Show SENATORS SCAN DOCTOR DRAFT WASHINGTON Nov 3 UP UP- UP Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the United States public health service said Tuesday that he was not in favor of compulsory allocation allocation allocation alloca alloca- tion of of physicians at this time Parran testified before a senate education and labor subcommittee which is investigating methods to protect the health of the country by possible enactment of a national service act for the medical pro pro- I am not prepared at this time timeto timeto to recommend the allocation of doctors by a national service act Parran said We Ve may need to come to that on the medical front frontin in order to alleviate the serious depletion of doctors in many areas but I would not In Indorse any compulsory compulsory com corn legislation affecting the medical profession at this time Disagrees Heatedly Heatedly disagreeing with Parran Parran Parran Par- Par ran was Dr Paul de Kruif author of medical books written for laymen laymen laymen lay lay- men who denounced whitewash methods of the American Medical association and recommended federal federal federal fed fed- eral supervision over allocation of all members of the medical pro pro- De Kruif told the subcommittee that he had been expelled from the theA theA A AM M A because of his liberal ideas and that he felt that a national national national na na- na- na health program could not be administered properly by the organization He cited numerous instances in which A M A officials had put the finger on leading doctors in an attempt to force them into the army Such conditions he said were infamous and odoriferous and were responsible for a serious threat to the nations nation's health He testified that the United States has never had an adequate supply supply supply sup sup- ply of physicians Hospitals Held Up Parran said that the public health service has been virtually shorn of all its authority to order construction of hospitals by the war production board which has held up use of steel and other critical critical critical cal materials needed As a result he said only two of hospitals authorized by congressional appropriations appropriations appropriations have been built Man power recommendations now before President Roosevelt in include include in- in clude elude a provision that the selective selective selective tive service system be brought under control of the war man manpower manpower power commission it was learned Tuesday The recommendations submitted by the W M C management labor committee t approve this and other provisions of jI proposed executive order which would drastically tighten federal man power con con- Action Waits Salts Study The president has approved the proposed in principle but has delayed action pending opportunity opportunity opportunity to study the manage labor ment vi ws vi ws officials said The order was drawn up by W M C staff members after the decision to postpone a request to congress for labor draft legislation legislation legislation legis legis- lation in favor of further application application tion of existing powers Critics of the federal man power program long have urged that to total total total to- to tal authority be lodged in one agency The committee report which W M C Chairman Paul V. V McNutt Monday likened in scope to the Baruch rubber survey described described described de de- de- de scribed such action as Imperative it was learned Other provisions of the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed executive order include A ban after January 1 on pa al all l voluntary enlistments in the armed services A requirement that all hiring for war plants be done through the U. U S. S employment service of W 1 M C coupled with the ban on enlistments this would relieve the individual of the problem of deciding deciding deeMing deeM deeM- ing where he can help win the war wa most effectively A clear cut definition of W WM M Cs C's authority over other federal agencies agencies agen agen- cies des involved in the man power problem W M C now has directive directive directive tive powers which McNutt to date has not used fully presumably because they were not defined satisfactorily sat sat- |