Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
488,263, 902 Fund
10 House Draftees
Goes 10 White House
Senate Passes Measure
In Rush a Day After
House Approves 1t
BY BLAIR BOLLES.


build barracks and tent platforms
for the first contingent of draftees
and to purchase s8,744 900 worth of
land for Army post expansions.
-. Action came on voice vote after
r. brief explanation of the measure
given by Chairman Glass of the
Senate Appropriations Committee
- The House approved the bill by
Unanimous consent late yesterday
yand Chairman Glass, hurrying it
toward passage, obtained enough
favorable votes from his committee
Senate without the formality of
hearings.
'~ Congress previously had loosened
5000 900 900 for Army housing to
meet the problems raised by the
prospect of greatly expanded
american military force resulting
from calling the National Guard and
Reservists to the colors and from
the launching OF the peacetime
draft.
DIdIt-T iHdhSiIAk Dill.
5 The 1898 1853 902 was cut into a
separate measure from the $780,
100000 draft financing bill by the
House Appropriation Committee at
the instance of Gen. George c.
Marshall. Army chief of staff, who
yesterday urged this swift step in
an appearance before the committee.
The remaining portion of the
bill, carrying around $1,000 900 900
and introduced at the request of
President Roosevelt, will be put
before the House as soon as the
Appropriations Committee can act
on it.
The housing bill would finance
barrack- building for 100000 men
and construction of tents with
wooden floors for about 10000 more
assigned to warm climates. The
first year of the draft will see
about 100000 men called up for
service, beginning about a month
after draft registration, October Is.
At draft headquarters in the Po-
tomac Park Apartments, financing
arrangements for the vast con5crip-
ton effort went forward at full
speed in anticipation of the con-
gressional appropriation action and
the Presidents order setting up a
draft administration.
Preliminary estimates indicated
today that 81 $40 900 a month would
be distributed among local draft
boards throughout the country for
clerical help in the task of regis
tering and selecting men for COM
pulsory military service.
Selective service officials said that
each of $500 boards would have at
least one paid clerk.
Allotments for clerical help for
the rest of this year were figured
tentatively at 10 cents a month for
each man registered The Census
Bureau estimated that 16404 900
men were in the draft age limits
81 through IS.
A million men and women are eX-
pected to serve in the selective serv-
ice without pay--all members Of the
local boards. their medical legal
and business advisers and other ad-
mlnistrative aides.
Only Physically Fit Men.
The draft Army will benefit also
from the contracts totaling s6,000,-
900 900 let since late last May in the
defensive drive, as announced last
night by Donald NJ Nelson, CO.
ordinator Of defense purchases.
The orders covered items ranging
from shoes and ships to explosives
and machinery for manufacturing
tanks.
While the administration laid its
spending plans the Army set up
rules for admission of draftees into
the years service provided in the
consumption bill.
The examiners of the registrants
have been instructed only to pro
cure men who are physically fit or
who can be made so. for the rigors
Of general service or for special and
limited service"
1t is the intention of selective
service officials to accept men who
have defects which can be remedied
and to put them into condition both
for military service and for civilian
life.
1t is possible that men who are
specially qualified for expert jobs in
the Army, but who are partially
handicapped, may be accepted for
special and limited service"
Status of Married Men.
The selective service officials also
made an announcement yesterday to
make clear the exact status OF mar
sied men under the CONSUMPTION law.
Up to now, it has been stated gen.
orally that married men would be
deferred from actually being called
for service IN peacetime Close
study OF the law passed by Congress
failed to reveal any provision that
might be interpreted as granting
deferment for married men as a
class. In yesterdays announcement,
the draft board said that decisions
on whom and whom would not be
called up were matters put by law
into the hands Of the local boards
and that they and they alone had
the power to grant deferment. This
will be done with a view to the mer-
Its Of each individual case. In gen.
eral, however. it Is not expected
that local boards will see fit to draft
married men or men with depend
ents. The announcement made yes
terday makes clear nonetheless that
they have the power to do so.
The question of dependency will
not be assumed, because the draft
law states that each case must be
considered separately. The local
boards will have wide latitude in
determining whether wives, rela-
ttves or wards actually are depend
Gnt on the earned income of a man
claiming deferment
> The draft-defenSe appropriation
bill, which is being pushed through
the House now and is expected to
be. in the Senate next week, will
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