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Draft Appeals
Board 1900
Cases Behind

| 50 Out-of- -Towners
| Lose Deferment
In Review Here
The District Board of Appeal is
still 1000 cases behind in consider
ing draft deferments granted by
out-of-town boards for men work.
ing here, District draft headquar-
ters disclosed today.
A District spokesman, pointing to
roomful of shelves piled high with
cases to be reviewed by the District
Appeal Board, estimated that the
cases of men granted deferments in
February might not be reviewed un-
| til June.
The backlog of review cases was
disclosed to explain why appeal
board actions announced today,
covering the two weeks ending
March Is, involved draft deferments
which would have expired anyhow
within a month in most cases.
241 Cases Considered.
OF the 241 review cases considered
during the period, local boards we're
reversed in SO cases, and the men
lost their deferments. In number
of these cases, however, the appeal
board recommended a stay of in
duction for the men until their de-
ferment would normally expire.
The review procedure for out-of-
town cases was set up to give oc-
cupational deferments double
check, but District spokesman
pointed out that the five appeal
panels here are having difficulty
getting through the review cases be-
cause they must keep current on
local appeals from la classifica-
tions and now must give priority to
cases of men under 26 before con-
Isidering deferments granted to older
men.
In its latest announced actions the
appeal board ignored authorized
Government requests for deferment
of Federal employees in more than
dozen appeal and review cases. In
some other Government cases, how
ever, the appeal board noted that
the local boards had granted defer
ments beyond the period requested
by the Government.
Officials Lose Deferments.
Among the Government ofiicials
who lost their deferment on review
were:
George Maylo Austin, 36, chief
of the general litigation section, En-
forcement Division, Office of Price
Administration; James Noe, 81,
senior administrative analyst, Budg-
ct Bureau; Elmer B. Starts, %, prin-
cipal budget examiner, Budget Bu-
reau: Adrian Andrew Walser, "a,
senior rehabilitation program officer,
ONCE Of the o-ordinator of Inter-
American Affairs; John M. Kerans.
IS, administrative officer in the
lsame agency; Archie w. Robinson,
WAR Labor Board assistant infoz1na-
inon director who was granted a stay
/ of induction long enough to reach
his 38th birthday; Bernard Cush-
man, 80, National Labor Relations
Board senior trial examiner; Crane
Haussamen, 36, copy chief and
deputy director, program co-ordina-
ton, owl; Isidore zietz, as, geodetic
lcomputer, Interior Department:
George James Aitken, So. budget of
f1cer, Inter-American Affairs, and
Jacques Dunlany, IS, owl division
chief.
The appeal board permitted con-
tinued deferment for two Capitol
Hill employes-Matthew J. Connolly.
36. chief investigator Of the Senate
Committee Investigating the Ma
tional Defense Program, and John
William Norton, 80, head plumber of
the Capitol.
| Other Review Cases.
In other review cases, the appeal
board changed three classifications
-reclassifying one man from IA
to lao for non-combatant service;
another from 2-A to 4-D as a min
lister and third from 2-B to IA.
Acting on appeals for deferment
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Is out of 80 requests for occupational
deferment; and five out of 80 re-
quests for deferment on grounds of
hardship. Two of the five men who
appealed successfully for deferment
because of hardship were the fathers
of five children each. The appeal
board noted in one case that draft
ing this father of five children would
be hardship on taxpayers.
The board, however, reclassified
man from the Sd hardship classi-
flcation to la on the appeal of a
Government appeal agent. In other
actions, the board placed in LAO
for non-combatant service a man
who had appealed as conscientious
objector and denied the request Of
another man for deferment as a
minister.