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Of the 2,318 trainees graduating from the Blue Course, 245 have already accepted appointment as second lieutenants in the Officers' Reserve Corps.

SPECIAL COURSE FOR BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN, CITIZENS' MILITARY

TRAINING CAMPS

In accordance with instructions from the Chief of Staff, special training camps were inaugurated during the fiscal year 1941 for the training of 3,000 young business and professional men at their own

expense.

The number of business and professional men's camps, the corps area in which located, and the number in attendance at both opening and closing of the camps, is shown in the following table:

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GENERAL PRISONERS AND THE UNITED STATES DISCIPLINARY BARRACKS

At the beginning of the fiscal year 1941, there were 1,051 general prisoners in confinement and 89 on home parole, making a total of 1,140. During the year 2,229 general prisoners were committed to confinement, 104 escaped general prisoners were recaptured, 13 parole violators were returned to confinement, 756 were released on expiration of sentence, 555 were honorably restored to duty, 444 were released from confinement by remission of the unexecuted portions of their sentences, 81 escaped, 16 violated parole, leaving 1.634 general prisoners at the close of the fiscal year. Of these 1,634, there were 86 on home parole, 1,534 were actually in confinement at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., the several United States penitentiaries, military posts and other Federal Institutions, 2 were at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D. C., and 12 were en route from one place of confinement to another.

During the period covered by this report, the War Department remitted the unexecuted portions of sentences of confinement in 15 cases and reduced the periods of confinement in 35 cases. Corps Area or other commanders remitted the unexecuted portions of sentences of confinement in 429 cases and reduced the periods of confinement in 88 cases.

On September 21, 1929, the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., was discontinued and the buildings and

the grounds were turned over to the Department of Justice under a 5-year revocable permit. The lease was extended several times, however, and the property was used by the Department of Justice until November 6, 1940. On this date the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., was reestablished and the Atlantic Branch, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Governors Island, N. Y., was discontinued, the personnel being transferred to the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth.

ARMY EXTENSION COURSES

A comprehensive and detailed description of the purpose, scope, and use of Army extension courses is published in Army Regulations 350-3000 and in the annual announcement of the courses. As a means of providing individual instruction the Army extension courses contribute materially towards National Defense, affording an excellent opportunity by which military personnel and civilians may further their knowledge of modern military tactics. The various texts are kept up to date in keeping with the latest developments by constructive revision and the introduction of new programs. The programs in effect for the 1940-41 school year listed 333 specific arm and service subcourses, 40 common subcourses and 5 combined arm subcourses, of which 298, or nearly 61.57 percent were made available to the student body. This involved the distribution of 5,792,000 lessons, solutions, and texts, an increase of approximately 1,000,000 lessons over the 1939-40 school year.

The number of students enrolled on March 31, 1941, totaled 82,257, a decrease of 27,087 under the previous year. This decrease is accounted for mainly by the cancelation of enrollments of National Guard officers and enlisted men of units called into Federal service. The enrollment included 828 Regular Army officers, 1,494 Regular Army enlisted men, 4,956 National Guard members, 66,270 Reserve Officers, 651 enlisted reservists, 5,035 citizens' military training camp trainees, and 3,023 civilians. During the year 60,950 students completed a total of 167,050 subcourses, requiring 2,774,085 hours of instruction, at an average cost of approximately $2.21 per student. The enrollment was distributed among the corps areas and departments as follows:

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THE ARMY LIBRARY SERVICE AND SERVICE CLUBS

Available appropriations during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1941, carried funds for the employment of librarians and hostesses at the various Army posts.

The Army library service kept pace with the expansion of the Army during the year. 241 libraries throughout the Continental United States and its foreign departments containing 876,867 volumes of reading matter covering a wide variety of subjects were operated under the supervision of 74 professional librarians and had a total circulation of 2,075,763. Libraries were maintained in all service clubs.

Service clubs were operated at various Army posts. These clubs provided recreational and social activities for enlisted men and provided care for their families and friends visiting in camp. 194 hostesses were employed to supervise the clubs and their activities.

MOTION-PICTURE SERVICE

The United States Army motion-picture service was highly successful in that it continued to provide this most popular form of entertainment and recreation for the Army personnel on a scale in keeping with the increased numbers entering the military service. This was evidenced by the attendance figures which reached a record total of 26,038,457 at 44,651 programs as against the prior year's record of 11,862,234 admissions at 25,418 programs.

The expansion of this service necessitated the construction of theaters at Fort D. A. Russell, Tex., and Barksdale Field, La., and the theater at Fort Lewis, Wash., was remodeled and enlarged by the use of funds from current appropriations. In addition 200 new theaters were established in mobilization-type theater buildings, tents and recreational buildings located in the United States, Alaska and base commands, all being completely fitted out with the latest sound reproducing equipment.

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS

The War Department continued to transact its usual assigned missions in connection with the administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps. These embraced such activities as the acceptance and enrollment of certified applicants, organization of companies, transportation, supply, sanitation, medical care, hospitalization, general supervision of enrollees while in camp, including their physical conditioning, welfare, and social activities. These activities required the conducting of extensive correspondence and the maintenance of pertinent records and statistics.

This Department is also charged, in conducting welfare activities and educational programs, with the control of funds for such purposes. The Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, advises the War Department regarding educational matters preparing the technical details of such programs. The sum of $98,350 was available for welfare purposes, and $3,837,369 for educational activities.

The actual strength on June 30, 1941, was 225,872 juniors and 24,684 veterans distributed among 1,500 camps located throughout the United States, including 2 companies assigned to projects on Annette Island, Alaska.

On duty with the Civilian Conservation Corps as of June 30, 1941, there were 77 Regular Army officers and 3,189 members of the Reserve Corps on a civilian status, including 24 Naval Reserve officers, 12 Marine Corps officers and 1 Coast Guard Warrant officer.

At the close of the fiscal year 1941, 27 companies were assisting in the expanding National Defense program being assigned to various military reservations for the purpose of clearing and developing maneuver and training areas.

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