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Show ARPY DRAFT AGE mm 21 io 31 PROPOSAL TO MAKE LIMITS TWENTY AND FORTY YEARS DEFEATED IN SENATE. Plan to Make Military Training of Youths Between 20 and 21 Compulsory Com-pulsory Also Lacks Support. Neutral Status Fixed. "Washington. Immediate extension of the present army draft age limits, 21 to 31 years, was overwhelmingly defeated in the senate on June 28. The amendment proposed by Senator Fall of New Mexico, to the army appropriation ap-propriation bill to make the limits twenty and forty years, and all compromises com-promises suggested for different min-Imums min-Imums and maximums were voted down. Besides disposing of the draft aire question, the senate adopted several amendments to the bill. One authorized author-ized organization of the ?IUO,0K),(XK) aircraft production corporation board ns a vehicle for co-ordinating aircraft production as shipbuilding is co-ordinated by the shipping board through the Emergency Fleet corporation. Another authorized the plan of basing draft cpiotas on the number of men in class one, instead of upon state populations popu-lations and affecting rights of neutrals, neu-trals, under the draft law. The senate previously had adopted the draft quota legislations, but it had been held up in the house. The amendment affecting neutrals provides citizens of neutral countries . jow subject to draft who have declared heir intention of becoming American :itizens, shall not he eligible for citi-cnship' citi-cnship' if they claim exemption from the draft. This provision, offered by Senator Hitchcock '-of Nebraska, was adopted as a substitute for an' amendment amend-ment approved by the state department providing for exemption from the draft of all citizens of neutral countries. |