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Show others in its proper use. Enactment Enact-ment of this legislation would permit per-mit the War Department to secure se-cure the services of many technicians tech-nicians needed , to maintain tanks, airplanes, antiaircraft artillery, armored vehicles and trucks, Warrant War-rant officers will be selected principally prin-cipally from the ranks of our non-commission non-commission officers. However, of the utmost importance, selectees, selec-tees, upon completion of their year's training, will be given an opportunity to compete through examination for appointment as warrant officer in the various services. With the prospect of a better career, additional responsibilities respon-sibilities will be placed upon warrant war-rant officers." 0 i Selective Service ' SiK Ouft LOiAL BOARD: If you are interested in any matter pertaining to a Selective Service registrant, take it up directly with the local board with which he is registered or you are merely wasting time, Major H. Arnold Rich, Acting State Director of Selective Service, declared today. Hundred of letters are flowing into the State and National Headquarters Head-quarters every day, Major Rich said, which must be referred to the proper local boards for answers an-swers because only local boards can act upon the cases of individual indiv-idual registrants until they have been classified. He said. "While both State and National Headquarters are sympathetic with each individual case, the Selective Service System is thoroughly thor-oughly decentralized and the local loc-al board "with wfiich he is regis- tered must have classified a registrant reg-istrant for selection of deferment before either State or National , Headquarters could act upon his case. That is basic in the Selective Selec-tive Training and Service Act and the regulations." All this can be done with hundreds hun-dreds of letters from registrants and others interested in matters pertaining to registrants being received at State and National Headquarters, Major Rich said, is to send them to the proper local lo-cal boards. That causes much needless delay and also much inconvenience, in-convenience, he pointed out, SPECIALISTS IN THE ARMY. Senator Elbert D. Thomas, Democrat, Utah, in connection with Senate Bill 162 to strengthen strength-en the national defense by creat- Oing the grade of chief warrant officer in the Army and increasing increas-ing the number of warrant officers offic-ers ( junior gradel, inserted in the Record his prepared statement explaining the bill and the need for the provisions in it, which states in part: "At least half the number authorized auth-orized will be in a technical classification. class-ification. With the large amount of new equipment with which our Army is now- being provided, more than ever is there a military need for well-trained specialists to care for this equipment and to train i |