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Show ENGINEERS TO BE PUT IN TRAINING WASHINGTON, June 19 Major General William M. Black, chief of the army engineers, announced today that the engineers officers' training camp which is to open about August 1, will be located at Camp Humphreys. Va , near this city where some 17,000 en-I en-I gineer replacement troops now are in ( training. Two thousand candidates for 1 commissions as captain and first lieutenants lieu-tenants are expected to enroll Candidates for lieutenancies should j be between 32 and 36 years of age and those for captaincies between 36 and 42. A traveling board, headed by Major Ma-jor E. H. Williams, has been named to visit several of the larger cities and examine candidates. nn |