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1st. Lt. Evan A. McNear was in charge of the recruiting office at the Greyhound Bus Station in Washington D. C. on Dec. 4 th, 1942 and swore into the Army a 41 -year-old volunteer named Melvin Douglas, who relinquished a $2000 weekly salary as an actor to take a buck private’s pay, which at that time was about $21 per month.
Douglas, already famous as a star of stage and screen, had been tipped off by friends a day or two earlier that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was about to issue an executive order forbidding married men over the age of 38 from volunteering to fight in World War 11. With the help of some brass in high places, he had arranged to beat the deadline of the executive order, and signed up on Sunday.
It was the following day that Lt. McNear officially swore him in at the recruiting station. Lt. McNear said, as the new recruiting officer, he ‘‘almost fell over ‘l when he received a phone call from Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, telling him that Melvyn Douglas would appear before him to
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