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Show Naval Militia Banquet WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Officers of tho United States naval militia from twenty-one states held their annual ban-!quet ban-!quet here tonight. They were addressed I by Secretary Daniels of the navy, who predicted that the nation would soon have , an organized naval militia of 25,000 men, U" recruiting continued at the present rate. He said the pending government ship purchase bill, if enacted, would give tho nava 1 miLitia. two years after the end of the European war, all the ships needed for practice. |