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Show NEW YORK PLANS TO GET 100 NAVAL RECRUITS A DAY WW YORK. March St. One hundred . -I7.aval recruits a day until April 20. or a ZT total of 2000, liave been assigned by the navy department as Greater ew York's Immediate contribution of meji for the navy's emergency complement. Commander Taylor, In charge here, Issued Is-sued orders that all recruiting ofTIces remain re-main open until midnight, Sundays as well aa week days. On the basis of reports from different parts of the country. Commander John Grady, In charge of the eastern recruiting recruit-ing division of the United States navy, estimated today that more than 1600 men were enlisted in the service during: the last week. He predicts that the whole country will do even better than 1500 men a week in a short time. Through an announcement by the National Na-tional Surety company today, it became known that a number of financial and commercial houses were having investigations investi-gations made by efficiency experts to determine de-termine how women could take the places of male employees who join the army and navy. The New York county chapter of the Red Cro3s has completed a fund of $215,-000 $215,-000 for the equipment of seven base hospitals hos-pitals in this city for war service. These hospitals, it Is estimated, will give the accommodation required for an army of 300,000 men. More than 2000 graduate nurses have been enrolled. The department of docks and ferries today turned over to the federal government govern-ment two unused piers of the Hamburg-American Hamburg-American line. They several days ago offered the government the use of their piers. Rodman Wanamaker has offered to the government his aerial coast patrol station at Port "Washington, L. L, and also an air battle cruiser fitted with 200-horse-power motors and an airplane gun. The Central Federated union, representing repre-senting the members of the .American Federation of Labor In New York City, last night approved a temporary suspension suspen-sion of the labor laws restricting hours of employment during the present national na-tional emergency. This 'approval was based on the stipulation that employers directly or indirectely interested in the war should turn over their plants to the government and forego all profits from them during the progress of the war. |