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Show ! Reverses Compel I Changes in Draft i ; Stubborn nazi determination to ; fight to the finish, and unexpected speed in getting to grips with the Japanese, lie back of the demand for tighter man power controls, jWar Secretary Stimson said i Thursday. Asserting at his news conference , that "measured . in terms of ef-! ef-! f ectiveness the army is under-j under-j strength," Stimson said: "If the needs of the armies at the front are to be met, there j seems to be no escape from calling j into the armed services during i this year, substantially all physi-jcally physi-jcally cmalified men below 30 years of age from factory, farm and government. But when we do this the places of these young men will have to be taken by older men, women and younger men not acceptable ac-ceptable for miliary service." He insisted that the real solution solu-tion is national service legislation. The secretary's explanation of the new man power stringency was given while Col. Francis V. Kees-i Kees-i ling jr., testifying on "work or fight" legislation, was telling the house military committee where selective service plans to get 900,000 young men for the armed forces by July 1. January and February draft calls, Kessling testified, will be 112,000 each 80,000 for the army and 32,000 for the navy with the army quota going up to 100,000 for the folio-wing four months to make the monthly total 132,000. That builds up a six-month draft totals, Keesling said, as fol-the fol-the remainder' of the 900,000 expected ex-pected to come from enlistments of youths in the navy and marine corps. It is planned to make up the draft toals, Keesling said, as follows: fol-lows: 240,000 youths becoming .18 years old; 180,000 men now classified 1A; 330,000 men not over 38 and holding industrial and farm deferments. That last 330,000 is where the man power rub comes. Keesling broke down the available avail-able sources for them: 360,000 under 26 deferred for essential farm work and 100,000 in industry, indus-try, including 60,000 in the merchant mer-chant marine; 800,000 between 26 and 30 deferred in industry and 265,000 on farms; 3,200,000 between be-tween 30 and 38 deferred in industry in-dustry and 700,000 on farms. Those figures build up a pool of only 1,525,000 in the under-30 age group. The services are staying stay-ing as far from older men as they can get, but unless that attitude is relaxed, the 330,000 men would take more than one in five of the younger group. . The selective service official indorsed in-dorsed a bill by Representative May (D), Kentucky, chairman of the military committee which amounts to a work or fight law for men 18 to 45. The legislation would make men in those age brackets liable for induction into army or navy work forces if they shift jobs without draft board approval. ap-proval. Keesling estimated that IS, 000,-000 000,-000 men are in the groups affected, af-fected, including all those now deferred de-ferred for physical defects, and in agriculture, war production and war-supporting occupations. May expressed the hope that the bill can be sent to the house floor next week or earlier the following fol-lowing week. The chief division in the com mittee appeared to be over penalty provisions for job jumpers. As the bill stands, the men would get service pay but not the benefits provided for fighting veterans. Committeemen's suggestions j ranged from fines and imprisonment imprison-ment for violators, to complete elimination of the penalties, so that the men would get such benefits as mustering-out pay, allotments and allowances, and the G.I bill of rights' provisions. |