Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-09-16 | Page 3 | National Guard Units Mobilize

NATIONAL GUARD j s UNITS MOBILIZE S WASHINGTON Sept 16 M To p-To To I the accompaniment accompaniment of the inevitable table Youre the now some soldiers citizen trooped Into their home armories Monday in the first federal mobilization of the national guard since World war days Their commanders were under orders from Washington to concentrate concentrate concentrate con con- the guardsmen in announced training centers as as soon as practicable National guard bureau officials anticipated 1 that all the men would be In camps within 10 days Before leaving their home armories armories armories ar ar- a 1 mories however the must undergo medical examinations fill j out required papers and pack i clothing equipment President Roosevelt ordered this initial contingent of guardsmen to tobe tobe tobe be inducted into the regular army under the recently-enacted recently law empowering empowering empowering em em- powering him to mobilize the full force Coree of soldiers citizen-soldiers totaling about officers and men for a years year's training Additional guard units are to be 1 ordered out later Original army plans called caned for induction of all of them into the federal service by January 1 I but whether this is still the schedule has not been dis dis- dis- dis closed dosed War department officials told congress while the mobilization law was under consideration that it was essential to call out the guard as a preliminary to the y compulsory military training pro pro- gram Men conscripted under the draft bill which President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt signed Monday would be trained in the ranks of ol the guard and regular army rather than as separate units they said The mobilizing guardsmen are from New York New Jersey y North Carolina Tennessee South Carolina Georgia Oklahoma An Arizona Ari- Ari j 1 zona New Mexico Colorado i Washington ton Idaho Ore Oregon on Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana tan a Wyoming New Hampshire Delaware Illinois Missouri Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Mas Mas- Pennsylvania Maine j Rhode Island Connecticut Vi Virginia ginia and Arkansas