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The Skyland Post
West Jefferson, Ashe County, North Carolina
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Selective Service issues instructions allowing deferment preference for fathers in 35 essential industries ahead of expected induction starting early August. Director Hershey notifies Senate of likely father inductions in August and opposes legislation to ban them, echoed by War Secretary Stimson.
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Washington—Selective service issued instructions whereby fathers in the 35 listed essential industries can be given preferable deferment treatment when induction of men with children starts, foreshadowing that the ban against induction of fathers soon will be dropped.
The instructions are not mandatory, as draft boards are allowed to use a large amount of discretion in applying most regulations.
Earlier, Selective Service Director Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey had notified the senate that general induction of fathers was likely in August, "if not sooner."
Under the new instructions to local draft boards, care will be taken to keep fathers working in essential occupations out of the armed forces until after fathers working in less essential jobs had been inducted. In other words, the program will protect essential men against early induction after the ban on drafting of fathers has been removed and dependency virtually eliminated as a deferment ground.
Hershey voiced opposition in a letter to the senate military affairs subcommittee against legislation by Sen. Wheeler (D., Mont.) to forbid flatly the induction of fathers. He warned that such action might imperil filling of quotas for the armed forces, in view of the imminent induction of this group.
Similar protest was expressed by Secretary of War Stimson, who also wrote the subcommittee.
"We will get into the father group some time in August," Hershey stated.
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Early August
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Selective service issued instructions whereby fathers in the 35 listed essential industries can be given preferable deferment treatment when induction of men with children starts, foreshadowing that the ban against induction of fathers soon will be dropped. The instructions are not mandatory, as draft boards are allowed to use a large amount of discretion in applying most regulations. Earlier, Selective Service Director Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey had notified the senate that general induction of fathers was likely in August, 'if not sooner.' Under the new instructions to local draft boards, care will be taken to keep fathers working in essential occupations out of the armed forces until after fathers working in less essential jobs had been inducted. In other words, the program will protect essential men against early induction after the ban on drafting of fathers has been removed and dependency virtually eliminated as a deferment ground. Hershey voiced opposition in a letter to the senate military affairs subcommittee against legislation by Sen. Wheeler (D., Mont.) to forbid flatly the induction of fathers. He warned that such action might imperil filling of quotas for the armed forces, in view of the imminent induction of this group. Similar protest was expressed by Secretary of War Stimson, who also wrote the subcommittee. 'We will get into the father group some time in August,' Hershey stated.