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...usual, the newest draft announcements were badly timed, and confused the headline readers. But the facts were clear...
...Beginning Oct. 1, fathers of pre-Pearl Harbor children will be subject to draft call...
...Enough Labor. Last week's Boeing manpower crisis stemmed from three main factors (besides the draft): 1) wage rates in Seattle's booming shipyards are higher, drain off Boeing's workers as fast as they can be trained; 2) Seattle is desperately overcrowded; rents and food prices are skyhigh; new workers soon find out that high war pay is a deception; 3) Boeing labor relations are poor...
...Ration Book No. 3 by simply dipping into the mailbox. For Ration Books 1 & 2 they had had to wait in line and fill out questionnaires. The slick new red-tape-slashing scheme had gotten its inventor, Philip Holzer, 24-year-old OPA clerk (TIME, May 3) a temporary draft deferment and had given the U.S. Post Office its biggest delivery...
...Insect World. In Cincinnati, George Frank, a gypsy, was charged with trying to evade the draft by buying a wife and three children for $500. In Ithaca, N.Y., a local draft board sympathetically postponed the induction of a young man who had swallowed a hornet...