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Show Gen. Crozier Discusses Age Limit Enlargement of Selective Service Law Discussing enlargement of the age limit for selective military service. Provost Marshal Gen. Crozier said: "A pronounced majority of the boards favor some enlargement, but there is great diversity of opinion as to the proper age limit. Nineteen and thirty-five are perhaps the limits most frequently suggested; but some recommend 40 or 45 years aa the upper limit. There is a distinctly stronger demand for raising the maximum age than for lowering the minimum." Gen. Crozier estimates that 1,389,388 acceptable single men would be made available by an increase in-crease in the age limit to include men up to 4 5 years. The estimate places the number of acceptable single sin-gle men between 18 and 21 years at 1,546,283. The number of probably acceptable single men already registered regis-tered but not called is 1,321,845. According to these figures, should the age limit be enlarged to include men of from IS years to 45 years, inclusive, 4,257,616 physically and otherwise qualified unmarried men would be open for call to service. |