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The Daily Monitor Leader
Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Michigan
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US House leaders discuss lowering military draft age to 18 amid WWII needs; Speaker Rayburn recalls members from July recess for president's anti-inflation push. Wadsworth's bill aims to draft younger men, sparing married ones.
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May said he had no idea when his committee would start hearings on legislation introduced yesterday by Representative Wadsworth (R.-N. Y.), author of the original draft act, to lower the draft age from 20 to 18. Undoubtedly, the Kentuckian said, officials of the Army, Navy and selective service would be called upon to testify.
Wadsworth said the age reduction was inevitable and "the sooner it is done the better." He declared it would "operate to lessen considerably the domestic and economic dislocations incident to drafting large numbers of married men."
Wadsworth's measure proposed no change in the top draft age, 44.
Rayburn's call for the representatives to return next Monday and end the informal recess which they had since late in July made no mention of the program the House would be asked to tackle. Following the president's special message requesting anti-inflation legislation, it was taken for granted the speaker had in mind quick action on the request, especially since his announcement said he was returning to the Capital at the request of the president.
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Washington, D.C.
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Late July
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proposed legislation to lower draft age from 20 to 18, no change to top age of 44; house to return from recess next monday for anti-inflation action.
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House Armed Services Committee Chairman May opposes lowering draft age below 19 without training for 18- and 19-year-olds. Hearings planned on Wadsworth's bill to reduce draft age to 18. Wadsworth argues it reduces dislocations from drafting married men. Speaker Rayburn calls representatives back next Monday at president's request, likely for anti-inflation legislation.