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Show uu- NEGROES APPLYING FOR ENROLLMENT WASHINGTON, May 24. Commanders Command-ers of the six army departments have been instructed to select from negro applicants for enrollment at the special spe-cial officers' training camp to be opened at Fort Des Moines next month, the following apportionment from each department: Northeastern 40, eastern 240, southeastern south-eastern 430. central 195. southern 75, western 20. This provides for 1000 men to be selected from college graduates grad-uates and members of negro regiments of the national guard and is exclusive of 250 noncommissioned officers and enlisted men to bo assigned for train ing as prospective officers from the negro regiments of the regular army. The camp will be ready for the regular reg-ular detail on June 5 and for the other men June 15. Instruction will begin June 18. |