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Lt. Cdr. McAfee
Miss Mildred McAfee, president of Wellesley College, has been named by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox to head the newly-formed Women’s Naval Reserve, to be known as the WAVES. She will bear the title Lieutenant Commander McAfee. The photo above was taken at Wellesley and sent by telephone wire to Reading. (AP Photo)
11,000 women to be recruited for U.S. Navy shore stations
Washington (AP) –
Dr. Mildred H. McAfee, president of Wellesley College, will be sworn in tomorrow as director of the “WAVES” – the new women’s reserve corps. She will have the rank of lieutenant commander.
Meanwhile, the Navy is preparing to begin recruiting 11,000 women who will relieve male personnel in shore stations. President Roosevelt signed the bill creating the organization yesterday.
The question of a nickname for the Women’s Naval Reserve Corps has been bothering naval officers here for weeks. In the case of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps the first letter of each word in the name – WAAC – was taken. The same process with the naval organization produces WNRC – an unpronounceable series of letters. They finally decided on “WAVES” and then figured out the words “women appointed for volunteer emergency service” to fit it.
1,000 officer candidates will be recruited as soon as the Navy has determined its qualifications for applicants. An advisory educational council made up of eight nationally-known women is assisting Navy official in drawing up the requirements.
The officer candidates will be given an indoctrination course at a reserve midshipman’s school to be established at an Eastern women’s college. Another may be set up in the Midwest. After the ranks of officers are filled, 10,000 enlisted women will be recruited. A training school is also planned for them.
Candidates must first submit a written request for a preliminary application blank, stating age and educational background, to the director of naval officer procurement for the city or naval district in which they reside. The offices are located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond, Charleston, Miami, New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
Interviews and tests
Applications will be mailed to candidates to be filled out and returned. Selection boards, to be named later in each district, will examine the applications and request the applicants to appear for interviews, aptitude tests and physical tests.
A small group of officer candidates will be selected immediately for assignment to administrative duties in the training program. Another group of 200 will be commissioned after a month’s instruction to perform technical duties for the Navy,
Other officer candidates will be enlisted as apprentice seamen, class V-9, and given both a doctrinal course and additional training before they are commissioned ensigns.
This is the first time in the history of the American services – Army, Navy or Marines – that women have held equal rank and received equal pay with men. A woman ensign will receive the same pay as a junior line officer, and a enlisted women the same as an apprentice seaman. This is in contrast with the WAACs, in which neither the officers nor the auxiliaries get equal pay with Army officers or enlisted men.
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Japs mass troops to strike Soviet
Force of 400,000 reported along frontier
London (AP) –
A British military source said today that Japanese forces nearly 400,000 strong were concentrating in Manchukuo opposite the 1,000-mile Soviet frontier from Lake Baikal to the Pacific, and:
There is little doubt they are planning to attack.
This source, who declined to permit identification by name, said:
The Japanese are already in position to attack whenever they choose.
Japanese engineers have used large numbers of Chinese prisoners to construct and develop road and rail communications with the present concentration areas, it was declared.
Predicting that they would make at least three drives in the north in an attempt to isolate Vladivostok, the source said:
Like all aggressors, the Japanese can strike wherever they choose along a long frontier.
He said:
August and September are the best months for campaigning in that area and the Japanese inactivity in all other spheres except the North Pacific indicates Siberia is their objective for the last half of 1942.
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Women replace men
Seattle (AP) –
Seattle shipyard precedent was shattered today: Four women took the places of men in the machine shop of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation.
Even in World War I, there were no women employed in these shipyards.
U.S. forces parade in Auckland
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Celebrating United Nations’ Flag Day, a detachment of American mobile troops is shown passing through one of the main streets in Auckland, New Zealand. Throngs line both sides of the street. The march was reviewed by Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, USN. Note the American flag flying at the top of the building in the center. (U.S. Navy Photo)
Romance in song out for duration
New York (AP) –
The composer of such plaintive tunes as “Lover, Come Back to Me,” says romance in sings is out for the duration so far as the soldier is concerned.
As leading American songwriters gathered to discuss a program for creating war airs, Sigmund Romberg declared:
The need is for songs that will arouse the nation’s armed forces, not soothe them.
War is a bloody and realistic business. Songs to inspire the fighting mood, rather than dreams of the girls they left behind, are what we now need.
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U.S. troops in Britain are denied ice cream
London (AP) –
Ice cream was taken off the menu at United States Army camps in the British Isles today because of a Ministry of Food ruling that ice cream manufacturing is a non-essential industry.
The Ministry estimated the ban would save 30,000 tons of transport and 1,000 tons of paper a year.
The United States Army agreed to do without ice cream after the manufacturers, appealing the Ministry’s ruling, said they had to continue in operation to fill the needs of the United States forces.