Show selective service items of interest soo see your local board if you are interested in any matter pertaining ta to a active service registrant lo trant take it up directly with the local hoard board with which he la Is registered or you are merely wasting time major H arnold rich acting state director of at selective service declared recently hundreds Hun dreda of lettera are flowing anito state and national headquarters qu artera every day malor rich said eald which must be reEf referred erred to the proper local boards for answers because only local boards can caa act upon the cases of Inda individual vIdual registrants until they have been classified he said while both bom state and national headquarters are sympathetic with each individual case the selective service system la thoroughly de centralized and the local board witla which vil lich he la Is registered must have classified a registrant for selection or determent deferment before either state or national headquarters could act upon his case that la Is basic in the selective training find and service act and the regulations all that can be done with hundreds of letters crom regi registrants stAuts and others interested la in matters pe pertaining to registrants being received nt at state and national ahead quarters major rich said la Is to send them to the proper local boards that causes much needless delay and also much inconvenience he pointed out specialists in the army aj my senator elbert D thomas democrat utah in connection with senate bill to strengthen uie the national defense by creating the grade of chief warrant alt officer in the army and increasing the number of warrant officers junior grade lu in sorted in the record his prepared statement explaining the bill and the need for the provisions in it when states in patt at least halt half of the number authorized will be in a technical with the large amount of new equipment with which our army la Is now being provided more than ever la is there a military need for well trained spec lantsts to care for this equipment aud and to train ethers in hi its propel use enactment of this legislation would permit the war department to secure the services of mao man technicians needed to maintain taulo tanks airplanes antiaircraft artillery vehicles and truela warrant officers wilu will be selected principally from the ranks of our officers however of the utmost importance ee ae jec lec tees upon completion of their years training hig will to be given an op alty to compete through examination fot for appointment bg as warrant officer in the various services with the prospect of a better carer career additional responsibilities will be placed upon warrant officers |