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Show January Draft Quota Increased v WASHINGTON Some 300,000 men, far more than the War Manpower Commission expected to be called may be tapped by Uncle Sam for military service in January. WMC had indicated that army draft requirements would drop sharply after the first of. the year, but the War Department has certified a January call twice as large as expected. As a result, the combined army-navy army-navy monthly quota will remain at its present level of about 300,-00 300,-00 at least for the first month of 1944. The War Department had to increase its January call by more than 50,000 above replacement replace-ment requirements ..because ;f lagging enlistments iii the WAC and due to the failure of draft boards to meet their October quotas. The draft boards below-standard induction figures .were attributed at-tributed by selective service officials of-ficials to uncertainly over father draft legislation and consequent reluctance to order pre-Pearl Harbor parents to report. Congress Con-gress passed and sent to White . House legislation placing pre-war fathers at the bottom of the draft pool. |