Evening star., 1943-10-06

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terially different from the procedure
ordered by the President and Con-
gress last ApriD
2. A new method of checking on
| the need for Occupational deferment
of men who leave home to work in a
war plant, by enabling the Selective
Service Appeal Board in the area of
the factory to review the action Of
the mans local board in deferring
him. This decision would be final.
unless changed by the director of
selective service. This is intended
to meet the argument that the local
board is not always in position to
| know how essential man is TO a
factory many miles away
Sets Up Procedure.
3. A direction to draft boards to
call all other available men, except
those deferred or exempt, before
ordering induction of fathers. This
merely writes into law the instruc-
tions that heretofore have gone out
to local boards from selective serv-
ice headquarters.
After approval of the substitute
measure today, Senator johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado moved to
give Government allotment of $50
month to each child of a man In
mllitar yService.
At present a wife gets $50. of
which s28 is given by the Govern
nent and S22 by the serviceman.
The family also gets sl2 for the
first child and $40 for each addi-
tional child from the Government.
There is pending now in the
House Senate-approved bill giving
the first child sl8 and each addi-
tlonal child Sll. House committee
action has raised the Senates sl8
to s22, the sll to s18 and added sl6
for each additional child
Senator Johnson said under his
proposal wife and one child would
get sl00 a month, with 2 children,
$50, etc.
Says Picture Is Changed.
Acting Chairman McKellar of the
Appropriations Committee pointed
out that Senator Johnson handled
the allotment bill the Senate passed
in July then said he did not be-
lleve the Coloradoan should ask the
Senate today to change without
committee action the rates he asked
Senators to approve three months
ago.
Senator johnson replied the Or
der to induct preWar fathers had
changed the situation.
Supporting the johnson $50 al
lotment for each child, Senator
Clark declared that since the Gov
eminent has announced a policy
of drafting fathers Immediately,
you will have a hard time making
the American people believe it is ex-
travagance to look after their
families, when. we are spending
money all over the world, talking
about feeding the people of the
world and talking of international
banks in which we will be the
principal sack -holders.'
Reduces Figures.
Senator johnson later changed
his amendment to give the first
child $50 a month and each addi-
tional child, $40 This would mean
$50 for a wife and one child plus
$50 for each additional child.
The Bailey-Clark substitute would
not interfere with the induction of
the 446,000 fathers draft officials
say they must call by December 81,
but the proposed review of occupa-
tional deferments may reduce the
number of fathers needed.
Senator Taft, Republican. of Ohio
also has substitute pending that
would not block the drafting of
fathers, but require that they be
called in age goups as follows: First,
those under 25; then those between
Is and 30, and, finally. those over 80.
Administration forces will resist
to the end, however, any attempt
to divide fathers into age categories.