Evening star., 1950-08-18
Special Board Set
I'm to Review
Deferment Pleas


units if called into active service
despite draft law provision
against induction of youths under
10 District Guard officials said
today.
A special board of officers has
been established to review defer
ment requests of such youths, as q
result of complaints recently that
the Guard procedure conflicts un-
fairly with the selective service
law.
A few 17-year-olds are in units
called to active duty next month
But defermentS will be granted
only in extreme hardship cases
along lines laid down last week by
the Defense Departments policy
announcement concerning defer.
ment of ReservistS and Guards,
men in general, officials explained
The National Guard has ac'
cepted youths as young as l.
without requiring consent of par
ents and has taken some 16-year-
oldS with the consent of parents
Deferments For Doctors.
Meanwhile. Col. Harold Glattly
Second Army surgeon. outlined
deferment policies for reserve
medical officers in Washington
Maryland, Virginia and five other
States in the Second Army area
Meeting with State and Dis
trict medical society represent
atives at Fort Meade yesterday
Col. Glattly reviewed the follow
ing Army deferment criteria for
guidance in meeting the area
quota of 141 doctors who must
report for active duty by October
s:
/. Those who have not COM
pleted at least one year of intern
ship.
2. Senior resident physicians.
3. Those currently pursuing q
full time postgraduate course.
4. Those whose activity in
teaching, research and allied en-
deavors is considered necessary tC
the maintenance of the nationa,
health, safety or interest.
5. Those residing in communi.
ties whose health would be un.
duly jeopardized if such officer
were to be ordered to extended ac.
tive duty.
Quota Here Is II.
The Districts quota for the Oc
tober 6 target date is II doctors
Representing the District Medica
Society at yesterdays meetinl
were DR.. William NJ. Ballinger
president, and Theodore Wiprud
executive secretary.
An Army spokesman said toda.
the doctors were confident the.
could meet their quotas by volun
teers. They were urged to form
committees to set up priorities fol
the recall of the reservistS.
If the quotas aren't met by vol
unteers, by September Is perhaps
the Army official said, medical re-
servists- would be called up with
out their consent. The State
committees will be asked tx
recommend candidates for such E
Gallup, he added.
Dental society representative
in the Second Army area arr
meeting at Fort Meade today tt
work out plans with the denta
surgeon for meeting their quota o
SO reserve officer dentists, also duO
to report for active duty by Octo
Der 6. The District quota is 4.
Previously Served.
Meanwhile, District draft head
quarters was notified today tina
the Navy has granted its requeS
for assignment of 1t. Comdr. Ed
ward j. Clarke, a reserve office
veteran of World War II, as al
adviser to Director William E
Leahy.
Comdr. Clarke, who is 36 ant
lives at 26 Grafton street. Chev.
Chase, thus returns to the Distric
draft headquarters staff, wher
he served from October, 1910, t,
. May, 1943 He will report ther
z tomorrow tor an indefinite periot
{ but expects eventually to be callet
to active duty with the Navy.
q The question of calling youth
under 19 into active service will
National Guard units came to ;
head today as selective servic,
officials indicated that compare
. lively few, if any. men under q
4 are likely to be inducted here dur
ing September.
Men in the 18 through 25 agt
groups must register, but non,
under 19 is subject to induction
as the law now stands. Moreover
1t was explained, District draf
boards have not yet called large
numbers of 22-year- -olds for pre-.
induction examinations. Those il
the older groups, through 25, arr
being examined and will be in.
Quoted first.
Realized Mobilization Chance.
District National Guard officials
declared that, while they are no
deliberately hard-hearted" to.
ward l7-year-old Guardsmen, they
are bound strictly by a Nationa
Guard legislation (which has M
connection with the selective Serv.
ice law"
A spokesman estimated tina
about so per cent of the Distric
Guard today consists of WorlC
War II veterans. Of the othe
SO per cent, about half are youth
from II through 10. Few, if any
are 16, although some were tina
age when they enlisted, with writ
ten consent of parents.
The Guard spokesman noteC
that the II and 18-year-old mem.
bers have attended drills, drawn
pay and knew in the past thai
Guard units were subject to Fed
eral mobilization.
He also noted that youths
under 10 when voluntarily en-