Evening star., 1942-07-19
Recruiting Of WAAC PrWotes Begins Tomorrow
As Officer Candidates Go Into TrQininu
First Inductions
Will Be on Basis
Of Occupations

| ruuQIeCS Oh washington women
are expected to line up at the Army
recruiting station at 1104 New York
evenue NV. between am. and 5
pm. tomorrow to apply as privates
in the Woman's Army Auxiliary
Corps.
AS these women are submitting
applications to serve in the ranks
of the WAAC, 440 of their future
leaders will be inducted tomorrow
irto the officers candidate school
at Fort Des Moines. Iowa. BY the
time the first 1913 auxiliaries begin
training at Fort Des Moines August
II. the future officers will have CON-
pleted half their course.
Among the auxiliary recruits are
expected to be many of the 1900
who applied here last month for
officers rank in the WAAC. Only
III of these, two of them colored
passed the triple barrier of CLASH
fication, examination and personal
interview required before accept
ance as officer candidates.
Specialists Are Needed.
Auxiliary candidates may be
white or colored. married or single.
must be citizens between 81 and
IS, between five and six feet tall
and between 100 and I'll pounds,
according to their height Each
will be required to pass physical
examination and submit character
and professional references.
The auxiliaries will be inducted
into the corps, according to the
director, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby,
in the order OF their occupational
qualifications. The first call is for
specialists-clerks, cooks, bakers,
bookkeepers, stenographers, switch
board operators and supervisors,
| chauffeurs, cafeteria dietitians and
cashiers. hostesses aides, reception
| lists, library aides, machine record
operators and motion picture pro-
jectionists.
The number wanted the first week
is Just 1913. l8 of whom will be men,
bers of the aircraft warning system
| who will 60 back to the system
after graduating as WAACS. Grad
ually enlistments will be stepped
| up until by the middle of October
they will reach total of 300 a
week from all corps areas in the
United States. Enrolment will
hold steady at that figure until the
womens army reaches its author
lied strength of $4,000
| BY November 9 it is expected that
the training schools there will be
turning out three companies, COM
plete with officers and privates, each
week.
Starting Pay S21 a Month.
The privates will receive $21 a
month for the first four months,
plus room and board. After that
they'll get $50 In the non commits
stoned officer class, Junior leaders
will draw $54 month, leader $50
and first leader $72.
In addition, the WAACs will get
medical and dental services, hos
pitalization and benefits provided by
the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act
of 1910.
The acceleration of the WAAC
organization is in direct relation to
the Army's interest in the corps.
The bill providing for the WAAC,
introduced by Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts,
with Army support passed swiftly
through the congressional mill. Di-t
rector Hobby was sworn into Office
two days after President Roosevelt
signed the measure May Is.
Now, hardly more than two
months later, the first officers are
beginning training. Although the
bill provides for q maximum of 150,-
900 auxiliaries, presidential order
limits the number for the first year
to $4,000 About 1,100 officer candi-
dates will be inducted during the
first year, with some likely to fail
the course and some likely to rise
! from the ranks to the officers class.
A second class of 300 candidates will
begin at Des Moines August 3.
Army Needs Corps.
Some people, men particularly,
| said Director Hobby before she en-
| trained for Des Moines yesterday,
thought the WAAC was a sop to
women's desires to serve.
Instead" she emphasized, sit is
the Army which wants the WAAC
to relieve men for combat duty. 1t
was che Army's need which created
the corps"
Mrs. Hobby will welcome the fu-
ture officers to the corps at the fort
tomorrow just as the superintend-
| ent welcomes each new class to the
United States Military Academy at
West Point.
She will watch the routine Of the
camp for the first week Or 10 days,
| from the time the candidates arise
at am. for breakfast, inspection
and calisthenics, through the As
minute classes all day and the two
hour study period after supper at
night.
Socially the WAAC Auxiliary will
! be no more restricted than the
Army private She can smoke ex-
/ cept in the classroom. when march
/ ing, or at unreasonable times Al
! though at first it was announced
| in Des Moines that written invi-
| tation from a hostess would be
required for weekend leave, that
restriction has been lifted. Week
end passes are now to be issued at
the discretion of the commanding
! officer. as the soldiers are.
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