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Show ARMY QUOTA OF VACANCIES ANNOUNCE D SALT LAKE CITY, May 3 Colonel B. E. Grey, chief of the army recruiting headquarters in the Ness building, Salt Lake ' City, announced today he had received the new quota of army vacancies to be filled by enlistment enlist-ment during the month of May. This enlistment quota to Colonel Grey was in the form of a special spe-cial letter from the Ninth Corps Area headquarters at San Francisco Fran-cisco in which he was also given authority to make enlistments for the various military organizations at Fort Douglas, Utah, in excess of their authorized recruiting strengths. This measure, Colonel Grey states, is being taken in anticipation of the air corps expansion ex-pansion program which becomes effective on July 1, 1939. While enlistments for the air corps were not authorized in the May quota, the list includes practically prac-tically every major army organization organi-zation in the Pacific coast and intermountain states. The list includes in-cludes vacancies in the infantry, engineer, field artillery and coast artillery f both harbor defense and anti-aircraft) regiments stationed station-ed at Fort Douglas, Utah; Fort Lewis, Vancouver Barracks and Fort George Wright, Washington; Fort Missoula, Montana; and Fort Winfield Scott, California. Despite the absence of practically prac-tically the entire military garrison garri-son at Fort Douglas, Utah, on maneuvers at Fort Lewis, Washington, Wash-ington, Colonel Grey states he will continue to actively recruit for that station to assure a full-strength full-strength garrison by July 1. Application Ap-plication for enlistment should be made at the U. S. army recruiting re-cruiting office, 223 Ness building. build-ing. Salt Lake City, or may fc'e made at one of the branch offices of-fices located in Richfield and Ogden, Utah, and in Twin Falls, Idaho Falls, and Pocatello, Idaho. |