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...East Point, Ga., four firemen and three city council members were called this week for examinations. Without waiting for teenagers, Illinois draft officials started working on registrants with collateral dependents and expected to induct childless married...
...keeps on the defensive, it will keep losing to the Axis. "We think . . . that all we have to do to stop Hitler is to step up the output of our 'defense industry,' increase the output of tanks and planes, train more and more flyers . . . induct more and more selectees, build an ever-increasing number of battleships, spend more and more billions, arm every defending democracy to the teeth, line the pockets of every enemy of Hitler with our gold...
Under the new rulings the Army Air Corps will accept the applications of married men, and will induct them into the service under the same conditions affecting single men, provided they can show that their wives or others are not absolutely dependent upon them...
...there were only twenty-four doctorate aspirants, and Dean Mayo explained the large increase by the leniency of many draft boards, who allowed men to complete the last six months of their intensive five-year program, rather than induct them. A.M. degrees were awarded to sixty-four men last year, a figure exactly the same as the number of applicants this year...
...will be listed by local draft boards. Where the ratio of old to new registrants on a board's list is five-to-one, five older prospects will be called up for classification ahead of a 21-year-old, etc. But the local boards do not have to induct all whom they call up. They may-and are likely to-defer more of the older registrants, for the Army wants youngsters, and hopes that most of its new draftees will be from the class...