Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 10

FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940

REPORT ANTI-NAZI UPTREND IN NORWAY

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Recruiting Records Fall as Army Goes Over Top With Ballyhoo

First half of October ran 2000 ahead

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ARREST BROTHER IN

campaign that included every imag-|any high-powered outside advisers,|of men who wanted to make .the

MOUNTAIN MURDER

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Police tdoay arrested J. Keith Anderson, 31, and charged him with firs) degree murder in the death of his brother, Glade E. Anderson, 28, near Jackson, Wyo., Oct. 8. They said he had confessed obtaining six fraudulent insurance policies on the victim's life. The younger brother was killed in a fall from a precipice in the Te-

By BRUCE CATTON Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—While the nation has kept its eyes focused on the conscription law, the army has been making hay and history in the matter of voluntary enlistments. The job was done to the tune of one of the most elaborate publicity campaigns the army ever staged, and as a result all previous recruiting records have been broken and men have been taken in so fast

Things got started in 1939, when the army set out to grow from 165,000 men to 227,000. It finished that job in February, 1940, and until the end of May the recruiting service coasted along with nothing much to do but get the normal supply of replacements. : Then eame the big wind, with orders to hike army strength to 375,000 men. Every month since then has seen a new recruiting record set. In July, the army signed up 31,960 new men; August

of the first half of September. The army still has to get 20,000

men for the air corps. It hasn’t gone after them yet, as housing and other facilities aren't ready. After that, it'll probably need another 50,000 to bring all field organizations up to full war strength. Meanwhile, the regular army today, with 352,000 men, is bigger than it has ever been in American history, in peace or war. Chiefly responsible for the record

inahle variety of publicity from paper match covers to trailer-unit recruiting stations. They put out news stories, hired newspaper display space, got national advertisers to include recruiting plugs in their ads, put on local and network radio programs, used direct mail advertising, set up displays in store windows and theater lobbies, used billboards and printed pamphlets, made 16-millimeter movies to show at high schools, helped Hol-

either. It was an army job all the way.

Chief thing that made the drive

go over, says Colonel Gilbert, was the fact that the army really has something to offer these days. vocational training the army can point with pride to courses offered by a great variety of mechanized units, i courses that would cost from $300 up, on the outside.

In

In some instances it offers

Next most important reason for

army their career. (It beats Government civil service, by the way. A bright man ean retire after 30 years’ army service with substantially over $100 a month coming to him for the rest of his life, which is more than a civil service job offers.) Fourth reason offered for enlistment was—patriotism. That factor has been getting more important lately. Colohel Gilbert says he be-

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 18 (U. P.).— Press reports from Oslo, Norway,

said today that demonstrations against the Nazi-dominated Norwegian Government are becoming so serious tha ta state of alarm may be proclaimed. Authorities in many cities throughout Norway have forbidden traffic in the streets during cer» tain hours in order to cope with the demonstrations, the reports said,

Warnings were posted that hostile acts against the Government dure ing blackout be punished.

lieves it would rank about second, if not first, if recruits now signing u were polled.

enlistment was the age-old desire for travel and adventure. After that came g steadily increasing number

ton Mountains while the two were on a photographic expedition. His life. was insured for $46,000.

breaking is Lieut. Col. H. N. Gilbert, in charge of recruiting. Colonel Gilbert and his aids worked out a

lywood run off feature films on army topics, stuck signs on taxicabs and express trucks. They didn’t call in

38,663; September, 42,391—the alltime high, topping the best month of World War recruiting, May, 1917.

that time schedules originglly set up for the recruiting drive have been filed in the wastebasket.

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