Evening star. [volume], September 13, 1939, Page A-12, Image 12

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Enlistments Jump
For All 3 Branches
Of Military Service '
Applicants for Marine
Corps Service Rise
Here About 250%
Applications for enlistment in the
United States Army, Navy and Ma
rine Corps have increased rapidly
here since Friday when President '
authorized increases by executive
order.
Spokesmen for the three branches
of the service feel confident of read
ily increasing their personnel as au
thorized.
Applicants for Marine Corps serv
ice have increased here about 250
per cent; for Navy service about 75
per cent, while the Army continues
to have many more applicants than
It can take care of immediately.
The Navy, which is to increase its
personnel from 111.000 to 145.000 is
reported “going a little slowly” in
enlistments because of the desire to
enlist as many men as possible who
have had service. As an inducement
to re-enlist, those who have been
out of the service less than eight
years are being taken back at their
old grades.
New Yorker Is First.
Meanwhile, Albert James Windle,
ex-machinist mate, second class,
whose home address is New York,
became the first to re-enlist here
rTUn firrt ivion in tlio oniintrr tn hp
enlisted under the new broken J
service regulations was Irvin Doug- ;
las Sprague, ex-gunner's mate, third
class, in New York.
Upon recommendations of Rear
Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, chief of
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
waivers are being granted by the
Navy to permit the enlistment of
men with slight dental defects which
do not affect the general health.
This action was recommended after
a study of reports on applications
showed that in certain sections of
the country only 4 per cent of
applicants could meet the Navy's
general dental requirements for en
listment.
Marine Applicants Increase.
The Marine Corps, which must in- I
crease its strength from 18.300 to
25,000 likewise is taking back men
at their former ranks if they haven't
been out of the service more than j
four years. The number of Marine ,
Corps applicants here has increased ' '
about 250 per cent, it is said, during |
the last few days. Due to the very ‘
strict requirements, however, it is es- j
timated that only about 8 per cent
are being accepted.
Many young men have applied at (
the local Army recruiting station for c
enlistment in the Reserve Corps, to
be ready for service in the event the t
United States goes to war. but many , *
of them have to be turned down t
because a year of active service is
required to make them eligible for 1
the Reserve. p
NEW YORK.—STAR’S CHILDREN ARRIVE—Robert Montgom
ery, jr., 3, and his sister Elizabeth, 6, children of Robert Mont
gomery, screen star, still in England with his wife, are shown
as they arrived yesterday aboard the British liner S. S. Aran
dora Star, which brought 441 stranded travelers, including 260
Americans, home from the European war zones. The ship
changed course nine times and ran without lights at sea during
her 12-day voyage, to avoid German U-boats. She also brought
a gold cargo, earmarked for the Federal Reserve Bank here,
amounting to $16,000,000. —Wide World Photo.
\l Smith's Son Seeks
louncilmanic Post
3y the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept, 13.—A 1939
nodel brown derby flew into the
»olitical ring today.
Alfred E. Smith, jr., son of the
happy warrior" who once governed
lew York and vied unsuccessfully
or the presidency, announced his
andidacy for the City Council. A
ouncilman's salary is $5,000 a year.
Young Smith, 38, a lawyer, was
orn on downtown Madison street,
•here his father started his career,
ut now lives on Fifth avenue.
The elder Smith now contents
limself with operating the Em
ire State Building and making oc
:asional excursions in his brown
ierby.
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President Watches
Commodity Prices
To Prevent Soaring
Mentions Copper, Steel,
Cotton and Wheat as
Of Particular Interest
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt, recalling that
the price of copper went up to 28
cents a pound during the World
War, said yesterday he did not want
a repetition of that because it would
come out of the taxpayers’ pockets.
The President observed at his
press conference that he was watch
ing commodity prices and mentioned
some of them specifically.
He said everyone knew a lot of
copper could be produced at 12%
cents a pound and bring a big profit.
He referred also to steel, but noted
that as yet there had been no ad
vance in prices for it.
Agricultural commodities presented
differing problems at the production
and the retailing end, Mr. Roosevelt
said. The price of cotton was so low
that the South would go broke if
it were not for soil erosion payments
and export subsidies, he added, but
it should go up in spite of the big
carryover.
The President said the existing
price of wheat was well below parity,
or the figure deemed necessary to
give the product the same pur
chasing power it had in 1909-14.
However, he continued, parity was
not going to be $2, $3 or $5, but, he
thought, somewhere around $1.15
or $1.20.
The cost of bread to consumers
would rise to a very inappreciable
extent if wheat went up to parity,
he asserted.
'Disaster' Feared With War
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13 (/P).—
John H. Vandeventer, editor of Iron
Age, predicted last night “ultimate
economic disaster” for rank and file
SEE
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United States go to war.
The editor, recognized as an au
thority in the steel industry, told th<
Advertising Club 40 per cent of th<
income of business would be re
quired to finance a new war, whili
the safety factor between profit anc
loss now is but 4 per cent.
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Keller an idea. He has invented a
i pusher trailer, in which the second
unit of big truckloads will have its
own power plant. I
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