Evening star., 1945-08-26
i. Plans toCut
Draft Calls 10
10000 Monthly
Decrease to Depend
On Jops' Acceptance
Of Yunk Occupation
DISCHARGE POINT SCORE may
be cut within two weeks. Pg. AS.
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.


The administration plans to
reduce draft calls to 10000 a
month and open the Army to
enlistment on a two-year Serv-
ice basis as part of it's program
for the transitional period i'm
mediately ahead, it was learned
authoritatively last night.
Draft calls will be maintained at
the current rate of $4,000 a month
until it is ascertained whether the
Japanese accept our occupation
forces peaceably. If the Japs offer
no resistance, inductions will be re-
duced sharply and present plans are
for the calls to decline gradually to
a virtual end next June.
The period of enlistmerts in the
Army would be cut from the former
three years as an indictment to
men to enter the service volun-
tarily and to minimize compulsion
in providing requirements for oc-
cupation forces. Consideration was
given one-year enlistments, but this
was rejected as inefficient and too
costly.
Service Would Be Limited.
In this connection, War De-
partment source said plans are be-
ng made to limit service of selectees
now entering the Army to approx
mately two years. depending on
the will of Congress.
These problems and others, it
was said, were threshed out by
PRESIDENT Truman with cabinet
members and other top-ranking
Federal officers in preparation for
the program to cover the transition
to peace which he will lay before
Congress. This program will be
outlined by Mr.. Truman when Con.
gress reassembles September 5.
Other high points of administra-
ton plans for the transition period
are:
l. The President will ask Con.
gress to renew his broad war pow.
ers in somewhat skeletonized form,
dropping those no longer needed
but retaining the authority neces-
sary to return the Nation to a full
peacetime basis in orderly fashion.
Present war powers expire Decem.
ber 81, unless renewed by Congress
Decree to Be Delayed.
2. Mr.. Truman plans to proclaim
hostilities at an end as soon as pos
sible-maybe in six or eight months.
But, because the life of hundreds of
emergency laws are tied directly
with such a proclamation, he will
delay it until the important war
statutes are no longer needed.
8. The President will ask Con-
gress to repeal war statutes as soon
as they are no longer needed, re-
gardless of the termination date
specified. This also applies to war
agencies established by law and
specified for continuance until hos
tilities are declared formally at an
end or some set period thereafter.
L. Mr.. Truman plans to liquidate
the many war agencies set up by
executive order as rapidly as their
remaining functions and business
can be taken over by permanent
Government departments. These
agencies will be killed as they were
created by separate executive orders
Most of them will be liquidated be-
fore issuance of a war-end procla-
nation
Interpretation Asked.
S. The Justice Department has
been asked for an Interpretation
of provisions of the Selective Service
Act pertaining to Unemployment
rights of veterans, particularly the
controversial point as to whether a
veteran could replace an employe
with more seniority. Acting Solici-
tor General Harold Judson was said
to be preparing the opinion. Sen
iority of veterans, however, so far
has not been as much of a problem
as officials feared it would be.
Included among wartime powers
which Mr.. Truman win ask Con-
gress to renew will be the authority
to allocate scarce materials during
It was understood that
such materials as tin and natural
rubber will be mentioned specifi-
cally. Most of the broad authority
over industry granted to the Presi-
dent under the Second War Powers
Act and delegated to the War Pro-
Board will be dropped, how
ever.
Mr.. Truman. it was understood,
also will ask Congress for a con-
tinuation of some subsidies used
to increase farm production and
hold down food prices.
Truman Plans Speedy Action.
The President, it was said, plans
to bring this war and all the busi-
ness connected with it to a legal"
end much sooner than the World
War was officially terminated. In
the last war it was not until July 2,
1921, that President Harding signed
a joint resolution of the House and
Senate formally declaring peace
with Germany and her allies. The
League Of Nations battle and other