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Just one week ago Secretaries Knox and Stimson sent a telegram to the president of every important corporation in the United States. They pointed out the large number of defense workers who had enlisted in the Army in fear in the draft, and expressed fears that if this exodus continued, it would make a fall-off in production inevitable. On the other hand, close connections between manufactures and Selective Service officials are resulting in the deferment of industrial workers who have no right to be deferred...
...Secretary Stimson last month advised soldiers against learning Axis "cruelty and brutality...
Montana's Burton Wheeler sniffed an Army dictatorship; California's Hiram Johnson was disturbed about the "warlike proclivities" of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; North Dakota's Gerald P. Nye shouted that Japan, after five years of war, had not yet taken young men out of schools for its Army...
Everybody made cracks about the Navy Department moving across the Potomac into the Army's sprawling, 42-acre Pentagon Building (even Secretary of War Stimson cracked: "The lion and the lamb are preparing to lie down together"). Then some Navy employes found on their desks an official-looking memorandum on U.S. Fleet stationery. Excerpts...
Died. Lieut. Colonel (ret.) Charles Robert Morris, 67, deviser of the pellets-in-a-fishbowl process of drawing the first draft numbers; in Lebanon, N.J. He blindfolded Pellet-Picker Newton D. Baker in the first drawing of World War I, blindfolded Henry L. Stimson in World War II. History-minded, he used the same blindfold in both drawings...