Evening star., 1942-08-09
Youths Of 20
Face Army Call.
By Christmas
First Registronts Of
June 30 Listed for
PhysicoIs This Month

District youths who reach their
Goth birthday by September IS can
figure on being in the Army before
Christmas, local selective service
headquarters said yesterday.
The prediction applies to those
who are physically fit and would
not be deferred because of depend
ents or their jobs.
Asked whether 20-year-olds should
plan on going back to college this
fall. the selective service spokes-
man advised youths to add 45 days
to the date of their 10th birthday
anniversary.
If that addition, which is the
average time of processing" brings
them past the middle of the school
term, the chances are they will be
allowed to finish the term, assum-
ing it ends the 1st of February, the
selective service official said.
October Is Vital Date.
In other words, the youth who
becomes 20 after october Is will
probably be allowed to remain in
school until the end of the term.
"If a man can determine from his
local board that he won't be in
Quoted until past the middle half
Of the term and enters school on
that assurance, he will be allowed
to finish the term,' the official
advised
The first OF the 2o-year-olds who
registered June 80 will get their
local board physical examinations
by the end of this month, it was
said.
The largest group of June 80 reg
istrants will be inducted late in
October, or in November or De-
cember, tapering of toward the end
Of that month.
After that, those who turn 20
each month will help to fill quotas
made up largely of reclassifled men
from previous registrations.
Single Men Come First.
AS it stacks up now, the Septem-
ber call will be composed predomi-
nantly of single men with no de-
pendents.
The same group will fill up most
OF the October call while the June
30 registrants will fill the November
and December calls.
BY that time, local boards will
have reviewed the cases of all reg
istrants and will proceed to follow
the seven categories set up by ma
tional selective service. December,
therefore, will find some single men
with dependents going into the
Army, In the succeeding months,
local boards will finish each cate
CORY and go on to the next, reach
ing family men late in the spring.
Most local boards have not yet
finished classifying men enrolled in
the third registration. AS soon as
they finish this registration, they
will 60 on to the 20-year-olds who
registered June 30.
Get Questionnaires When 20.
OF the 1900 youths OF 18, 10 and
20 who registered in June, approx
mately $500 will be 20 by mid-Sep-
tember. Local boards cannot send
out their own questionnaires until
the youths reach their goth birth
day.
Just how many youths will be
available from this pool OF man
power Is a question. About 80 per
cent of them will be deferred be-
cause of the nature of their jobs,
1t was estimated Another substan-
tial percentage will be rejected for
physical defects. Further, this
group has been, and continues to
be, fertile field for recruiting.
Many of the youths will be in the
Army, Navy or Marine Corps before
their names are reached on local
board lists.
In this group are also many who
have been training since high school
in war jobs. Industrial plants went
after them when the lower age limit
OF the draft was still 81 and plant
managers figured they could get two
or three years of work from them
before they were drafted Quick to
learn, many of the youths already
have developed manual skills which
make them essential on their jobs.
No Lottery Held.
No lottery was held to determine
the order number of the June 80
registrants. Instead, they were
given order numbers in the sequence
of their birthdays or, where two
were born on the same day of the
same year in alphabetical order.
AS soon as local boards complete
this listing by birthdays, order lists
win be posted at board headquar-
ters. The lists are expected to go
up this week.
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