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Show Navy Is Sponging; Has Full Scuppers; Needs More Men Consequently Recruits Ars Being Hunted for Service With Marine Corps. TO say it in wet water terms, the navy is sponging up. The navy, still using nautical terms, has scuppers -full of men and boys a-slopping around in this matter of recruiting. re-cruiting. The absorbing process put into action yesterday is simple but none the less effective. When the navy started to get recruits it wanted forehanded men who could do things with their two hands. It got a lot of lads who were unclassified, except as apprentice seaman. sea-man. Even Uncle Sam could not invent enough of places to ferment sea-sickness. Consequently these young men were sent home, but the navy station kept their addresses. YestenViy orders were received to send ninety-one of these young men from Utah, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Wyo-ming to "the Pacific coast station at Seattle. It was also ordered from Washington via the local navy station that eighteen landsmen, electricians off the Salt Lake list be sent to Mare island for further instruction in the electrical school. Notice was received at the navy recruiting re-cruiting office yesterday that the bureau bu-reau of navigation especially desires to obtain men highly qualified in photography, photog-raphy, including experimental work for enrollment with the rank of petty officer offi-cer or chief petty officer. Lieutenant John Lawrence Fox yesterday yes-terday returned to the local recruiting station from a visit to the navy substations substa-tions in Montana. Coxswain Damon P. Cook of the naval reserve at Butte has been discharged from the reserve service and is now enlisted in the regular service of the navy. |