Evening star., 1950-09-27
7 2'De|inquents'
Report 70 Take
Draft Physica|s
One Passes, One Fails
Names of 16 Others
To Go to Prosecutor
By George Beveridqe

draft "delinquentS" showed up to-
day at the Army's Arlington
Farms induction center, and draft
officials said they have accounted
for four others.
The cases of the remaining 16,
who failed to comply with orders
to report for induction today, will
be referred next week to United
States Attorney George Morris
Fay for action, officials said.
Reporting for induction today
were SIS other draftees, who
swelled to 262 the number Of Dis
trict men to go into uniform via
the draft route this month. The
city has September quota of 252.
House Probe Opens Tomorrow.
Elsewhere on the manpower
front:
/. A thorough investigation of
the Army's needs and use of man
power will be opened at public
hearing tomorrow by the House
Armed Services Committee. The
unit also will look into Selective
Service operations.
2. The Navy announced plans
to call more than $4,000 Reserve
officers to active duty as it con-
tinues expansion programs at sea,
on land and in the air.
3. The Marine Corps said it has
completed it's call of organized |
ground reserve units to active
duty, with 1873 separate units hav-
ing reported from 126 cities during
the last 43 days.
One Passes, One Fails.
Willie B. Lake, 25, colored, of
1921 Lyman place NE, one of
the two District "delinquents" who
reported today. passed examina-
tions and was to be sworn in this
afternoon. A cook in an Airing
ton restaurant, Mr.. Lake said he
had failed to get previous notices
because he had moved from an
old address, but insisted he had
notified his draft board of the
change.
He showed up today, he said,
because his employer had seen
his name in a newspaper story
Sunday.
James R. Butler, jr., "a, colored,
of the 1000 block of Sixth street
NE. the second delinquent" to
respond, was sent home after fall
ing his physical. He told re-
porter he had received the notice
ordering him to report, but that
he had not received previous Or
ders from his draft board because
he was away "on vacation" He
said he had been anxious to
get into the Army because I
wanted to learn a trade"
Draft officials stressed they could
not single out any of the % as
draft dodgers" but that they
represented men draft boards have
not been able to contact.
Two Men in Jail.
In addition to the two who
showed up at Arlington Farms, Of
flcials said, two others reported
voluntarily to draft headquarters
this week. Both, officials said, de-
MED having received orders and
said they felt they were deferred
because they were marrisd-a fact
not recorded at the draft boards.
Their cases, officials said, will go
before their boards for review.
Draft officials said police noti-
fled them that a fifth man on the
delinquent" list is being held for
trial and that a sixth is already in
Jail. Officials said they will in
vestigate the crimes involved, since
men convicted of felonies auto
matically are classified 4-F.
Chairman Vinson probably will
call Maj. Gen. Clovis E. ByerS,
Army deputy chief of staff in
charge of personnel. as his first
witness at tomorrow's House
Armed Services Committee hear
ing.
+ The scope of the hearings will
be far wider than Mr.. Wilson's Or
iginal plan to check into Selective
Service complaints about why the
Army is rejecting more than SO
per cent of the men sent by local
draft boards. At the center of the
controversy is the Army's new
mental test, which alone has ruled
out more than Is per cent of the
prospective drafteeS.
The Navy, meanwhile, said there
will be no sudden call for the en-
tire $4,000 reservists it plans to
call, but that the first 1000 or
5000 may be summoned in the
NEAR future"
Many of the officers ordered to
active duty will be medical and
such other specialists as electronic
experts, but substantial" num-
bers of officers qualified for gen.
eral deck duty also will be called
back.