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Show New Draft Plan j Is Now In Effect ' Acting in conjunction with the) war department, national headj quarters of the selective service ' system have announced details of plan to transfer all inductees to the enlisted reserve corps im-j mediately after induction and toi send them home at government expense for 14 days to adjust per-! i sonal affairs. i The new arrangement replaces, the present system of granting in-! ductees ten-day furloughs upon re- j quest and is expected' to .eliminate ! any injustices which might occur; to men inducted immediately fol-; lowing physical examination by j I the army, national headquarters said. 1 Although every attempt has, been made to grant ten-day fur-j , loughs upon request, national ! headquarters said that in sone j instances such requests had been denied and that, in addition, in j other cases inductees were unable to pay their transportation to re-'turn re-'turn home. As the new system' calls for the immediate release of all men who wish to go home and j payment of the costs of their travel by the army, national head-1 'quarters said that there would be no reason for discrimination j against any inductee. j i In its memorandum to state di-! di-! rectors, national headquarters said: "The present policy of granting furloughs to inducted , men will be discontinued on July ! 15, 1942, or as soon thereafter as i arrangements can be made by con. ference between the state director jand the corps area commander. ! The new procedure will provide .that every inducted man will be released from active sen-ice at the I induction station for a period of approximately 14 days unless he , prefers to proceed directly to the reception center. This will be accomplished ac-complished by transferring the 1 inducted man to the enlisted re-' re-' serve corps immediately following his induction and issuing orders recalHng him to active service at the end of the 14-day period. "The army will furnish transportation, trans-portation, meals and lodging of such reservist en route to the city 1 in which the local board i locat- ed and from that point to the reception re-ception center. "There will 'be no change in the present procedure for delivery of registrants to the induction station sta-tion by the local board, or for the return of rejected men to the local board area from the induction station. Inducted men who do not desire to return to their homes will be forwarded direct from the induction station to the reception center. "In the case of inducted men who do desire to return to their homes the following procedure will be followed at the induction station: "(a) The inducted man will be transferred immediately to the enlisted reserve corps and will be given an order to proceed to the city in which his local board is lo cated. "(b) At the same time an order will be issued recalling him to active service on a certain date and ordering him to proceed on that date from the city in which the local board is located to a designated reception center for duty. The normal period between transfer to the enlisted reserve corps and recall to active service will be 14 days. This period may : be extended or shortened by not l to exceed two days in order to meet processing schedules at re- ception centers, or to prevent Sun- day travel". |