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Show Married Men Win NewConsideration i Under Draft Law Local draft boards throughout ; the country have been directed by ; selective service headquarters to j postpone induction of men with ; dependents until all other sources j of man power for the armed forces have been exhausted. A statement of policy, issued by Major' General Lewis B. Hershey, ieelective service director, esltaW-lished esltaW-lished the order in which seven classifications were to be utilized for draft calls, and also contained a list of 34 essential activities compiled by the war man power commission. Based on recent amendments to the selective service act, the statement state-ment was designated to guide local boards, Hershey said, but in I no way altered the statutory ban ion group deferments. Its pur-' pur-' pose, he said, was to protect bona fide family relationships as long-as long-as possible. The order In which local boards were instructed to consider registrants regis-trants for induction was: (1) Single Sin-gle men with no dependents; (2) single men .with dependents, but not contributing to the war ef-jfort; ef-jfort; (3) single, men with dependents, depen-dents, and who contribute to the war effort; (4) married men, not engaged in the war effort, but living liv-ing with their wives; (5) married men engaged in the war effort and living with their wives; (6) married men, not engaged in the war effort, living with wife and children, or children only; and (7) married men, engaged in the war effort and living with wife and children, or children only. In all cases, said the statement, the dependency must date from before December 8, 1941. Provision was made for local boards to coordinate their reclassification reclas-sification orders through the state director, to prevent any community commu-nity from inducting men from one group 'before neighboring llofcali-ties llofcali-ties have reclassified that same group. I ' V |
