Evening star., 1942-07-03
Army 10 Draft
.1.BC|ass Men
Starring Aug. |
Those One Eyed
Or Deaf in One Ear
To Be Accepted

Men now classified 1-B under
selective service will start going
into the Army for limited service
August /, it was announced to-
day. Included in this group are
men with only one eye or deaf in
one ear, or less than the normal
number OF toes.
At the same time the War De-
partment announced this modifica-
ton of its physical standards, 10
cal selective service announced
limited number" of white 1-B reg
istrants from the District would
enter the Army in August.
This group of selectees will be
assigned to corps area service COM
mands and the War Department
Overhead, releasing an almost equal
number of fully qualified soldiers for
service with task forces.
The Army has already expert
mented with this group on a small
scale, having inducted 1-B men
from some States. The War De-
partment did not disclose how many
1-B men would be taken into the
Army
Minor Defects Acceptable.
Induction will be limited, 1t was
said, to those with minor physical
defects who are able to bring to the
Army a useful vocation which was
followed in civil life"
Local selective service also an
nounced today that lat men in Glass
ga, deferred because of dependents,
will be interviewed and will take
their Army physical examinations as
volunteer officer candidates at Boil
ling Field beginning Monday of next
week
The first of this group will be in
Quoted into the Army either in July
or August, it was said Local head
quarters has been notified that the
quotas for volunteer officer candi-
dates are being revised and for this
reason is developing the large pool
of candidates.
To fill the August call for 1-B men,
District local boards have been in
structed to go back to the beginning
of their order lists and send 1-B
men in the order of their original
call. Of the men who take their
local board physical examinations
during July 10 per cent from each
board will be 1-B men.
Will Get Army determination.
If the men are found on Army re-
examination to be IA, they will be
inducted with the IA registrants.
However, if men sent for their Army
physical examinations as la men
are found with defects that would
put them in 1-B, they will not be
inducted as 1-B men until the 1-B
call reaches them on the order lists.
Among those now classified 1-B
who will be eligible for limited serv-
ice are.
Individuals whose weight and
chest circumference are under or
over standards set for IA regis
trants but who are otherwise
mentally and physically fit and who
do not fall within Glass 4.
Those who have a minimum vision
Of 20-400 in one or both eyes without
glasses. if correctible with glasses
to 20-40 in either eye. The loss of
one eye, providing such loss was not
due to organic change, will not re-
suit in the disqualification" of an in
dividual provided the other eye has
10000 vision correctible to 20-4o or
better.
Cutoff Ears Don't Matter.
Men whose hearing in one or both
ears is not less than $40. Com
plete deafness in one ear will not
result in disqualification provided
the hearing is 1920 or better in the
other ear; nor will the loss of both
external ears, provided the indi-
vidual has followed a useful voca-
ton in civil life.
Those who had insufficient teeth
to qualify for class la, provided the
defect is correctible by artificial
dentures and there are no evidences
of extensive areas of infection or
other disease of the jaw, the correc-
ton of which would require pro-
tracted treatment.
Indiviuals with lateral deviation
of the spine from the normal mid
line of less than 3 inches.
Men who have lost an entire
thumb on either hand: or those who
have lost three entire fingers, pro-
Vida6 the tbIlr1h rom aims
Those who have lost the great toe.
lost the dorsal flexion of the great
toe, have a hammer toe or have
webbed toes, provided these other
defects do not prevent them from
wearing a military shoe and have
not prevented them from following
a useful vocation in civil life.
Moderate Deformities Allowed.
Individuals who have been able to
follow a useful vocation in civil life
despite moderate defornities of one
or both upper extremities, one or
both lower extremities, or moderate
deformities of the clavicle, ribs or
scapula.
Local headquarters also announced
today the names of 36 colored regis
trants who were inducted into the
Army June 1s and reported to camp
yesterday and % white registrants
who were inducted June 10 and were
scheduled to report to camp today.
Those who reported yesterday
were:
Gray, John e: G. Bracey. Roy
Watklns' Lloyd o. Rice, David e.
morton Jesse W.. Lott, James.
WllKes Wllilam l.. Saunders, Gene
Hoss. Tyson z. Norne, Edward L.
COATES, John Francis, Isaac 3
AIen, william q. Sellman, Millard r
Eooerts. Glydell Turner, Kenneth c.
Bobo, William L. Holland Clyde r.
moore, Cllnord Q. stevenson. Louis D.
lhomaS Jonn d. Richardson, Samuel
Coins, Russell r. Aston, Curtis
Ihxon; waiter Davidson, Junius H.
Poweii: Oranto r. Pratt, Roscoe E.
Lee James e. Funston. James l.
Miller, w. E. jr. Smallwood. W D.
Mann, william D Goodwin, Lewis NJ
Johnson, Elmore w. Harley. Elihu r
Those who reported today were:
Miller, Charles W. Coils, Peter r
Anderson, James r. Ramisch julius O.
Mcbride, Owen z. Schlesinser s. C.
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