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...charge was serious: draft evasion. But the defendant was neither worried nor penitent: he was just plain mad. Explained Hollywood Studio Worker John Robinson Baer to a U.S. Commissioner last week...
...Said no man should be deferred in the draft just because of Federal employment; when a rush of enlistments followed, he ordered that no Federal employe be al lowed to enlist until his case had been fully considered...
...called up by his draft board, inducted, sent to Fort MacArthur. He burned his civilian clothes, tore up his draft card, drilled for 35 days with other Army rookies. Then Army officers discovered his name was not on their rolls. Despite all his protestations that he was no stowaway, he was dismissed...
With borrowed clothes, he started back to civilian life. Police picked him up, found he had no draft card, tossed him in jail, called...
Bendetsen, with a Stanford law degree, a reserve lieutenancy and an interest in radio and aviation, was practicing law in his Aberdeen, Wash, hometown in 1939 when the Judge Advocate General's Department called him. There, as captain, he helped draft the Selective Service and Soldiers' & Sailors' Relief Acts. Promoted to major, he prepared the War Department's legal steps for taking over two striking airplane plants, organized the alien and war prisoner division of the Provost Marshal General's Office. Later, a lieutenant colonel, he prepared Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that last...