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Show ROOKIES REST 0(1 SATURDAYHALF HOLIDAY First Competitive Parade Is Held in Preparation for Grand Review Today Is a half holiday for tha citizens' military training camp at FL Douglas. , Inspection of quarters and arma thla morning and a lecture on flrat aid constituted ths day's work. This afternoon the students will be free to see ths sights of ths big city. - Tomorrow alao will be a day of leisure. , The three battalions took part In the camp's first parsde yesterday. In .the competition to choose the best drilled company in each battalion. Umnimiij A uf the WrsLTfHnpany-a of the Second and the First air service company of ths Third were adjudged the best. The Thirty-eighth Infantry band furnished the music for the ceremonies. Colonel C. Enos and Major R. H. Frnner were Judges. Parades will he a regular part of the training during the remainder of ths encsmpment. Including battalion reviews, to culminate In a review by i Brigad'er General V. O. McAlexander Ion Wednesday . fo tha last week of the camp. Auguat 23. Four men from the FL Douglas cainp will be sent to Camp Perry for tha rational rifle matchea, September I to The C. M. T. C. team from the Ninth corps area will Include also four men each from Camp Lewla and from the Presidio. Ths government govern-ment will pay all expenses of ths contestants, snd for this reason keen competition Is expected for places on the team. Last night there waa a hop at ths post hall, under the direction of Mine Olive Hyde, the camp hostess. This afternoon iLcompany of tha Thirty-1 eighth plays the stsff baseball team I and this evening the L. I). 8. School of Music will present "Ths Mikado." under the direction of Claud Cornwall. Corn-wall. Tomorrow's program follows: 7:10 a. m confessions; s a. m. mass: 19 a. m., Sunday school; 11 a. m., church service, addreee by Professor Levi Edgsr Toung of the I University of Utah, music by double mixed quartet, directed by Arthur McParland: 7 p. m.. band concert; p. m- Nephl L. Morris will deliver sn sddress near the band stand Immediately Im-mediately after the band concert. Examinations for appointments aa second lieutenant In the regular army have been announced to be held ths week of September 4. Appointments will be tendered successful csndldatea as soon sfter December 11 as pos-slbls. pos-slbls. Application (or tha Ninth corps area should be made to the commanding general at the Presidio. San Francisco, or to Kt. Douglas. Men 21 to 30 yesrs of age. enlisted snd having had two years' service In the army, reserve officers or members of the enlisted reserve, members of the national guard and graduates of approved technical Institutions ara eligible. ' |