Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-07-31
Appeal Board Grants
Nine Of 80 Appeals
For Draft Deferment
Housing Project Head,
Four Government Aides
Win Stoy Due to Jobs

Inc senior partner IN a lOW-COSC
housing development. privately
employed engineer and four Govern
ment aides were granted deferment
because of their jobs at the latest
meeting of the District Board of
Appeals, local selective service head
quarters announced today.
The appeal board, reporting for
the week ending July "a, granted
only nine of the thirty-eight appeals
it considered. One case was returned
to local board.
OF the appeals rejected. IS were
for deferment because of depend
ents. 10 we're for occupational defer
ment, we're for deferment on either
grounds and l man already deferred
because of dependents sought CLASH
fication in AID as minister.
Occupational Actions.
In some cases, the appeal board
refused to defer men because they
had been in essential activities for
only a short time and a flying in
structor was denied deferment be-.
cause it was considered he would
be more valuable in the Army.
The Appeal Board granted occu-
pational deferments to Henry F.
Felker, ST. Navy Department senior
clerk: Owen Scott, A, civil engineer
for the Public Roads Administra-
ton; David ]. Sica, 26, senior ad-
ministrative assistant of the Civil
Service Commission; Edwin B.
Granger, 20, State Department
senior clerk; Robert B. Starkey, %.
assistant chief field engineer of
Baskerville & Son. and Cushing
Daniel, SO. senior partner in a real
estate company which is building a
number Of low-cost houses at River
dale, Md.
Mr.. Felker and Mr.. Scott were
both classified in 2-B for essential
activities in the war effort. Mr..
Granger was given the deferred
classification for only three months.
Granted deferment because OF de-
pendents were James I. Pulsifer, 43,
salesman for Metal Arts Co., Inc,
who had asked for deferment on
occupational grounds; Ricardo Dir,
SO, chief engineer of the Bricklayers,
Masons and Plasters Union of
America, who had asked for defer
ment on either grounds, and Aaron
Charles, %, salesman.
Defer ment on occupational
grounds was denied Rudy r. Tellish,
80, iron worker; Richard P. Ellinger,
%, Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Co. repairman; Isreal Ref
"a, Navy Yard junior metallurgist;
Sydney Ostrow, %, delicatessen
store marchant who had also sought
deferment on grounds of depend
ency; Ralph E. Cathcart, 80, Dis
trict manager of S g. w cafetehias,
who had asked deferment on either
grounds and for whom a 6O-day
stay of induction was recommended !;
Gerhard c. Nordness, 20, Agricul-
ture Adjustment Administration
Harold c. March, "a, history and
economics teacher at Montgomery
Blair High School; Sol Dolleck, %,
Bureau of the Census statistical
clerk; Writ A. Gill, Al. Social Sc
curity Board labor market analyst;
Vernon Hedin, 81, J. D. Hedin Con-
struction Co. engineer: William
Barker, "a, Southern Resin Co. &C
countant, and Henry D. Lambert
81, flying instructor for Brinckerhoff
| Flying Service.
Dependency Cases.
Denied deferment on grounds of
dependents were Charles C. Geyer,
81, Government Printing Office
bindery operator, for whom a Co.
day stay of induction was recon-
mended; James r. Bianco, 80, Fed
eral Housing Administration auditor
clerk, for whom a 6O-day stay was
also recommended! Gus G.. Chris
takos, 81, part owner of restaurant;
Bradley Smith, SO, truck driver, for
whom a 60-day stay was recon-
mended; Raymond w. Fuller, %
Bureau of Internal Revenue, Sales
Tax Division; Allan P. Rothbaum
81, jewelry salesman; Ralph Rez-
nick, %, War Department junior
clerk typist; Willie Key. %, drugstore
porter; Harry Davis, %, delicates-
sen manager; James j. Nahum, jr.
80. Bureau of Internal Revenue
senior label examiner: Nah K
Born, 40, restaurant operator; John
D. Bennett, 40, painter and dec
orator; Kenneth Young, 20, Fedora
Bureau of Investigation fingerprint
expert; Joseph F. Lilly, q, sheet
metal helper. and Seymour Epstein
Is, refrigeration mechanic.
Neal Funk, %, minister of Je.
hovah's Witnesses, who sought tx
change his classification from 3-A tt
. I'D as a minister was denied his ap.
, peal. The case of Roland E. Baird
20, War Department chauffeur, whit
sought classification In ga, was re.
turned to his local board for ad.
ditional information.