Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-28
Draft Calls 10 Drop;
Rise Again in 1854,
Pentagon Predicts

The Korean truce will mean a
4,000-man-a-month cut in draft
calls from october to next June
but then the calls will go up
again to replace the men COM
pleting their two years of
service.
That was the draft set-up ex-
planned today by the Defense De-
partment as Maj. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, national director of Sc
lective Service. cautioned young
men against believing the Ko-
rean truce would mean escape
from the draft.
District Selective Service,
which sent $500 men into the
armed forces during the Korean
war, has been drafting 19-year-
olds since May. During the sum-
mer, however, District draft Of
ficials expect to pick up some of
the older men who graduated
from college in June or have lost
their student defermentS because
Of low grades.
Will Drop Through June.
District draft calls dropped
from al in June to 80 for July,
80 for August and SO for Sep
TENDER. On the basis of national
expectations, the monthly figure
will probably drop in the sue
ceeding months through next
June and then go up again.
The Districts first call in the
Korean war came in September,
1850, when 252 men were pro-
cessed for the armed forces. The
high was reached in March, 1851,
when the District filled a call
for 1913 men.
Despite the large calls, Dis
trict officials said they had not
called fathers. After August rs,
however, men who bring in mar
riage and fatherhood-or ex-
pectant Observation-Disclosures will
not get an automatic ga de-
tendency deferment. They will
be classified for induction unless
there is proof of extreme hard
ship. District draft officials,
however, have no plans at this
time to cancel ga deferments
for fathers now holding them.
National Situation.
Nationally, this is the picture
outlined by Defense Department
spokesman:
Defense Secretary Wilson has
told Congress that truce in
Korea will mean a reduction
over years period of $1,000
men for the Army and 5000 for
the Marines. These were the
men kept in the pipeline" to
replace casualties and others
coming home on rotation. Since
the Marines are getting their
men through enlistment rather
than the draft, the draft cut
would apply to the 1000 for the
Army-or approximately 1000 a
month.
Draft calls are issued on a 90
day basis and so the cut because
of the truce will not be felt until
the next quotas are issued for
October, November and Deem
Der. Then they will go from a
present $4,000 to 10000.
The 9,000-men-a-month level
will be maintained until next
July.
To Go Up Again.
If the level of the armed forces
remains the same, the draft calls
will have to go up again in the
next fiscal year, beginning next
July, to replace the men drafted
in the 1852 peak year and COM
plotting their two years of service.
That was what Gen. Hershey
had in mind when he told a press
conference in San Francisco that
it would be most unfortunate if
the young men of the country
believe the Korean truce has
changed plans to draft them.
He advised the young men to
go ahead with their plans to get
an education before being called
into the armed forces.
He predicted, however, that in
1866 1--WE are going to run out
of men-we are going to have to
take fathers, AIS and 18-year-
olds or increase the length of
time we're going to take a man
for service"