Selective Service Sets Quota At 25,000 in September Draft

WASHINGTON, August 5--Voluntary enlistments have dropped off so sharply since July 1 that the Army will be compelled to call for 25,000 inductees when the compulsory draft is resumed September 1, Army and Selective Service officials said tonight.

Although Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson recently announced that the Army hoped to obtain new men through the recruiting program, voluntary enlistments during July ran about 9,500 a week, or a drop of almost two-thirds below the fixed figure of 25,000 a week.

Despite the July-August draft "holiday," during which officials hoped to step up the enlistment program with promises of a 50 per cent increase in pay for buck privates--from $50 to $75 a month--and other benefits, the program has fallen short because of several factors.