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Still straining to feed the armed services' hunger for manpower, Selective Service took another step last week toward the draft of fathers by August...
Another agency for military procurement, FBI, put on a special weekend roundup that located 638 draft-dodgers in 20 cities. G-men are handling about 15,000 draft complaints a month, have "located and made available" 86,543 men-enough for six infantry divisions...
Aircraft also had the job of interdicting Axis withdrawals by sea. This was peculiarly an air job, because the Germans were using Siebel motor barges - too shallow in draft to be torpedoed, too well armed to be attacked efficiently by motor torpedo boats' machine guns, too small to be worth risking large naval units for, and fast enough (twelve knots) to cross the Sicilian Channel under cover of dark ness. Aircraft caught some by day, for the Germans were unquestionably trying to get away as much valuable personnel as possible. Late in the week the Axis was estimated...
Major General Lewis B. Hershey took a deep breath and wrote it for the record: general induction of U.S. fathers will have to begin in August. Long expected, the announcement was forced last week by varied circumstances: draft quotas were running slightly behind schedule; the armed forces were still far short of their 11,000,000 goal; Congress was restively toying with bills to limit the draft...
Reasons for the new system include the reduction of the civilian student body to about 1,000 men, mostly sub-draft Freshmen plus a large number of 4-Fs; a determination not to use the railroads at all; and the fact that there will be a one-week vacation, preceded by reading period and exams, coming right in the middle of the season...