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Show oo RECRUITS FOR NAVY POUR IN Numbers Received at Kansas City Office Never Before Exceeded. , KANSAS CITY. Mo , March 28 Recruits Re-cruits for tho navy are being received at the navy recruiting office here in numbers never before exceeded attaches at-taches of the office today said. Much 'larger per cent aro being accepted j than normally. "Usually only about 25 or SO per cent of the men offering themselves can pass the examinations." an at-1 tachc of the office said. "Now, how-ever, how-ever, nearly 80 per cent of them are j being accepted." The explanation given was that the call for possible active duty was at-i tracting a "high type of men." Eight women who yesterday volun-I volun-I teered to aid Lieutenant H. V. McCabe, I in charge of the office here, today took I up special duties in connection with the recruiting. |