The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-30
EXAMINATION or men
DRAFT FTED FOR ARMY WILL
BEGIN WITHIN "a HOURS
Official Lists of Draft
Numbers Have
Reached City
BOARDS BEGIN
SENDING NOTICES
Married Men Unable
To Dodge COnscrip-
ton Easily

Within he next - hours rho Haft
exemption boards Will start the
work ot exam'airs mfu for thc Blk
national army Leonard T Hands.
chi't clerk p he adiunnt general
ufce, arrived Ia The city clerks
Office from Lansing Monday morn
INK. with the official lists Of draft
numbers There te met chairman
OF the ~ exemption boards in po
troit and distributed fho lists tie
also explained such knouy problems
as confronted the boards
MANY Of thc board ch.Irmen said
It would require day or TWO TO
prepare notices 20 mail omen in
the frstc an wniie others said hey
would be- ready in a half hour TO
send OUT summonses Letters had
been prepared and ne stamps AT
tached based upon No unofici
lists II viii only be- necessary for
such boards To check over the let.
ters with the Official list and then
mail the calls There we're very
few errors IN The unofficial list 80
hundreds of Detroi men viii receive
their sGais .S.s before MONDAY ,.ea-
,as
While erpry man viii ho required
10 present himself Tor eAsmiEGiipn
within five days II is eXpectc~ siany
viii appear ~ once either because
II is more convenient or because
they viii want 10 80 early. avoid the
rush ana have the suspense over as
soon as possible Physicians were
in board headquarters early Mon
day morning waiting for applicants.
Men who have been marr+nd- I'm
'he last few months are not 20 be
exempted unless they can prove that
their wives are solely dependent
upon hem 10 is expected that hun
dreds viii claim exemption because
oi the illness Of their wives The
boards wish 20 sound warning on
this subject They have surprise
TO spring which Is likely 20 catch
many IN unwary loan mapping
When a man tsks ,o he exempted
because his vile Us IN the wife viii
be summoned before the board for
examination rless her condition
is fonnd TO be uch that she s sbso
lutcly dependent Ipor her husband
earnings and In1tlo 20 20 out and
earn heI own living the husband
claims foi eNemptiun viii nor bo
considered
Under strict interrrctatior Of
the law 10 devcloTs that many mcn
are likc,y ~ BE- charged with dcseT
ton even tho they are now hghtine
In the waf This came w In the
case OF Two young Detroit men who
sought 10 enlist In The army. navy
and aviation corps They N.re ~.
jectct FOR physical reasons Both
left lucrative positions m auf9mo
ollie factories and went 10 Toronto
where they were accepted as cadefg
in the Royal Flying Squadron Both
viii be- summoned in the frsic all
here. bat both src committed 20 the
British army Techm cauy these men
viii &c classpG AS dcsortors II they
do not show up lor examination ~
B.. smd thcrc arem any othcls in
lHc position city Clerk Lindsay
viii ask .'rotost Marshal General
CrnwGor foI ~ rulin gon this sub
lcct
because there ia such largo
proper tn 40 diien in Detroi' bis
CITY musf send a .arfer proportion
80 her citizens t0 wav ihfa Tho hg,
W"s Vorli4a lceta. since fhc lc.n
prc ctchpt Th', heinr jr9r II ia
going tu make 30 harder for c.tizen
'n obtain exemption Many clair
men II The iig ion4l exemption
boards sa, lhc, Wiil have TO be
stWct 20 got thc quota and FOR tadi
reason ncvly mcrrioG rieu arc going
TN learn that thc.r marIagcs fur
nish no har 20 military service.