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Show TROOPS AWAIT RETURN TO S. L. EARLYIH JUNE Orders Blast Rumors About Abandonment Of Fort Douglas Post Setting at rest recurrent rumors that Fort Douglas would be abandoned aban-doned as a U. S. army military post, the war department Wednesday Wednes-day announced that Second and Third battalions of the Thirty-eighth Thirty-eighth Infantry regiment would return re-turn from Texas about June 1. Captain Russell L. Moses, post adjutant, received word from the adjutant general's office in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, that the two battalions bat-talions would be ordered home from Texas. The First battalion of the regiment had previously been ordered to Fort Sill, Okla. The regiment left last November Novem-ber for Camp Bullis on the Fort Sam Houston reservation In Texas, and rumors have persisted to the effect that the regiment would not return to Fort Douglas. Winter training was conducted In Texas under the new "streamlined" organization or-ganization plan of the army. The Second and Third battalions will return about 1000 men and 31 regular officers to the fort, along with 12 reserve officers assigned to regular duty for six months to a year. |