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Show ..j-.....i.......T1 Hersney's Draft Plans XJOT all the details have been released officially yet, but Lewis Hershey, selective service director, di-rector, gave a brief report on draft plans to a closed-door session of the senate-house armed services committees recently. He told the solons that the selective se-lective service machinery would be ready to process the first batch of draftees by October 15, but estimated esti-mated the second call would not come before January 1. Hershey told the senators and congressmen there was strong pres-. sure at that time to start drafting 19-year-olds first, since they were not ready to settle down and would be less likely to be upset by army service. The two armed services committees, commit-tees, however, argued the opposite. Unanimously they agreed that the 24- and 25-year-olds should be taken tak-en before they passed the eligible age. This was later decided. The selective service boss estimated that 9,000,000 youths were available for the draft, but only 1,386,000 would be eligible under the loophole-riddled plan for deferments. Of those who will be caught, the bulk are under un-der 22 since many of those over 22 served In the recent war. The number eligible for the draft In each age group was broken down by Hershey as follows: 25-year-olds, 8,000 ; 24-year-olds, 15,000 ; 23-year-olds, 19,000 ; 22-year-olds, 22,000; 21-year-olds, 222,000 ; 20-year-olds, 475,-000; 475,-000; 19-year-olds, 635,000. Race for Uranium ' Most encouraging sign on the atomic-energy horizon is what the Russians now are doing in Saxony. Low-grade nranium deposits arc found in this southern German Ger-man state and the Russians have been working feverishly to mine them. They have been using us-ing a great deal of labor and going to great lengths to scrape up this uranium, which Is so low grade that In Canada it would be Ignored. The fact that the Russians are taking all this trouble over such poor quality uraniifm in Germany obviously means only one thing: They don't have any worth-while uranium of their own in Russia. Corporation Gravy While the cost of food to the housewife has zoomed, here is what has happened to the dividends of big corporations. The figures were presented recently re-cently by plain-talking Democratic Sen. Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming, as compiled from official reports: Profits of 100 corporations after taxes: 1940 $1,875,000,000. 1943 $1,943,000,000. 1947 $3,730,000,000. O'Mahoney also cited a Federal Reserve Board report, stating that business profits this year will exceed ex-ceed the dizzy high of 1947. Pointing Point-ing to Individual corporations which b.ive shared in this bonanza, he reported re-ported that General Electric company com-pany now Is making profits in excess ex-cess of 20 per cent of net worth, General Motors, 19.9 per cent, U. S. Steel, 10 per cent. The 1947 profits of General Electric, Elec-tric, before taxes were paid, were five times greater than its 1939 profits. prof-its. O'Mahoney charged. Meanwhile, he declared, wage increases in-creases have been obliterated by inflated living costs, as evidenced by the fact that American consumers consum-ers are paying 37 billion dollars more for what they buy this year than In 1946. Cabinet Pains President Visitors who called on President Truman at the White House after congress opened, found the chief executive hopping mad at some of his top executives. He was particularly par-ticularly irate with Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall, Undersecretary Under-secretary of the Army William H. Draper and the army's chief of staff, Gen. Omar Bradley. Mr. Truman aald he was fed op with Royall and Draper for their sabotage of White Housi policies. Draper's policy of rebuilding re-building Germany at the expense ex-pense of her neighbors and Secretary Sec-retary Royall's Inept handling of army racial discrimination had got under his akin. The President was more hurt than angry at the way his fellow Missourlan, General Bradley, had rcaiTirmed segregation and the army caste system 24 hours after his commandcr-tn-chlef had Issued an executive order curbing segregation. segre-gation. Spaatz Speaks One reason air chief of staff "Tooey" Spaatz retired from the army was that he felt he could dc the air force more good on the out-tide. out-tide. For the first time, he now it preparing to speak his mind fearlessly fear-lessly In a flood of magazine and newspaper articles. Unhampered by military restrictions. restric-tions. Spantt will tell bluntly how !e thinks America vhmitd meet the threat of another ft nr. |