National Headquarters

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
cist Street and C Street,N.W.
Washington, D. C.
September 16, 1941

MEMORANDUM TO ALL STATE DIRECTORS (1-244)
LOCAL BOARD RELEASE (34)
EFFECTIVE DATE: AT ONCE

SUBJECT: STUDENT-~DEFERMENT; POSTPONEMENT OF INDUCTION (III)

1. This memorandum is issued for the purpose of clari-
fying the situation concerning the deferment and also the postpone-~
ment of induction of college students. In order to have a clear
understanding of such matters it is believed advisable to briefly
state the various aspects of the policy of National Headquarters
and the procedure which it has adopted.

2- The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 con-
tained a provision for the temporary group deferment of college
students until the end of the 1940-1941 college year or July 1,
1941, whichever occurred first in time.

5. The Selective Service Act contains a provision in
section 5 (e) thereof under which college students may be deferred
on an individual basis when such deferment is considered by the
perticuler student's local board as being in the national health,
safety or interest.

4. If a local board determines, that a particular
student registrant is in training and preparation to perform a
function which the national interest requires should be performed,
and that at the time such student will begin to perform that func-
tion there will be a shortage within the occupation which forms the
basis of the deferment and not the fact that the registrant is a
student.

5. In connection with certain types of students we have
been eble to obtain and submit to our local Selective Service repre~
sentatives certain factual information, not otherwise available to
such representatives, which we believe is of material assistance in
aiding such representatives to determine whether or not a particular
student should be deferred. See Headquarters Memoranda I-62, I-91,
I-98, I-00, I-191, 1-205, I-217.