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Show Draftees to Serve Only One Year States Roosevelt HYDE PARK, N. Y. President Roosevelt gave clear indication Sunday that selective service draftees would only be kept in military training for one year, and will then be permitted to return to private life. A presidential order released on Sunday, but signed Saturday, set at 900,000 the number of men who may be inducted into the land forces of the United States In the year starting today, July 1st. This is the maximum under the present law. William D. Hassett, the presi- dent's secretary, informed reporters report-ers that the war department expected ex-pected to ask the selective system for new inductees "as the training train-ing period of men inducted during the current fiscal year expires." Asked whether this was "absolute "abso-lute evidence that men now in service would go back home after a year's service," Hassett first replied re-plied with an unqualified "yes." then added that he was not a mili-lawyer. mili-lawyer. In the fiscal year closing today, the president had authorized induction in-duction of 800,000 draftees, but only 650.000 wiU have been inducted induct-ed at the -end of the year |