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...high time somebody began to talk on the subject. George Marshall and the Army knew it would have to be done sooner or later. The National Guard outfits longest in service are due to go home on Sept. 15. The first of the draft recruits will begin to dribble back home two months later. And under present law, the Army could make no move outside the hemisphere without Congress' say-so, thus advertising its intention to a foe who moves with lightning speed and without warning. This week's occupation of Iceland was a move the Army could...
George Marshall talked bluntly, as a soldier should. What he had to say about extending the one-year draft period could be boiled down to a terrifyingly simple conclusion: Unless the citizen soldiers now in the Army are kept there, the U.S. will have to rub out what it has done and start over again. For, in expanding the field Army from some 210,000 regulars (Sept. 1, 1939) to 1,448,500 (last week), the staff has had to spread its three-year professionals perilously thin. Only two divisions (First and Third) are now made up exclusively of three...
...Angeles, Edward Price Richards, 29, who registered for the draft last fall and was classified as 4-F (physically, mentally or morally unfit) petitioned the Superior Court to change his name to Barbara Ann Richards. Reason: he has given up his job, begun to stick around the house, stopped shaving six weeks ago (his beard had stopped growing) and felt he just had to change to women's clothes...
Caught in the Draft (Paramount) is, in a way, a triumph for Bob Hope...
Owner of two swimming pools (one "last year's model"), star of He Kissed Her Twice and Bingo, Hope is cast as a craven, overpaid actor suffering from the approach of the draft. Marriage looks like his best out. but his selected victim, a colonel's daughter (Miss Lamour), suspects his intention. He stages a fake enlistment. It backfires him into the Army...