Grandpa Too

Flophouse bums, San Juan Hill veterans, archbishops, governors. 300-odd members of the House of Representatives--all the 13,000,000 men of the U.S. in the 45-65 age group--flocked to the fourth Selective Service registration this week. Only men excused were those with the armed forces (active and reserve), foreign diplomatic staffs and nonresident aliens.

Registrants included John L. Lewis, 62, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler, 60, and Gerald P. Nye, 49, Father Charles E. Coughlin, 50, and John Florence Sullivan, 47, better known as Radio Comic Fred Allen. Not even Franklin Roosevelt, 60, was exempt. As Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy his logical classification will be 1-C, which covers all men already in military service. But a draft board composed of four World War I veterans and a 76-year-old Negro will determine it.

Fourth-draft registrants will have no order numbers or lottery, will not be inducted into military service. They will, however, provide a vast new reservoir of skilled and unskilled labor which tall, tanned, handsome Manpowerman Paul V. McNutt plans to tap freely as the defense industry manpower shortage becomes more acute.

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