Evening star., 1950-08-01
Draft Quota
248 in October;
Notices Readied
New Warning Given
To Youths Who Fail
To Appear for Tests
By Robert X. Walsh


The Districts draft induction
quota for October is 248, -four
fewer than for September, selec-
tive service officials announced
today.
Notices to report for induction
will go late this month to the first
group of IA classified Washing
ton men, "a and 25 years old
Those draftees will report for
duty, probably in the early part
Of September" officials said.
Accompanying the announce
mentS was another and stricter
warning that District draft au-
thoritieS will take drastic steps in
the very near future" against
youths who failed to appear for
pre-induction examinations.
District Selective Service Direc-
tor William E. Leahy noted that
81 Washington men did not show
up at the Arlington Farms center
yesterday and on the previous
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
That was out of a total of 235
called by eight local boards.
Most of the delinquencieS re-
suited from failure of the men to
notify their boards of changes of
address, Mr.. Leahy said. But he
declared the delinquency rate has
been far too high and has required
too much time and effort to track
down the men.
If this rate continues, District
headquarters plans to crack down,
Mr.. Leahy said, adding that the
possible drastic steps" could in
clude immediate induction with
out the customary 21-day waiting
period, or court prosecution of
t1agrant cases.
Maryland and Virginia also
have their draft quotas for Octo-
ber. Maryland must furnish 73e
men for induction that month, in
addition to the September quota
of 1856. Virginia must provide l.
090 for October, 3 more than it's
September quota.
Induction Notices Mailed.
Induction notices already are
being sent out by some Maryland
boards, Col. Henry C. Stanwood,
State selective service director,
disclosed. The first scheduled
group to report for active duty
will consist of 16 men from Balti-
more. They will go to Camp Hola-
bird, near Baltimore, on August A.
Four more Maryland units of
the Army Reserve Corps were
alerted today for active duty, ef-
fective August 10. They were the
925th Explosive Ordnance Dis
posal Squad, 453d Chemical Smoke
Generating Battalion, 336th En-
gineer Utilities Detachment, and
the 376th Engineer Utilities De-
tachment, all from the Baltimore
area. The 758th Quartermaste
Sales Company and the 699tE
Quartermaster Maintenance Com
pany, also of the Baltimore area,
received similar orders yesterday
Mai. Gen. Milton A. Reckord
Maryland adjutant general, said
he doubted that Maryland troops
will be among the four National
Guard divisions to be called into
the Federal service. Most Mary
land and Virginia guardsmen are
in the 29th Division.
Another warning in connection
with draft examinations came to-
day from Col. Asher w. Harman
Virginia Selective Service direc-
tor. The high rate of failures in
mental examinations of Virginia
men has raised a suspicion that
some of the failures were inten-
tional, he said.
Latest Virginia figures show
that 354 per cent of those ex-
amined for the draft failed the
mental tests and only 22.6 pei
cent did not meet the physical
qualifications. District figures are
not yet available for the 235 men
examined to date.
October quotas for this area are
likely to necessitate the calling
up of many 23-year- men for
examinations, authorities said.
Most if not all of the men to be
inducted in September here and
in Maryland and Virginia will be
"a or Is years old, they added.
The Arlington Farms center to-
day was examining 20 men sent
by the Hyattsville draft board and
35 from the Fairfax County board
Recruiting Gets Inspection.
In drives to obtain more volun-
teers the Marine Corps and the
Army made further moves today
The Marine recruiting office at
1400 Pennsylvania avenue NV
announced it now can accept en-
listment of Marine Corps veterans
with dependents. Previously only
unmarried men were accepted fol-
enlistment.
Army recruiting officers ISSUED
special invitation to veterans o1
the 1st Cavalry and ID, 7th, 9th
and 25th Infantry Divisions tt
return to active duty. Most o1
those divisions are in Korea OF
Japan. Such veterans, however
must be unmarried and between
the ages of II and "a.
The Army-Air Force recruiting
Office at 403 Tenth street NV.
enlisted or re-enlisted SO mer
yesterday, the biggest day fol
July. The Army obtained 33 o.
the SO.
The Navy recruiting office a
the Pennsylvania avenue addres
accepted nine of 81 men appli
cants and one woman for tn
WAVES. The Marine Corps of
flee tentatively accepted 6 of 3