Evening star., 1948-11-21
Army, Navy May Seek
Amendments 10 Draft
Doctors and Dentists
By John A. Giles

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By John A. Giles
The defense establishment
plans to ask Congress to amend
the selective Service law to per-
nit induction of physicians and
dentists. it was learned yester-
day.
Both the Army and Navy are be-
coming critically short Of physicians
and dentists with the rapid ex-
pansions authorized by the last
Congress. The Army Medical De-
partment also provides medical and
dental care for the Air Force.
Maj. Gen. Raymond w. Bliss, the
Army surgeon general, has said
that despite every inducement the
department has been able to evolve
sufficient physicians just aren't
volunteering" He also pointed out
that there was . general shortage
of physicians throughout the Ma
ton.
Training Programs Cited.
The draft presumably would bring
back into the Army and Navy num-
bers of men who received wartime
draft deferments and Government
financed education under the Army
Special Training Programs and the
Nays Viz training system.
The defense establishment origin
ally proposed to Congress that the
drafting of physicians and dentists
be permitted, but the legislators
eliminated this provision in the law
passed last June.
At that time Secretary of the
Army Royal said that obtaining
sufficient medical and dental off,
GERS would present one Of the most
difficult problems" He estimated
that the Army, then already short
of such officers, would need 5000
more this year.
However, he promised that 1--WE
will make a very defeinite effort to
interfere as little as possible with
the civilian medical situation"
ANA Help Is Sought.
A high defense ofi1cial said yester-
day that an effort was being made to
obtain the help of the American
Medical Association and the Ameri-
can Dental Association in getting
the draft law amended.
Meanwhile, the Army feels that
1t will solve its lack of sufficient
nurses through an arrangement
worked out with the American
Nurses Association at conferences
at The Pentagon. The method of
procurement will be by means of
individual State quotas and the joint
Army ANA campaign is expected to
net $500 nurses by next June 80.
The quotas were set on the basic of
the nurse population of each state
and 40 per cent will be obtained by
January /. Fifty nurses each will be
sought in the District and Virginia
and Is from Maryland under the
system.
The draft machinery itself moved
toward its first month of actual in
duction operation to fill the Armys
call for 100000 men in November.
Is Inductees Named.
The names of Is more District
men who will be indicted into the
Army Tuesday were announced yes
terday by Frank D. Norton, deputy
Selective Service director.
The induction on Tuesday at the
Army and Air Force Recruiting
Station will bring to So the number
Of men thus far inducted. Three
more men will be indicted Novem-
ber 80 to fill the full November
quota.
Men ordered to report Tuesday
follow:
Homer Charles Purdham, 1897
Twenty-first street NV, a bank
teller; Ralph Seaton. jr., 1925 Ver-
non street NV, a Justice Depart
ment chauffeur; Edgar Mcdowell
Lucas, 4040 Ellicott street NV,
laborer; Donald Norman Grouse,
4343 Harrison street NV, Army De-
partment photostat operator; Wiley
Shaw, jr., 1755 Swami street NV,
cook.
Nicholas John Anameteros, 60l6
Fourth street NV, unemployed;
Ernest Joseph OFT, 1873 Ingraham
street NV, Navy Department ply
sicist; Harry Allan Loube, 1916 Hem
lock street NV, Rural Electrical
tion Administration clerk; Melvin
Hennon Pierce, 3107 Fifteenth street
NE, barber; James Means, 1902
Tenth street NV, unemployed.
Joseph F. Briggs, I'LL Rhode Is
land avenue NV, unemployed:
Gerald Roy Clay, 2415 Fifteenth
street NV, drug company food
manager; Oscar Sanders Westmore-
land, lot Fifth street Sc, Govern
ment Services food preparer; Jo-
seph L. Armstrong, 1116 Sumner
road Sc, paperhanger; Carl Nor
gan, 1104 Twenty-flrst place NE,
stock clerk.