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Show CAMP FUNSTON I WILL BL JUNKED BLUE-EYED HUSBANDS GREATEST RUNAWAYS, WOMAN OFFICER FINDS CAM P IM NS'IHN, Kan.. Jan. 10. ' With the (ailing of the year the final scenes were .Haded in the history of 'this cantonment. Through this camp 450.000 Americana pushed In the procesH of training for the world war nnd here Major Oeneral Ix-onard Wood labored while three complete alviaione were whipped into shape to Vic the Gerrru'ins. Abandonment and dismantling op the cnnionm.-nt under recent orders' of the War department probaLly will, mean also the turning of Army City, ,i civilian muni. Ip.ilitN on its border, ! Into II deserted village. Iii the summer of 191 s there were ;is many us 45.000 men In training' hen; at one time but when the order1 to vacate way received 3.900 officers) and enlisted men of the Seventh division divi-sion were stationed hm-e These are being sent to Camp Meade. Md., with the exception of the Eighth field artillery, ar-tillery, which is going t., Hawaii and the divisional tank corps which Is des-tlhl des-tlhl '1 for Pike, Ark. Officers here said today that the enmp will be deserted by all except a few nundred caretakers by Jan. 15 of the new year In the case the war department order or-der Is carried out to the letter, the "Junking" of the property, camp offl-cers offl-cers say, will mean the dismantling and removal of 1,215 buildings of all descrlptiohs, built at an outlav of ap proximately $ 1 5,000,000. Kansas rep-reaentatlvca rep-reaentatlvca in ungress have presented pre-sented to the war department nnmer-ous nnmer-ous protests from Kansas organizations against this program. This state Is I particularly concerned in the "Kansas Building;," built with $30,0oo raised jon popular subscription and used as a "community center'' by soldiers and visiting relatives- Camp Funston, occupying S06 of the 40,000 acres in the Fort Riley government gov-ernment reservation, was established earty In 1917 and the building plans Inaugurated in June of that yeai The rst troops moved in the following follow-ing September, it was first a train-ilng train-ilng caffljp then a demobilisation cen-Itef cen-Itef tn.l of late the station of the Seventh division. " General Wrood was the first com- mandant Under )lls supervision the 1 89th division was trained In four ni.illths, going "M-r:., as jn t;iv 0f 91r General Wood then was returned to Funaton and trained a new division the Tenth which was ready to go when the armistice was signed Prior I to the assembling of the S9th, MaJ .Gen. J. c. Winn, took the Nineteenth division overseas from this camp late in 1917. I Army City represented an outlay In .buildings alone of several hundred j thousand dollars. Its sole patronage wim- the Camp Funston soldiers and during: the war period II boasted "the largest pool hall, the largest barber shop dnd the largest laundry in the United Stales." It also had "theatres, stores, cafes, dance halls and churches -With the dwindling of the carnp population popu-lation the towns business has been reduced accordingly. |