Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
ADVISORY BOARD IS HARD AT WORK; ALL ASKED ID AID Rush of Registrants Keeps Members Busy-Many
 Volunteers Assist. BOARD MEMBERS
 ASKED TO REPORT Necessary for All Called to Be at Courthouse by 9 A. M.-Ques.
 tiOnnaires Come in Much
 Faster.

The members of the legal advisory board were kept busy al! day yes terday ny the rush of reaistrants asking assistance in the filling out of tleir Qu9sti1naires. Owing to the fact that some oi the rlembers called did not report and others were late, it looked for while as though the board would ne swamped with work, but number of volunteer worKers offered their assistance in response to the request published in yesterday mornings Graphic and this enabled the members to take care of the great mass of work which faced them. In order to avoid any further dang CT of congestion all members of the board who are called for duty on cer- tain days are urged to report prompt ly at nine o'clock in the morning. There are now about 1,2Oo question >naires which have not been filled in and, as all of these must come in within seven days after mailing, the board is facing a rush of work that will call for the aid of every avail ahlc man. The request for volunteer workers still holds good. and any who can spare time to assist in the raising of the nations army arc urged to offer their services.
 About 150 registrants sought the assistance of the board yesterday, be ing about as many as had returned their blanks on the two proceeding days. This raises the percentage o1 returns to about 8 per cent.
 ASSignmeNtS for Week.
 1 The following assignments for duty | have been made by the board for the rest of this week, and all these called are asked to be sure and report by nine o'clock in the morning of the day they are to report:
 1 Thursday-H. R. Lucas. Mack Hun ter, F. Garland May, Harry Hanf Dave Franklin, T. G. Parham, T. Fla wis Nixon, B. F. Ashcraft, F. o. Me Gehee. w. E. Collier.
 Friday-George M, Wells, Harve, Atkinson, Ben B. Veil, H. H. Fergu son, Harry Evershield, Roy B. Fowles P. F. Crutcher, Leo Peck, Ale, Strauss, w. A. Taggart.
 Saturday-Tom Brummett, J. w Crawford, Theo D. Jones, Henry Jor day, Henry B. Spears, A. w. Scruggs Zack Tankersley, Pinchback Taylor B. A. Isaacs, Will Hut, A. Brewster Sextus Wilson, Henry Bernath. Classification Begins.
 The two local exemption boards have begun the classification of theil registrants from the data given il tho questionnaires. Board No. 2 clas sified 42 of it's list yesterday. The mailing of the blanks continues steadily, five per cent beins sent out daily. Yesterday evening board No 1 had mailed all serial numbers Ill 1 to 690, and board No. all up to 839 making in all 1929 questionnaires mailed since Saturday morning.
 Lose One, Gain One.
 ! Board No. 1 lost d registran and gained another in his place. Per l cy Jackson, negro, originally regis tered as being 21 years of age. But later Percy heard little of tho nor TOTS of modern war, remembered Inc was only 20 years old, and asked te be excused. The board took up tho matter up with authorities higher III and the bureau of the census ir Washington produced evidence te show that Percy's second memory was correct, and that he was not 21 ' at the time he registered. His name was then dropped from the lists. i Samuel Snow, who was imprisoned for failing to register, vas registered by the authorities and released, the ; local board being instructed to give 1 him a number.