Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...high order number necessarily guarantee that its holders would not be called soon. Many factors (age, dependents, occupation, health, etc.) determined each registrant's chances. Most vital factor (and least clear to registrants last week) was the composite make-up of the registered group in each local draft district. For example: The Army intends to call up 800,000 one-year trainees by next June 15 (the first 30,000 are to be called Nov. 18). Last week Selective Service headquarters first allotted gross quotas to each State, then deducted from these totals the number of men from each...
Only group that will actually count in the draft for many months is Class 1-A (single, physically fit, not at work in "necessary" industries). The board may have to send out several sets of questionnaires to get enough Class 1-A registrants for its quotas. In a factory area, for instance, many holders of low order numbers on the national list may be classified in "necessary" occupations and thus deferred. Result: in such an area a registrant with an order number above 1,000 may find himself called ahead of his neighbor, with No. 20. Last week registrants could...
...Draft Rules. In the patriotic hurly-burly of draft registration and drawings, manv a draftee still had a lot to learn last week about what had happened...
Something that had happened to all the 17,000,000, whether or not they were marked for armed service, was new in U. S. life: continuous, detailed responsibility to local draft boards. The members of these boards in fact had become among the most potent of U. S. citizens...
...address, even a prolonged visit to another locality. A registrant who wants to leave the U. S. must get his local board's permission beforehand. Reason: such changes would probably affect a registrant's liability or availability for service. Penalty for willful failure to "tell your local draft board" is the same as for any other violation of the Selective Training and Service Act: imprisonment up to five years, fines up to $10,000, or both. In practice, reprimands will serve for first, minor infractions (unless boardmen and courts are unco-testy...