Evening star., 1942-11-06
Married Men
Wont Bel Called
Before January
D. c. Droft Boards
To Take Single Group
On City-Wide Bosis

Induction of married men from
the District will be postponed un-
til after the first of the year,
local draft headquarters an
nounced today.
The announcement. it was eX-
planned, was based on a survey of
local boards to determine how many
single men, with and without COL
lateral dependents, are still avail
able. AS result of those reports,
1t was said, draft officials were rea-
sonably sure that married men
would be home until after Christ
mas.
Since some local boards still have
large pool of single men while
others have reached the bottom OF
that list, December calls on some
boards will be heavy and on other
boards will be nominal.
BY putting the calls on a CITY,
wide basis, it was explained, the
boards would exhaust all their single
men at about the same time.
Won't Make Predictions.
Draft officials would not make any
predictions on the date married
men without children will begin
entering the Army. Two deter
mining factors are the size of the
calls and the fate of the teen-age
amendment on Capitol Hill.
Draft officials explained that they
had held up the call for the last
10 DAYS of November until they were
certain each board would have suf-
ficient single men to fill the call.
At the same time, instructions were
given to the boards that only single
men were to be called.
Included among the single men
who are almost certain to be in the
Army by Christmas are those who
are turning 20 and are thus eligible
for service; the old 1-B group of
men with slight physical handicaps;
February l6 registrants whose order
numbers are being reached for the
first time, and men who are con-
tributing so little to collateral de-
pendents, such as mothers, fathers
or other relatives, that these de-
pendents can be cared for as we'll or
better through allotment and allow
ance payments.
Number Is Small.
Local officials said that in pro-
| portion to the number of men reg
istered here, the number of those
who are contributing large amount
to collateral dependents is relative-
| ly small.
1t was indicated that local board
would give as much consideration to
a man who was the sole support of
a mother making a home for him
as it would to breaking up any other
home.
Draft headquarters announced
that local boards have completed
the classification of all but thou
sand of the men registered with
them. Some boards. it was said,
haven't quite finished their lists, a
few boards are troubled by delin-
quents who have failed to report,
any many Of the boards are holding
up classifcations to obtain addi-
tional information.
Notices Are DELAYED.
1t was explained that because
boards were instructed to complete
classifying the men registered with
them as quickly as possible. they
have not had time to send out all
the notifications as to status. Single
men who have not received their no.
tice of classification, but have been
notified to report to hospital for a
preliminary physical, can get an idea
from that, however, that their in
duction is coming up, it was>said.
Local boards were told to start re-
classifying 1-B men at the rate of 2s
per cent month, and probably will
have that completed by the end OF
December, draft officials said. About
half the men already have been re-
classified and are among the mer
now being inducted.