Colorful Incidents Mark Nation's Peacetime Draft Registration
America's first peacetime draft registration drew about 16 million men ages 21 to 35 to list personal data. The piece recounts colorful anecdotes from across the country, including registrants with unique names, complex family ties to registrars, and humorous misreads. Notable mentions include Roy Beadle in Portland, Wong Sam and Chino Ho in Philadelphia, and John Roosevelt in Nehant. The report notes a mix of heroic, dramatic, comic, and routine moments with no violence reported.
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Congress Establishes Vocational Schools to Train Farm Youth
Washington reports that Congress added 10 million dollars to the defense program to fund rural and non rural vocational schools. The plan aims to train farm youths for factory work, auto mechanics and other defense industry skills, with state aid based on farm population and current rural schools numbering over 2 500.
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Conscription Step Advances as 16 000 Men Register
After registration, 16 000 men aged 21 to 35 seek what comes next. Local draft boards will assign numbers from a national draw to set call order. Men receive an eight page questionnaire for classification of duties, occupation, and beliefs to determine immediate or deferred service.
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Washington
Selective Service Act
Presidents Life Span Across U S History
Washington to Coolidge show presidents live about 13 years after taking office. The piece notes only one living ex president at a time underscores the unusual burden of the presidency.
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U. S
Washington
George Washington
Calvin Coolidge
Trade schools touted as training for farm youths
Baukhage reports Washington whispers that either Roosevelt or Willkie could appoint the defeated candidate as chairman of the Defense commission after November election. A close race might leave the United States without a president after January 20.
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Roy Beadle
Paortland
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Wong Sam
Chino Ho
Philadelphia
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Nehant
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John Roosevelt
Mary Shea
Jarecki
Chicago Election Board
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Superior, Wis
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New York Giants
Guyveare
Oak Park
Ill
Wisconsin
Charles H. Burkhardt
Florence Heywood
Miss Heywood
Evanston
Indian Creek School
Aurora
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
C. Elmer Anderson
Joseph H. Ball
Grant
Buck Jones
George O'Brien
James Cagney
William Boyd
Hollywood
Robert Taylor
James Stewart
Cesar Romero
Orson Welles
Broderick Crawford
William Holden
Clark Li Gary
Spencer Tracy
Ronald It
Lew Ayres
Henry Fonda
John Payne
Don Ameche
John Carradine
Tyrone Power
Laird Cregar
George Sanders
Eddie Albert
Herbert Anderson
William Landigan
Jeffrey Lynn
Dennis Morgan
Wayne Morris
Ronald Reagan
Ray Milland
William Henry
Lee Bowman
John Carroll
Douglas McPhail
Tony Martin
Robert Young
John Garfield
Artie Shaw
Skinnay Ennis
John Mack-Brown
Dick Foran
Franchot Tone
Lon Chaney Jr
Noah Beery Jr
Philippine Islands
Hermanegildo Sobrevilla Pagulayan
Warren Pershing
John J. Pershing
New York City
Young Pershing
Loser
Defense Board
National Defense
Daniel F. O’brien
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Cambridge
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Boston
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