Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1919 — FINAL PLANS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD APPROVED. [ARTICLE]

FINAL PLANS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD APPROVED.

Washington, D. C., July 17.—The final’ plans for the reorganization of the national guard on the sixteen division basis, with divisional areas following the same limits as did those from which guard divisions were organized for service against Germany, were approved yesterday by Secretary Baker. Maj. Gen. Jess Mcl. Carter, chief of the bureau of militia affairs, immediately sent notifications to the various adjutant generals of the units allotted to their states and of the readiness of the federal government to extend recognition after the required inspection had been made. The organization table announced yesterday provides for forty-seven regiments and eighteen battalions of infantry; six regiments, seventeen squadrons and nineteen troops of cavalry; ten regiments, twenty battalions and seven batteries of field artillery and seventy-four coajst artillery companies. There will be additional forces of engineers, sanitary and signal corps. A maximum expansion to about 440,000 men, or 800 per senator and congressman, is provided for, but the units for the time being are to fee organized on the basis of sixtyfive men per company of infantry, as appropriations for the national guard for the fiscal year 1920 permit only the organization of the guard on the basis of 200 men for each senator and representative, giving an aggregate strength of about 106,000.