Evening star., 1943-10-03
Deferments Sought
For 81 Untitled Jobs
In Interior Agency


Thirty-seven of 80 key positions"
for which the Interior Department
asked draft deferments were vacant
when the deferments were sought.
Col. Edward A. Fitzpatrick, selective
service representative on the War
ManpoWer Commission Review
Committee, testified before a
House Military Affairs subcommittee
yesterday.
The "key positions" were all in
the United States Board of
Geographical Names, which comes
under the Interior Department, he
testified.
That board came in for special at
tention by the subcommittee when
Col. Fitzpatrick, in the course of
answering charges leveled against
him by Secretary of the Interior
1ckes for earlier testimony before
the committee, produced pro-
nouncing guide prepared by the
geographical board.
All 80 Disapproved.
Claims that the guide, which con-
tanned 100000 foreign names, was
essential to the war effort were "a
little bit exaggerated Col. Fitz-
patrick said
The VINO review committee.
which passes on Federal draft de-
ferments, refused to approve any
OF the 80 defermentS requested by
the Geographical Board. Col. Fitz-
patrick said.
He also presented a 14-page state
ment prepared by the committee to
back up its contention that the In
terror Departments map-making
activities were not "critical' in the
war effort but only supplemented
the Army Map Service.
Earlier, Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey was asked by
committee members if it was true
that several hundred men on the
Government payroll had been re-
Jected for mental reasons.
4-F's in Government.
Gen. Hershey responded that he
had no way of knowing how many
there were and that it would be
difficult to obtain the figures. At
ter te5tifying that 100000 of the
3.4l2 900 men in At We're rejected
Tor mental reasons. Gen. Hershey
| was asked if he thought there was
reason to question the holding of
Government jobs by mental re-
Jects. He replied that perhaps YOU
can have people working for Gov
ernment that couldn't work in
private industry"
Asked about the possibility OF
labor camps for 4-Fs. Gen. Hershey
/ said he thought there was a labor
| pool in the 4-F classification and
that AIS were not contributing as
much to the war effort after they
were classified as they had before
they became 4-FS.
He said the Army and Navy had
a legal right to induct AIS and
assign them to any work the services
wanted done but he didn't know
what could be done outside Army
and Navy jurisdiction.
war Department Employees.
Figures released by the subcom-
mlttee meeting showed the War De-
partment employs 170045 fathers.
49 1853 men in At. 1888 single men
and 83 3477 married men without
children. According to these fig
ures, which are part of a summary
of the War Department. replace
ment schedule. 42,724 War Depart
ment employees hold occupational
deferments. isis5
The Navy Departments figures
showed 95,l63 fathers; 24,o52 4-Fs :;
1855 single men, and 37.730 mar
ried men without children.
The War Manpower Commission S
summary OF the draft status Of
draft-age Federal employees in other
branches of the Government in
cluded the following:
Totals-25 23l single men. 25, ,593
married men without children.
66 693 fathers, for a total of ll7,5l7
men.
In Glass 1-3558 single men. 1924
married men without children. 1852
fathers, for a total of l0.554 men.
In Class 3 dependency defer
menU-l,442 single men. 5,403 mar
ried men without children, 57,15l
fathers. for total of 1896
In Glass 2 foccupational defer
ment-59 $50 single men, 7.7l9 mar
ried men without children, 2,416
fathers. for total of 6094 men.
In Glass 4-l1.56l single men.
6,66l married men without children.
2l92 fathers, for a total of 20,4l4
men.
The classifcations of 6.459 others
are not known. VINO said these
figures covered agencies employing
nearly 100000 men and women
workers