Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-15
FIRST QUEsT|0NNA|REs !.
TO Be MAILED TO-DAY
Local Boards Prepare for New Step
In Carrying Out Draft
Regulations.
EXEMPTION CLAIMS REVOKED
All Registered Men to Be Classified
according to Sworn Answers.
Lawyers to Aid Registrants In
Making Their Answers.

lawyers to Aid Registrars In
Making Their Answers.
Local exemption boards will turn the
wheel that will start the work on the
second draft revolving to-day when
!hey mail out tho first installment of
tho missionaries to all registered men
IN the city. The initial allotment in
Guides S per cent Of the number Of men
registered In each division. All Of the
local boards have completed the work
OF addressing the questionnaires, and
all that remains to be done is for tho
GATE OF mailing to BIO stamped on the
paper.
All exemption claims granted regis
trants In the initial draft have been
revoked. The paper will be sent every
registered man not now in the army
and he Will be required to. answer the
sixteen pages of questions. Each man
VIII be given seven days in which to I'LL
out the QUESTIONABLE and return 1t to
mis- local exemption board.
Legal advisory boards have been ap-
pointed to advise the men on how to
MI out the paper, and the lawyers very
gladly will assist the men free OF
charge. There is board. consisting
or three members. known as commit
Tee. and number OF associate mem bers
Tor every local exemption board In the
city
JUST RETURN THEIR
oUEsTIoNNAII.Es PROMPTLY
Registered men are cautioned to re-
turn their missionaries as promptly
as possible, and to report to their re-
specttve board any change Of address
as the government will take no excuse
Tor man not receiving his paper.
Headquarters OF local boards No. i.
and are on tho first floor Of the
Richmond Grays' Hrmory. Seventh and
Marshall Streets, while local board No.
Is located on the second floor Of the
Richmond Blues Armory. at the corner
OF Sixth and Marshall Streets. Division
70. has it's headquarters in the rear
Of the Prevocational School At Twenty
second and Marshall Streets
Work Of mailing out the question
naircs by the boards will be continued
every dly. Sunday and holidays ex-
cepted, until all OF the registered men
receive the paper. The law requires
that per cent be mailed each day. a
rough estimate shows chat nearly 705
men will be mailed their Questionnaires
to-day.
TODAY MARKS CLOSE
OF ENLISTMENT PERIOD
To-day marks the closing OF the en-
lstment period in every branch OF the
hervicc for men who are 81, bject to the
draft. Recruiting stations for the
army, navy and marine corps will be
kept open for recruits not in the draft
age or who secure proper certificat ties
from their local boards.
Adjutant-Gcncrai sale has had pre-
pared poster to be PLACED in all post
offices. street cars. trains and other
public places advising regis,rants OF
the imperative need or notifying local
boards OF their new mailing addresses.
The new regulation makes II incum-
bent on the registrants 20 see that they
receive. their sapesticnnhires.
TN order no ,tnf6rnrs the members OF
the legal advisory board OF division
No. az to how to proceed with the
questtonpaire, when brought to Them
bys the registrants. George w. Rogers.
chairman OF local board No. 4. called
meeting last night at Bellevue
Junior High School and many lawyers
and layrnen attended TO receive proper
Instructions. Mr.. Rogers Immediately
explained that the work was By no
means inconsderablc. and that tho
lawyers should prepare 10 assume the
task willingly and periodically so that
there should be no trouble experienced
by any of the registrants.
EXPLAINS HOW EACH
QUESTION Is TO BE ANSWERED.
Mr.. Rogers then undertook to ex-
plain the questionnairc to the lawyers
and many of the questions asked by
tho attorneys present showed that the
average registrant would be puzzled
with the QUESTIONABLE IL. there were
no legal advisory boards. The ques-
tionnarc contains a number of uucs-
lions that must be answered by the
registrant. and Mr.. Rogers explained
just how each question Is to be answer
edi, The explanation consumed much
time as there arc sixteen pages OF
questions. and some OF them were
hard knocks for the lawyers.
After the strenuous work of explana-
ton was over general discussion
was engaged in by the members of the
legal advisory board as to the course
to%be followed by them. There was
only one thing left to do. and that
was to give the time to tho registrants
whenever they came. Though the
work seemed burdensomer and time con-
Stunning. the lawyers recognized that n
patriotic duty attaches to 1t. and. there
fore, left the meeting determined to
help the local boards to the best of
their abilities. r,
ALIENS and colored men will go to
the local board for instruction as to
how the Questionnaires are to be
answered. and all others will consult
some member OF the legal advisory
board.
.Eommittces and members Of the
legal advisory boards Of the city fol-
low:
~ District No. ~
sCommittee-James Caskie. chair
man; Robert e. Scott and Samuel a. |
Anderson. \
Associate mcmbers-T. C. Gordon.
Stuart Bowc John p. Lee, c. B. Jones, |
John B. Minor, Wyndham r. Meredith, |
L,.Kent Rawley, Irwin T.. Campbell,
Judge L. l.. Lew.;t James Lewis An.
derson, Isaac Diggs. w. p. De Saus-
sure. Samuel L. Kelley, Marshall NJ.
Gillian, John II. Guy, George ]. |
Hooper. ] Thomas Hewin. Il. E. Byrd,
Irwin S. Goldbarth. II. G. Buchanan.
ssI- District No. 2.
.sCommittee-George Bryan, chair
man; C. w. Throckmorton, C, M
Chichester.
associate members-w. E. Craw-
ford. Lucius F. Cary. Sol Cutchins,
facnh s Cohn I Henry Crut