Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-12
WILSON, TO REFUSE
\ EXEMPTION PLEAS
President and Members of
Congress Won't Consider
Direct Appeals
MUST GO THROUGH BOARDS
District Bodies to Have Final
Word in All Dependency
Cases, Is Ruling

Direct appeals to President wilson or
members of Congress for exemption by
drafted men will not be considered at wash
ington.
An announcement to this effect was given
out this afternoon by Provost Marshal GEN.
eral Crowder, who sent Instructions 10
Governors that no appeals wouid De CON
sidered unless the affidavits were forwarded
through district boards.
II was also announced that evidence on
Agricultural claims which had not oeeh
presented to the district board would not
be considered by the President In any ef-
fort to have the district boards decision
oyerruled Furthermore, 1t was declared
that the district boards will have maj say
In all dependency cases
Pleas for exemption continue to pour In
before Draft Appeal Board NO. IN the
Federal Building.
Charles A. Cloch, of 3i1s Emerald street,
made an appeal this afternoon on the
ground of being physically UNFIT. His ap-
peal is the third one on these grounds from
the decisions of the Forty-seventh District
draft board. which sat at Richmond ana
Kirkbride streets. Clochs appeal was ac-
companied by an affidavit from Dr. q. w.
Firth, who said that Coch had defective
lungs and heart and other ills.
The Federal Grand Jury in its first pre-
sentiment OF indictments this AFTERNOON
made no report on the alleged exemption
fraud cases. Several cases In which men
are alleged to have made fraudulent state
ments to obtain exemption are under con.
sideration The term OF the present Granu
Jury expires saturday, and return VIII
have TO be made to the court WITHIN the
next three days.
MANY of the Philadelphia draft boards
probably will he unable TO furnish their
required quotas of A. per cent by Septem'
Der 10, according to opinions expressed
by several of><he board members today
Certificati6ns have not been returned 10
several of the boards, at least, by the
appeal boards. and it Is considered nkeiy
that they will have to ask for an extension
OF time.
The call for the additional 10 per cent
for September 10 was made yesterday IL
z Is believed to have its origin in report
from Major General Joseph r. Kuhn. al
Camp Meade. to the effect that the camr
would be able to accommodate 40 per cent
of the quotas on September 10.
The first call for drafted men for the
new National Army was for per cent bul
It was increased two days ago to 80 anc
yesterday to as per cent.
Is cham restaurant company, feed
ing between 5000 and 10000 persons daily
necessary to the national interest? Shouk
the night superintendent Of the company
be released from military service because
his continued employment is necessary tc
the public health and interestY
Two direct appeals to President Wilson
were submitted to the appeal board They
were from John II. Yerkes, living at Lime
kiln pike and Weaver street. and Rudolph
B. Dutt, Jr. of 1881 Old York road Yerkei
Is an expert farmer and says that 500t
eggs a week. besides other poultry prod
ucts and produce from the 100-acre farm h,
manages at Edge Hin, will be stopped as
valuable food supply to the nation IL hs
is drafted. Dutt is a mixer of colors fol
Eichler & Co. Mascher street and Montgom
cry avenue, dyers of woolen. worsted and
cotton yarns used in the manufacture OF
army cloth.
Donald Robertson, 2725 North Sixteenth
street, foreman Of the machine shop build
ing for the Bourne Magnetic Company
motortrucks. filed an Industrial claim with
District Appeal Board No. 2.