r LSe Refuses to Draft Drafty y MY ear Olds FOds Now Fow Ai ISLINGTON Jan 30 f UP UP- UP Were t r department Tuesday proposals to draft men up e 30 now but warned that ze ie e it may mav be necessary to tomen toi men IlEn i n of all ail ages t D Defence e f e n s e Secretary g told the house services committee which is isa ring mg a proposed draft of olds that it t would not be beLble bek k le or economical to train tram older oder than the present 19 10 h 25 draft age group members suggested the draft age Monday asto asto as J to delay the draft of 18 IS- x e time may mav rome come when we to ask for for forthe the older men Hose fost berg said If we come tn N 8 mob mobilization l we will ill take 1 tf al' al ages i Rejects Proposal Q L Gen Lewis Lents B Hershey erector drector also turned thumbs en Il the proposed drafting of yen lien n at this time aid id draft pro problems glens become Drably greater at 26 6 and ande e The The number of men who ty Y could be inducted from lip is too small to be of P cal value alue he said ra 4 Mrs Ros Rosenberg and Her- Her pd d fast ar action tion to approve erse feLse departments department's draft recalls ti th eh calls for an year old a month 27 month draft term and andI I a postwar universal uni training pro pro- gram Congress is interested in seeing if the pool of childless married men is a possible source of more draftees All men with dependents now are draft exempt However already there were scattered reports that draft boards acting on their own had field newly married men A 1 or ordered them drafted President Truman's order of Aug 20 1948 which still stands exempted married married married mar mar- ried men There is sentiment in congress and the Defense department approves approves approves ap ap- ap- ap proves for drafting young men married since the Korean war began last June There was sentiment also for raising the upper draft age abe to 28 or possibly 30 The draft now applies applies applies ap ap- ap- ap plies to men 19 through 25 Delay Loftier er Draft Members of the house armed services and senate preparedness committees apparently want to put off as long as possible a draft of year olds as proposed by the Defense department The house group called Defense Secy Anna M. M Rosenberg for a report on raising the draft age Tins This was proposed tentatively Monday by Committee Chairman Carl Vinson D D. Ga and Rep W. W Sterling Cole R. R N. N Y She was expected to oppose the See ra Page e 4 Column 5 DRAFT Continued from rn Page c One proposals contending they would produce few men anyway because of deferments for family job or heal health tho thoI I Maj raj aj Gen Lewis B B. B Hershey I draft director was next on the witness list I Ve We want to ask Gen Hershey what wha ought tough t to be done about abou t childless childless child child- I less married men those men those who married married mar mar- mar mar-I ried before as well as after Korea Vinson said Mrs Rosenberg went part of the theay way ay on this Monday she said she fa favors VOlS VOl'S drafting of all husbands married since the start of the war warin warin warin I in Korea I Sen Lyndon B. B Johnson D. D I Tex chairman of the senate preparedness preparedness preparedness pre pre- group went the rest of the way He proposed that all deferments for childless husbands be revoked He said this would produce an extra extra men I