Evening star., 1942-08-07
WAVES Won't Accepl
Wives Of Officers
Or Enlisted Men
Just So Servicemen's
Families Won't Become
Completely Disrupted

To prevent the families Of service
men from becoming completely
disrupted" the Navy announced
yesterday that wives OF ofbcers or
enlisted personnel in the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard
will not be allowed to join the
WAVES.
A man In the armed forces is apt
to be sent anywhere, it vas ex-
planned, and If his wife is 4 WAVE
and apt to be sent anywhere herself,
the home which Is left behind them
will suffer badly. So only ives OF
civilians, or women divorced or wild
owed from servicemen may apply
for commission or rating III the
new women's reserve of the Naval
Reserve.
Additional qualifications an
nounced by the Navy yesterday re-
vealed that WAVES must be pre-
pared. like men Of the Navy, to agree
to serve for the duration al the
war and six months thereafter. Any
intention to mary during the train
ing period, to extend from six weeks
to four months. also automatically
disqualifies applicants
Admiral's Daughter Is Ensign.
The ruling was announced IN con-
function with . press conference
held by the first woman ever to
serve rs an officer in a naval pro-
curement ONCE. Miss Elizaoeth r.
LEIGHTON, 28, daughter OF Rear Ad-
miral Frank T. Leighton, command
ant of the 9th Naval District,
and Mrs. Leighton. was commits
stoned as an ensign Wednesday at
the same time that she was sworn
IN to help the naval procurement d.
rector Of the 5th Naval District.
Comdr. Q. j. Gulickson, select the
final candidates from the District
for commissions In the WAVES.
Headquarters Of the procurement
board are at 1870 G street NV.
Ensign Leighton, who has been
serving rs administrative assistant
to the chief Of the training and In
spection section at the Once OF Ci-
villain Defense. lives at 26O8 Thirty
sixth place NV. She was graduated
from Wellesley College. OF which
1t. Comdr. Mildred McAfee vas
president till she took leave OF ao-
sence to head the WAVES.
Ensign Leighton's family Is thor
oughly Navy" she revealed vester-
day. Besides her father, Rear Ad-
miral Leighton, her mother is IN
naval service rs chairman ct Navy
Relief in the 9Th District. One
brother Is an ensign now on sea
duty ari the other Is . p1ids0pman
at the Naval Academy.
1t. Comdr. McAfee named 1t.
Elizabeth Bolard Crandall OF San
Francisco dean Of women at the Of
ficer training school at Smith Col
leRe. Northampton, Mass. 1t. Gran
dan, IS, who has been an assistant
dean at Leland Stanford University,
will report for duty to the Bureau OF
Naval Personnel August II.
Appointments also were announced
Of 1t. q. g. Virginia Carlin, -, New
York, as assistant to 1t. Comdr. Nc
Afee, and Ensign Dorothy Foster OF
Atlanta as an additional assistant.
1t. Carlin is . graduate Of Wellesley
College and has been employed by
r. H. Macy b Co. In New York. En-
sim Foster, q graduate Of Randolph
Macon College and OF New York
University, was employed by Rich
ards, Inc, in Atlanta.
Some Leeway on Weight.
A woman has been selected IN
each Of the II naval districts to as
sist oficers OF procurement with
WAVES applications. Nine more
women besides Ensign Leighton
were sworn in in other parts OF the
country Wednesday and two more
were expected to be sworn in today.
Other qualifications required OF
WAVES announced by the Navy at
the press conference were restric-
ton of overweight to that "propor-
tionate to body structure" This al
lows more 1eeway than the WAAC
ruling, which stipulates no more
than 16 per cent Of overweight.
WAVES must be 5 feet or over,
and e5 pounds or over.
No applicant who has reservation
about where she will serve or in
what professional neld will be &C.
cepted, 1t was indicated.