Evening star., 1950-12-27
Army Will Call
7,500Captains
And lieutenants
Navy Abondons Plans
To Release Reservists
This Summer

The Army has started drawing
individual officers from the Ma
tional Guard and Organized
Reserve with a new order calling
$500 lieutenants and captains to
active duty between March l and
March %.
The call was announced last
night amid these other develop
ments:
l. A Navy spokesman revealed
that the Navy's plan to release
reservists next summer has been
abandoned.
Will Call 100 WACS.
2 The Army announced it will
call up 100 Women's Army Corps
lieutenants and captains but did
not fix date.
3. The Army also issued a call
for 800 additional medical Of
f1cerS, $50 dental officers and AIS
Medical Service Corps officers.
They will report in two groups,
February and March Is.
The Army is expected to issue
shortly its next regular monthly
call for draftees to provide the
March quota. The general ex-
pectation is that not less than
the 10000 quotas issued for
January and for February will
be called. Draft calls through
February now total 10000.
First Such Call for Army.
The call for the $500 junior
officers malks the first time the
Army has dipped into the National
Guard and Organized Reserve
units for individual officers since
the Korean crisis began.
The announcement said the
number of officers called from
units will be small and that they
will not be called up until officer
material frcm four other sources
has been exhausted.
The other sources in the priority
established by the Army are VOL
unteers from the National Guard
and Organized Reserve, Organized
Reserve officers commissioned
from the ROTC who were pre-
viously deferred and have one
years prior Federal service; Re-
serve officers commissioned from
the ROTC who did not execute
deferment agreements and who
have had less than one year of
Federal service and members of
the Volunteer Reserve.
The Army said it has received
applications from a number of
National Guard and Organized
Reserve officers who want to goI
on active duty. but until now
has avoided any action tat might |
disrupt organized units.
The I'd Army area. which in
cludes the District, Maryland, |
Virginia and other Middle Allan
tic States, was assigned a quota
of 1871 officers. That includes
316 captains, 943 lieutenants, Is
WAC captains or lieutenants, "a
company grade chaplains, 113
doctors, 80 dentists and 50 medi-
cal service officers.
AS for the Navy's shelved plan
to release reservists. the Navy had
announced last November l that
enlisted reservists called involun-
tarily would be released at the
rate of 5000 month and reserve
officers at the rate of 1900 a /
month beginning next July.
A Navy spokesman told a re-
porter yesterday, however, that
the Navy does not know when or
how many reservists will be re-
leased. Naval Reserve Gallup
plans, he said, have not changed,
but the release plan has been
abandoned.
In another development, the
American Bar Association said it
had received assurances from Sec
retary of Defense Marshall that
wherever possible lawyers called
into the armed forces will be given
duty allowing them to use their
legal talents.
The association made public a
letter from Secretary Marshall
saying that more men trained in
the law would be needed in any
future large-scale war than in the
past because of recent changes
in the code of military justice and
other developments.