The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-25

workers will be the last to be
called TO the colors by local
draft boards under new orders
sent out today.
Draft headquarters announc-
ed four categories to govern the
order under which men will be
called up on the basis of de-
tendency, leaving married men
with children as the last to be
indicted but emphasizing that
they could count upon no perm
anent deferment.
Meanwhile Paul V. McNutt,
war manpoWer commissioner,
changed his previous work-or-
fight orders to give men with
essential skills a chance to find
Jobs in vital war industries be-
fore being taken into the Army.
Previously SelectiVe S rVlce
boards had been asked only to
defer essential workers who act
I 'ly had key jobs.
The draft headquarters ruling
was in line with the bill Presi-
dent Roosevelt signed yesterday
grantin. allowances for soldiers
dependents. The ruling estab-
lshed general groups to be in
Quoted In the following order:
list CATEGORIES
Category l. Registrars 9TH
erwise qualified for military
service who have no bona-fide
financial dependents.
Category 2. Registrars 9TH
erWise qualified for military
service who have financial de-
pendentS other than wives or
children mentioned in categor-
les 3 or 4.
Category 3. Registrars 9TH
erwise qualified for military
service who have wives with
whom they are maintaining a
bona fide family relationship in
their homes and who were mar
ried prior to Dec. 8, l94l, and
at a time when induction was
not imminent.
Category 4 Registrars 9TH
erwise qualified for military
service who have wives and
children alone, with whom they
maintain a bona fide family re-
lationship in their homes who
were married prior to Dec. 3,
194l, at a time when induction
was not imminent
When a local draft board runs
out Of men in the first category
it will dip into the next one and
so on.
OTHER ASPECTS
Other aspects of the draft
headquarters orders are explain
ed in the following questions
and answers:
@. Will it be compulsory for
local draft boards TO classify
their registrants into the four
categories and call up men for
sc~vice in this order?
A. Selective Service head
quarters said it was the "ex-
pressed intent of Congress" UNI
der the new law and insofar
as practical should be followed.
@. Will a married man who is
now subject to induction be re-
classified according to the new
categories?
A. The directive is not retro
active, but Selective Service
said until reclassification is
completed men should be select
ed for service according to the
four categories.
@. Is it possible for a married
man to be placed in the first
category?
A. Yes. if the wife is not de-
pendent upon him. She might
work and have a salary large
enough to support herself or she
might have sufficient independ-
ent income. The wife's depend
ency is the vital issue.
Q. Will some married men be
called ahead of others?
A. Yes. Local draft boards
must fill their calls for men on
time and it may be necessary
for some Of them to dip into the
lower cateGories before others.
One board may not call men
registered with another.
@. When may married men
and married men with children
expect TO be called?
\. That depends upon the re-
serves of men their local boards
may have in the first two cate
gories and the ultimate man
power requirement for the war
effort.