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Show ance with 'Instructions for the Recruiting Service of the United States Navy', the local Board, Selective Service, should be informed in-formed of their names. "Officers-in-Charge of Recruiting Recruit-ing stations are authorized to enlist en-list (first enlistments for six years, reenllstments for four years), immediately without regard re-gard to any existing quota, any applicant who has already been fully qualified and is called by a local Board, Selective Service, for induction into the armed forces." SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRANTS MAY SIGN FOR NAVY Registration for Selective Service Ser-vice is no bar to voluntary enlistments en-listments in the Navy, according to Mr. R. H. Smith Officer in charge of the Navy Recruiting Office in Provo. Mr. Smith states that secretary of the Navy Knox has made the following statement in regard to this matter: "I have been informed by the Inspector of Recruiting, Northeastern North-eastern Division, with headquarters headquart-ers in New York City, that there is an apparent misunderstanding on the part of those citizens who have registered for Selective Service. Ser-vice. Many have the mistaken idea that once they have registered, they can no longer voluntarily enlist en-list in the Navy. Such is not the case, and the Navy Department has issued the following instructions instruct-ions to the Recruiting Service: "When applicants who are eligible eli-gible for Selective Service present themselves, and are qualified as 'desirable applicants' in accord- |
