Evening star., 1942-11-11
|ChiId|ess Men Face
Early Draft Call
In Nearby Areas
Some Husbands Token
By Boords to Fill
Current Quotas

Married men without children
now classified ga for that reason
alone, will face induction early ir
1943 in most nearby Virginia anc
Maryland areas, irrespective Of any
draft Of 18 and 10 year old youths
a survey disclosed today.
Selective service officials in both
areas disclosed married men already
are being called or will be called in
December.
Col. Henry S. Stanwood, Maryland
director, said that while every effort
was being made to exhaust the sup
ply of available single men before
tapping the list Of married men
many local boards are reclassifying
married men from ga to LA tc
fill December quotas.
The Associated Press reported
from Richmond that Col. Mills F,
Neal, Virginia director, said the
number OF married men called in
December will be relatively small
but that large increase may be
expected in January.
Rockville Board May Be First.
Based on the consensus of off,
clals OF the boards in nearby areas
Montgomery County Board No. at
Rockville will be the first to call
married men with no children to fill
its December quotas. Married men
who were wed after May q already
have been sent from this area and
others married previously are being
sent notices this week to report
for physical examinations with a
view to filling December quotas.
While it is too late to postpone
induction of those already mott
fled in the latter category, it was
admitted that passage of the 1913
year-old draft bill might postpone
Induction for childless married men
who have not been notified by the
time the 18 and 10 year olds are
reclassifled.
Frederic P. Lee, chairman of
Montgomery County Board No. 3,
said reclassiflcation of all ga men
with collateral dependents-pre-
viously deferred because of depend
ent relatives other than wives-has
been completed. These collateral
dependant registrants will fill out
portion of the November quotas
and their numbers will be exhausted
at the end of December, he esti-
mated. He referred only to men
listed in the first and second regis
trations.
Mr. Lee said, however, that he
did not believe the 18-19-year- -old
draft bill would postpone the calling
of married men to any great extent
possibly month or two, depend
ing on the date of passage.
Fairfax Status Given.
Chairman Herbert Blunt of the
Fairfax County board said that
unless the proposed law becomes
effective within the next Is days,
married men will begin to be in
Quoted in January. Men with COL
lateral dependents will make up the
oCCClIlOC1 dllO CdlAy od11uo1y SoAAo
and if the law is enacted by Con-
gress, induction of married men
might be postponed until March,
he said. The board now has only
about so single men left to fill fu-
ture calls, he declared.
- Arlington Board No. expects
to have exhausted all of its col
lateral dependent registrants by
the end of December, while Board
No. l probably has sufficient to last
through January, clerks at the
boards said. Even immediate pas
sage of the proposed legislation
could not postpone induction for
the most of the collateral dependent
registrants in Board 2, because
some already have been notified to
report and many others would have
been notified before the 18 and 10
year olds could be classified and
given sufficient notice of induction.
In Arlington Board No. 2, how
ever, passage of the law would tend
to defer greater proportion of men
with collateral dependents and
married men. It is estimated the
younger men would fill quotas for
about two months, on the basis of
numbers called up to now.
Alexandria to Call Husbands.
In Alexandria officials said they
expected to call married men early
next year, but declined speculation
of the effect of the pending legisla-
ton.
Montgomery County Board 2 at
Silver Spring, now inducing the
secondary dependency registrants,
probably will begin calling the child
less married men the first of the
year unless the quotas are greatly
increased. AS is true with other
boards, men married since passage
of the draft law will be the first
of the childless group to be called.
Chairman Leo Dunn of Prince
Georges Board l expects to exhaust
the collateral dependency list at
the end of December and will begin
calling on this group the latter part
of this month. If Congress permits
the calling of 18 and 10 year olds,
married men would be thrown back
about three months in their induc-
ton dates, he believes.
Marlboro Boards Status.
The same situation exists with re-
spect to Prince Georges Board 2 at
Marlboro, Judge Brice Clagett,
chairman, said, except that he does
not believe there are sufficient 18
and 10 year olds left, who have not
already enlisted, to postpone the
calling of married men any great
length of time.
Board No. 3. also at Marlboro, still
has plenty of single men," officials
said and even men with collateral
dependents are not in line for a
call until January or February. It
will be several months" before mar
ried men are called in that area.
Col. Neal said some Virginia
boards will have quotas unusually
high because of q policy which calls
for the induction of all single men
before any married man is called.
Eventually the boards will be "lev-
eled off," in that State, he declared.