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Corps Areas Seeking 80,000 Auxiliaries.

By George Shane.

Monday will be a historic day for old Fort Des Moitfes army post.

Down the elm shaded walks, past the red brick buildings with their white verandas, will march the vanguard of the new women's army.

America never has witnessed anything like this. In World War I, flapper farmerets, clad in overalls, posed for pictures on tractor seats. Army nurses, of course, wore their uniforms, and girls took time out from college classes to run factory drill presses.

But this week something distinctly new will occur when the first members of the women's army auxiliary corps arrive.

Serious young women from almost every state in the union will begin training for non-combatant army duties, work which will release soldiers from office activity and enable them to jo