Evening star., 1950-10-12
Medical Draft
Rules Issued by
White House
10 Coteeories Set Up;
Doctors to Register
At Hospitals Monday
By George Beveridge

regulations Tor the claSSlfcatlon
and induction of physicians,
dentists and veterinarians who
will register next Monday under
the new medical draft law.
At the same time, District draft
officials announced that 10 WASH
ington hospitals will serve as reg
istration centers for several
hundred of the city's medical
specialists who are to register.
President Truman's executive
order set up 10 categories in
which registrants can be placed.
They will be called into service on
the basis of two priority cate
gories set up by the draft act.
The youngest will be called first,
but all those in the first category
will be taken before moving into
the second priority group.
The only men who are to reg
ister Monday are those trained in
Army or Naval medical programs,
or otherwise deferred to continue
education, and who served for
less than 81 months on active
duty after finishing training and
postgraduate work
Two Categories to Register.
The two categories who will reg
lister Monday include: Cd Those
with less than 80 days of active
duty and ca those with more
than 90 days, but less than 81
months.
The 10 classification groups an
nounced today include:
I-A-Available for service.
I-AO-Opposed to combatant
duty.
I'VE - Conscientious objectors
opposed to all military service.
I-D-Members of Reserve units.
II-A-Those found essential
whose absence from civilian prac.
tice would cause the availability
Of essential health services to fall
below reasonable minimum stand
I ards"
uI-A-Personal hardship and
dependency cases in which abb
sence from practice would result
in extreme hardship and priva-
ton" to a wife, child or parent.
/ W-A-Sole surviving sons Of
4 families in which one or more
! children died as members of the
armed forces.
/ IV-F- Mentally. morally or
physically unfit for service.
/ V-A-Those who are 81 years
old or more.
I-C-Those now on active duty
in the armed forces.
Findings Must Be Considered.
In considering deferments for
"essentiality," the order said
boards must consider the cases,
but shall not be bound by findings
of special advisory committees set
up this week in the District and
each State.
The order also gives draft
boards power to call for induc-
ton those who become "delin-
quent" in complying with ordey.
even if they had not been found
acceptable through pre- induction
examination.
The specialists classified IA
will be slated for induction on
the basis of draft calls to be
passed through State officials to
local draft boards.
Hospitals Are Listed.
William E. Leahy, District draft
chief, said the hospitals selected
as centers for the District regis
tration include:
Freedmen's, Gallinger, Garfield,
Georgetown, Doctors. George
Washington. Mount Alto, Provi-
dence. Sibley and st. Elizabeths.
Staff personnel from each of the
hospitals were to be sworn in to-
day to handle the registration.
Local draft boards in Maryland
and Virginia will be open to han
I die registrations in those States.
Men who live in those States may
also register in the Washington
hospitals if they are in the city
on Monday, officials said. Their
records, however, will be sent to
States of their permanent resi-
dence.
Draft and medical officials esti-
mated that more than 800 medical
specialists will register here.
There was no firm basis for the