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...draft bit deep into WPB itself. WPB asked the War Manpower Commission to defer 245 of its draft-age employes. WMC, which passes on all Government deferment applications, turned down all but seven...
...knowledge, ability and dependability; newsmen and industrialists agree. But ever since the political hue & cry roused by the temporary deferment of OPA's General Counsel David Ginsburg, no prominent young Government official has cared to risk a repetition. President Roosevelt's policy has been to let the draft have its way with them, at no matter what the cost to the war effort. The reason "Cap" Krug got no deferment was that he refused to permit it. Last week his Clinton, Tenn. draft board put him in 1-A and Krug, ex-University of Wisconsin footballer, was expecting...
...When the draft began to reach out for fathers last year, some Senators- notably Wheeler of Montana-cried out that it was not necessary, that there were plenty of deferred single men to fight the war (TIME, Oct. 11). Congress promptly called on the President for the facts...
Last week the President's five-man medical board turned in its fact-crammed report. For fathers the news was gloomy: combing the nation's 3,357,000 4-Fs would probably produce only about 200,000 fit for active service. Draft boards, already behind in their quotas, would have to 1) quicken the fast pace at which fathers are being inducted, 2) reclassify still more men-single and married-now classed as essential workers...
...Recently draft boards and induction centers have been forced to reject as unfit 46% of all men between 18 and 38. "An increase in these rejection rates can be expected as men in older age groups, men living with their families, are called...