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oAnd Now Uncle SamCollectingDogsK★ ★ ★ ★125,000 Are Wanted for Sentry Aids,Guards and Messenger Duty— want*By HAROLD CLAASENVEW YORK V— Ur. !e Sam 125.000 dogs for hisarmy, navy and coast guard. Dogs for Defense. Inc, a NewYork City organization with branches in all parts of the coun-try, was named the collecting agency by Maj. Gen. Edmund B.Gregory* of the quartermaster corps, who decided upon the expansion following good reports ofthe original sentry dogs.Under the new set-up the defense group will obtain the dogsand will turn them over to theFront Royal, Va, quartermaster depot where a corps of amateur1 exas Pol iticsand professional trainers from , tion would have little difficultythe army remount service will in obtaining the required num-school them in their military ber. He said that shortly after 3lduties.Pearl Harbor the army made aUntrained dogs as well as trained ones will be accepted. Almost the only restrictions specified 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 stormshy.Harry’ I- Caeser. president of Dogs for Defense, estimated that 1there were 12.000 000 dogs in thecountry and that his orgamza-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.Bcas) ! masU-b I 13 ’a dlt;A lt;;!ppn on thp Jnh^000rtL: afirrrTshifdesttael
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Brownsville Herald
Brownsville, Texas, US
Tue, Aug 11, 1942
Page 18
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