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Show TIVTY .' BOOSTS ElllSTfifHIS NEW YORK, March 15, Statiit.es (fathered at tha army and aavy recruit-in recruit-in nation- in New York City aad an-bar an-bar ban towns show that thousands of tod or men bars surldenly developed aa eagerness to join Uncle 8am 'a arvie. The daily surabor of applicants for aa-I aa-I i st meat has mora than doubled si aee the orders were issued for tba aiobilisa-tioa aiobilisa-tioa of 0,000 troops alone tha Mexicaa border. Duriaf tha .first ten days of March mors tbaa 000 men applied in thia cit r to join the armr. Thia total ia nearly doubled by tha applications re eeived in eubarbaa towns. Tha ap-Dlications ap-Dlications for aerrieo in tba navy nr about half aa numerous as thoaa for tha army. . Conditions for entering both branches of the service) ore being maintained very strictly, however, and only about 10 per cent of th appUeamts ara accepted. ac-cepted. The marina eoTpe recruiting station ia Bait Lake haa not received orders to increase efforts to enlarge tha number num-ber of enlistments. There; bag bean ao appreciable increasa ia tha number of applications here so far. , . |