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Show 60 MEN RECRUITED 1 AT ARMY STATION 29 at Navy; Both Offices Want Men to Enter Aero Service. ' .Recruiting continued at a lively clip yosterday in both the army and navy stations. Sixty men were accepted for the army and twenty-nine for the navy. Both branches reiterated their desire for men for tho aero service, for work on tho ground in manufactories and in the field. Tho navy needs 8000 men from tho country at oneo, while the army needs 10,000 gas engine mechanics before be-fore December lj. In a telegram received from the war department hy the array recruiting station sta-tion yesterday, this station was ordered to accept men for the Thirty-eighth en- i'inepfs nf tho nnfinniil nrmv giueers or uie national army. An important proviso in tho orders received yesterday is that in the present pres-ent emergency married men may be accepted ac-cepted for, ali branches of the army on the same bnsis as singlo men. The army recruiting officers were arso asked to resume recruiting for the stevedore steve-dore regiments of the colored quartermaster's quarter-master's corps of the national army. Until further instructions no more men will be sent to the camps of Sevier, Wheeler, Shelby, Beaurogard, Bowie and Funston. There is still an insistent demand by the adjutant genera of the armv for .ViOO men for the medical department. Wireless telegraphers are wanted by the Moth regiment, field artillery, First Vtn.li, according to word received from Colonel Richard W. Young bv Joseph F. Merrill, professor of physics 'and electrical electri-cal engineering at. the University of 1'tnh. Applicants will be accepted for this service at the armv recruiting headquarters head-quarters in the Central' building. Sergeant Major D. G: Kenning of the Royal Engineers has offices with the United States army recruiting service in the Central building. He is accepting accept-ing for enlistment men from 10 to 50, British subjects, for dutv on the waterways water-ways in Egypt and France. Men with slight physical defects can be accepted for this service. Sergeant Major Kenning Ken-ning states his belief that treaty arrangements ar-rangements will shortly be made so that Great Britain may draft for military-duty military-duty its subjects residing in the United states. |