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Show TRAINING CAMPS FOR THE WEST Salt Lake City, Santa Barbara, and American Lake Chosen as Military Sites. GOVERNMENT PLAN Men Past 45 May Attend by. Special Order of General. SAN FRANCISCO. March 16 Several Sev-eral thousand civilians, eligible to military' mil-itary' service, probably will attend the, three military training camps which ( will be conducted in the far west next Bummer, under the direction of the western department of the United States army. The camps will be held at Santa Barbara, Cal , June l to June 30; at Salt Lake City. Utah. August 4 to September 2, and at American Lake, Washington, from August i to September Septem-ber 2. In addition a camp for the training of officers for the rescr e corps will be held at Santa Barbara from July 1 to July 30. Tnctrnrllnn rnnrlnrtorl hv nffirers of high military rank, will be given in all J branches of the service, including aeronautics, aero-nautics, first aid treatment, hospital field work and in other minor branches. All citizens between the ages of IS and 45 years are eligible to enlise for the training. The government will pay transportation and subsistance, and clothing will be furnished. Men past 45 may attend by special permission permis-sion from Major General J. Franklin Bell, commanding the western department, depart-ment, and all such must pay their own expenses. General supervision of the training camps will be under Lieutenant Colonel Col-onel Melvin W. Rowell, assisted by Mavor William D. Davis, with a special spe-cial corp of army officers who will have active supervision of the work. I The camps will be conducted as in the last two years, under the strictest military regulations. Drills and study will take up the major part of each day, with .such recreation as the instructors in-structors consider necessary to the well being and pleasure of the men. Army officers say that the commissary commis-sary department will see that the food supply is good and abundant. |