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...Selective Service Board took the first step last week, by sending to local boards questionnaires to be filled in by men in the third registration (20-21, 37-44), to locate men skilled in "critical or essential occupations." All registrants will get the same questionnaire. Draft registrants will be reclassified. Only those men in essential jobs (also reclassified) will be kept in Class...
...York City, one of the most lenient areas of draft classification, Director Arthur V. McDermott announced that the time might soon come when children would not exempt a father from service. In Congress were bills to make additional money allowances to wives and children of drafted soldiers...
...Army announced a new rule on physical examinations: if men seem to draft-board doctors sound of wind & limb, they will be sent as needed to induction centers, where they will get a more thoroughgoing test. If they pass, they are soldiers...
...Seeandbee went into cruise service, on a run that was the poor man's seven-day dream-tour of the Lakes. While she was quietly aging at Cleveland's East 9th Street Pier, the U.S. Navy took a look at her shallow draft, her gangling length (484.5 feet, overall), decided that with a little face-lifting and some new glands, she would do as a remodeled carrier. Her four stacks could be moved to one side, her upper deck and superstructure torn away. The old crone would become a Valkyrie. Before summer's end, said the Navy...
Last growth is the biggest: the 624 officers and 1,190 noncoms are joined by 13,435 privates. The privates are draft-fresh. They have come straight from reception centers. Their uniforms don't fit, they look like Puss in Boots in their leggings...