vacate the training centers. In all, 284,600 draftees will be journeying from their homes to military camps between May 20 and June 2. Including numerous calls for technical and specially quali-, quali-, fieri men, the total number summoned during May is something like 366,600, nearly half of the 800,000 expected to be called this year. While officials did not explain why only half the states were asked to furnish fur-nish men at this time, it is understood that the sections to be drawn upon were arrived at through consideration of the proportion of quotas already called in some cases and of the location of vacated va-cated training camps. The camps selected for the registrants regis-trants affected by tonight's order arc not all national army camps, showing that men aro to be sent wherever room n3.)e found for them. In several in-ices in-ices men from certain states are ordered to go to camps to which men from their states are not usually as-yjsignod. as-yjsignod. fTho western states drawn upon and A Sellouts assigned them are as follows: TrV the movement from May 20 to i May 24: California, 1600 to Fort McDowell, i ,Cal- , : Colorado, 1500 to Fort Logan, Colo. ' District of Columbia, 300 to Fort A 'Oglethorpe, Ga. Illinois, 5500 to Jefferson barracks, -Mo. Oklahoma, 1000 to Jackson barracks, )H La.; 1300 to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. ' Washington, 250 to Vancouver bar-Ill bar-Ill Tacks, Wash. For the movement from May 29 to June 2: " Illinois, 5500 to Jefferson barracks, M Mo.; 4000 to Fort. Thomas. Ky. Kansas, 1000 to Fort Logan, Colo. New Mexico, 500 to Fort Sam Houston, Hous-ton, Texas. !:: Oklahoma, 1000 to Jackson barracks, , Oregon, 1500 to Fort McDowell, Cal. Texas, 800, to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Washington, 250 to Vancouver bar-racks, bar-racks, Wash. Wyoming, 500 to Fort Logan, Colo. |