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Letter to the Director Newark 2, New Jersey JLD: vml February 10, 1944 This statement vas supported by the typewritten name, "R, G. WALIS, Captain ty _ infantry". The certification and statement carried the place and date of Newark, New Jersey, December 9, 1943. More detailed notations appeared in Section 4, “Physical Examination Results", as follows: aa "40. EAR, NOSE, THROAT AENORMALITIES: Chronic perforation . ae 1t. drum, Hist of repeated discharge from ear - mastoid areas ’ - show coating in remaining cells and deformity of canal. Marks sclerosis in mastoid area," . 4 oa "50. MUSCOLOSKELEAL DEFECIS: Fracture deformity 3rd finger "55, MENTAL: Emotional instability. N.D." : "64. HEIGHT: 673 inches.* "65, WEIGHT: 119 lbs." | . "75. BLOOD PRESSURE: (a) Systolic: 122; (b) Diastolic: 78." ~ F (3) GENERAL APPEARANCE OF FILS, ETC.: Om_its face, the file appeared to_be in regular order, Mrs. Jones said that the Local Board Tg had been particularly careful not to afford SINATRA special . treatment and where any question of importance arose, the Board would immediately commnicate with the State Headquarters for advice in view of the "position" held by SINATRA. Hrs. Jones also said that although it had been reported over the radio and otherwise that SINATRA had had a pre-induction physical : examination and knew two weeks before the date set for his induction examination that he would be rejected, no such prq induction examination was ever given by her board for any registrant. It had been the impression of Mrs. Jones that SINATRA had had the belief that he would be rejected inasmuch as he had continued to make plans for his new radio show, but she had readily explained that to herself through the thought that he had probably had his own physician examine hin, . The following inconsistencies appeared in the file: In his Selective Service Questionnaire executed December 17, 1940, under series 2, "Physical Condition", SINATRA wrote in under "Have No" ~ "To the best of my knowledge, I have no physical or mental defects or diseases." In an undated Current Selective Service Questionnaire which