Evening star., 1950-10-15
Services 10 Free
Reservists With
4 Dependents
Registration Set
Here Tomorrow
For Young Doctors
By Georue Beyeridoe


voluntarily to active duty can re-
quest return to civilian life il
they have more than three de-
it was learned last night.
The Air Force and Marine
Corps, it was understood. very
soon will announce similar poll
cies. None of the services plariA
to call up any more enlisted re-
servists with four or more de-
pendents.
An Army spokesman said the
new policy is in line with the new
dependency allowance law, which
allows for only three dependents.
On the draft front, meanwhilel
l. Several hundred young Dis
trict physicians, dentists and vet
erinarians prepared to register
tomorrow at 10 hospitals under
the new medical draft law. Reg.
istration will be between 8 am.
and pm.
2. The Senate Armed Services
Committee, it was reported, plans
to study proposals for q universal
military service" under which 1S-
year-olds would receive a certain
amount of special training, fol.
lowed by periods of active duty
and membership in reserve COM
ponents.
50 Named for Draft
3. District draft officials re-
leased names of 70 men, as well
as 13 draft "delinquents," who
have been ordered to report for
induction at Arlington Farms next
Wednesday.
Officials said Army and Navy
decisions on the new dependency
policies were reached last week.
but that announcement has been
held up pending release of a pol.
icy statement for all four services.
Details of the Army policy, sent
to all Army commanders last
Wednesday, it was reported, pro-
vide the involuntary reservists can
be discharged at their request II
they submit evidence that they
have four or more dependents.
Dependents in this case, spokes-
man said, are defined as wives
and children, and parents who
depend on the .servicemen for at
least half their support.
I
Non-Active Reseryists.
Further, he reported, the Army
order provides that such men,
bers of the enlisted reserve not
yet called to active duty will be
discharged from the reserve COM
ponent.
The Navy order permits in
voluntary enlisted reservists on
active duty with four or more de-
pendents to be discharged either
to civilian life or to inactive status
in the reserves.
The Navy requests for discharge,
a spokesman said. must be made
by January !, 1851.
There was no estimate of mum.
berS of men affected.
In connection with tomorrow's
medical draft law registration,
meanwhile, William E. Leahy,
District Selective Service chief.
warned that strong measures viii
be taken against any of those re-
Qulred to register who fail to do
so.
Hard on Delinquents.
IT'S not going to be easy on
any delinquents," he declared.
They are presumably intelligent
men, and it will be necessary to
refer any violators of the law
directly to the District ATTORNEY"
Mr.. Leahy said inquiries he has
received indicate some doctors
still are uncertain about who
should register.
Those who must register in.
clude non-reservist physicians.
dentists and veterinarians who
got training in Army or Navy
medical programs, or otherwise
were deferred to continue medi-
cal education, and who served ON
active duty for less than 81
months, excluding postgraduate
training. Hospitals at which they
can register are: Freedmen's, CAL
l1nger. Garfield, Georgetown, Doc
tors, George Washington, Mount
Alto, Providence, Sibley and st.
The draft chief also predicted
tough" standards for the defer
ment Of the men on the grounds
of essentially to the community's
health and personal hardship. He
said he did not think the defer
ment rate would go over 5 per
cent.
He said $50 young doctors are
in residency training programs at
District hospitals, from which a
good number of those found
eligible presumably will come.
Draft officials noted that legal
questions have been raised as to
whether doctors who are inducted
and later get commissions will be
eligible for the $100-a- month
extra pay given doctors who VOL
lnteer for active duty. Mr.. Leahy
said the law states those inducted
shall not be entitled" to the extra
pay and that it seemed to him
any other decision would be con-
,rary to the spirit of the medical
act. The act admittedly was de-
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