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And Now Uncle SamCollectingDogs I★ ★ ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★125,000 Are Wanted for Sentry Aids,Guards and Messenger DutyBy HAROLD CLAASENVIEW YORK —Uncle Samwants 125.000 dogs for histhe army remount service will in obtaining the required num-armv, navy and coast guard.Dogs for Defense. Inc , a NewYork City organization with branches in all parts of the country', was named the collecting agency by Maj. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory of the quartermaster corps, who decided upon the ex-pansi cm following good reports of the original sentry dogs.Under the new set-up the defense group will obtain the dogs and will turn them over to theduties.Pearl Harbor the army made aFront Royal, Va, quartermaster depot where a corps of amateurUntrained dogs as well as trained ones will be accepted. Almost the only restrictions spec- 1 lfied by General Gregory are that the dogs be between one and five years old, stand 18 inches high at the shoulder and be neither gun shy nor storm shy. jHarry I. Caeser. president of Dogs for Defense, estimated that there were 12.000 000 dogs in the country* and that his organiza-request for dogs in Hawaii. Where the dog population is 17.-000. and got 1.000 responses.At the Virginia camp the dogs will be segregated according to the type of work for which they are best fitted and then sent tothe various services.With the armed forces they will be used as sentry aids, messengers and in similar capacities. Some, however, might find use as watch dogs at defense plants.and professional trainers from , tion would have little difficulty ischool them in their military- ber. He said that shortly after ^cam: U 13ath00fiish
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Tue, Aug 11, 1942
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