WAR MOBILISATION
9 SOME EVASION ATTEMPTS IN U.S.A. DRAFT BOARDS TO MAKE CAREFUL CHECK. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, February 6. Five hundred thousand wives in the United States have recently left their jobs, most of them obviously aiming to become financially dependent, thereby exempting their husbands from the call-up, said the Director of Selective Service, Brigadier-General Hershey. He added that many recent marriages had been for the same purpose. Draft boards would carefully'check up on individual cases for intentional evasion of military service, but men engage'd in vital war production would still be reserved. Brigadier-General Hershey said the United States Army would total four million men by the end of the year, while fifteen million workers would be engaged in war production, compared with five million now.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 4
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128WAR MOBILISATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 4
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