Monday, Apr. 07, 1941

Eye, Leg

Twelve per cent of all draftees accepted by local draft boards have been rejected by the U. S. Army for physical defects. Recently an Army induction officer found a Chicago draftee with a glass eye. Growled the disgusted medico: "Some of these days one of these boys is going to come in here with a wooden leg."

Last week Negro James Brown, 25, appeared before the wary officer. Brown's draft board had given him a clean bill of health except for the notation: "Enlarged tonsils." Told to strip, he took his trousers off, revealed an artificial leg.

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