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...took the draft to drag 30-year-old Carlton N. Krause from his home at Ogdensburg, Wis. (pop. 207). Before last spring Homebody Krause had never wandered far from his dairy farm, the woods, the tools he used to bore his own gun barrels. Only once had he seen the State's metropolis, Milwaukee, 115 miles from home...
...Although there were rumors of a wave of suicides at Fort Dix, N.J., only one soldier killed himself. Before 1940, the Army suicide rate was 35 per 100,000; since the draft it is 13, a rate lower than that of the general population...
Last week he tapped 260-lb. John A. Ritchie, bus-bigwig; this week will draft other transportation big shots...
Perhaps the most serious setback which the team is still recuperating from is the loss of halfback Charlie Spreyer who was "caught in the draft." There are other problems, however Hank Vander Eb, expert place kicker, is married, and his status is doubtful, while Juniors Mort Waldstein and Stan Durwood, both of whom had been counted on heavily, are not playing since they are both on probation...
...Draft Information Requested...