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...Galveston, Tex., where 2,000 workmen at Todd Galveston Dry Docks are on strike, the draft boards swung an anti-strike truncheon that had never been swung so vigorously before. Informed that more than 20 men of draft age, deferred because of their jobs in an essential industry, had walked out, the boards ordered them to report to draft headquarters. Purpose: to give them physical examinations, reclassify them for service in the Army, where striking is just not done...
...Jersey City draft board swung even more decisively. It called in a striker at the National Bearing Metals Corp., tossed out his deferment, marked him Class 1-A (available for military service...
...some 750,000 young U.S. citizens, the question was absurd. These recently turned 21-year-olds had registered for the draft July 1, had their numbers drawn last week in Washington. Government bigwigs, 50 draftee and volunteer noncoms, World War I veterans, reached successively into the same glass jar used for the World War I draft and the first draft of War II, extracted 800 opaque, fireproof capsules. Inside each was a slip with a number corresponding to the order in which the 21-year-olds had registered (thousands in different draft districts had the same numbers). First number drawn...
...order of the numbers drawn determined the order in which the new registrants will be listed by local draft boards. Where the ratio of old to new registrants on a board's list is five-to-one, five older prospects will be called up for classification ahead of a 21-year-old, etc. But the local boards do not have to induct all whom they call up. They may-and are likely to-defer more of the older registrants, for the Army wants youngsters, and hopes that most of its new draftees will be from the class...
...weeks two drafts of an executive order which would end the OPACS-OPM wrangle by clarifying their jurisdiction have lain on President Roosevelt's desk. One draft gives OPACS full control over civilian supply. The other gives control to OPM, confines OPACS to the big job of watching prices. Unsigned, they have remained one of the many bottlenecks on the President's desk. Like many another of these bottlenecks, the OPM-OPACS jurisdictional feud would vanish if there were a single boss of defense...