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Show Young Ladies Wanted in WAVE i To help man the hospitals of the U. S. Navy where battle casualties cas-ualties of the Pacific war will be cared for, more than 10,000 new WAVE hospital corpsmen are urgently ur-gently needed, reported Chief Specialist George E. Nelson, re-cruiter-in-charge of the Logan U. S. Navy recruiting . Station, which handles WIA.VE applications in this area. The U. S. Navy plans to assign 1000 new WAVE hospital corps-men corps-men to naval hospitals each month for the next ten months. Their assignment will come after eight weeks indoctrination training train-ing at the U. S. Naval training school for WAVES, New York City, and after preliminary .hospital .hos-pital corps training at the U. 3. Naval Medical center, Bethesda, Maryland. On the job at Naval hospitals, these new WAVES will have opportunities op-portunities to study and become specialists in 28 different fields of hospital Iwork. .They will have training in fields which will be of value to them after the war and which will help them obtain employment. em-ployment. Another 10,000 WAVES for assignment as-signment at the rate of 1000 a month for the next ten months are neded for replacements at the 600 naval establishments where WAVES are on duty. Any young woman with trainging, education or aptitude in almost any field of civilian work is qualified for a job in the Navy. Those 'with secretarial, sec-retarial, sales, storekeeping, stenographic, sten-ographic, business machine operation oper-ation are needed in particular. Requirements for the WAVES remain the same. To be eligible a young -woman must be between 20 and 36 years of age, be a U. S. citizen, have no children under 18 years of age, and be in good health. Information on the new opportunities oppor-tunities in the WAVES program can be obtained by writing or |