Evening star., 1942-09-11
Draft Appeals
Board Rejects
42PIeas
Decisions Show
Tightening Up on
Deferment Policy

Faced with a record number ot
requests for draft deferment, mainly
married men and single men with
dependents, the District Board o1
Appeals turned down AZ appeals al
its latest meeting, local selective
service headquarters announced yes
terday.
Indications of a tightening de-
ferment policy on the part of both
local draft boards and the appeal
board itself were written all over
the appeal boards decisions. Of the
53 cases, considered during the week
ending August %, only 10 appeals
were granted to the AZ rejected
One case was returned to the men s
local board for additional informa-
ton.
Asking deferment because of de-
pendents were the older men
reached for the first time by their
local boards and the men with low
order numbers reclassified into Al
in line with the policy of preparing
to induct single men with dependents
as we'll as married men within a
short time.
One Occupational Deferment.
Only one occupational deferment
request was granted, that of a chem
ist and dairy technician in an ice
cream factory. Eight appeals for
deferment because of essential jobs
were turned down.
Almost half the appeals for a
changed classification came from
local board N. 9. Of the "a ap-
peals from that boards decisions. all
but two of the men had registered
in the first registration and held
order numbers as low as 234.
Chairman James D. Hayes of No.
. explained that these men with
low order numbers had been put
in IA in June before National Sc
lective Service headquarters an
nounced that all men with depen-
dents should be held in ga, regard
less of financial dependency, until
board reservoirs of single men with
out dependents had been exhausted.
Instead of putting the men back
In ga, he went on, the appeals were
allowed to 60 to the appeal board
since 1t was obvious that the men
would be needed in Ia in a short
time and by letting the appeals go
through, that part of the processing
machinery would be out of the way.
Few Put in ga.
The appeal board apparently
shared the boards attitude since so
few of the men were put back into
ga. Mr.. Hayes said, however, that
these men, although in Ia, would
not be called till the single men had
all gone.
The eight men from all boards
whose appeals for dependency de-
ferment were granted were James F.
Mcnamara, Is, Junior file clerk; Ed
ward j. Roche, 28, Corn Products Co.
salesman; Floyd Thomas Hicken-
looper, 80, Army Air Corps pur-
chasing department; Joseph Marks,
A, cab driver: Ralph William Kini-
son, 27, building and loan associa-
ton teller; Nicholas S. Smilanich,
80, United States Engineer Office,
Milwaukee, Wis; Chester NJ Norris,
"a, Treasury Department store
Keeper, and Arthur Ceppos, 33, waste
paper dealer.
Two other appeals granted were to
Robert Glenn Snyder, 81. chemist
and dairy technician of Garry Ice
Cream Co., who was put in IA, and
Fred Manthey, 81, National Labor
Relations Board statistical clerk
who appealed to 4-E as conscien-
tious objector. The case of Albert
Eugene Jacobs was returned to his
local board for additional informa-
ton.
Several Stays Recommended.
Occupational deferments were re-
fused in the cases of william Var
nall, 80, physical education teacher
at Hyattsville High School; Vincent
Joseph Mansfield, "a, New York City
water system guard; Frederick A
Stickel, 20, chemical engineering
student at st. Peters College; Harry
Warshaw, 27, book store operator
for whom a 30-day stay of Undue
ton was recommended; Chinn VI
Lee, 38, Sperry Gyroscope Co. book
keeper for whom a 60-
day stay was recommended; Milton
Belzer, 30, supervisor and repair
man in finance Office, War Depart.
ment; John Joseph McGovern, 20
Georgetown University medical stu.
dent, and Thomas v. Woodford, 25
Army Technical School, Chanutl
Field, Ill.
Men whose requests for reclasSifi.
cation in ga were rejected follow:
Florencio c. Agustin, 35, ehauf
feur; John William Connors, IS
General Accounting Office auditor
Charles Winfield Hopkins, 81; Ear
Vernon Castle, "a, cab driver
Aaron D. Schlopak, Is, Bureau o
Engraving and Printing skillet
helper; Jack H. Barnwell, "a, cal
driver; Frank M. McGeary, 81, East
man Kodak Co. inspector; Georg'
M. Higbee, 80, supervisor of wrap
ping and packing at S. Kann's
Henry F. Allen, 36, A. S. Abel CO
teletype operator; Charles j. Schrei
ber, 20, r. P. Andrews Paper Co.
Douglas Justice. 38, Goodyear Serv
ice automobile mechanic for whom
60-day stay of induction was rec
commended; Robert Carl Gallagher
80, Navy Yard machinist helper; Mi
ton Abelson, 80, Commerce Depart
ment employe; Dianisio Javonillt
"a, elevator operator.
Other Requests Rejected.
James Edward Dillon, 81, Burea
of Internal Revenue file clerk; Eo
ward William Howard, 80, Nav
Yard supply department junior store
keeper; Donald Otto Tucker, 3
mess attendant at Fort Meade Md
Edward j. Perkins. 80, Washingto
Terminal Co.; Leonard Vivian Felc
man, 80, beverage distributor ft
whom a 60-day stay of induction VIZ
recommended; Basil w. Artist,
Bureau of Engraving and Printir
laborer: Carroll B. Hutchinson,
Gray Line Sightseeing Co. hot
agent: William A. Johnson,
Treasury Department Junior clerl
Carl Francis Jones, 35, Interior D.