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...within two weeks, and warned that delay dragging into fall or winter might set back the U. S. defense program by a year. His unprepared statement, delivered at a press conference, surprised correspondents, who had previously got from him only a general approval of the principle of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, now heard some Presidential scoffing at critics who had said that shortages of essential training equipment blocked immediate conscription. The President's main points: 400,000 new men are needed to bring existing units of the Regular Army and National Guard to full strength. Beyond these...
...Last week the Senate unanimously amended the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, limiting to 900,000 the number of men being trained in time of peace...
Metropolitan newspapers were quick to point out that the Burke-Wadsworth Bill promises no specific draft exemption for married men. It was still quite on the cards that the Army and Navy might well require a year's service in uniform of all able-bodied U. S. men, wife or no wife...
...morgue's second floor the coroners found a different kind of entertainment. There is the laboratory of one of the top-flight U. S. medical detectives: testy, sharp-eyed Dr. William Scott Wadsworth. During his 41 years as coroner's physician. Dr. Wadsworth, known to reporters as "Waddie," has examined 10,094 bodies. He has a tremendous assortment of cartridges (1,500 of 40 different makes), 360,000 filing cards on poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office...
...town coroners last week, Dr. Wadsworth sounded off on "pseudo-experts, damned-old-fool judges, tissue-grabbing pathologists, psychopath lawyers." He gave a lecture on ballistics which mocked many a detective-story cliche. Salient points...