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Show NONE WILL BE EXEMPT. Reclassification Plan Aims at Draft Men Without Families First. Washington. No man will be granted grant-ed exemption from the draft because he has dependents. In a review of the situation as affecting registered men, Provost Marshal General Crowder made that plain on December 3. He defined the government's position in the following words : "War must bring inconvenience and sacrifice to all. The selective service laws exempts no person from military service on the ground of dependency. The reclassification scheme is designed to defer the induction into the army of registrants upon whom other persons per-sons are mainly dependent for support until after persons without actual dependents de-pendents have been called." Draft Extension Opposed, Despite the agitation in congressional congression-al and other governmental circles to bring under the draft the class of men who have reached the age of 21 since June 5 last and make accessible the classes of 20 and 19, thereby guaranteeing guaran-teeing the practical exemption of married mar-ried men with dependent families, it was indicated officially that the war department would oppose any extension exten-sion of the draft until the present registered reg-istered men have been "used up." |