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WASHINGTON--War Manpower chief Paul V. McNutt said today that shifting of draft age men from non-deferable to essential jobs generally will delay only temporarily their induction into the armed forces...
While he sought to clarify at a press conference the WMC's recent far-reaching edicts on the draft, the 48 hour week and other manpower matters, Congress moved unmistakably closer to a two-fisted clash with the commission on the whole problem...
...cleared his throat. "My confidence now has been justified in essential American justice," announced Enrol Flynn, "I really mean it. . . ." The jury had just acquitted him on three counts of statutory rape. He added: "I've got to get my health back. [He is 4-F in the draft.] Then I've got a military mission in Europe. Nope, I just can't tell what it is all about...
...story concerns a racket king named Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) whose somewhat coarse way of life is interrupted by the Army. Despite his lawyer's efforts to "put in a fix" on his draft board, Jordan is clapped into uniform. By the standard Hollywood formula this should make a new man of him, but Jordan is really tough; he haughtily defies sergeants and Army discipline, finally kidnaps a pretty canteen hostess (Helen Walker) and makes a getaway. Then he discovers that his double-crossing lieutenant, one Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard), has usurped his racket throne and worked...
...long trip also was a strain on the swimmers. The veterans stood up well, but a good many of the younger men on the team weren't used to such a journey. Another blow was the loss of Bob Goodspeed who was called back to Cambridge by his draft board after the New York encounter and was unable to continue on the second leg of the jaunt...