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ARMY CAMP SETTLEMENTS. * Fifteen to be Purchased and Twenty to be Abandoned. Decision of the war department to proceed with the purchase of the sites of 15 army camps and 13 balloon and flying fields over the country was announced recently by acting Secretary Crowell. Less than s $15,000,000 will be involved, Mr. Crowell said, and it will not be nec$ essary to await action by congress as the department now has the necessary funds. * With these purchases complete, the army will have 30 training | camps, including the original 16 cantonments constructed for the training of the national army, and 19 , * - x ?~ i aL will aviation centers, must ui ?uan be in the Southeastern States, Texas and California. The few fields to be retained in the norm ^ill be regarded as summer flying centers only. Twenty-seven camps and fifteen aviation fields will be abandoned. * Orders already have gone out for the abandonment of 20 of the camps, including nearly all pf the national guard training centers set up after the United States declared war on Germany. Construction work on the -\ 27 camps, according to war depart ment figures, represents a cost of approximately $100,000,000 of which $43,000,000 was spent on the four embarkation cantonments?Mills, Kfttc York. New Jersey, and Stuart and Hill, Newport News. $28,000,000 Expended. Approximately $28,000,000 has been spent in construction work on the ^cantonments to be bought and -the 15 now owned and it was largely because of the sum involved the department decided to go ahead with the purchase. Most of the 30'camps are being used as demobilization centers, but no definite plan's for their \ employment after the war army is disbanded have been evolved. It was explained the whole problem of the future use of the camps depended ; upon the nation's military policy and no conplusior> as to that could be reached until the peace conference at Paris had rendered its decision as to world disarmament. Announcement already has been made that on*lv two flying fields actually would be used in training army tn nnana timoe a n H nthoro a v laiui a iu ucavo um&a uuu vtuviu ? purchased or now owned would be% come1 storage plants for material on hand or under contract. Location of the flying caters to be retained shows a plan to have three general ^ training centers, one in the far west, one in the southwestern part of the s t country and one in the southeast . with the different fields in each section close enough together se elementary and advanced training will ! he provided within a reasonable area. , Total expenditures on the 19 flying ? t' v and balloon fields to be retained represent about $30,000,000. To Buy and Sell Sevier. Besides the fields to be bought for military purposes, one other, Chapman field, Florida, also will be purchased "for business reasons" and subsequently sold. The same procedure will be followed in the . case of Camp Sevier, S. C., which was , . ' used as a national guard center. Mr. Crowell said it was cheaper for the government to buy this field at the option price of $597,940 and sell it I again than to pay the damage claims ^ made against the government as the result of the building of the camp. . The total amount spent on Camp Jackson at Columbia has been $10, 000,000. The purchase price, on a basis of options previously taken, will be $625,000. Camp Wadsworth, which cost $4,100,000; is to be abandoned. GETS CROIX DE GUERRE. i Laurens Negro Soldier Decorated by the French. Laurens, April 13.?Arthur Floyd, a negro soldier with the 271st infantry regiment, which -was recently demobolized, has received from the Frenfch Government the Croix de Guerre and bronze star for conspicuous and courageous services.. The war cross and citation were received through the American War Department, as Floyd has been 'in a hospital since he was seriously wounded in the Argonne forest last September. His home address is Laurens, Route 6. He is now at Fort McPherson in a hospital, as his leg, which was shattered in two places by shell fire, has not entirely healed. It is said that Floyd, who was a corporal, was sent out with seventeen men, including several French soldiers, for the purpose of clearing a way to a German nest, and while making this exploit the souad was exDOsed to a terrific machine gun fire, but remained at their work until a number were killed and the corporal evacuated. 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