Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1917 — 14 Schools For Army Officers Are Authorized. [ARTICLE]

14 Schools For Army Officers Are Authorized.

Washington, April 18.—'Establishment of fourteen citizen training camps where reserve officers and applicants for commissions in the new war army will receive intensive military instruction, was authorized today by Secretary Baker. • The camps will be opened May 1, and the courses of instruction under officers and non-commissioned officers of the regulars will begin May 8. In selecting locations the war department was guided largely by the lines of the proposed divisional training areas. For Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, Fort Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, was selected.