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Over the Wire

Congress, McNutt at Odds

WASHINGTON--War Manpower chief Paul V. McNutt said today that shifting of draft age men from non-deferable to essential jobs generally will delay only temporarily their induction into the armed forces.

While he sought to clarify at a press conference the WMC's recent far-reaching edicts on the draft, the 48 hour week and other manpower matters, Congress moved unmistakably closer to a two-fisted clash with the commission on the whole problem.

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