Evening star., 1943-05-06
Gen. Hershey Orders
Employers TO LIST
Fathers for Draft
SeIective Service Chief
Predicts Inductions Will
Begin by August !

Predicting that it may be neces-
sary to induct fathers into the armed
services by August l, Or earlier,
Selective Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey yesterday took major step
toward paving the way for the in
duction of fathers.
He notified employers on the list
of 35 essential activities to advise
draft boards of fathers in their
employ.
At the same time. Gen. Hershey
informed the Senate Military Affairs
Committee that fathers might have
to be drafted by August or earlier
in opposition to a bill by Senator
Wheeler. Democrat, of Montana
prohibiting the draft of fathers.
Oppose Deferment Ban.
Gen. Hershey and Secretary of
War Stimson also expressed opposi-
tion to legislation prohibiting draft
deferment for Government workers
between the ages of l8 and So They
both contended that some key work.
ers, with special skills or ability
should be deferred
The advice to employers to list
the fathers in their employe was
urged to assure the employers that
''if the time comes when fathers
are needed in the armed forces, the
employers will be given an oppor-
tunity to submit additional evidence
Of the essentially of their men.
This distinction between fathers
who are and are not in essential
activities. it was expla med was
method of determining how many
fathers will be eligible for occu-
pational deferment when fathers
begin to be called.
Advised on Forms to File.
Fathers in essential activities were
previously classified in 3-B. but
since that classification has been
abandoned draft boards have made
no distinction between men who are
IN essential and non essential work.
except in the cases of men on the
non -deferrable list.
Employers were advised to use
the same form-42B- notifying
draft boards of the fathers in their
employ as they previously did in
certifying their men for 3-B.
The forms do not specify that the
men are key men but only that
they are bona flde fathers employed
in an essential activity.
Where these forms have been
filed. the notice advised employers
will be notified when the fathers
draft number comes up. In order
to continue his deferment, the en-
ployers would then have to make
application for a full occupational
Geferment.
Although men with dependents in
all categorieS were previously eli
eible for deferment in 3-B after this
form had been filed, the new order
limits use Of the form to bona fide
fathers with children born before
September Is, 1912, and less than
is years old.
Recent Order Clarified.
At the same time. SelectlVe service
Issued a memorandum TO clarity
what it meant in its order of last
month making induction imminent
fer all but bona fde fathers
The order of April y said that
calls should be filled by single men
with no dependents, single men with
collateral dependents, married men
with wives only and men with chill
,dren-in that order. The question
arose over exactly what selective
service meant by men with chill
dren" since fathers could not be
called until further notice
The clarifying memorandum ex-
planned that by men with children"
Selective Service meant that "at
present only fathers who left an
agricultural occupational or en-
deavor essential to the war effort
without the permission of their
draft boards and fathers in non-
deferrable activities or occupations.
In other words. in filling calls.
draft boards would put these fathers
at the bottom of their pool of avail
able men and would not send them
up for induction as long as it also
had classified in IA single men and
men with wives ONLY