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Even though service enlistments have been closed, the Air Force hopes to get the men it approves transferred to this program after their induction into the Army, the War Service Information Bureau revealed last night. Men in ERC may apply for assignment, since they are already enlisted in the army, but men in V-1, V-5, and V-7 are absolutely ineligible...
Meanwhile colleges and college students are left, almost without plans at the mercy of a new juggernaut draft bill. The ERC is now closed and its promised reopening for those in special training may very well result in the delay, the arguments, and the local draft board whims that characterized the previous inadequate Selective Service system. Meanwhile draft boards are hot on the trail of 'teen-agers who may be turned into infantry privates instead of valuable technicians because of this gap in the planning...
...Details of ERC Plan released...
...Enlisted Reserve Corps will probably not be called into active service until the first of February, estimated Elliot Perkins '23, Director of the War Service Information Bureau and Master of Lowell House. In addition, Perkins stated that the closing date for enlistment in the ERC has been moved up from December 1 to December...
...initial closing date of the ERC was set for today, Perkins believed, in order to show to Reserve just where it stands and allow it to reallocate quotas. Overapplied colleges may now be able to take more men into quotas enlarged by a transfer from less applied colleges. Harvard's quota is still sufficient. Perkins said, to receive quite a few enlistments...