Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-13
PASS TESTS FOR ARMY
WITH HIGH MARKS

IContinued From First Pa=e.1
William ]. Shumaker. Middletown,
passed; 1873, John David Garman,
Dauphin, rejected; 1895. George w.
Gruber, Enhaut, passed; 2022, Jacob
Franklin Wolf, Hanover. rejected;
1855, Conrad Kreider Curry, Swatara
Station, passed, dependants; 1888.
George w. Young, Oberlin, passed;
1918, George o. Gertle, Hershey,
passed, dependants; 1858, Henry S.
MegannelI, Dauphin, pissed, depend
ants; 23S9. Henry Sonnenberg. Har-
risburg, r. d. s, German, asked ex-
emption; 1852. George Huss, Her
shey, rejected: 2494, James H. Har-
man, Harrisburg, r. D. 4, rejected;
1117, Norman e. Helff, Hummels-
town, Fort Niagara training camp (;
1872, Biaggo Orsini, Swatara Station.
alien exempted: 174S, David ], Wal
ters, Hershey, passed; 2195, Henry
j. Miller, Union Deposit. rejected;
s37, Ralph NJ. Holbert, Rutherford
Heights, passed, dependents; 20S6,
Thomas. C. DIETRICH, Hershey, R. D.,
passed, dependents; 337, Albert
Strawsen, Harrisburg, R. D. 2,
passed, depenuanIs; 676, Charles l..
Renner, Bressler, passed, depend
ants; 275, George w. Krebs. Harris
0O9, Charles r. Lautsbaugh, 1905
North Nineteenth street, passed, de-
pendants.
On this district board are Arthur
II. Bailey, PaXtang; DR.. M. l.. Mss
ley and George Karmany, Hummels-
town, and they have DR.. S. N. Ira
yer, of PaXtang. assisting with the
examinations. From the results of
the early examination the members
of the board predicted that several
hundred men probably will have to
lie called before the board actually
fills the district quota, 1919 men.
which it must furnish for the new
army.
Fifteen Waiting in Line
The physicl examinations were be-
gun at exactly o'clock this morn
ing, just half an hour after the draft
board went to work at the school
house, and when the board members
got to the schoolhouse a 1880 o'clock
they found fifteen registrants there
ready and waiting for the physical
test Most of these men were farm
ers, two of whom said they had been
at the schoolhousc since $50 o'clock
this morning.
When the board organized a ply
sician and a lay member of the
board each took a schoolroom on
either side of the hallway and sta
toned their clerks and the stenogra-
pher in the hallway where the regis
| trants were lined up. Some of the
registrants were a trifie late report
ing, but all got there before their
names were called by the examining
! officers.
Jacob Urich Hoover, 1901 State
street, Pleasant View, passed the
physical test and filed no claim for
exemption. Ammon Raymond Oneal
Hershey. and Robert James Jones
Rutherford Heights were passed in
the physical examination. but both
filed dependency exemption claims
William James Shumaker, Middle
town, r. D., was passed and filed
no exemption claim, but indicated
that he will file an agricultural ex-
emption claim.
John David Garman, Dauphin, wac
rejected for bad eyes; George w.
Gruber. Enhaut, failed to pass the
physical test, and Jacob Franklin
Wolf, West Hanover township, like
wise was rejected. He is under
weight. Conrad Kreider Curry, Swa-
tara Station, passed, but will not file
an exemption claim, and George w.
Young, Oberlin, was passed and will
not seek exemption.
High Average Holds
Up until IL o'clock the board
had called "a men. examined 33 men.
and out of that number 25 had
passed the physical test; 8 were re-
jected. One man called is known by
the board to be in the training camp
at Fort Niagara. OF the 25 who
passed only did not file claim for
exemption, but one of that number
is expected to do SO before the ap-
pellate board.
Norman Helf. Hummelstown, the
sixteenth man called, is In training
at Fort Niagara.
Work Goes Fast
The registrants around the school
house all were orderly and sat
around the schoolhouse in punches,
chatting and joking, telling stories
and attempting to predict the re-
suit of one examination or another.